Planning Commission Agenda Packet 102225 (1)

P25-0352, PMC Amendments Planning Commission 7 of 9 expand the procedures in PMC Section 18.12.040 to capture all of the public hearing and project notification information scattered throughout PMC Title 18, codify the adopted City Council on-site noticing policy, and update public notice requirements to be consistent with Government Code Sections 65090 and 65091. There are three major sections recommended for inclusion in the PMC Chapter, as follows: • Public Hearings: For projects with public hearings, staff recommends that the public notice requirements align with the Government Code, which decreases the noticing radius from 1,000 feet to 300 feet. Additionally, newspaper publication or posting in three public places within City (including at project site) is required. • Mailed Project Notification: For projects requiring project notification (e.g., single- family residential DR projects, Minor Conditional Use Permits, etc.), staff recommends increasing the noticing radius from “…the surrounding property owners…as determined by the Zoning Administrator” to 300 feet, aligning with the requirements for public hearings. • On-Site Project Notification: Codify the City policy requiring on-site project notification for specific projects. While largely aligning with Government Code, there are three ways in which the proposed PMC amendments will exceed the requirements. First, staff proposes to continue notifications to both property owners and tenants, where the Government Code only requires property owner notification. Second, staff proposes to continue mailing notification cards to specific project types that have no associated public hearing, as seen in Attachment 1 to Exhibit A on page 9. Third, the on-site project notification policy exceeds the requirements under state law. Appeal Amendments Staff proposes to comprehensively amend PMC Chapter 18.144 to provide amended appeal procedures. The proposed amendments include clarifying appeal procedures and modifying the appeal period. Staff recommends that all projects under PMC Title 18 be subject to a 10- day appeal period (versus the City’s existing 15-day+ appeal period), with project approvals becoming effective on the 11th day. This recommendation will align with most neighboring jurisdictions and will shorten project approval timelines. As previously stated, the current appeal period is a minimum of 15 days, but it may last over 30 days due to PMC Section 18.144.010 (B), which delays the appeal period until ZA and Planning Commission actions can be reported to the City Council at its next regular meeting. Rather than a City Council agenda report item of ZA and Planning Commission actions (and Planning Commission agenda report item of all actions of the ZA), a weekly approval memo will be posted to the City’s website for projects approved by both the ZA and Planning Commission. The intent of the approval memo is to publicize all appealable Planning discretionary approvals within the appeal period. City Council members and Planning Commissioners will be notified of memo publishing via email, and members of the public can subscribe to the memo to stay apprised of appealable discretionary approvals. All appeals and City Council call-ups must occur within the 10-day appeal period window. Other amendments In addition to the amendments noted above, modifications are also proposed to PMC Chapters 18.08 (Definitions), 18.22 (Housing Site Compliance Review), 18.68 (PUD Planned Unit