Sutter County staff recommends new ordinance to streamline due process after state rulings
Staff warned that current code language is inefficient and urged drafting a new county ordinance to clarify hearings, adopt a construction board of appeals where required by case law, and formalize procedures now absent from county practice.
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Assistant Director James Stevens told the board that Sutter County's existing code enforcement ordinance is "a little choppy" and inefficient, and that recent court decisions require specific changes to hearing procedures. Stevens cited a Supreme Court outcome from a Fremont case that requires jurisdictions to establish a construction board of appeals when building and zoning violations are intertwined.
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