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City attorney trains Keizer Planning Commission on quasi-judicial rules, ex parte disclosure and conflicts
Summary
City Attorney Joseph Lindsey led a procedural training at the Feb. 11 Planning Commission meeting detailing ex parte disclosure, actual and potential conflicts of interest (citing ORS ethics language), bias standards, record-handling, continuances and public-comment logistics ahead of upcoming complex land-use hearings.
City Attorney Joseph Lindsey provided an extended training to the Keizer Planning Commission on Feb. 11 focused on quasi-judicial hearing procedure, disclosure duties and the mechanics of creating a sound administrative record for land-use matters.
"It's called quasi-judicial is because you're acting like a judge," Lindsey told commissioners as he described the qualities expected of decision-makers: honesty, impartiality and judicial temperament. He emphasized that anyone who participates on the record can acquire party status and standing to appeal, so commissioners must disclose outside communications about a case once an application…
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