Chapter 46 — NOTICING REQUIREMENTS

Sections:

46.010 Cause for notice. 46.020 Notice requirements. 46.030 Notice contents. 46.040 Notice definitions.

Upon receipt of a request for a land use decision that utilizes a public hearing or Director Review with Notice, the Planning Division shall cause notice to be given.

• A. Notice shall be published once in a newspaper of general circulation for the following land use decisions:

  1. Subdivisions (refer to Title 17, Mono County Code, for specific processing requirements).

  2. Land use designation amendments.

  3. General Plan amendments.

  4. Amendments to the text of the General Plan, area plans, land development regulations, or specific plans.

  5. Use permits; and

  6. Variances.

• B. Notice shall be given by first-class mail or electronic mail to any person who has filed a written request.

• C. Notice shall be given by first-class mail or delivery to all surrounding property owners for land use decisions utilizing public hearing procedures.

• D. Notice shall be given by first-class mail or delivery to all contiguous property owners for land use decisions utilizing Community Development’s Director Review with Notice procedures.

• E. An eighth-page advertisement in a newspaper of general circulation may be substituted for individual property owner notice whenever the individual notice would require notification of 1,000 or more property owners. This alternative is often applicable to large General Plan or land use redesignations.

• F. Notice shall be given to each local agency expected to provide water, sewage, streets, roads, schools, or other essential facilities or services to the project, whose ability to provide those facilities and services may be significantly affected.

• G. Notice shall be given in such other manner as is deemed necessary or desirable.

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LAND USE ELEMENT

Notice of Public Hearing shall contain the time and place of the hearing, a general description of the request, the location of the site, and any additional information the Director may deem appropriate.

Notice of Director Review shall contain the same information as that for Public Hearing except that the date of the Director decision shall be substituted for time and place of the hearing.

Errors in the giving of notice or of the failure of any person to receive notice shall not invalidate the proceeding.

• A. "Surrounding property,” for the purposes of this General Plan, shall be defined as those properties that fall within a 300-foot radius drawn from the nearest limits of the parcel that is subject of the land use application. If a property is located more than 300 feet from the boundary of the parcel, but will be directly affected by any land use application on the subject parcel, then that property owner should also be noticed. Further, any property owners, regardless of their location or proximity to the parcel subject to a land use application, may receive notice as long as they submit their request in writing to the Planning Division more than 10 days in advance of the hearing. Such notice shall be given to those properties at least 10 days in advance of the hearing by mail to all persons whose names and addresses appear on the latest adopted tax roll of the County.

• B. "Contiguous property,” for the purposes of this General Plan, shall be the same as that found in definitions, Chapter 02. Such notice shall be given to these properties at least 10 days before the Director decision by mail to all persons whose names and addresses appear on the latest adopted tax roll of the County.

II-391 Land Use Element – 2025

MONO COUNTY GENERAL PLAN

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