Direct the Executive Director of Community Planning, Regulation and Mobility to implement measures to clear the Committee of Adjustment (CofA) backlog within the next 4 months, including those efforts which have already been implemented to date; and
Direct the Executive Director of Community Planning, Regulation and Mobility to submit a progress report to Council, by way of a memo in the Council Information Package, on a monthly basis beginning March 15, 2023, until the CofA backlog has been cleared; and
Direct the Executive Director of Community Planning, Regulation and Mobility to target that applicants be placed on a hearing agenda within 3 months from the date of a complete application, and to report back to Council by end of Q2 with status and challenges of CofA application in process; and
Direct the Executive Director of Community Planning, Regulation and Mobility to implement, by Q2, a CofA Terms Of Reference that aligns the procedures of CofA meetings with those of Council. Include results of this implementation in the Q2 report back to Council; and
Direct the City Manager and Chief Financial Officer, in conjunction with the establishment of the governance structure of the new Innovation and Digital Transformation Reserve Fund, to consider as a 2023 workplan priority, the allocation of dedicated project funds towards advancing process change and technology improvement related to the CofA.