By Jason Stone | Your Valley
In an effort to bring new developments to market faster, the Surprise City Council is considering removing a step in the process of approving them.
City officials are urging the council to make site plans an administrative item instead of going to the Surprise Planning and Zoning Commission for approval.
Likewise, the city is considering making the P&Z the final authority for preliminary plats, not the City Council, which would take away a step in that process.
“There’s a point where time is money, and if we’re slow on approving things it can cost everybody,” Mayor Skip Hall said during discussion on the issue at the Feb. 15 City Council meeting.
