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- M Accepting Applications Twice a Year With Conditions The County could continue accepting applications in January and, in addition, accept applications in June if certain conditions are met. Prior to June 1, individuals requesting a Comprehensive Plan amendment would submit a simple written request to be allowed to submit an amendment application. The request would include a brief description of the size and location of the property and one or more reasons why the individual feels that a change in the land use designation of the property should be considered. The Planning Department would do a brief analysis of the requests based on the following criteria to determine if: 1) A major change in conditions had occurred in the area around the subject property (such as new development that was considerably more intense than the development that would be permitted on the subject property); or 2) An oversight occurred when the Plan was originally prepared (such as not properly assessing the existing land use pattern in the area around the subject property). If either of these conditions could be met, the Planning Department would recommend that the County accept a Comprehensive Plan amendment application for the subject property. Regardless of the Planning Department's recommenda- tion, all requests to submit applications would be considered by the Board of County Commissioners at their last June meeting. Applicants whose requests were granted by the Board could submit applications during July which would then proceed through the standard amendment process. Accepting Applications Twice a Year Another alternative is accepting applications twice a year in January and in July without any pre -submitted conditions having to be met. An advantage to this alternative over the previous alternative is that individuals would not have to submit a written request to file an amendment application and get it approved. A disadvantage is that there would be no limit to the number of amendment applications that could be submitted. Accepting Applications Quarterly A fourth alternative is to accept Comprehensive Plan amendment applications on a quarterly basis, such as in January, April, July, and October. The advantage of this alternative is that an individual would not have to wait up to six months or a year to apply for an amendment to the Land Use Plan. If an individ- ual missed the deadline for submission one month, there would. only be a two month wait before applications could be submitted again. The disadvantage to this alternative (or allowing amendments more often than quarterly) is that the Comprehensive Plan would no longer be a long-range Land Use Plan but would be little better than a zoning map. Accepting Applications Twice a Year with Extended Review Time This alternative is similar to alternatives 2 and 3 in that applications would be accepted twice a year. While 41 D E C 12, 1984 59