City Public Comment Time Limits
Arroyo Grande
1 minute for items not on the agenda; 3
minutes for agenda items
Baldwin Park 3 minutes
Burbank 3 minutes
Calistoga 3 minutes
Camarillo 3 minutes
Ceres 5 minutes
Chino Hills
1 minute for items not on the agenda; 3
minutes for agenda items
Chula Vista 3 minutes
Coalinga 3 minutes
Colma 3 minutes
Coronado 3 minutes
Cotati 3 minutes
Dublin 3 minutes
Fairfax
2 minutes for public expression, regular
agenda items, consent calendar; 3 minutes
for public hearings
Firebaugh 3 minutes
Fortuna 3 minutes
Fowler 3 minutes
Gardena 3 minutes
Hercules 3 minutes
Hillsborough 3 minutes
Irvine
3 minutes; time limits are adjusted
depending on the number of speakers
Irwindale 3 minutes
Kingsburg 3 minutes
Laguna Beach 3 minutes
Livermore 3 minutes
Los Gatos 3 minutes
Manteca 3 minutes
Menlo Park
Millbrae 3 minutes
Modesto 3 minutes
Morgan Hill 3 minutes
Napa 3 minutes
Newman 3 minutes
Norwalk 3 minutes
Oakdale 3 minutes
Oakley 3 minutes
Pacific Grove 3 minutes
Pacifica 3 minutes
Pasadena 3 minutes
Paso Robles 3 minutes
Pleasant Hill 2 minutes
Port Hueneme 3 minutes
Port of San Diego 3 minutes
Rancho Cordova 3 minutes
Rancho Cucamonga3 minutes
Red Bluff 3 minutes
Riverbank 3 minutes
Sacramento 2 minutes
San Carlos 2 minutes
San Dimas 3 minutes
San Gabriel 3 minutes; 6 if using an interpreter.
San Jose 2 minutes
San Leandro 2 minutes
San Mateo
1-10 speakers = 3 minutes per speaker 11-
20 speakers = 2 minutes per speaker 21+ = 1
minute per speaker
Santa Ana 3 minutes
Santa Cruz
2 minutes for items not on the agenda; 3
minutes for agenda items
Santa Maria 3 minutes
Santa Rosa 3 minutes
Saratoga 3 minutes
Sebastopol
2 minutes (up to 20 minutes total for public
comment)
Solvang 3 minutes
South Lake Tahoe
4 minutes for non agendized items; 3
minutes for new business
Stanton 3 minutes
Sunnyvale 3 minutes
Taft 5 minutes
Thousand Oaks 3 minutes
Torrance
1 minute all items; 2 minutes for public
hearings
Turlock 3 minutes
Upland 3 minutes
Vallejo 3 minutes
Vernon 3 minutes
Westlake Village 3 minutes
Willits 3 minutes