A planning application will be approved in a maximum of 10 weeks, with a 2-week validation process and an 8-week determination time. Although Permitted Development Rights theoretically do not require a decision time, the application process for a COL will still take 10 weeks. If you are lucky enough to get a response within 4 months, you should expect to spend another 6 months before you actually start building. The average time that an application has been pending review since it was submitted to the city is about 9 months. The median time is about 7 months. There are times when the city takes longer than 10 weeks to make a decision but this happens only about half the time. The longest that it has taken the city to make a decision on an application was 3 years and 5 months. The application was for a large-scale resort project that included more than 575 housing units, a casino, a shopping mall, and several other amenities. It was denied because it did not meet the requirements for site control. The project could have been re-submitted as a smaller scale development but it was not pursued by the property owner. The shortest amount of time that we have seen since we started keeping track is 1 week. This was for a simple yard sign request from a local business owner who wanted to advertise his company's summer festival. He filled out an Application for Review of Sign Code Amendment form and paid the required fee.