Public Meetings/Public Participation
This law requires that all meetings shall be open and public unless authorized otherwise.
What is the Brown Act?
This specifies what kind of development should go where and details the standards that developments need to adhere by including density, heights, and parking.
What is zoning?
This form is required from "filers" when assuming office, annually thereafter, and upon leaving office.
What is Form 700?
This type of decision is where the Planning Commission applies a set of rules to a specific project.
What is a quasi-judicial decision?
This 2019 law prohibits local agencies from enacting certain development policies, standards, or conditions on land where housing is an allowable use.
What is the Housing Crisis Act (or SB 330)?
State law allows this person to have an individual removed for disrupting a meeting of the body after being warned that their behavior is disruptive.
Who is the Presiding member of the legislative body?
For General Plan adoption or amendments, the State planning and zoning law requires that the Planning Commission provide this.
What is a recommendation?
Public officials are required to complete this training every two years.
What is AB 1234 Ethics Training?
These are the two basic elements of due process.
What are an opportunity to be heard and having an impartial decision-maker?
SB 9, SB 4, and AB 2011 all have this type of approval process in common.
What is streamlined, ministerial approval?
These types of meetings are prohibited under the Brown Act.
What are serial meetings?
What are ministerial actions?
When an official's property boundary is within this radius of the property subject of a decision, the official may not participate unless there is clear and convincing evidence that the decision will not have any measurable impact on the official's property.
What is 500 feet?
A Planning Commissioner speaking with a developer in advance of the Planning Commission meeting where the developer's project will be considered.
What is an ex parte contact?
Under the Housing Accountability Act, this is the consequence for not timely notifying an applicant of the project's inconsistencies with objective standards (e.g., height, setbacks, open space, etc.).
What is the project being deemed consistent, compliant, and in conformity with the objective standards?
A governmental entity such as a Planning Commission is justified in limiting its meeting to discussion of specified agenda items as long as the restrictions are __________.
What is non-discriminatory or non-biased?
This kind of plan can be considered a super-zoning ordinance that can dictate architectural styles, landscaping requirements, parking requirements, etc.
What is a Specific Plan?
This Government Code section prohibits an officer, employee or agency from participating in making government contracts in which the official or employee within the agency has a financial interest.
What is Government Code section 1090?
AB 2904, effective January 1, 2025, requires cities to provide at least this number of days' notice on any zoning ordinance that affects the permitted uses of real property, an increase from the previous requirement of 10 days.
What is 20 days?
The finding that a local agency must make to deny or reduce the density of a housing project that is consistent with all objective standards.
What is a specific, adverse impact on health or safety?
Courts have recognized participation in a public meeting as this type of First Amendment Forum.
What is a Limited Public Forum?
In the context of a conditional use permit, this number of findings need to be affirmatively shown in the negative (not met), in order to justify denying the project.
What is one finding?
The FPPC has set this amount as the gift limit for 2025.
What is $630?
The Planning Commission may initiate this type of hearing to re-evaluate previously approved entitlements if all of the findings cannot be made anymore (typically because of unintended adverse impacts to the community).
What is a revocation hearing?
The 2024 law that prohibits local agencies from collecting the fees or charges from certain housing projects for the construction of public improvements or facilities until the first occupancy certificate or first temporary certificate of occupancy is issued.
What is SB 937?