A. It is the purpose of the City Council to establish procedures for the creation of advisory groups in the various communities of the City having particular community identification and cohesion, to be known as Community Planning Committees. Said committees would participate at all stages in the formulation of the community’s element of the General Plan of the City, and in the implementation of said community element through the adoption of zoning regulations and the imposition of such regulations upon property within the community and the granting of variances and conditional use permits.

B. It is the intent of the City Council in encouraging the creation of such Community Planning Committees to develop a more immediate representative and responsive voice in the democratic governmental process by those citizens in areas within the City which can truly be called distinctive communities facing problems peculiar to said communities. The primary purpose of such Community Planning Committees is intended to be, but not limited to, direct participation in the planning process of the City as it relates to their own community. (Ord. 1367 § 1, 1971; prior code § 2.1001).