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do in my desire and of course in my vote is to say that any new entitlements that come on board to this new Minor CUP process, those go through this 30 day wait. Does that make sense? Because they weren't there originally. That's what I'm trying to do, and as we heard, it's not necessarily a full 30 days but it's some time. Chair Ritter: To keep it transparent. Commissioner Balch: Well, it's a double notice and that was what I think we talked about with staff. You've got one notice for the Minor PUD and then you've got a second notice that goes out for the Minor CUP. My hope would be that, you know, many people talk about not being noticed when something significant comes in and then they see the building going up and the business moving in and they're like, how did this get into my neighborhood? My hope would be that this would be a very transparent process because that is a use that was not there initially. And I do concede —it's a very low volume we're talking about here. We're really talking about a very minute number of applications. Commissioner O'Connor: I'm not understanding why we need two notifications rather than one. If you get notified, you're going to know that this change went through. You have a timeframe to respond. Why do you need to get two and one month apart from each other? I'm just trying to figure out why the citizen needs to get two notices. Commissioner Balch: And my answer is because it didn't come to the Planning Commission. It didn't come to the oversight board or body of the staff. Commissioner O'Connor: But it does come to you. You're notified. Commissioner Balch: We're not notified in the same way. We're notified via the email from staff typically on the last day of the appeal period and you have to object. Commissioner O'Connor: Well, that only happens once in a while. Usually we get them in advance. Commissioner Balch: That's where I stand on it. I think it needs to be transparent because I don't think a double layer staff approval is appropriate. Commissioner O'Connor: See, I don't think that's the intent of streamlining this process. I think the intent is to benefit the applicant —and again, these are supposed to be routine in nature. Commissioner Balch: But these aren't routine. Commissioner O'Connor: I'm saying if it's a Minor PUD change, it's supposed to be more routine. If it's a Minor CUP, it always goes on a Consent Calendar and we don't even think twice about it most times. We're just saying these are not big changes that hit you and all of a sudden where you ask how that happened. Most people don't even know that some of these things because they do slide through pretty much under the wire even on our Consent Calendar. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, December 14, 2016 Page 11 of 49