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Planning commissioners briefed on ethics, ex parte rules and land‑development basics
Summary
City legal staff and planning managers trained commissioners on quasi‑judicial duties, ex parte communications, Colorado open‑records and meetings laws, conflicts and gift rules, and local land‑development code basics ahead of the Midtown Centennial planning update.
Jill Haspin of the city attorney's office and Michael Grama, the community development planning manager, gave Centennial’s Planning and Zoning Commission a detailed refresher on legal duties, ethics and how the land development code guides commission work.
The training, delivered at the commission’s April 8 meeting, walked through the commission’s two primary functions — advisory legislative work and quasi‑judicial decision‑making — and stressed the difference. Haspin told commissioners that quasi‑judicial cases require impartiality and that “ex parte communications are strictly prohibited” because outside…
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