05-01-2018, 04:48 PM
(04-24-2018, 12:18 AM)MacBerry Wrote: Thoughts?
My understanding would be that having PARTS in place (rather than the yet-to-be-fully implemented phase that it is in now) would make any kind of appeal pretty straightforward. The project either complies with the City's planning rules, or it doesn't. I don't think that I implied that the City would necessarily be the ones to send this project to LPAT. Deferring the decision allows PARTS to come into effect and, provided the project fits within PARTS, it would be a fairly open and shut case at LPAT (if it even got there).
I can't comment on who should pay the costs for anything. We entrust our City to pay the costs of whatever is needed to carry out the business of the City just the same way that the developers pays the costs of whatever is needed to carry out their business. The City represents its citizens (whether or not they pay taxes) and has a duty to look out for their needs.