Draft extends completeness-review timing; members debate 30 vs. 60 days

Mar 19, 2026

The draft increases staff completeness-review timelines (proposal discussed varying from 30 to 60 days), prompting concerns a longer timeline could extend master-plan review from ~2–3 months to as long as eight months for complex files.

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One committee member mapped the draft's added notices and extended review windows and concluded the process could stretch from the current average of two to three months to as much as eight months. "It could take as long as 8 months to go through a process that right now takes 1.5 months," the member said after walking through added notice steps.

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