RESOLUTION NO. 2025-
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF NEWPORT BEACH, CALIFORNIA, SETTING THE
DEADLINES FOR FILING OF REBUTTAL ARGUMENTS
IN RESPONSE TO DIRECT ARGUMENTS FILED FOR
AND AGAINST THE INITIATIVE MEASURE TO BE
SUBMITTED TO THE VOTERS AT THE
MUNICIPAL ELECTION TO BE HELD ON ,
2026
Municipal Electionisto be held inthe Cityof Newport
, 2026, at which there willbe submitted to
WHEREAS, a
Beach, California(“City")on
the registeredvotersof the Citythe followinginitiativequestion:
MEASURE
YesCITY OF NEWPORT BEACH GENEFIAL PLAN -
AMENDMENT
Shall the measure to amend the City of Newport Beach’s
General Plan Land Use Element allowing 2,900 new affordable housing units(2,160reservedforextremelylow-,very low-, and low-income households; and 740 for moderate-income
households) with densitiesof 20 - 50 dwelling unitsper acre, plus State of Californiaallowed housing density bonuses, in Dover/Westcliff(174), Newport Center (870), West Newport Mesa (406),AirportArea (929),and Coyote Canyon (521),be adopted?
No
WHEREAS, pursuant to CaliforniaElectionsCode (“ElectionsCode”) Section 9282, the proponents of an initiativemeasure may filea writtenargument for,and the legislativebody may filea writtenargument against,an initiativemeasure; WHEREAS, pursuant to ElectionsCode Section 9285, the City Council, by majorityvote, may adopt provisionsto provide for the filingof rebuttalarguments in response to directarguments filedforor againstthe initiativemeasure; and WHEREAS, the CityCouncil desiresto provideforthe filingof rebuttalarguments in response to directarguments filedforor againstthe initiative measure.
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NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City Of Newport Beach, California, does resolve, declare, determine and order as follows:
Section 1: Pursuant to Elections Code Section 9285(a), when the Elections Officialhas selected the arguments forand against the initiative measure which will be printed and distributedto the voters, the Elections Officialshall send a copy of the argument in favor of the initiativemeasure to the authors of the argument against the initiativemeasure and a copy of the argument against the initiative measure to the authors of the argument infavor of the initiativemeasure.
Section 2: The author or a majority of the authors of an argument relatingto an initiativemeasure may prepare and submit a rebuttal argument not exceeding two hundred fiftywords or may authorize,inwriting,any other person or persons to prepare, submit or sign the rebuttalargument. A rebuttalargument may not be signed by more than five authors.
Rebuttal arguments shallbe filedwith the Elections Official,signed, with the printed names and signatures of not more than five ofthe authors submitting it, or ifsubmitted on behalfof an organization,the name of the organization,and the printed name and signature of at leastone of itsprincipalofficers,by 5:00 p.m. on December 12, 2025. Rebuttal arguments shall be accompanied by the form statement required by Elections Code Section 9600.
Section 3:
Section 4: Rebuttal arguments shallbe printedinthe same manner as the direct arguments. Each rebuttalargument shallimmediately follow the directargument which it seeks to rebut.
Rebuttal arguments shall be made availablefor public examination for no fewer than ten calendar days following the deadline for submission of those materials, in accordance with Elections Code Section 9295.
Section 5:
Section 6; Allprevious resolutionsprovidingforthe filingof rebuttalarguments for City measures are hereby repealed.
Section?: The rebuttal provisions provided herein shall apply only to the Municipal Electionto be held on ,2026.
The City Clerk shall certifyto the passage and adoption of this resolutionand enter itintothe book of originalresolutions.
Section 8:
The City Clerk shalldeliver a certifiedcopy of thisresolution to the Orange County Board of Supervisors and the Orange County Registrarof Voters.
Section 9:
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Section 10; If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this resolutionis,forany reason, held to be invalidor unconstitutional, such decision shall not affectthe validityor constitutionalityof the remaining portionsof thisresolution.The City Council hereby declares that itwould have passed this resolution, and each section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase hereof, irrespectiveof the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared invalid or unconstitutional.
Section 11; The recitalsprovided in thisresolutionare true and correct and are incorporated intothe operative partof thisresolution.
Section 12; The CityCouncil findsthe adoption of thisresolutionisnot subject to the CaliforniaEnvironmental Quality Act (“CEQA”) pursuant to Public Resources Code Section 21080(b)(1) because submission to the voters of a voter-sponsored initiativeisa ministerialduty required by Elections Code Section 9215, and istherefore not subject to CEQA pursuant to Sections 15060(c)(1) (the activitydoes not involve the exercise of discretionarypowers by a public agency), 15060(c)(3) (the activityis not a project as defined in Section 15378), and 15060(c)(2) (the activitywill not result in a direct or reasonably foreseeable indirectphysical change in the environment) of the CEQA Guidelines,CaliforniaCode of Regulations,Title14, Division6, Chapter 3. 17-59
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Section 13: This resolutionshalltake effectimmediately upon itsadoption by the CityCouncil,and the CityClerkshallcertifythe vote adopting the resolution.
ADOPTED this18th day of November, 2025.
Joe Stapleton
Mayor
ATTEST:
Lena Shumway
City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
CITY ATTORNEY’S OFFICE
Aaron C. Harp
City Attorney
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