[CC 1978 §415.010; Ord. No. 703 §1]
For the purpose of this Title, the following terms mean or include:
COUNCIL
The City Council of the City of Chaffee.
STREETS
Any public ways.
SUBDIVISION
The division of a parcel of land into two (2) or more lots, or other divisions of land; it includes resubdivision, and, when appropriate to the context, relates to the process of subdividing, or to the land or territory subdivided.
[CC 1978 §415.020; Ord. No. 703 §2]
The City Council of the City of Chaffee shall adopt, amend, and carry out a City Plan, and appoint a Planning and Zoning Commission with the powers and duties set forth herein.
[CC 1978 §415.030; Ord. No. 703 §3]
The Planning and Zoning Commission of the City of Chaffee shall consist of nine (9) members, including the Mayor, if the Mayor chooses to be a member, a member of the City Council selected by the Council annually at its first (1st) organizational meeting, if the Council chooses to have a member serve on the Commission, the City Engineer or similar official, and seven (7) citizens appointed by the Mayor and approved by the Council. 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 the succeeding terms will be staggered. Any vacancy in a membership shall be filled for the unexpired term by appointment as aforesaid. The Council may remove any citizen member for cause stated in writing and after public hearing.
[CC 1978 §415.040; Ord. No. 703 §4]
The Commission shall elect a Chairman and Secretary from among the citizen members. The term of Chairman and Secretary shall be for one (1) year with eligibility for re-election. The Commission shall hold regular meetings and special meetings as they provide by rule, and shall adopt rules for the transaction of business, and 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, exclusive of grants and gifts, shall be within the amounts appropriated for the purpose by the Council.
[CC 1978 §415.050; Ord. No. 703 §5]
The Commission shall make and adopt a City Plan for the physical development of the City of Chaffee. The City Plan, with the accompanying maps, plats, charts, and descriptive and explanatory matter, shall show the Commission's recommendations for the physical development and uses of land, and may include, among other things, the general location, character, and extent of streets and other public ways, grounds, places, and spaces; the general location and extent of public utilities and terminals, whether publicly or privately owned, the acceptance, widening, removal, extension, relocation, narrowing, vacation, abandonment, or change of use of any of the foregoing; the general character, extent, and layout of the replanning of blighted districts and slum areas. The Commission shall 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.
[CC 1978 §415.060; Ord. No. 703 §6]
In the preparation of the City Plan, the Commission shall make careful and comprehensive surveys and studies of the existing conditions and probable future growth of the municipality. The plan shall be made with the purpose of guiding and accomplishing a coordinated development of the municipality which will, in accordance with existing and future needs, best promote the general welfare, as well as efficiency and economy in the process of development.
[CC 1978 §415.070; Ord. No. 703 §7]
The Commission may adopt the plan as a whole by a single resolution, or as the work of making the whole City Plan 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 approval 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 Chaffee. 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 and Zoning 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 Council and the Municipal Clerk, and a copy shall be recorded in the office of the Scott County Recorder of Deeds.
[CC 1978 §415.080; Ord. No. 703 §8]
All, public officials shall, upon request, furnish to the Commission within a reasonable time all available information it requires for its work. The Commission, its members and employees, in the performance of its functions, may enter upon any land to make examinations and surveys. In general, the Commission shall have the power necessary to enable it to perform its functions and promote municipal planning.
[CC 1978 §415.090; Ord. No. 703 §9]
Whenever the Commission adopts the plan of the City of Chaffee or any department thereof, no street or other public facilities, or no public utility, whether publicly or privately owned, and the location, extent, and character thereof having been included in the recommendations and proposals of the plan or portions thereof, shall be constructed or authorized in the municipality until the location, extent, and character thereof has been submitted to and approved by the Planning and Zoning Commission. In case of disapproval, the Commission shall communicate its reasons to the Council, and the Council, by vote of not less than two-thirds (2/3) of its entire membership, may overrule the disapproval and except that if the public facility or utility is one the authorization or financing of which does not fall within the province of the Council, then the submission to the Planning and Zoning Commission shall be the board having jurisdiction, and the Planning and Zoning Commission's disapproval may be overruled by that board by a vote of not less than two-thirds (2/3) of its entire membership. The acceptance, widening, removal, extension, relocation, narrowing, vacation, abandonment, change or use, acquisition of land for sale or lease of any street or other public facility is subject to similar submission and approval, and the failure to approve may be similarly overruled. The failure of the Commission to act within sixty (60) days after the date of official submission to it shall be deemed approval.
