Diamond Bar Municipal Code Ch. 22.70 General Plan, Development Code, and Zoning Map Amendments

This chapter provides procedures for the amendment of the general plan, this Development Code, and the zoning map. A general plan amendment may include revisions to strategies, goals, land use designations, objectives, or text. Amendments to this Development Code may modify any procedures, provisions, requirements, or standards, applicable to the development and/or use of property within the city. Zoning map amendments have the effect of rezoning property from one zoning district to another.

(Ord. No. 02(1998), § 2, 11-3-98)

Upon receipt of a complete application to amend the general plan, this Development Code, or the zoning map, or on initiation by the director, commission, or council, and following department review, public hearings shall be set before the commission and council. Notice of the hearings shall be given in compliance with chapter 22.72 (Public Hearings).

(Ord. No. 02(1998), § 2, 11-3-98)

The commission shall make a written recommendation to the council whether to approve, approve in modified form, or disapprove the proposed amendment, based on section 22.70.050 (Adoption of amendment), below.

(Ord. No. 02(1998), § 2, 11-3-98)

Upon receipt of the commission's recommendation, the council shall approve, approve in modified form, or disapprove the proposed amendment, based on section 22.70.050 (Adoption of amendment), below.

If the council proposes to adopt a substantial modification to the amendment not previously considered by the commission during its hearings, the proposed modification shall be first referred back to the commission for its recommendation, in compliance with state law (Government Code § 65356, General Plan Amendments and § 65857, Development Code/Zoning Map Amendments).

(Ord. No. 02(1998), § 2, 11-3-98)

The council shall adopt an amendment to the general plan, this Development Code, or the zoning map only if it finds that the proposed amendment is internally consistent with the general plan and other adopted goals and policies of the city.

(Ord. No. 02(1998), § 2, 11-3-98)

(a) Purpose. An unincorporated property within the city's sphere of influence may be prezoned for the purpose of determining the zoning that will apply to the property in the event of subsequent annexation to the city. The initiation and the procedures for the prezoning shall be the same procedures which govern the rezoning of property within the city.

Upon the effective date of annexation of property which has been prezoned in compliance with this section, the zoning designation shall become the official zoning designation for the property and shall be so designated on the city's official zoning map.

(b) Commission action on prezoning. The commission shall make a written recommendation to the council whether to approve, approve in modified form, or disapprove the proposed prezoning, based on section 22.70.050 (Adoption of amendment), above.

(c) Council action on prezoning. Upon receipt of the commission's recommendation, the council shall approve, approve in modified form, or disapprove the proposed prezoning based on section 22.70.050 (Adoption of amendment), above.

If the council proposes to adopt a substantial modification to the prezoning not previously considered by the commission during its hearings, the proposed modification shall be first referred back to the commission for its recommendation, in compliance with state law (Government Code § 65857).

(Ord. No. 02(1998), § 2, 11-3-98)