a. Ensure that applicants pursue early and effective citizen participation in conjunction with their applications, giving them opportunity to understand and try to mitigate any real or perceived impacts their application may have on the community;

b. Ensure that citizens and property owners within the community have an adequate opportunity to learn about applications that may affect them and to work with applicants to resolve concerns at an early stage of the process; and

c. Facilitate ongoing communication between the applicant, interested citizens, and property owners throughout the application review process.

a. Every applicant who is proposing a project that requires a public hearing, except for those application types listed in subsection 8.3.D(2)b below, shall prepare a citizen participation plan following the pre-application meeting and submission of the application. Implementation of the plan shall begin upon submittal of the application.

b. A Citizen Participation Plan shall not be required for an application for a variance, Certificate of Appropriateness, appeal, minor conditional use permit (except those associated with a development review), or extension of time for an existing approval.

a. Property owners within the public hearing notice area required by other sections of this Code;

b. The head of any homeowners association, or community/neighborhood appointed representative adjoining the project site; and

c. Other interested parties who have requested that they be placed on the notification list for a particular project.

d. The Director may determine that additional notices or areas should be provided.

a. How those interested in and potentially affected by an application will be notified that an application has been submitted;

b. How those interested and potentially affected parties will be informed of the substance of the change, amendment, or development proposed by the application;

c. How those affected or otherwise interested will be provided an opportunity to discuss the applicant’s proposal with the applicant and express any concerns, issues or problems they may have with the proposal in advance of the public hearing;

d. The applicant’s schedule for completion of the Citizen Participation Report; and

e. How the applicant will keep the Community Development Department informed on the status of their citizen participation efforts.

a. The length of time between the last citizen participation meeting and the date of the submittal of the application;

b. The extent of changes that have occurred to the development proposal since the last citizen participation meeting was held; and/or

c. The length of time between last public hearing (such as a conceptual review hearing) and the date of submittal for further development application consideration.