[Code 1961, § 13.01.02; Ord. No.
75-1, 2-3-1975]
There is hereby established in accordance with General Statutes,
Section 8-4a, a Town Planning and Zoning Commission.
[Code 1961, § 13.01.03; Ord. No.
75-1, 2-3-1975]
The Town Planning and Zoning Commission shall consist of five
members who shall be electors of the Town, holding no salaried municipal
office, and who shall not also be alternate members of this Commission,
members or alternate members of the Zoning Board of Appeals, or the
Town Commission on inland wetlands and watercourses.
[Code 1961, § 13.01.04; Ord. No.
75-1, 2-3-1975; Ord. No. 86-1, § 1, 2-3-1986]
Each member shall be appointed by the Town Council to serve
a term of five years, commencing the second Monday of November. All
members servicing on said Commission with terms expiring November,
1986, November, 1987, November, 1988, November 1989, and November,
1990, are reappointed for the remainder of their terms. In the event
no successor member is appointed on the expiration of any term, the
term shall automatically be extended until that member's successor
is appointed and qualified.
[Code 1961, § 13.01.05; Ord. No.
75-1, 2-3-1975]
There is hereby established a panel of three alternate members
who shall be electors of the Town, holding no salaried municipal office,
and who shall not also be regular members of the Planning and Zoning
Commission, or members or alternate members of the Zoning Board of
Appeals, or the Town Commission on inland wetlands and watercourses.
[Code 1961, § 13.01.06; Ord. No.
75-1, 2-3-1975; Ord. No. 86-1, § 2, 2-3-1986]
Each alternate member shall be appointed by the Town Council
to serve a term of two years, commencing the second Monday of November.
All alternate members serving on the Commission with terms expiring
November, 1987, are reappointed for the remainder of their terms.
In the event no successor member is appointed on the expiration of
any term, the term shall automatically be extended until that member's
successor is appointed and qualified.
[Code 1961, § 13.01.07; Ord. No.
75-1, 2-3-1975]
Such alternate members shall, when seated as herein provided,
have all the powers and duties set forth in the general statutes for
regular members of the Planning and Zoning Commission. If a regular
member of the Commission is absent or is disqualified, the chairperson
of the Commission shall designate an alternate to so act, choosing
alternates in rotation so that they shall act as nearly equal a number
of times as possible. If any alternate is not available in accordance
with such rotation, such fact shall be recorded in the minutes of
the meeting.
[Code 1961, § 13.01.09; Ord. No.
75-1, 2-3-1975]
Under the authority of General Statutes, Section 8-19,
the Town Manager and the Town Engineer shall also be members of said
Commission without voting privileges.
[Code 1961, § 13.01.08; Ord. No.
75-1, 2-3-1975]
The Planning and Zoning Commission shall have all the powers
and duties now or hereinafter conferred upon it by the General Statutes
of the state or ordinance of the Town, including but not limited to
the power to issue, adopt, promulgate, repeal or amend zoning regulations
and subdivision regulations for the Town. All regulations adopted
by the Commission which were in effect prior to the effective date
of the ordinance from which this section is derived shall continue
in full force and effect until modified, repealed or superseded in
accordance with the provisions of Chapters 124 and 126 of Title 8
of the General Statutes.
[Ord. No. 90-1, § 1, 9-10-1990]
In appointing members and alternates to the Commission, the
Council shall not appoint more than a bare majority of any one party
on the Commission, and in filling a vacancy, the appointee shall be
chosen from the same political party as the person vacating the office
if he or she was a member of a political party. This shall not, however,
preclude the appointment by the Council of any person who is not a
member of any political party.
