The planning commission shall cause to be made, by its own members
or members of its staff, such investigation of facts bearing upon
such application as will serve to provide all necessary information
to assure that the action on each such application is consistent with
the intent and purpose of this title and with previous amendments
or variances.
(Ord. 1719 § 1, 2010)
Following the receipt in proper form of any such application,
the secretary of the planning commission shall fix a time and place
of public hearing thereon. Not less than ten days before the date
of such public hearing, notice of the date, time, place of hearing
and location of the property and the nature of the request shall be
given in the following manner:
A. By
publishing once in a newspaper of general circulation in the city;
B. By
mailing a notice, postage prepaid, to the applicant, each member of
the planning commission, and to the owners of all property within
three hundred feet of the exterior boundaries of the property involved,
using for this purpose the last known name and the address of such
owners as shown upon the last assessment roll of the city or county.
(Ord. 1719 § 1, 2010)
Public hearings as provided for in this chapter shall be held before the planning commission at the time and place for which public notice has been given as required in Section
18.78.040. The planning commission may establish its own rules for the conduct of such hearings. A summary of all pertinent testimony offered at a public hearing, together with the names and addresses of all persons testifying shall be recorded and made a part of the permanent files of the case. Any such hearing may be continued; provided, that prior to the adjournment or recess thereof, the presiding officer at such hearing shall announce the time and place to which such hearing will be continued.
(Ord. 1719 § 1, 2010)
A. In
any petition for the annexation of property to the city, the petitioner
may request in his/her petition how he/she desires the property to
be zoned, provided that the property is annexed to the city.
B. The
planning commission may give notice of its intention to consider the
petition for annexation and for zoning the property in accordance
with provisions of state law. Such notice shall be given as may be
required by law from time to time for zoning and annexation.
C. If
no zoning is approved in connection with the petition for annexation,
all property annexed to the city shall, upon annexation, be automatically
zoned R-1a single-unit dwelling zone only, unless such annexation
has been prezoned, in which case the prezoning shall become effective.
(Ord. 1719 § 1, 2010; Ord. 1853, 12/18/2023)
The method of accomplishing prezoning of unincorporated territory
shall be as provided by this chapter for amendments and changes of
zone, except that publication of notice, and all ministerial and other
acts required by state law, shall comply with such state law. Such
zoning shall become effective in accordance with state law.
(Ord. 1719 § 1, 2010)