Simi Valley Municipal Code Art. 4 Planning Commission

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Article 3, consisting of Sections 2-3.301 through 2-3.306, recodified from Section 1321-3, S.V.M.C., and Ordinance No. 7, as amended by Ordinance Nos. 20, 36, 71, 98, 111, 213, and 281, effective April 13, 1977, renumbered to Article 4 and amended in its entirety by Section 6, Ordinance No. 468, effective April 15, 1981.

There is created a Planning Commission for the City which shall consist of five (5) members who shall not be officials or employees of the City, but who shall be residents of the City.

(§ 6, Ord. 468, eff. April 15, 1981)

(a) Appointment.

(1) Each member of the Council, upon the commencement of that member's term of office, shall nominate for appointment or reappointment a member of the Planning Commission whose term of office concurrently expires with that of the nominating Councilmember. The nominee shall be interviewed by the Council at a duly-noticed public meeting and shall be appointed by the Mayor upon the approval of a majority vote of all the members of the Council.

(2) Each member of the Council shall have an opportunity to nominate one appointee to become a member of the Planning Commission. If the Mayor fails to appoint such nominee due to the failure of a majority of all the members of the Council to approve the appointment, the member of the Council whose nominee was rejected may nominate such other persons as necessary until the majority of the Council votes to approve such nominee for appointment and the Mayor appoints such nominee to the Planning Commission. The Mayor shall not refuse to appoint any nominee otherwise qualified to serve on the Planning Commission once the majority of all the members of the Council have voted the approval of such nomination.

(3) Failure to nominate a person for a seat on the Planning Commission for six (6) consecutive regular or adjourned Council meetings shall entitle the Mayor to appoint the Mayor's or any other Council-member's nominee to the seat upon the approval of the majority of all the members of the Council without the nomination of that member of the Council otherwise entitled to nominate.

(4) Planning Commission members whose terms expire may continue to serve until a replacement is appointed in the manner set forth in this subsection.

(5) Vacancies on the Planning Commission occurring during an unexpired term shall be selected in the same manner provided for in this subsection.

(b) Terms of office.

(1) General. The terms of office for members of the Planning Commission shall expire concurrently with those of each Councilmember responsible for that Commission member's nomination for the seat on the Planning Commission. Vacancies on the Council occurring during a term of office of a Councilmember shall not affect the term of office for the members of the Planning Commission.

(2) Transition. Those seats on the Planning Commission having terms of office which expire on June 30, 1981, shall be filled with appointees of the Council nominated by those members of the Council whose terms expire on the third Tuesday of April 1984. Those seats on the Planning Commission having terms of office which would otherwise expire on June 30, 1983, shall be deemed vacated, and the terms expired as of the third Tuesday of April 1982, and shall be filled with appointees of the Mayor upon the approval of the majority of all the members of the Council and nominated by those members of the Council whose terms begin on the third Tuesday of April 1982.

(§ 6, Ord. 468, eff. April 15, 1981, as amended by § 1, Ord. 478, eff. June 17, 1981, § 3, Ord. 498, eff. April 14, 1982, and § 1, Ord. 674, eff. December 9, 1987)

A member of the Planning Commission may be removed by a four-fifths (⅘) vote of all of the members of the Council.

(§ 6, Ord. 468, eff. April 15, 1981)

(§ 6, Ord. 468, eff. April 15, 1981, repealed by § 1, Ord. 1087, eff. February 24, 2006)

The powers, duties, and functions of the Planning Commission shall be all those powers, duties, and functions of a Planning Commission, Planning Agency, Appeal Board, Board of Zoning Adjustment, and Advisory Agency for divisions of real property which require the preparation of a tentative tract map and a final map pursuant to the Government Code of the State.

(§ 6, Ord. 468, eff. April 15, 1981, as amended by § 2, Urgency Ord. 511, eff. September 13, 1982)