When Is Another Approval One Too Many?
The county planning board discusses county planning staff suggestions for streamlining county development review and approval processes at the board's Thursday meeting.
Obtaining a development permit in Montgomery County is not always the most straightforward process. In fact, county planning staff identified 67 issues with the county's development review and approval process, and will present a summary of the issues and possible solutions to the issues to the county planning board at the board's weekly meeting on Thursday. Identifying 67 issues and solutions is—like the permitting process—time-consuming. The planning staff has been working with county departments and the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission since December 2011 on the project. "These efforts have identified numerous processes that can be simplified to reduce the time it takes for a project to move from concept to building permit," …
jag
11:01 am on Thursday, January 24, 2013
Undeniably, the approval process adds to the developer's costs which either means A. the project is built and the cost is passed onto the residents or B. the project doesn't get built because the developer doesn't think there is enough demand at the price point needed to turn a profit. Streamlining the approval process as much as possible is a major win all-around and should be a constant goal of… more ›