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File Number: 17-384 <br />Analysis <br />Establishing application sunset provisions is an efficiency measure to help reduce staff time <br />spent processing and monitoring unresponsive applications. Staff proposes to establish new <br />Administrative Code provisions that enable staff to notify those applications that remain <br />incomplete and inactive for a minimum six month period with a written thirty day warning <br />notice stating that they will be automatically withdrawn and closed unless further action is <br />taken. Under the proposed Administrative Code provisions, if no further action is taken by the <br />applicant following receipt of a 30 day notice, the application would be automatically <br />withdrawn and closed, and a refund of any eligible outstanding deposit balance would be <br />returned. <br />The Planning Division currently has seven inactive and otherwise abandoned applications <br />dating back to 2015 that would qualify for notification under the proposed sunset provisions. <br />The applications are for wireless telecommunications facilities, minor residential home <br />additions, a childcare facility and an abandoned appeal of a Board of Zoning Adjustments <br />determination. <br />It is in the City’s interest to have all planning applications processed in a timely, efficient and <br />responsive manner. By codifying these sunset provisions, staff will have the ability to <br />automatically withdraw unresponsive applications that have remained inactive for an extended <br />period of time. All applicants will be offered the ability to reapply with a new application at a <br />later date, rather than keeping an inactive application open for an extended period of time. <br />Legal Analysis <br />The City Attorney reviewed the proposed Administrative Code provisions and approves them <br />as to form. <br />Environmental Review <br />Administrative Code amendments that pertain to internal procedures do not qualify as a <br />“project” under the California Environmental Quality Act and are therefore exempt pursuant to <br />Section 15061(B)(3). <br />Fiscal Impacts <br />The proposed addition to the Administrative Code will have no fiscal impacts. <br />ATTACHMENT <br />Related Legislative File 17-385 <br />Resolution Adding Title 5, Chapter 5 to the San Leandro Administrative Code, establishing <br />application sunset provisions for incomplete and inactive applications, and Exhibit A, <br />Application Processing. <br />Page 2 City of San Leandro Printed on 7/11/2017 <br />354