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Historic Landmark Commission adopts updated policies and procedures, clarifies ex parte rules and temporary-chair process
Summary
After a line-by-line review, the commission voted unanimously to adopt edits to its policies and procedures (including adding ex parte language and clarifying temporary-chair appointment). Staff will publish the revised document; commissioners also received an authority training on state enabling statutes and how to apply standards.
The Historic Landmark Commission unanimously adopted updates to its policies and procedures after commissioners and staff discussed a series of clarifying edits, language tweaks and process details.
Mikaela Bell, who led the review, said the draft incorporated prior comments and that staff would make the agreed clarifications. Commissioners asked for two textual replacements of "must" to "shall" for stronger procedural language, requested explicit insertion of "ex parte" into the communication section for clarity, and agreed that in the absence of both chair and vice chair the next-most-senior member in…
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