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Consultant outlines entitlements and timelines: 1–2 years to market, additional months for permits
Summary
3 d Strategies told the board that, after marketing (estimated 1–2 years), tenants would need to navigate conditional-use or special-use permits and conforming rezones and allow roughly six to 12 months for tenant-improvement permitting and construction.
The consultant laid out likely timelines and entitlement steps for any successful leasing or conversion. Dan Merar said a realistic marketing window to identify suitable tenants for a district campus is about one to two years; after a tenant is identified, entitlement steps (conditional-use permit or special-use permit and a conforming rezoning where required) would likely run concurrently with tenant-improvement permitting and construction, which Merar estimated could take "6 to month 12 months" depending on concurrency.
Merar emphasized that conforming rezoning for PQP-designated sites typically goes to the city council but is processed as a conformity step rather than a general-plan amendment; he noted general-plan amendments are more time-consuming and processed on a set schedule. Board members asked clarifying questions about whether zoning designations would discourage tenants and how lease terms (often 15-year terms) interplay with tenant investment in improvements.
