TO: Board of Supervisors
FROM: Planning and Building Services and County Counsel
MEETING DATE: October 31, 2017
DEPARTMENT CONTACT:
Mary Lynn Hunt
PHONE:
234-6650
DEPARTMENT CONTACT:
Matthew Kiedrowski
PHONE:
234-6885
ITEM TYPE: Regular Agenda
TIME ALLOCATED FOR ITEM: 30 min.
AGENDA TITLE:
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Discussion and Possible Adoption of Urgency Ordinance Adopting an Administrative Permit Program for the Temporary Use and Occupancy of Trailer Coaches for Use as a Shelter following the Redwood Complex Fire
(Sponsors: Planning and Building Services and County Counsel)
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RECOMMENDED ACTION/MOTION:
recommendation
Adopt Urgency Ordinance adopting an Administrative Permit Program for the temporary use and occupancy of trailer coaches for use as a shelter following the Redwood Complex Fire; and authorize Chair to sign same.
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PREVIOUS BOARD/BOARD COMMITTEE ACTIONS:
On October 17, 2017, the Board of Supervisors directed staff to prepare an urgency ordinance for an administrative permit process to allow victims of the Redwood Complex Fire whose homes have been made uninhabitable to use a trailer on their property or a different property for a period of three (3) years.
SUMMARY OF REQUEST:
Government Code section 25131 provides that ordinances shall become effective thirty (30) days from the date of final passage, except for certain ordinances which become effective immediately. An ordinance for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, which contains a declaration of the facts constituting the urgency, and is passed by a four-fifths vote of the board of supervisors, shall take effect immediately. Government Code section 25131 specifies that an urgency ordinance may be passed immediately upon introduction.
At the direction of the Board of Supervisors, County staff has prepared an ordinance that creates an administrative permit program that would allow the installation, use and temporary occupancy of a trailer co...
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