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Planning Commission Regular Meeting Minutes January 21, 2025 Page 2 If acceptable to the Commission, staff asks that the Commission make a recommendation on 1 the proposed ordinance and send it to the City Council for its consideration, along with any 2 recommended revisions to language or approach. Some of the proposed sections may be 3 withheld for further study and research if the Commission’s review requires it. 4 5 Section 1 6 This language incorporates a penalty fee clause for property owners who proceed to do work 7 without the requisite zoning or other applicable permits. The Building Code (separate from 8 the City Code) imposes a double-fee for those who undertake a construction project without 9 the required Building Permit. This clause enables the City to set an appropriate penalty fee as 10 part of the City’s fee schedule, which is typically adopted and updated on an annual basis. 11 12 Section 2 13 Resets the “Retaining Wall” Definition in the fence section, changing it from “wall, 14 Retailing”, for simple clarity and to track with how the term is used in the Code. The text of 15 the definition does not change, with the exception that a clause is added to clarify that 16 retaining walls must meet the requirements of other fences, consistent with current practice. 17 18 Section 3 19 This change updates the City’s recently adopted natural landscape language to be consistent 20 with the even more recently adopted State statutory language from 2024. 21 22 Section 4 23 This change also relates to the natural landscapes language, removing the current prohibition 24 from planting such landscapes in the right-of-way, as the City has sponsored these types of 25 alternative gardens, and modifying the maximum height of such materials, increasing it from 26 12 to 18 inches, also consistent with the 2024 state statutory language for managed natural 27 landscapes. 28 29 Section 5 30 This change deletes reference to the City’s Health Officer, which is not a designated office in 31 the City. 32 33 Section 6 34 This change deletes reference to the City’s Health Officer, which is not a designated office in 35 the City. 36 37 Sections 7 and 8 38 This is a component of the Housing Maintenance chapter of the code. Prior language dealing 39 with Temporary Storage deleted a section that could have been interpreted to accommodate 40 moving container or “Pods” use, whereas the original intent was to prohibit the use of storage 41 and shipping containers and long-term storage structures (usually in commercial or industrial 42 areas). This section redefines temporary storage specific to residential uses, then limits size to 43 128 square feet, whereas industrial shipping containers are usually a minimum of 320 square 44 feet. 45 46