Mendocino County Municipal Code Ch. 2.48 The Planning Commission

There is hereby created a Planning Commission for the County of Mendocino. Said Commission shall consist of five (5) members. One (1) member shall be appointed from each supervisorial district. All members shall be appointed by the Board of Supervisors upon nomination by any member of the Board of Supervisors. Each member representing a supervisorial district shall serve a term coextensive with the term served by the Supervisor from that district. If a vacancy occurs during a Supervisor's term, a vacancy will be deemed to have occurred in the office of the Planning Commissioner from that Supervisor's district. Commissioners serve at the will and pleasure of the Board of Supervisors and may be removed at any time by a four-fifths (⅘) vote of the Board of Supervisors. The members of the Commission shall receive such compensation and expense reimbursement as authorized by law and as established by the Board of Supervisors.

(Ord. No. 300, Sec. 1, adopted 1945; Ord. No. 447, adopted 1963; Ord. No. 3816, adopted 1992.)

(Ord. No. 4484, § 1, 2-23-2021)

The Commission shall elect a Chairman from among the appointed members for a term of one (1) year and, subject to other provisions of law, may elect such other officers as it may determine. The Commission shall hold at least one (1) regular meeting each month. It shall adopt rules for the transaction of business and shall keep a record of its resolutions, transactions, findings and determinations, which record shall be a public record. The Commission may appoint officers and employees and contract for services, subject to the provisions of law, provided that all expenditures of the Commission, exclusive of gifts, shall be within the amounts appropriated for the purpose by the Board of Supervisors.

(Ord. No. 300, Sec. 2, adopted 1945.)

It shall be the function and duty of the Planning Commission to prepare, make and adopt, subject to the provisions of law, a master plan for the physical development of the County and of any land outside the boundaries thereof which in the Commission's judgment bears relation to the planning thereof.

(Ord. No. 300, Sec. 3, adopted 1945.)

The Planning Commission shall have such other powers and duties as are prescribed by law and shall be governed by the procedure provided by law.

(Ord. No. 300, Sec. 4, adopted 1945, as amended by Ord. No. 622, as adopted 1970.)

The Board of Supervisors hereby establishes the Board of Directors of the Brooktrails Township Community Services District as the Brooktrails Area Planning Commission. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Code, it shall be the function and duty of the Brooktrails Area Planning Commission to:

(A) Prepare a specific plan for the Brooktrails Area pursuant to Section 65450, et seq., of the Government Code and related general plan amendments.

(B) Implement those measures in the specific plan that have been delegated by the Board of Supervisors.

The area which shall be known pursuant to this section as the "Brooktrails Area" shall include all lands located within the Brooktrails Community Services District excepting and excluding those lands located within that portion of the District generally referred to as "Spring Creek" (all territory shown on Parcel Map 1-76 recorded in the Office of the Mendocino County Recorder, Map Case 2, Drawer 29, page 87) and "Sylvandale" (all territory shown on Parcel Map 1-73 recorded in the Office of the Mendocino County Recorder, Map Case 2, Drawer 22, page 15).

(Ord. No. 3829, adopted 1992.)

(A) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 2.48.010, the terms of the two Planning Commissioners serving at large shall each be extended by one year from the date on which each term expires. This extension shall affect only the terms of each Commissioner serving at large on the date that this Section takes effect, and thereafter each Commissioner serving at large shall serve a four (4) year term as provided in Section 2.48.010, each term staggered two (2) years as to the other.

(B) This Section shall remain in effect only until March 31, 2001 and is thereafter repealed.

(Ord. No. 3962 Sec. 1, adopted 1997.)