Public Meetings
This law requires that all meetings shall be open and public unless authorized otherwise.
What is the Brown Act?
This item on the agenda provides the public the ability to address the planning commission on any matter within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission.
What is public comment?
This form is required from "filers" when assuming office, annually thereafter, and upon leaving office.
What is Form 700?
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?
Common include limited hours of operation, road improvements, soundproofing, additional landscaping, and additional parking.
What are conditions of approval?
Any congregation of a majority of the members of a legislative body at the same time and location, including teleconference location as permitted by Government Code Section 54953, to hear, discuss, deliberate, or take action on any item that is within the subject matter jurisdiction of the legislative body.
What is a "meeting" under the Brown Act?
This type of speech is not protected during public comment.
What are threats of violence against persons?
This law prohibits a public official at any level of state or local government from making, participating in making, or attempting to use the official’s position to influence a governmental decision in which the official knows or has reason to know the official has a financial interest.
What is the Political Reform Act?
What is a recommendation?
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 impacts to the community or non-compliance with conditions of approval).
What is a revocation hearing?
This person may 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?
Double the amount of time.
What is the amount of time a person must be given to provide public comment when using a translator?
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?
By this phase, a development has secured all the needed local government approvals, also known as entitlements.
What is the building phase?
These are the two basic elements of due process.
What are an opportunity to be heard and having an impartial decision-maker?
These types of meetings are prohibited under the Brown Act.
What are serial meetings?
Filming or livestreaming during a Planning Commission meeting is generally allowed by this law.
What is the Brown Act?
There are instances where there is no conflict of interest violation under the Political Reform Act or of Government Code Section 1090 but still potentially a conflict under this other source of law.
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?
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?
These types of conversations do not violate the Brown Act if done in person, by email, or by text message, but they may violate the Brown Act if done on social media.
What are 1-on-1 conversations?
This type of behavior is allowed, even if it offends, as long as it does not prevent the legislative body from accomplishing its business in a reasonably efficient manner.
What is First Amendment protected speech?
The Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) has set this amount as the gift limit for 2025.
What is $630?
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?
After a vote is taken, only a member of this group may make a motion to reconsider.
What is a member of the majority vote?