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Palo Alto planning commission standardizes public‑comment rules: 5 minutes reducible to 2
Summary
The Planning and Transportation Commission revised its procedural rules to standardize public comment: individual speakers get up to five minutes, reducible to two at the chair’s discretion; groups of five or more get up to 15 minutes reducible to 10.
The Palo Alto Planning and Transportation Commission voted unanimously on March 12, 2025 to update its meeting procedures for public comment, standardizing speaker times and clarifying how group presentations are handled.
Under the adopted change, individual public commenters will be allotted up to five minutes each; the presiding officer may reduce that time to two minutes when necessary to manage the meeting. Groups of five or more people may designate a spokesperson and…
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