Building_development + Cross_cutting

2:51 that are subject to objective and subjective standards and that require the exercise of limited discretion about non-technical issues and about which there may be limited public interest. The biggest difference between a type 2 review and a simpler pass/fail review like a building permit or a boundary line adjustments that are type 1 reviews is that type 2 reviews include public notice. When staff receives a type 2 review after reviewing the application for completeness, we mail out a public notice of application This notice gives a brief description of the proposed development, includes a proposed site plan, and is mailed to landowners within 500 feet in the urban area and 1,000 feet in the rural area, as well as any applicable neighborhood associations. Staff solicit public comments from these notices, and we catalog all public comments submitted in the public record for the application. If you submit your comments within the 14-day comment period, staff will address them in the staff report.

3:50 But don't worry, even if you miss the comment window, you can still submit public comments as long as the record's open up until and after the hearing, and they will still be made part of the public record. And staff and the hearing examiner will still read these comments. Additionally, it may be important to note that even if you're not within the notice radius, if you're not within 500 feet in the urban area or 1,000 feet in the rural area, you can still comment on any development wherever they are in the county. Anyone who submits written comments are automatically made a party of record for that application. As a party of record, you automatically receive copies of the staff report and decision, and you'll have the right to appeal that decision should you choose. Appeals to type 2 reviews are held in a land use hearing in front of a hearings examiner. Appeals to hearings examiner decisions go to Clark County Superior Court. A public hearing is not required for type 2 reviews unless they're appealed. County staff are the review authority for these type 2 types of proposals.

4:48 If you're mailed a notice for a type 2 project near you, please don't hesitate to send in your thoughts. The notice will list the planner's email as well as a separate email address that you can use to submit your general comments. And that link is development comments, one word, at clark.wa.gov. This is an example of a public notice that I sent out near Daybreak Park. As you can see here, you can see the project name is the Three Creeks East subdivision. You have a case number. It also has a short explanation of the project under the request box here to the right. It'll also tell you the date of the hearing if this was a type 3, which it is, actually. This will tell you the date of the hearing. Also some miscellaneous other information that you can use. This is a copy of the site plan that's attached to that notice. You can kind of see a gist of the layout of the project.

5:48 Can I ask a question, or do you want to-- We're going to take questions at the end. So if you want to write it down, we can address it then. Type 2A review. This review type provides an alternative process for reviews of conditional uses, planned unit developments, and master plans, which combine features of type 2 and type 3 processes. A significant difference between the type 2 and type 2A review is that an applicant is required to hold a community meeting within 90 days prior to the submittal of the application. This meeting is to provide information about the proposal to interested public. The applicant is required to notify the applicable neighborhood association, county staff, and landowners within 1,000 feet of the proposed site. Once an application is submitted, the process will include the public notice mail out that we discussed earlier. A significant difference between the type 2 and type 2A process is that a land use hearing is not

6:47 required for the type 2A process unless someone requests one during the public comment period. If a hearing is requested, county staff schedules a date for the hearing, and the hearing examiner becomes the decision authority. If a hearing isn't requested during the comment period, county staff will be the decision authority. For a type 3 review, these are more involved and they're subject to standards that requires the exercise of substantial discretion and about which there may be a much broader public interest. These are projects that automatically go to a public hearing. The hearings examiner makes the final decision on these types of cases, and they consider staff's recommendation, public written comments, and oral testimony at the hearing itself. These cases often have a broader community interest, things like subdivisions or conditional uses. If you want to speak at a hearing, the following slides will assist you to prepare you for your public testimony.

7:46 It may be important to note that conditional use permits are unique, and that staff and/or the hearings examiner can consider requirements outside of minimum code standards if it is determined that it would be required to mitigate certain impacts. An example of this would be, say, a proposed development has a very loud activity. Staff could recommend to the hearings examiner a sound wall along the side one of the abutting residential properties, even if it isn't required under code, because it's specifically intended to mitigate some of the impacts from this conditional use. The relationship of SEPA to county reviews. The purpose of State Environmental Policy Act,