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Parlier staff outlines options to create planning commission, council to workshop ordinance

Parlier City Council · February 6, 2026
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Summary

Community Development Director Jeff O'Neil told the council on Feb. 5 that California law allows cities to create planning commissions and detailed the duties a commission could assume; council directed staff to return with draft ordinance language and a workshop date.

Jeff O'Neil, Parlier’s Community Development Director, told the City Council on Feb. 5 that California Government Code section 65101 authorizes cities to create planning commissions and requires those commissions to have at least five members.

“By state law, a planning commission has to conduct at least one public hearing and make a recommendation to the city council for any amendment to the general plan or any amendment to the…

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