Remarks by Bob Nelson
492 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 17 of 20
“Okay. Thank you, sir Hartman. I failed to ask, is there any public comment on this item?”
“Okay. Any further I know we're getting lunch here, but I have all these partners here. Are there any of the departments that wanted to speak briefly? Right? Not Oh, Supervisor Just”
“Well, again, thank you, Supervisor Caps, for you and your district serving a significant role on behalf of the five of us on that Commission. So with that, I'll take a motion to adopt A through D, which is accepting presentation as well as signing off with hopefully at least two of us voting on it because it's approved, I think, at that point, but hopefully all five. So I'll take a motion.”
“All right. So any further discussion? Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed?”
“Motion passes unanimously. So congratulations. And thank you guys all for being here. All right. At this time, we'll go ahead and recess for closed session.”
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“Okay. So hour and a half. So we expect to be back here at 02:00 for our fourth and final item on the departmental agenda, the permit streamlining. So thank you. I'll be back.”
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“Excellent. Thank you. All right. Well, that brings us to our fourth and final item today, departmental item number four. Madam Clerk, you please read that into the record?”
“Alright. Director Plumman, take it away.”
“All right. Thank you. I think that's probably a good idea to go to public comment and get that here from the public on this. Then we'll kind of go back to the Board and ask some questions”
“All right. Thank you. Questions from the Board? I know I have quite a few. So, supervisor Lee?”
“Alright. Thanks, supervisor Lee. Supervisor O'Capps.”
“Once the application's complete. That could take months.”
“little Fantasyland. Of I have some questions about design review. So what does it cost to do design review? So Mr.”
“But you still pay your planner though each time to prepare”
“Your planner showing up to that, he's getting charged $300 an hour to be there at that hearing to present your project.”
“There's quite a few hours that go into preparing for your project to go to design review, right?”
“Yeah. But we're paying a planner during that time.”
“Okay. So you can submit stuff without having to pay? Mean, because we have design I mean, we're paying we're charging 10,000 to $20,000 for a planner consult at this point. So I'm trying to understand.”
“Okay. And one of the things you brought up here was simple zoning clearances versus complex zoning clearances. And so, you know, we were trying to get a simple zoning clearance during the Ag Enterprise Ordinance. Right? And I don't think anything of that has been simple.”
“Is this this new category? I mean, would that eventually apply to other things as well that you guys are trying to create? Because, I mean, that was the direction the Board gave you, was that it really wanted to be truly over the pet counter. Is there anything you guys can be able to do to actually create an over counter zoning permit? Or is that is this Yes.”
“Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, guess I'm just really suspicious of this just because I mean, hopefully, but I mean we just we've given direction like this before on other things and then it turns into, you know, doctoral level work. I mean, there's no even our simple stuff now that you guys already have the simple, you guys spend months, I mean, sometimes even a year just for a permit for a house. You know, I've got something right now that's already $70,000 deep just on an akin or script of a house.”
“You know, so and that's what's the problem, right? I mean, that we're just over processing these things. We're over spending time. I applaud you on trying to reduce these things, and I hope I don't I don't think I mean, I think still the culture within the organization is gonna over process these things even under exemptions. The fact that you guys can't do over the counter through just a simple process submitting it that way, you know, is another proof of that, that it's really, you know, you're going to take it take two or three weeks to actually receive it, another week to maybe figure out…”
“Again, it's a broken system. I hope this somehow makes it a little bit easier. I will try to give you guys some constructive comments, but I'm really not overly hopeful.”