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Staff proposes shortening zoning timeline by changing newspaper notice timing
Summary
City planning staff proposed moving the legal-ad/newspaper notice until after the Planning & Zoning hearing to reduce the overall applicant timeline from about eight to six weeks; commissioners raised concerns about reach for residents who rely on the paper.
City planning staff told the Planning and Zoning Commission they are considering an amendment that would send the formal legal-ad/publication notice to the newspaper after the Planning & Zoning hearing so that the overall case timeline can be shortened. "In total, a zoning case can take about 8 weeks to get before you," the presenter said, and moving the legal-ad step could shave roughly two weeks from that schedule.
Several commissioners pushed back, saying mailed notices to property owners must remain and asking how many residents still rely on the Murphy Monitor. One commissioner warned that shifting the print notice could leave people outside the 200–500-foot mailed-notice radius with effectively one opportunity to comment instead of two. Staff and legal counsel said state law requires a notice in a paper of general circulation, but whether the online edition satisfies that requirement is unclear and will be researched further by the city attorney.
