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

The City of Sacramento Law and Legislation Committee held a special meeting on April 28, 2020. The committee considered a planning-entitlement streamlining ordinance intended to reduce review levels and improve predictability for development, including housing. Staff described measures to improve public notice and participation, such as early project-site signs and a design advisory committee. The committee voted unanimously to recommend approval to the City Council. Members also asked staff to examine the effects of commercial-use conditional use permit changes, including concerns raised about the River District, and discussed reporting back on the transparency measures. No contract awards or purchasing approvals were identified.

Staff also presented plans to replace the Sacramento Regional Solid Waste Authority’s city-related regulatory role before its planned dissolution on July 1, 2021. The proposed approach was to adopt the authority’s existing commercial waste code into city code, with the goal of having it in place by the end of 2020 or January 2021, so the city could establish agreements and fund regulatory work through hauler franchise fees. A committee member urged that fees also support illegal-dumping and other quality-of-life efforts. The transcript ends during this discussion, before any committee action on the waste proposal is captured.