HomeMy WebLinkAboutGOOD SAMARITAN VILLAGE - PDP - 27-96B - CORRESPONDENCE - CITY HALLMEMO April 15, 1999
To: John Fishbach
CC: Greg Byrne
Bob Blanchard
From: Troy Jones, City Planner
Re: Good Samaritan Village
Greg asked me to follow up on the timing of the review of Good Samaritan Village for you.
The time line of the project started on 9/23/96 when they submitted their application for annexation and
zoning. The annexation and zoning was processed with a typical turn around time, and was approved on
1/7/97 (pre -City Plan). The initial zoning of the land was RLP.
As part of the city wide rezoning associated with city plan, the property was rezoned in 4/97 to LMN.
Later that year, the property was rezoned to MMN after the owner indicated they could not proceed with
planned expansion. This was processed as a free "hot spot" rezoning even though they had not followed
the City Plan's specified "hot spot" rezoning process.
Their ODP was submitted on 12/8/97, and was processed with a typical turn around time. The ODP was
approved on 4/2/98.
The applicants submitted their first phase PDP on 10/2/98 (6 months after the ODP approval). This
submittal had the standard 5 weeks for staff to give the applicant comments on the project. On 12/31/98 we
received their revisions that were supposed to address the staff comments. These revisions did not address
approximately 80% of the concerns that were stated in the comment letter, therefore staff required another
round of revisions. Two months later, their next set of revisions were submitted (last week) on 4/5/99, and
are currently undergoing the standard 3 week staff review.
It appears that Sherry Friesen has mounted a letter campaign complaining about the length of time their
process has taken.
From our perspective the issues surrounding this project are:
1) The City had to correct the property owners error of not tracking the City Plan rezoning of their
property,
2) The applicant took 6 months from ODP approval before they submitted a PDP,
3) The applicant did not address 80% of staff's comments when they submitted the first set of PDP
revisions, thereby causing themselves unnecessary delays,
4) The applicant took 2 months to resubmit the latest revisions from the time they received staff's
comments,