City Code Section
- A. Purpose. The Development Review Advisory Committee is a citizen advisory body representing those with interests in the outcome of policies, budgets, regulations, and procedures that affect development review processes. The purpose of the Committee is to foster a timely, predictable, and accountable development review process that implements the City’s goals for land use, transportation, housing, economic development, neighborhood livability, and the environment. The Committee advocates for and supports consistent and fair application and implementation of regulations. The Committee provides public input for the development review process by:
- 1. Providing leadership and expertise on issues affecting development;
- 2. Providing feedback to bureaus, review bodies, the City Administrator, the Mayor, and the Council on the impact of potential regulations and administrative rules on the development review process, taking into consideration the full range of City goals and objectives;
- 3. Providing recommendations for regulatory, Code, and administrative rule changes affecting the development review process;
- 4. Monitoring the application and enforcement of regulations for their effectiveness in achieving the City’s development goals;
- 5. Recommending customer service, permitting, process, and compliance improvements to bureaus, review bodies, the City Administrator, the Mayor, and/or the Council;
- 6. Serving as an advisory board to development review directors and bureaus on development review processes and procedures; and
- 7. Providing input to ensure budgets of development review agencies are adequate to meet service goals and desired system outcomes.
- B. Membership. The Committee consists of seventeen members. The members are appointed by the Mayor and confirmed by the Council. The members will be selected to provide representation of those persons concerned about planning, design, and development. The areas of interest of members will include, but not be limited to, development, planning, construction contracting, public works, design professions, neighborhood interests, business interests, historic preservation, environmental organizations, and institutional properties. Members will be appointed so that the Committee consists of one member from organizations representing each of the following groups or, if organizations do not exist, an individual advocate for the representative group will be appointed:
- 1. Frequent development review customers
- 2. Citywide neighborhood interests
- 3. Design professionals
- 4. Environmental conservation and green building
- 5. Historic preservation
- 6. Home builders
- 7. Home remodelers
- 8. Land use planning professions
- 9. Large developers
- 10. Large construction contractors
- 11. Low-income housing developers
- 12. Major facilities landowners
- 13. Minority construction contractors and development professionals
- 14. Neighborhood coalition land use committees
- 15. Small businesses
- 16. Planning Commission, as designated by the Planning Commission Chair (this person serves as an ex officio member of the Committee)
- 17. Public works permit customers
- C. Appointments and terms. Committee members will be appointed for three-year terms. If a position is vacant during a term, it will be filled for the unexpired term. Members of the Committee will not serve more than two complete three-year terms.
- D. Meetings, officers, and subcommittees.
- 1. The Committee will meet at least five times yearly and as otherwise necessary to conduct its business. Meetings will be conducted in accordance with adopted rules of procedure. Seven members constitute a quorum. A quorum is necessary to make decisions that represent the position of the Committee and to conduct any other Committee duties. The election of officers will take place at the first meeting of each calendar year.
- 2. The officers of the Committee consist of a chairperson and a vice chairperson. The chairperson is responsible for conducting the meetings of the Committee. The vice chairperson will act as chair when the chairperson is not available.
- 3. The Committee may divide its members into subcommittees that are authorized to act on behalf of the Committee for an assigned purpose. Subcommittee actions require the affirmative vote of at least three members of the subcommittee.
- E. Attendance. Members of the Committee are expected to attend each meeting of the Committee. The Mayor may replace any member who accrues unexcused absences from three or more consecutive meetings or more than 50 percent of the meetings in any year with a new appointment as set forth in this Section.
- F. Compensation. Committee members will serve without compensation.