Job Abstract

PLANNING COMMISION

The Planning Commission is seeking candidates to fill one vacancy for a four-year term commencing on July 1st, 2024, and concluding on June 30th, 2028.

Summary and Job Purpose
The Sierra Madre Planning Commission is a five-member volunteer citizen body. The Planning Commission conducts public hearings and makes decisions and/or recommendations on a variety of land use applications, including use permits, variances, General Plan amendments, zone changes and subdivision maps. The Planning Commission is responsible for the City’s long- range planning, and reviews and studies other such land use and planning issues as assigned by the City Council.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Be knowledgeable of and adhere to the Brown Act and report regularly to the governing official and the general public.
The responsibilities of the Planning Commission fall into two broad categories:

1. Consideration of current land use issues (i.e. applications for General Plan amendment, zone changes, specific plans, conditional use permits, tract maps, variances, and appeals of staff land use decisions); and,
2. Advising the City Council on City-initiated amendments to the General Plan.

1. Conditional use permits;
2. Variances;
3. Appeals of staff actions (ie. special use and development permits);
4. Tentative Parcel maps.

1. Tentative Tract maps;
2. Amendments to the General Plan;
3. Specific plans and amendments to them.