By Camelia Juarez

A tighter deadline to approve or deny proposed developments could place strain on cities as they attempt to mitigate growth.

Ultimately, city planners fear new rules per House Bill 3167 could lead to developments setting up that might not be up to code and might not be transparent to their citizenry.

In response to the new timeline, state lawmakers removed the requirement of a public notice for those developments. Public notices are placed in newspapers and are meant to inform t...