4-8-010 PURPOSE AND INTENT:

The purpose and intent of this Chapter is to establish standard procedures for all land use and development applications in order to provide for an integrated and consolidated land use permit and environmental review process. It is further the purpose of this Chapter to combine and expedite development review to eliminate redundancy and minimize delays, to establish timelines for notifying the public of land use applications, to revise hearing requirements to allow one open record hearing and one closed record appeal hearing, and to provide that final decisions on development proposals be made within one hundred twenty (120) days of the date of the letter of completeness, except for development specifically exempted under this Chapter.

The mandatory nature of the one hundred twenty (120) day processing time notwithstanding, it is neither the intent nor the purpose of this Chapter to establish a claim or remedy for a delay in the final decision beyond one hundred twenty (120) days. (Ord. 4587, 3-18-1996; Amd. Ord. 4974, 6-24-2002)