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Long Beach council adopts charter and zoning changes to create planning board
Summary
The City Council approved a local law and an ordinance to formally establish a planning board and revise planning-and-zoning code, directing staff to refine some inconsistent language before the board begins full review activity.
The Council of the City of Long Beach voted Tuesday to amend the city charter and update the municipal code to establish a new planning board and fold architectural review functions into that body.
City staff and council members said the step implements recommendations from the city—s comprehensive plan and is intended to give the city a forum for more detailed review of larger development projects while leaving routine one- and two-family work to the zoning board.
Joe Lupo, a city staff member who presented the legislation, told the council the local law "sets out how the city will appoint its members, how the members will elect their chairperson, and it's really just the foundational…
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