[Ord. No. 391 §1, 1-3-1972]
The Planning Commission shall consist of nine (9) members, including
the Mayor, a member of the Board of Alderpersons selected by the Board
of Alderpersons, the City Engineer or similar City Official and six
(6) citizens appointed by the Mayor and approved by the Board of Alderpersons.
All citizen members of the Commission shall serve without compensation.
The term of each of the citizen members shall be for four (4) years,
except that the terms of the citizen members first (1st) appointed
shall be for varying periods so that succeeding terms will be staggered.
Any vacancy in a membership shall be filled for the unexpired term
by appointment as aforesaid. The Board of Alderpersons may remove
any citizen member for cause stated in writing and after public hearing.
[Ord. No. 391 §2, 1-3-1972]
The Planning Commission shall elect annually, from its members,
its own Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Secretary, and from time to time
provide such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the ordinances
of the City or the laws of the State, for its own organization and
procedure as it may deem proper; provided however, its Chairman and
Secretary shall be elected from the appointed citizen members. The
Commission shall hold regular meetings and special meetings as they
provide by rule, and shall keep a record of its proceedings. These
records shall be public records. The Commission shall appoint the
employees and staff necessary for its work, and may contract with
City planners and other professional persons for the services that
it requires. The expenditures of the Commission shall be within the
amounts appropriated for the purpose of the Board of Alderpersons.
[Ord. No. 391 §3, 1-3-1972]
The Planning Commission shall make an annual report to the Board
of Alderpersons covering their investigations, transactions, recommendations
and such other and further reports relative thereto, as it may deem
proper or as required by the Board of Alderpersons.
[Ord. No. 391 §4, 1-3-1972]
A.
The
Commission shall make and adopt a City Plan for the physical development
of the City, and in the preparation of the plan, the Commission shall
make careful and comprehensive surveys and studies of the existing
conditions, and its probable future growth, including recommendations
relative to the location, length, width and arrangement of the streets,
alleys, bridges, viaducts, parks, parkways, playgrounds, recreation
areas, boulevards or other public grounds or improvements, the platting
of public property into lots, plots, streets or alleys, the location
of railroad or street car lines, transportation or other channels
for communication of any kind, the grouping of public buildings, the
design and placing of memorials, works of art, power and lighting
plants, street lighting standard, telegraph, telephone and electric
poles, street name signs, billboards or projectings signs, elimination
of railroad grade crossings and other things pertaining to the welfare,
housing appearance or beauty of the City or any portion thereof. The
Commission may also prepare a Zoning Plan for the regulation of the
height, area, bulk, location and use of private, non-profit and public
structures and premises, and of population density, but the adoption,
enforcement and administration of the Zoning Plan shall conform to
the provision of Sections 89.010 to 89.250, RSMo.
B.
Make
recommendation in connection with the execution and detailed interpretation
of the City Plan, and make such changes and adjustments in the plan
as may be deemed desirable from time to time.
C.
Prepare
and recommend to the Board of Alderpersons rules controlling the subdivision
of land.
D.
Make
recommendations regarding the approval or disapproval of plats for
land subdivision. Such plats shall be referred to the Planning Commission
before the Board of Alderpersons takes any action. Failure of the
City Planning Commission to act within sixty (60) days shall be deemed
an approval.
E.
Recommend,
from time to time, legislation which may be desirable to further the
purpose of the City planning.
F.
Assume
any other powers or duties as are provided by the ordinances of the
City, or as are provided by Statutes of the State of Missouri, relative
to the planning in this Municipality.
[Ord. No. 391 §5, 1-3-1972]
The Commission may adopt the Plan as a whole by a single resolution,
or as the work progresses, may from time to time adopt a part or parts
thereof, any part to correspond generally with one (1) or more of
the functional subdivisions of the subject matter of the Plan. Before
the adoption, amendment or extension of the Plan or portion thereof,
the Commission shall hold at least one (1) public hearing thereon.
Fifteen (15) days notice of the time and place of such hearing shall
be published in at least one (1) newspaper having general circulation
within the City of Tipton. The hearing may be adjourned from time
to time. The adoption of the plan requires a majority vote of the
full membership of the Planning Commission. The resolution shall refer
expressly to the maps, descriptive matter and other matters intended
by the Commission to form the whole or part of the plan, and the action
taken shall be recorded on the adopted Plan or part thereof by the
identifying signature of the Secretary of the Commission and filed
in the office of the Commission, identified properly by file number;
and a copy of the Plan or part thereof shall be certified to the Board
of Alderpersons and the City Clerk; and a copy shall be made available
in the office of the County Recorder of Deeds and shall be available
at the Municipal Clerk's office for public inspection during normal
office hours.
[Ord. No. 391 §6, 1-3-1972]
Any person violating the provisions of this Chapter or any rules
or regulations of the Planning Commission, as promulgated under authority
of this Chapter, is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction, thereof,
shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more
than five hundred dollars ($500.00), or by confinement in the County
Jail for not more than ninety (90) days, or by both such fine and
confinement.
