On 2006-Sep 04, at 08:38hrs AM, Carey Fisher wrote:

Russell McMahon wrote:
> I've not been reading all of this thread, but I love the idea of a
> citizens review panel a la -
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>>> I am on the Zoning Board of Appeals.  We hear variance requests.
>>>
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>> No, we start with the idea that someone wants to do something
>> against
>> the rules (zoning rules) and then we let them try to convince us
>> that
>> they would (a) suffer a hardship without the variance; (b) other
>> folks
>> would not suffer an undue hardship under the variance; and (c) the
>> result of the variance would be otherwise legal ...
>>
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>> approve 75% of variances.
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>> The Board is a group of plain citizens.
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>> We can then accept,
>> deny, accept with any changes we want or table for further
>> discussion
>> between the City and the requestor.
>>
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> I've no idea if we do this sort of thing here, but I'll be finding
> out.
> Many thanks
>
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>         Russell McMahon
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>
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