Pasadena
From the meeting · Housing, Homelessness & Planning Committee, · 0:38
Why review projects that are wildly out of code?
After staff explain that neighbors are now notified at the first, preliminary stage of design review, a committee member asks why projects far from meeting code get reviewed at all.
a councilmember, city staff, a speaker and the committee chair
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a councilmember I remain puzzled that we take projects that are wildly out of code for preliminary mean, me, the staff should say, this doesn't meet.
a councilmember Come back when you are within spitting distance of code.
city staff We do do that work with them to a certain extent.
city staff But if they submit the application with the items that we ask for, we are required to bring it forward as part of our process.
a speaker I see.
city staff We had this process in place for some time.
the committee chair Compelled, and then we're limited on
city staff And it counts in our five meetings.
city staff Correct.
city staff It does count in the five meetings.
Where it's from
- Update on major housing projects under review Item 2: what happened
- The episode: Turf at two parks, a Ronald McDonald House expansion, and the housing pipeline
- The full recording from here