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Planning Commission approves rewrite of citizen participation rules, tightening timing and requiring meeting summaries
Summary
The Planning Commission voted to recommend amendments to the UDC that rename "citizen participation" as "community participation," limit required developer meetings to discretionary projects, set a 45‑day window for holding those meetings after application acceptance, and require a written meeting report within 15 days after the meeting.
The Planning Commission voted on March 25 to recommend changes to the Unified Development Code (UDC) that retitle "citizen participation" as "community participation," narrow the set of projects that require developer‑led public meetings, and impose new timing and reporting deadlines for those meetings.
Staff told the commission the change responds to a City Council directive in an "A New Approach to Economic Development" resolution and is intended to align community participation requirements with state law practice and to focus meetings where the…
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