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Board tables contentious Community Appearance Board overhaul after members and volunteers raise concerns
Summary
Planning & Zoning members heard a long staff presentation proposing to move CAB review earlier, narrow some CAB review areas and allow staff to approve minor items. Multiple CAB members and former members urged caution; the board voted 7–0 to table the ordinance for further staff‑CAB discussion.
City planning staff presented an ordinance to revise the Community Appearance Board's (CAB) powers and duties, move design review earlier in the project review process, allow administrative review for certain minor building permits and paint colors consistent with an approved palette, and modernize the board's supplemental criteria and membership.
Erin Sita summarized the package as aiming to "allow for advisory review of site plans" and to streamline procedural language while preserving CAB input at earlier stages. The ordinance would give the CAB a role in providing recommendations on architectural elevations and landscape plans at the site‑plan stage while allowing staff to administratively approve limited façade and paint‑color changes…
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