§ 16.132.040. Ex parte contact/ communications

No decision or action of the planning commission or city council shall be invalid due to ex parte contact or bias resulting from ex parte contact with a member of the decision-making body, if the member of the decision-making body receiving the contact:

A. Places on record the substance of any written or oral ex parte communications concerning the decision or action; and

B. Has a public announcement of the content of the communication and of the parties right to rebut the substance of the communication made at the first hearing following the communication where action will be considered or taken on the subject to which the communication related.

A communication between city staff (including consultants for legal, engineering, planning and other services) and the planning commission or city council shall not be considered an ex parte contact for the purposes of this section.

(Prior code § 10.840)