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City Manager Office <br />www.santa-ana.org/cm <br />Item # 27 <br />City of Santa Ana <br />20 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana, CA 92701 <br /> Staff Report <br />July 20, 2021 <br />TOPIC: Sunshine Ordinance Informational Report <br />AGENDA TITLE: <br />Informational Report about Proposed Amendments to the Sunshine Ordinance <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />Accept informational report and provide direction to staff. <br />DISCUSSION <br />About the Sunshine Ordinance <br />In October 2012, the City Council adopted the Sunshine Ordinance, a series of municipal <br />code regulations relating to transparency and accountability. The Sunshine Ordinance is <br />composed of six provisions: <br />Sec. 2-150. - Meetings and agenda postings for city council. <br />To supplement State and other applicable laws relating to publishing public meeting <br />information, this section requires the following: <br />1. City Council meeting agendas are posted at least 96 hours before any regular City <br />Council meeting. <br />2. City Council meeting notices are accessible on the City's website in various <br />languages, including Spanish, through the use of free web-based translation <br />application. <br />3. City Council meeting agendas list future agenda items on major projects. <br />Sec. 2-152. - Plan approval. / Sec. 2-153. - Public input through community meetings <br />prior to discretionary approval. <br />This section imposes community meeting requirements for the following types of <br />development projects: (1) City-sponsored development projects; (2) new residential <br />projects containing 25 or more units with exceptions; (3) new non-residential projects of <br />10,000 square feet or more and which are subject to a negative declaration, mitigated <br />negative declaration or environmental impact report; and (4) development projects <br />requiring a zone change, Specific Plan amendment, or General Plan amendment. The <br />community meeting requirements are summarized as follows: