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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 1462ORDINANCE NO. 1462 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 1.24 OF THE CENTRAL POINT MUNICIPAL CODE PUBLIC HEARING PROCEDURES THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF CENTRAL POINT DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:: Section 1. Section 1..24.020 of the Central. Point Municipal Code is hereby amended as follows: 1.24.020 Planning commission and city council functions. A. The planning commission shall review and decide, without public hearings, the following matters: 1. Fence variances; 2. Outline development plans for planned unit developments; 3. Site plan review. B. The planning commission shall hold public hearing and decide the following matters: 1. Conditional use permits; 2. Zoning variances. C. The planning commission shall review and make recom- mendations to the city council on those matters specified in sub- section D. of this section. D. The city council shall hold a public hearing and decide the following matters: 1. Amendments to the text and map of the comprehensive plan; ordinance; developments; 2. Amendments to the text and map of the zoning 3. Annexations; 4. Major and minor land partitions; 5. Major and minor land partition variances; 6. Mobile home parks; 7. Preliminary development plans of planned unit 8. Street and alley vacations; 9. Subdivision Preliminary Plats; 10. Subdivision variances.; 11. Withdrawal from special districts. Section 2. Section 1.24.030 of the Central Point Municipal Code is hereby amended as follows: 1.24.030 Applications. A. All applications under this chapter shall be filed with the city administrator or his designee, upon forms established by the city administrator. Ordinance No. 1462 _ 1 B. The applications clerk shall require that all appli- cations be accompanied by the appropriate fee and other supple- mental ixif:ormation, including proposed findings, where appropriate. Findings, when required, shall include the criteria and standards applicable to the specific type of application, a comprehensive statement of factual information. that the applicant intends to establish and upon which he intends to rely and proposed conclu- sions setting forth the manner in which the applicant believes that the facts meet all criteria and support an allowance of the application.. If the application and all supplemental information is satisfactory the applications clerk shall accept the same for filing upon receipt of the necessary fees.. If the application is unsatisfactory, the applications clerk shall reject the same with a notation thereon indicating the reasons for the rejection. In the case of a subdivision or major partition, the application will either be accepted as completed or rejected as incomplete with reasons, within 30 days of its receipt. C. Upon. filing of an accepted application, the applica- tions clerk shall assign the same for review by the appropriate members of the city staff and with all affected city, county, state anal federal agencies, and all affected special districts, where appropriate. D. A subdivision or major partition shall be reviewed and either approved or denied by both the planning commission and city council within 180 days from the date of an accepted appli- cation. Section 3. Section. 1.24.040 of the Central Point Muni- cipal Code is hereby amended as follows:. 1.24.040 Staff review. A. The application shall be reviewed by the appropriate members of the city staff. If addi- tonal time is necessary for an adequate review of the application, and the city administrator believes that such additional time will result in a delay of more than sixty days between the time of the filing of the application and the public hearing, the city council may, after notice to the applicant, grant the city administrator a reasonable. extension. o.f...tirrie,for ;review. B. The staff review shall be for conformance to the applicable ordinances of the city and engineering, planning and construction standards, where applicable. Upon completion of staff review, the appropriate members of the city staff may prepare a report summarizing the application and recommending approval, approval with conditions or modifications, or disapproval of the application. The staff report may also contain proposed findings, which may incorporate all or any part of the applicant's proposed findings,. Ordinance No. 1462 _ 2 C. Upon completion of the staff review, the application will be placed upon the agenda of the first regularly scheduled planning commission meeting that allows sufficient time for publication and posting of notices as required by this chapter. Section 4. Section 1.24.060 of the Central Point Muni- cpal Code is hereby amended as follows: 1.24.060 Notice requirements.. A. Notices of applications under this chapter before the planning commission/city council for a decision shall be given as follows: 1. Public hearings before the city council:. a. In cases of major changes to the zoning map or the comprehensive plan map, notice shall be given by publishing once at least thirty days prior to the date of the public hearing and once in the week prior to the week of the public hearing; b. In the case of all public hearings, except item a. above, minimum notices of the public hearing to be published once each week for two successive weeks prior to the date of the hearing in a newspaper of general circulation within the city, with the second publication to be no less than twenty-four hours prior to the hearing; c. In cases of minor amendment to the comprehensive plan map, in addition to item b. above, notice of the public hearing shall be sent by mail postmarked not less than seven days prior to the date of hearing to the owners of property situated within a two- hundred-foot radius of the boundaries of the property which is the subject of the application, as shown on the current assessor's tax rolls; d. In cases of annexation, in addition to item b. above, the city administrator shall cause notices of the public hearing to be posted in four public places in the city for two successive weeks prior to the date of the hearing and to cause notices of the public hearing to be published once each week for two successive weeks prior to the date of the hearing in a news- paper of general circulation within the city, with the second publication to be no less than twenty-four hours prior to the hearing; e. In cases of street or alley vacations, in addition to item b. above, written notices of the petition and public hearing shall be posted not less than twenty-eight days before the hearing in three of the most public places in the city and at each end of the proposed vacation. 2. Public hearings before the planning commission: a. Notices of the public hearing to be published once each. week. for two successive weeks prior to the day of the hearing in a newspaper of general circulation within the city, with the second publication to be no less than twenty-four hours prior to the hearing. Ordinance No. 1462 _ 3 b. In the case of variances from the require- ments of the zoning ordinance, in addition to item a. above, notice of the public hearing shall be sent by mail postmarked not less than seven days prior to the date of hearing to the owners of property situated within a two-hundred-foot radius of the boundaries of the property which is the subject of the appli- cation, as shown on the current assessor's tax rolls. 3. Review and decide before the planning commission: In the case where the planning commission reviews and decides, notices shall be given by posting the meeting agenda in three public places in the city in the week prior to the date of review. 4. Review and recommendation before the planning commission: a. In the case of planning commission review which results in recommendations rather than decisions, notice shall be given by posting meeting agenda in three public places in the city in the week prior to the date of review. B. Contents of notice. All notices, whether published, posted. or mailed, shall include a brief description of the application, including the name of the applicant and property owners, the general location of the property and the proposed change or use, and the date, time and place of the public hearing. Such notices shall also comply with the requirements of the city charter and other ordi- nances and state statutes.. C. Mailed notices. 1. In all cases in which a mailing of notices is required, such mailing shall be the responsibility of the city. Notices. shall be mailed to the address of the owner of the proper- ty as shown on the assessor's tax rolls, and such mailing shall be considered sufficient notice. Failure of any owner to receive the mailed notices shall not be grounds to invalidate the notice requirements. 2. For minor comprehensive plan amendments: a. In determining the affected persons to receive notice by mail of proposed changes, renters should be considered among those affected. b. In the event that all of the property within. a single ownership is not included in the area to be changed, the boundary for those to receive notice by mail shall be measured from the property line and not from the boundary line of the area to be changed.. Passed by the Council and signed by me in authentication Ordinance No. .1462: _ 4 of its passage this 10th day of June 1982. Mayor ATTEST: ~' ` y~ _ ~ „~ ~ ~ f/ r~ , City~° ecorder Approved by me this 14th day of 1982.. June Mayor Ordinance No. 1462 _ 5