WSA - SUNSHINE ORDINANCE - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

2 1 hour at the end of the meeting to allow questions and comments from all attendees. These questions and comments must be accurately recorded by the developer and brought to the second meeting. At the second meeting, the developer will provide a draft of its application for plan approval, a detailed description of the project, an accurate description of any impacts on or benefits to the public, the record of oral and written public comments made at previous meeting(s), and a description of the ways in which it has incorporated input received from the public into its plans for the project. 3. To maximize community involvement, the community meetings must be held within 3 miles of the development site and on a weekday between 6 pm and 8 pm or Saturday between 9 am and 5 pm. 4. The developer will create an accurate record of public comments made during the public meetings and will make that record available to the City and any member of the public upon request. 5. Not less than 14 days prior to a public meeting, the developer will provide notice by direct mailing of the time and place of the public meeting in English and the primary languages of the residents impacted by the development project to all persons including businesses, corporations, or other public or private entities owning real property or residing within 1000 feet of the development project and to any person who requests such notice. The notice shall include any materials that the developer will provide to the public at the meeting, including any project description. 6. Not less than 14 days prior to a public meeting, the developer will advertise the public meeting in at least two local newspapers in English and two in the primary languages of the residents impacted by the development project; city web-site; the local station, channel 3; and at local schools within the impact zone,. 7. The developer will ensure contemporaneous language interpretation at the community meetings in the primary languages of the residents impacted by the development project. The developer will create and keep attendance records with the names of the persons that attended the community meetings. The developer shall submit an affidavit under penalty of perjury that the required community meetings were held in compliance with this section and will submit copies of the advertisements, attendance records of the community meetings, and the record of the public comments made at the community meetings with application for plan approval. GOAL 11 The City should conduct hearings and give better notice about the hearings to the public on all projects that require a pre-application meeting. The developer should hold a pre-hearing meeting similar to the pre-application meeting 15-21 days before the hearing. EXISTING LAW/POLIGY Hearing is required only for certain projects. Only 5 days notice is required for property owners within 300 feet of the development (SAMC 41.672). The developer is not required to hold a pre-hearing meeting with the public. E'I OPO sE'D POLICY FOR DEVEE.OPINIENI PROJECT HEARINGS 1. A public hearing shall be held for all development projects that require a pre-application meeting. The city will give notice of the hearing by mail 14 days prior to the hearing to all person who reside or own property within 1000 feet of the development 2. For development projects that must comply with the pre-application meeting requirement, the developer must hold an additional public meeting that complies with the requirements of the pre-application meeting requirements, 15-21 days before the hearing. At this public meeting the WSA-19