3.68.200 Hearing examiner.
The purpose of this chapter is to establish the office of hearing examiner and the authority of the hearing examiner, which shall include conducting administrative hearings and other proceedings as prescribed by this code or other city ordinance, and to provide an administrative land use regulatory system which will best satisfy the following basic needs:
A. The need to separate the city’s land use regulatory function from its land use planning function;
B. The need to ensure and expand the principles of fairness and due process in public hearings; and
C. The need to provide an efficient and effective land use regulatory system which integrates the public hearing and decision-making processes for land use matters. (Ord. 5884 § 3, 2009; Ord. 3728 § 5, 1986.)