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RESOLUTION NO. 4669
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF ARCADIA REPEALING RESOLUTION NO.
4439 AND ADOPTING PROCEDURES FOR ADOPTING
AND AMENDING THE GENERAL PLAN
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA RESOLVES AS
FOLLOWS:
I. Resolution No. 4439 is hereby repealed.
2. DEFINITION: The term "General Plan" as used in the
following sections shall include the General Plan or any part
or element thereof or any amendment to such plan or any part or
element thereof.
3. EXCLUSIVE METHOD OF ADOPTION: The General Plan
shall be adopted or amended in the manner provided in this re-
solution.
4. INITIATION OF PROCEEDINGS:
a. The Planning Commission or City Council, upon
its own motion, may initiate proceedings to amend the General
Plan.
b. Any interested person may file an application for
an amendment to the General Plan.
c. Before accepting for filing any application for
an amendment to the General Plan, the City shall, for the purpose
of defraying the expenditures incidental to the proceedings des-
cribed herein, charge and collect a fee as may be set from time
to time by resolution of the City Council.
d. Application forms shall be in a form and content
approved and shall be obtained from, and when completed, submitted
to the Planning Department.
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5. ZONE CHANGE PRECEDED BY GENERAL PLAN: A two-week
period of time shall be provided between the adoption or amendment
of the General Plan or element thereof and a proposal for rezoning
for the purpose of bringing the zoning into consistency with the
General Plan.
6. CONSIDERATIONS FOR CHANGE: All proposed changes in
the General Plan shall be evaluated in regard to environmental
impact and consistency with the balance of the document.
7. PLANNING COMMISSION PROCEDURE:
a. The Planning Commission shall hold at least one
public hearing before approving a General Plan.
b. Notice of the time and place of the hearing shall
be given at least ten (10) calendar days before the hearing. The
notice shall be published at least once in the official newspaper.
c. In addition to notice by publication, the City may
give notice of the hearing in such other manner as it may deem
necessary or desirable.
d. Any hearing may be continued from time to time.
e. The approval by the Planning Commission of the
General Plan shall be by resolution of the Commission carried by
the affirmative votes of not less than a majority of its total
voting members.
f. The Planning Commission, upon the adoption of a
resolution approving the General Plan, shall transmit said reso-
lution to the City Council.
8. CITY COUNCIL PROCEDURE:
a. Before adopting a General Plan, the City Council
shall hold at least one public hearing.
b. Notice of the time and place of the hearing shall
be given in the same time and manner provided for the giving of
notice of the hearing by the Planning Commission.
c. In addition to notice by publication, the City may
give notice of the hearing in such other manner as it may deem
necessary or desirable.
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d. Any hearing may be continued from time to time.
e. In adopting a General Plan which has been approved
by the Planning Commission, the City Council may make any changes
or additions without referring the same back to the Planning Com-
mission. At its discretion, the City Council may refer the
General Plan change back to the Planning Commission.
f. The adoption of the General Plan shall be by re-
solution of the City Council.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing resolution was adopted
at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Arcadia
held on the 18th day of October, 1977, by the affirmative vote of
at least three Council Members, to wit:
AYES:
Council Members Gilb, Lauber, Margett,. Parry
and Saelid
None
NOES:
ABSENT: None
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i ty Clerk of ~ ty of Arcadia
SIGNED AND APPROVED this 18th day of October, 1977.
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City Clerk
(SEAL)
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