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Santa Monica council directs planning review and repeals interim zoning after FPPC guidance on councilmember conflict
Summary
After receiving FPPC advice about prospective recusal for housing-production items, the Santa Monica City Council voted to repeal an emergency interim zoning ordinance and sent a planning-process ROI to staff and the planning commission to evaluate how to implement state housing laws locally, while ratifying the city’s building code to avoid permitting disruptions.
Mayor Caroline Turosas opened Tuesday’s meeting by telling residents the council had read thousands of emails and that staff, led by the city attorney, had reviewed items that could fall within newly issued guidance from the Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC).
The FPPC had advised that Mayor Pro Tem Jesse Zwick should prospectively recuse from “housing production”-related matters after the city submitted a factual outline of his contacts with the Housing Action Coalition and his subsequent employment there, staff said. The FPPC did not find past violations or require resignation, but determined Zwick should recuse going forward from certain housing-production…
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