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Interlaken staff outline new three‑phase building permit workflow; planning commission circulates land‑use code edits
Summary
Town staff presented a formalized three‑phase permit process that shifts routine oversight to the public works manager and keeps initial/final fee accounting with town staff; the planning commission circulated proposed code edits on deck setbacks, sport‑court definitions and adoption of the 2021 IBC and asked for a work session before public hearings.
Town staff presented a revised building-permit process intended to streamline intake, review and completion of permits.
The presenter described the workflow as three phases: (1) application intake where applicants sign a building agreement and pay town administrative fees, deposits and a road-impact fee; (2) plan review by three parties — planning commission (town-code, setbacks, landscape, erosion), public works (utility and water compliance) and the town’s engineer (code/IBC compliance) — who generate comments and require revisions as necessary; and (3) oversight and completion, with the public works manager handling day‑to‑day oversight and town staff issuing final certificates of occupancy and returning deposits after accounting checks.
Council members said the change would reduce day-to-day staff involvement while keeping financial controls at intake and issuance. The town identified Jones and DeMille as the new town engineer and named David Thacker as the inspector who will perform field inspections. Derek, the public works manager, said the proposed process "makes sense" and compared it to standard practice in other municipalities.
The planning commission reported active permit statuses for specific lots (e.g., a new residence by Brandon Broadstone nearing final inspection and an Erin Merryweather alteration waiting final sign-off) and said some projects are awaiting plumbing fixtures or exterior landscaping before final closure.
The planning commission also circulated a packet of proposed land‑use code edits shortly before the meeting: adding or clarifying definitions (including a sport‑court/canopy definition), specifying a deck-to-property-line distance, addressing sport‑court/pickleball noise concerns and updating the town’s referenced building code to the 2021 International Building Code. Council members asked for time to digest the documents and requested a joint work session with Derek and the commission to resolve remaining issues before holding required public hearings.
The council agreed to schedule a work session to review the proposed code changes and asked staff to send an existing list of unresolved land-use items to fold into the packet.
