From Deseret News archives:
Draper budget proposal development-friendly
City officials hope to simplify criticized process
"You go in and ask for a request to change your zone, and it goes from meeting to meeting to meeting," he said in the middle of a lengthy process to get approval for his shop. "This is like the fourth City Council meeting I've been to."
And while he said he doesn't know if budget changes will solve all his problems with the council, he said simplifying the process couldn't hurt.
That has been the general review from many involved for Draper's new budget, which includes provisions to make the city more development- friendly. It is even meeting with approval from some residents who have recently criticized the city for catering too much to developers.
"I'm all for making it simple," Dick Robinson, chairman of Draper's South Mountain Homeowners Association, said. Robinson assailed the city last year in a development dispute for ignoring taxpayer input and responding more readily to the demands of developers. But Robinson said he is not anti-development, as long as that development is controlled.
"All these changes are growth-related," said city finance director Michael Sears.
The change would move five functions, including legal services and information technology, that are currently administered by the city manager and make them a separate administrative services department, governed by a department head.
Sears said the change is designed to free the city manager to deal with development issues, the City Council and a handful of other concerns.
Officials also want to move the engineering budget into the Development Services Department rather than in public works. Sears said that would reflect the fact that the engineers are much busier with development than with maintenance.
A third, more subtle, change is the plan to move the city recorder under the Finance Department. This, Sears said, should eliminate some work duplication and thus help growth-related items move from paperwork to the meeting agendas in a more timely way.
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