Division 2 — POWERS AND DUTIES

9802. • City council powers and duties.

For the purposes of this article, the city council shall be considered the legislative body and the final decisionmaking body for the general plan and specific plans and their amendments, change of zones,

development agreements, zoning ordinance amendments, appeals from any decision of the planning commission, and any application related directly thereto which are filed concurrently therewith.

Unless an appeal to the city council is filed, the planning commission shall be the final decisionmaking body for all conditional use permits, variances, certain modifications, mobile home, low-moderate income density bonus permits, and site plan and architectural review permits for medium, medium high, high residential and all commercial and business park land use permits, except for minor additions. In addition, the planning commission shall be an advisory body and make recommendations to the city council on all matters on which the council is the final decisionmaking body. The planning commission also shall consider appeals on all matters considered by the zoning administrator or director of community development.

(Ord. No. 03-320, § 17, 5-28-2003)

The office of zoning administrator is hereby established. The zoning administrator shall be responsible for the matters specified in this article. The director of community development or his designee shall be the zoning administrator.