Redding Municipal Code Ch. 2.52 Planning Commission

There is created and established a city planning commission which is named "Redding Planning Commission," and which is referred to in this chapter as "commission."

(Prior code § 2-100)

The planning commission shall consist of seven members who shall be either residents, employed within the city, or business owners within the city. All members shall be appointed by the mayor, subject to the approval of a majority of the members of the city council.

The term of office of all members so appointed shall be for four years, except that if a vacancy shall occur for any reason other than the expiration of the term of that member's office, it shall be filled by appointment by the mayor, subject to the approval of a majority of the members of the city council, for the unexpired portion of the term of the member whose office is vacated.

(Ord. 2002 § 6, 1992)

The director of development services, the director of transportation and engineering and the city attorney shall be advisory members of the planning commission. They shall have no vote, and they shall not be considered members for purposes of constituting a quorum. Their terms of office as advisory members shall correspond in tenure to their official tenure as officials of the city. Advisory members may designate an appropriate deputy from their staffs to attend meetings of the planning commission in their place and stead on such occasions as their other duties may prevent them from sitting in attendance at a particular planning commission meeting.

(Ord. 2374 § 6, 2006: prior code § 2-101.1)

Any member of the planning commission may be removed by the city council. Any member of the planning commission who fails to attend four consecutive meetings of the planning commission without permission from the city council to be absent shall be considered automatically removed and a vacancy shall be deemed to have occurred unless good cause is shown. The city council shall be the sole judge as to whether or not good cause is shown, and when it is determined that it is not, then the vacancy so created shall be filled immediately by the mayor, with and subject to the approval of the city council, for the unexpired portion of the term.

(Ord. 1417 § 1 (part), 1978)

All members of the planning commission shall serve as members without compensation.

(Ord. 1417 § 1 (part), 1978)

There shall be two officers in the planning commission, a chairman, and a vice-chairman. An advisory member of the planning commission may not hold the office of chairman or of vice-chairman. The planning director or his duly designated subordinate shall be secretary to the planning commission. The commission shall elect its officers at the first regular meeting of the commission in May of each year, and they shall hold office for a term of one year, and any vacancy in any of the offices shall be filled by the commission at the first regular meeting of the commission after the vacancy occurs, and shall be filled for the unexpired portion of the term of office to be filled. The chairman shall preside at all meetings of the commission, and in his absence the vice-chairman shall preside. The secretary shall make and keep a record of all the resolutions, transactions, findings and determinations of the commission, and shall record and keep the minutes of the commission meetings.

(Ord. 1417 § 1 (part), 1978)

The planning commission shall meet at four p.m. on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each and every month, except when that day falls on a legal holiday, in which case the meeting shall be held on the day following the holiday, and the meeting shall be a regular meeting of the commission. The planning commission may adjourn any regular meeting of the commission from time-to-time or place-to-place so long as the adjournment shall not extend to a point in time beyond the day of the next regular meeting of the commission.

(Ord. 2221 § 1, 1998: Ord. 2140 § 1, 1995: Ord. 1924 § 1, 1990)

To call a special meeting, the chairman or a majority of the members shall file, at least twenty-four hours prior to the date that the meeting is to be held, with the secretary of the planning commission, a signed written notice of the meeting, which notice shall specify the time and place of the special meeting and the agenda therefor. The signed written notice shall also be served personally or by certified mail upon all members of the planning commission who did not sign the notice of the special meeting. Twenty-four hours' notice in writing shall also be given to all newspapers, radio stations, and television stations which have filed a request for notice in writing with the city clerk or the secretary of the planning commission. The presence of all members at the special meeting, or the waiver of notice in writing by any absent member, shall constitute a waiver of the requirement of notice as it relates to members.

(Ord. 1417 § 1 (part), 1978)

Regular meetings shall be held in the city council chambers. Adjourned regular meetings and special meetings may be held elsewhere within the city, provided notice of the time and place of the meetings and of the agenda of special meetings is given to all members of the planning commission and to all newspapers, radio stations, and television stations which have filed a request for notice in writing with the city clerk or with the secretary of the commission. The notice shall be given at least twenty-four hours prior to the special meetings, and as to an adjourned regular meeting, shall be given at the regular meeting prior to adjournment. A majority of the members of the commission shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at any regular or special meeting of the commission.

(Ord. 1417 § 1 (part), 1978)