By Grace Leung, Newport Beach City Manager
Our next City Council meeting is Tuesday, Sept. 13. Items of interest are highlighted below. The entire agenda and reports can be viewed here: https://newportbeachca.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/68234/72.
A study session will begin at 4 p.m. Agenda items include:
- Fractional homeownership. Staff will discuss how other jurisdictions are addressing the growing trend of fractional homeownership, where multiple owners purchase a property and split time at the property through a formal arrangement.
The regular session begins at 5:30 p.m. Agenda items include:
- A resolution to create a General Plan Advisory Committee. The 30-member citizen advisory committee would be charged with gathering community input on the General Plan update, reviewing and guiding changes to General Plan goals and policies, and making recommendations to the General Plan Update Steering Committee.
- A public hearing on the 2021-2029 6th Cycle Housing Element. The Council will conduct a public hearing and vote on a resolution to amend and re-adopt the Housing Element of the General Plan, which will guide residential development in Newport Beach over the next several years. The version under consideration includes revisions made since the prior City Council adoption on February 8. Following Council approval, the state department of Housing and Community Development will consider final approval.
City Council Meeting Information
The Newport Beach City Council meets on the second and fourth Tuesdays of most months (the exceptions are August and December).
Typically, there is a Study Session that starts at 4 p.m. Study sessions are times for the Council to take a deeper look at a specific issue, or hear a presentation, that might eventually lead to a specific and more formal action.
A closed session often follows the Study Session. Closed sessions are typically to address legal, personnel, and other matters where additional confidentiality is important. The Regular (evening) Session typically starts at 6 p.m., and often has a specific listing of different items ready for formal votes. Items on the “Consent Calendar” are heard all at once, unless a Council member has removed (aka “pulled”) an item from the Consent Calendar for specific discussion and separate vote. If an item on the agenda is recommended to be “continued,” it means that the item won’t be heard nor voted on that evening, but will be pushed forward to another noticed meeting.
Public Comment is welcomed at both the Study Session and the Regular Session. The public can comment on any item on the agenda. If you want to comment on a Consent Calendar item that was not pulled from the Consent Calendar by a Council Member, you will want to do so at the time listed on the agenda – right before the Council votes on the entire Consent Calendar (it’s Roman Numeral XIII on the posted agenda).
If an item is pulled, the Mayor will offer that members of the public can comment as that specific item is heard separately. Additionally, there is a specific section of Public Comment for items not on the agenda, but on a subject of some relationship to the city government.
If you cannot attend a meeting and/or want to communicate with the City Council directly, this e-mail gets to all of them: [email protected]. The City Manager also gets a copy of the email, because in almost all cases it’s something that the City Manager follows-up on.
The Council meets in the Council Chambers at 100 Civic Center Drive, off of Avocado between San Miguel and East Coast Highway. There is plenty of parking in the parking structure. You are always welcome to attend in person, but you can also watch on TV, Spectrum channel 30 and Cox channel 852 or stream it on your computer.
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