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Design Review Committee interviews highlight need for landscape expertise; committee delays appointment until March review
Summary
Candidates argued for different skill sets during DRC interviews; staff said the committee has lacked landscape-architecture expertise, and the Appointments Committee voted 3-0 to delay filling the vacancy until a March citywide review of council advisory groups.
Committee members interviewed two applicants for a single vacancy on the Design Review Committee (DRC) and then voted to delay filling the seat until City Council completes a planned March review of council advisory groups.
Staff had earlier outlined the DRC’s typical composition — two architects, a landscape architect, a builder/general contractor and a person of general interest — and told the committee it has been missing landscape-architecture expertise since July. "Landscaping and architecture go hand in hand," the community development assistant director (Amira…
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