Council holds public hearing on building-code amendments that expand planning board functions and remove an applicant's automatic'review right

The City Council held a public hearing June 3 on proposed amendments to the City of Long Beach Code of Ordinances that give the recently created planning board clearer authority over architectural review and change the appeal process for applicants.

Deputy Corporation Counsel Joe Lupo told the council the revisions clarify that the planning board will act in its capacity as the architectural review board for exterior aesthetic reviews and that certain nonresidential uses in unmodified existing facilities will not require planning-board review. Lupo said the amendments also remove a separate findings-of-fact process that currently lets a denied applicant request a re-review by the same board.

Lupo said…