Law and Legislation Committee (Special Meeting) 4/28/2020

The City of Sacramento Law and Legislation Committee’s special meeting on April 28, 2020, unanimously advanced a planning-entitlement streamlining ordinance to the City Council. The proposal would shift several site-plan/design reviews, subdivision maps, development-standard deviations, and selected conditional use permits to director-level review, while removing some CUP requirements. Staff described transparency measures including early project-site notices, a Design Advisory Committee, broader notice mailings, and monthly evening hearings for selected matters. The committee asked staff to assess the CUP changes separately, including their potential effects, and noted that Planning and Design Commission structural changes would return for further consideration. The ordinance is intended in part to make development and housing approvals more predictable; no contract award or purchasing decision was identified.

The committee also discussed replacing the Sacramento Regional Solid Waste Authority’s commercial-waste regulatory framework before its planned dissolution on July 1, 2021. Staff recommended adopting the existing authority code largely unchanged to maintain continuity and allow time to establish city-hauler agreements and the franchise-fee funding mechanism. Members emphasized reliable service, coordination with the county, and directing fee revenue toward program costs and quality-of-life issues such as illegal dumping. The transcript ends before any motion or vote on this item, and does not record a procurement award.