HomeMy WebLinkAbout42-84 BEFORE THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DANVILLE
IN THE MATTER OF: )
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Amending the Municipal Code to )
Authorize the Planning Director ) ORDINANCE NO. 42-84
to Decide Certain Variance and )
'Sign Applications )
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The City Council of the City of Danville DOES ORDAIN
as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 2(1) of Ordinance No. 8 (Continuing
County ordinances in Effect) is amended to read as follows:
"Section 2. Substitution of Appro-
priate References to
City.
Where in the ordinances of the County of
Contra Costa which are continued in
effect by the City (1) there is a
reference to "Planning Commission",
"Board of Zoning Adjustment", "Board
of Appeal", "Zoning Administrator!~,
this reference means the planning
agency of the City as established by
ordinance except that the Planning
Director may hear and decide an
application for a variance permit or
sign permit if the permit is the only
matter before the City and the
application contains no other requests;".
SECTION 2. Municipal Code §8-104 is amended by adding
a new subsection (7) to read as follows:
"Section 8-104. General Powers and Duties
of Planning Director.
The Planning Director has the following
powers and duties:
(1) provides staff assistance to the City
Council, City Manager, and Planning Commission;
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(2) serve as secretary to the Planning
Commission, or designate an assistant to
serve as the secretary. Before the
appointment of the first Planning Director
or in the absence of the Planning Director
or his designee, the City Manager shall
designate a person to act as secretary;
(3) make surveys, gather data, prepare
reports, maps, charts and graphic
presentation, adoption and revision of
the general plan;
(4) enforce the planning and zoning
laws of the State and ordinances of the
City;
(5) conduct the City's environmental
review process in accordance with the
State Environmental Quality Act and
generally be responsible for environ-
men~al matters;
(6) manage and coordinate all matters
concerning housing and commercial
buildings; and
(7) hear and decide applications as may
be authorized by ordinance or elsewhere
in this Title."
SECTION 3. Publication. The City Clerk shall either
a) have this ordinance published once within 15 days after
adoption in a newspaper of general circulation or b) have
a summary of this ordinance published twice in a newspaper
of general circulation, once five days before its adoption
and again within 15 days after adoption.
SECTION 4. Effective Date. This ordinance becomes
effective 30 days after its adoption.
The foregoing ordinance was introduced at a meeting
of the City Council of the City of Danville held on
October ] , 1984, and was adopted and ordered
published at a meeting of the Council held on ~ctober 15
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1984,. by the following vote:
AYES: Lane, May, Mc Neely, Offenhartz, Schlendorf
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ATTEST:
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