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ORDINANCE NO, 199
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO ESTABLISHING A PLANNING
COMMISSION AND DEFINING THE DUTIES THEREOF,
AND REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 188.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO
DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Members of the Planning Commission. There
is hereby created a City Planning Commission consisting of
five (5) members, not officers of the City, appointed by the
City Council. The City Council hereby desigiates the following
officers of the City as advisory members of the City Planning
Commission; the City Engineer and the City Attorney. Advisory
members shall not have the right to vote on any matter before
the Commission. Advisory members may designate a deputy to
sit with the Commission in their absence.
SECTION 2. Office, Each member of the Planning
Commission shall be a resident of the City of San Juan Capistrano
and shall be nominated by a City Councilman and appointed with
the concurrence of the majority of the Council. The term of
office shall coincide with that of the appointing Councilman; -
a member may, nevertheless, be removed at any time, by a
majority vote of the City Council.
SECTION 3. Meetings. The said Commission shall meet
regularly at least once each month, at a time and place to
be fixed by resolution of the Planning Commission and shall
hold such other meetings as from time to time shall becalled
in the manner and form required by law. The aforesaid resolu-
tion shall provide for the appointment of a Chairman or pre-
siding officer, who shall be charged with and vested with
the power and authority to conduct said meetings in an orderly
and efficient manner. To this end, any person,- who, while in
attendance at any Commission meeting, uses profane language,
or language tending to bring the Commission, or any of its
members, or any official of the City into contempt, or any
person who persistently interrupts the proceedings of the
Commission, or refuses or fails to be seated or keep quiet
when ordered to do so by the presiding officer, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor and punishable by a fine not to exceed
One Hundred Dollars ($100) or by imprisonment in the County
Jail for a period not to exceed ten (10) days, or by both
such fine and imprisonment.
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In all matters and things not otherwise provided for
herein, the proceedings shall be governed by Robert's
Rules of Order", Revised Edition. However, no ordinance,
resolution, proceeding, or other action of the Commission
shall be invalidated, or the legality thereof otherwise
effected, by the failure or omission to observe or follow
said rules.
SECTION 4. Compensation and Expenses. Each member
of the Commission shall receive no compensation but shall
be paid actual and necessary expenses while conducting busi-
ness for the Commission.
SECTION 5. Powers of Commission. The City Planning
Commission shall have power, except as otherwise, provided
by law:
a) To recommend to the proper officers of the City,
plans for the regulations of the future growth and develop-
ment and beautification of the City in respect to its
public and private buildings and works, streets, parks,
grounds and vacant lots.
b) To recommend to the proper office of the City,
plans, consistent with the future growth and development
of the City in order to secure to the City and its inhabi-
tants sanitation, proper service of all public utilities,
and transportation facilities.
c) To make recommendations to any public authorities
or any corporation or individuals of such City with refer-
ence to the location of any proposed buildings, structures
or works.
d) To recommend to the proper officers of the City
the approval or disapproval of maps or plats or subdivi-
sions of lands. Every such map or plat shall, prior to
its final approval or disapproval by the proper officers
of the City be submitted to said Commission for its recom-
mendation thereon to such officers. And such other things
as sh4ll be necessary to carry out the provisions herein
authorized and as provided by an Act of the Legislature of
.the State of California, found in the Statutes of 1929,
Chapter 838, at page 1805, as approved by the Governor of
the State of California.
SECTION 6. The City Clerk of the City of San Juan
Capistrano shall certify to the adoption of this ordinance
and shall, before the expiration of fifteen (15) days
after the passage thereof, cause the same to be published
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once, with the names of the members of the City Council
voting for and against the -same in a newspaper of general
circulation.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 14th day of August,
1972, by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: COUNCILMEN: CHERMAK, GAMMELL, THORPE,
WEATHERS
NOES: COUNCILMEN:. NONE
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: BYRNES
, ft yf the
a orr oof e City of Sai Juan
Capistrano
ATTEST:
Wanda E. Andersen, City Clerk
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss.
CITY OF SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO )-
I, WANDA E. ANDERSEN, City Clerk of the City of San
Juan Capistrano, California, hereby certify that the fore-
going is a true and correct copy of Ordinance No. 199
adopted by the City Council at their regular meeting held
August 14, 1972. - -