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Planning staff proposes raising absentee threshold and other housekeeping code edits

City of St. Helens Joint Planning Commission and City Council · March 12, 2026
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Summary

City planning staff proposed revising the planning commission absentee policy from three consecutive meetings to four missed meetings per calendar year, moving historic‑landmark rules into the planning code, and updating chair/vice‑chair terminology; commissioners asked clarifying questions and did not take final action.

Planning staff presented a package of modest code changes aimed at clarifying procedural rules for the planning commission and aligning local language with recent state changes. The staff proposal recommends changing the threshold for triggering a review of a commissioner’s attendance from missing three consecutive meetings to missing four meetings within a calendar year, and it would limit that count to regularly scheduled monthly meetings rather than including special or…

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