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?
Public officials are required to complete this training every two years.
What is AB 1234 Ethics training?
What is a recommendation?
These types of decisions involve policy choices that apply to a broad class of landowners.
What are legislatives decisions?
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 radium 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?
A strong personal animosity towards a project applicant or the receipt of information about a project may constitute a disqualifying source of bias when a planning commission is sitting in this capacity.
What is a quasi-judicial capacity?
These types of meetings are prohibited under the Brown Act.
What are serial meetings?
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 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?
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?
Commissioners running for office must disqualify themselves from entitlement proceedings - such as land use permits - if they received campaign contributions of more than this amount.
What is $250 or more in the previous twelve months from the applicant?
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 2024.
What is $590?
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?