City Of Industry City Zoning Code
CHAPTER 17
64 PLANNING COMMISSION
§ 17.64.010 Created.
A planning commission which may be known and referred to as the "planning commission," is created and established pursuant to the provisions of that certain act of the Legislature of the state of California, which is designated and referred to as the "planning law" (Title 7 of the Government Code of the state of California) as amended to date and as same may hereafter be amended.
(Ord. 178 § 801, 1961; Ord. 545 § 1, 1988)
§ 17.64.020 Composition.
The planning commission shall consist of five members. Said commissioners shall be appointed by a majority vote of the city council. An appointed member of the planning commission may be removed at any time by a majority vote of the city council.
(Ord. 178 § 802, 1961; Ord. 545 § 1, 1988; Ord. 669 § 18, 2001; Ord. 824 § 3, 2023)
§ 17.64.030 Terms.
A.
The term of office of each commissioner is for a period of four years. Commencing in 2025, every four years, three appointments to the planning commission shall be made at the first city council meeting in July. Commencing in 2027, every four years, two appointments to the planning commission shall be made at the first city council meeting in July. Notwithstanding any provision set forth in this section, the terms of office of all commissioners in office as of the effective date of this section shall be extended. The three commissioners whose existing terms expire in 2024 and 2025 are extended to August 2025, and the two commissioners whose existing terms expire in 2026 and 2027 are extended to August 2027. Each commissioner shall continue in office until his or her successor is sworn in. Commissioners shall be sworn in at the first planning commission meeting in August, after appointment by the city council.
B.
Upon the expiration of the respective terms of the commissioners referred to in subsection A, their respective successors shall be appointed for terms of four years.
C.
If a vacancy shall occur otherwise than by expiration of term, it shall be filled by appointment for the unexpired portion of the term. Such appointment shall be made by the mayor with the approval of the city council.
(Ord. 178 § 803, 1961; Ord. 545 § 1, 1988; Ord. 824 § 4, 2023)
§ 17.64.040 Forfeiture of position.
A.
Notwithstanding any of the other provisions of this title, any commissioner who absents himself or herself from any three consecutive regular meetings of the planning commission, unless excused from such attendance by consent of such commission expressed by action of record in its minutes, or who is absent from a total of five regular meetings of the commission in any six-month period without such consent of such commission so expressed of record, automatically forfeits his or her position or office as a member of the planning commission, and the name of such person shall be automatically removed from the membership of the 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.
B.
The chairperson 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 Section 17.64.030C.
(Ord. 178 § 804, 1961; Ord. 545 §§ 1, 2, 1988)
§ 17.64.050 Powers and duties.
The planning commission and the members thereof 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 this title and under any other ordinance of this city and in and under the provisions of said "planning law" as same now exists and as same may hereafter be amended, and shall perform the duties, acts and functions of such city planning commissions, 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. 545 § 1, 1988; Ord. 178 § 805, 1961)
§ 17.64.060 Hearings.
The planning commission shall conduct such hearings as may be required by law upon receipt by the city of any application or petition for a change of zone and upon direction of the city council, shall conduct such hearings upon any proceedings for a change of zone otherwise initiated. The planning commission shall thereafter transmit its recommendations with reference to said application or proceedings for a change of zone to the city council.
(Ord. 178 § 805, 1961; Ord. 545 § 1, 1988)
§ 17.64.080 Records.
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. 178 § 806, 1961; Ord. 545 § 1, 1988)
§ 17.64.090 Debt.
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 purpose of the commission in any fiscal year.
(Ord. 178 § 807, 1961; Ord. 545 § 1, 1988)
§ 17.64.100 Organization.
Except as otherwise provided in this title or by law, the 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 the commission.
(Ord. 178 § 808, 1961; Ord. 545 § 1, 1988)
§ 17.64.110 City clerk-Duties regarding commission.
The city clerk is authorized and instructed to notify the planning commission of any matters which may hereafter be pending before the city council and to forward to the 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. 178 § 809, 1961; Ord. 545 § 1, 1988)