CITY MAY SHUFFLE PERMIT PROCESS; DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENTS MAY GET PRIORITY.Byline: Sylvia L. Oliande Daily News Staff Writer The city is considering modifying its building permit allocation system that controls growth by giving projects with development agreements an edge over regular proposals. The City Council has decided to reconvene reconvene Verb to gather together again after an interval: we reconvene tomorrow Verb 1. reconvene - meet again; "The bill will be considered when the Legislature reconvenes next Fall" its Technical Advisory Committee on Nov. 30 to study the change, and at a meeting Monday night the council is expected to replace outgoing Councilwoman Sandi Webb and Mayor Greg Stratton on the seven-person panel. When it was determined recently that the city would have 217 building grants to redistribute re·dis·trib·ute tr.v. re·dis·trib·ut·ed, re·dis·trib·ut·ing, re·dis·trib·utes To distribute again in a different way; reallocate. , the City Council asked staff to look into establishing a new category, or queue Pronounced "Q." A temporary holding place for data. See queuing, message queue and print queue. (programming) queue - A first-in first-out data structure used to sequence objects. Objects are added to the tail of the queue ("enqueued") and taken off the head ("dequeued"). , for projects with development agreements. The found permits were primarily those that had been given to projects that are now expired and permits that were granted but not needed for the Wood Ranch ranch, large farm devoted chiefly to raising and breeding cattle, horses, sheep, and goats. The cattle ranch was introduced from Latin America to Texas and the plains of the W United States and Canada. development agreement. ``And a lot of the developments we have being built now had been approved up to eight years ago, and they were fully allocated over that time,'' said Kurt Christiansen, an associate planner. ``They're no longer competing for permits with the new projects we have coming.'' The managed growth plan was established by a ballot measure in 1986 to control the rate of residential development by issuing allocation grants. Under the system, after a developer receives approval from the city, his project is put into a queue to await AWAIT, crim. law. Seems to signify what is now understood by lying in wait, or way-laying. allocation of building permits. When the system was established originally, there were four categories: infill in·fill n. 1. The use of vacant land and property within a built-up area for further construction or development, especially as part of a neighborhood preservation or limited growth program. 2. , projects on the valley floor with less than 30 units; affordable housing; senior housing; and all other projects. City officials said that in 1996, when the issue went back to the voters, the senior housing queue was eliminated because those projects could compete in other areas. Now the city is considering establishing a new queue for projects with development agreements from the pack. Building permits are allocated each quarter, with projects in the three queues receiving a certain percentage of 121 permits. Some queues are given permits on a first-come, first-served “FCFS” redirects here. For the figure skating competition, see Four Continents Figure Skating Championships. This article is about a general service policy. For the technical concept, see FIFO. basis. The category for other projects works on a point system, with points given for such factors as contributing to lessen less·en v. less·ened, less·en·ing, less·ens v.tr. 1. To make less; reduce. 2. Archaic To make little of; belittle. v.intr. To become less; decrease. air-quality impacts and providing protection to hillsides. While projects already receive extra points for having development agreements, the change would mean that those projects would compete only with each other and not with all the other projects. Projects in the infill queue receive 10 percent of the 121 permits, affordable housing receives 30 percent, and other projects receive 60 percent. City staff is recommending that the new guidelines guidelines, n.pl a set of standards, criteria, or specifications to be used or followed in the performance of certain tasks. reduce the other-projects category by about 20 percent and give 40 percent to the development agreement queue. City officials said the change would likely serve as an incentive for projects to enter into development agreements with the city because they would be competing for grants in a smaller pool of projects. Not all projects come to the city with development agreements, and planning officials said they do not solicit agreements from developers. |
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