Willits Municipal Code Ch. 2.32 Planning Commission

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* For statutory provisions on city planning commissions, see Gov. Code §65100 et seq.

A city planning commission in and for the city is created and established under and by authority of the Conservation and Planning Act, Chapter 807, Statutes 1947, State of California, as amended.

(Ord. 49-1 §1).

A. The planning commission shall consist of five members, residents of the city, who shall be designated respectively as commissioners number 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. Said commissioners shall be appointed by the mayor with the approval of the city council of said city.

B. Of the members of the commission first appointed under the provisions of this chapter, commissioners number 1 and 2 shall be appointed for terms of one year; commissioners number 3 and 4 shall be appointed for terms of two years, and commissioner number 5 shall be appointed for a term of three years.

C. Upon the expiration of the respective terms of the commissioners referred to in subsection B, their respective successors shall be appointed for terms of four years.

D. If a vacancy shall occur otherwise than by expiration of term, it shall be filled by appointment for the unexpired portion of the term.

(Ord. 73-1 §2).

The terms of all members of the planning commission now serving shall expire on May 1st of the year in which they are currently due to expire, and their successors shall be appointed as set forth in Section 2.32.020.

(Ord. 83-2 §1: Ord. 73-1 §3).

Notwithstanding any of the other provisions of this chapter, any commissioner who absents himself from any three consecutive regular meetings of said planning commission, unless excused from such attendance by consent of such commission, expressed by action of record in its minutes or who is absent for a total of five regular meetings of said commission in any six-month period without such consent of such commission so expressed of record, shall thereby automatically forfeit his or her position or office as a member of said planning commission, and the name of such person shall be automatically removed from the membership of said commission immediately after the adjournment of any such third consecutive meeting or of any such fifth meeting in any such six-month period, as the case may be, at which such commissioner has not appeared.

The chairman or the secretary of the commission shall thereupon promptly notify the city council, and any such person so ceasing to be such commissioner of such fact; whereupon the vacancy so created shall be filled by appointment as contemplated under the provisions of subsection D of Section 2.32.020.

(Ord. 73-1 §4).

The planning commission and the members thereof shall respectively have and exercise each and all of the powers, duties, rights, privileges and authorities of city planning commissions and of members of such commissions, all as set forth, provided for, and contemplated in and under any other ordinance of this city and in and under the provisions of the "Planning Law" of the state as the same now exists and as the same may hereafter be amended, and shall perform the duties, acts, and functions of such city planning commission, and members thereof, respectively, all as indicated, set forth and referred to in, and as contemplated by, said "Planning Law" and in the manner therein stated.

(Ord. 73-1 §5).

The commission shall cause proper records to be kept of all its official acts and proceedings, and shall make reports to the city council, all as contemplated in and by said "Planning Law."

(Ord. 73-1 §6).

The commission shall have no power or authority to bind or obligate the city or any officer or department thereof for any money, debt, undertaking or obligation of any kind in excess of the appropriation which the city council may have made for the purposes of said commission in any fiscal year.

(Ord. 73-1 §7).

Except as otherwise provided in this chapter or by law, said commission shall have power to and shall provide for its own organization; shall adopt rules and regulations for the transaction of business before it, and shall designate the time and place for the regular monthly meeting or meetings of said commission.

(Ord. 73-1 §8).

The city clerk is authorized and instructed to notify said planning commission of any matters which may hereafter be pending before the city council and to forward to said planning commission from time to time any and all documents, proceedings and instruments which may hereafter be so pending and which documents, proceedings and instruments, according to law, are required to be submitted to such planning commission prior to final action thereon by said city council.

(Ord. 73-1 §9).