Snohomish County Council approves plan to remove Design Review Board | HeraldNet.com
A recent update to Snohomish County Council rules and regulations has approved the elimination of the Urban Center Design Review Board. This removes a discretionary review layer previously required for certain urban growth area developments and shifts design review to an administrative, staff-based process.
Ultimately, we envision this will reduce entitlement risk, improved timeline predictability, and potential reduction in soft costs for qualifying projects. It’s a modest, but meaningful, improvement to development feasibility in unincorporated Snohomish County.
Previously, certain projects were subject to review by a volunteer design board. The board subjected projects to discretionary design feedback beyond baseline code compliance. Now projects run directly through the Planning and Development Services. This means review is administrative and based on objective code standards; no public board presentation is required. Design standards do still exist but enforcement is staff driven rather than board driven.
Weitz Take:
LOVE this. Imagine spending millions on a project and having it held up by a subjective volunteer review Board?! As long as city code is met, projects can get approved quicker allowing for less carrying costs and presumably much needed building around Snohomish County. Kudos to the County for seeing these issues and addressing them!
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