[CC 1978 §415.100; Ord. No. 703 §10]
The Commission shall have and perform all of the functions of the Zoning Commission provided for in Chapter 89, RSMo., and shall have and perform all of the functions of a Planning Commission as outlined in said Chapter.
[CC 1978 §415.120; Ord. No. 703 §12]
Before adoption of any subdivision regulations, or any amendment thereof by the City Council, a duly advertised public hearing thereof may be held by the Council.
[CC 1978 §415.180; Ord. No. 703 §18]
Whenever a plan for major streets has been adopted, the City Council, upon recommendation of the Planning and Zoning Commission, is authorized and empowered to establish, regulate, and limit and amend, by ordinance, building or setback lines on major streets, and to prohibit any new building being located within building or setback lines. When a plan for proposed major streets or other public improvements has been adopted, the Council may prohibit any new building being located within the proposed site or right-of-way when the centerline of the proposed street or the limits of the proposed sites have been carefully determined and are accurately delineated on maps approved by the Planning and Zoning Commission and adopted by the Council.
The City Council shall provide for the appointment of a Board of Adjustment, and in the regulations and restrictions adopted pursuant to the authority of Sections 89.010 to 89.140, RSMo., may provide that the Board of Adjustment may determine and vary their application in harmony with their general purpose and intent and in accordance with general or specific rules therein contained. The Board of Adjustment shall consist of five (5) members, who shall be residents of the City except as provided in Section 305.410, RSMo. The membership of the first Board appointed shall serve respectively, one (1) for one (1) year, one (1) for two (2) years, one (1) for three (3) years, one (1) for four (4) years, and one (1) for five (5) years. Thereafter members shall be appointed for terms of five (5) years each. Three (3) alternate members may be appointed to serve in the absence of or the disqualification of the regular members. All members and alternates shall be removable for cause by the appointing authority upon written charges and after public hearing. Vacancies shall be filled for the unexpired term of any member whose term becomes vacant. The Board shall elect its own Chairman who shall serve for one (1) year. The Board shall adopt rules in accordance with the provisions of any ordinance adopted pursuant to Sections 89.010 to 89.140, RSMo. Meetings of the Board shall be held at the call of the Chairman and at such other times as the Board may determine. Such Chairman, or in his/her absence the Acting Chairman, may administer oaths and compel the attendance of witnesses. All meetings of the Board shall be open to the public. The Board shall keep minutes of its proceedings, showing the vote of each member upon question, or, if absent or failing to vote, indicating such fact, and shall keep records of its examinations and other official actions, all of which shall be immediately filed in the office of the Board and shall be a public record. All testimony, objections thereto and rulings thereon, shall be taken down by a reporter employed by the Board for that purpose.
[CC 1978 §410.030; Ord. No. 766 §18, 12-4-1972]
An appeal may be taken to the Board of Adjustment by any person, by any neighborhood organization as defined in Section 32.105, RSMo., representing such person, group or organization, public or private, affected by a decision of the Building Inspector. Such appeal shall be taken within such time as prescribed by the Board by general rule by filing with the Building Inspector a notice of appeal specifying the grounds thereof. A fee of ten dollars ($10.00) shall accompany all notices of appeal. The Building Inspector shall forthwith transmit to the Board all papers constituting the record upon which the action appealed from was taken.
[CC 1978 §410.040; Ord. No. 766 §18, 12-4-1972]
A. 
The Board of Adjustment shall have the following powers:
1. 
To hear and decide appeals where it is alleged there is an error in any order, requirement, decision or determination made by the Building Inspector in the enforcement of this Title and may affirm or reverse, in whole or part, said decision of the Enforcement Officer.
2. 
To hear requests for variances from the literal provisions of the Zoning Ordinance in instances where strict enforcement of the Zoning Ordinance would cause undue hardship due to circumstances unique to the individual property under consideration and grant such variances only when it is demonstrated that such action will be in keeping with the spirit and intent of the provisions of the Zoning Ordinance. The Board of Adjustment shall not permit, as a variance, any use in a district that is not permitted under the ordinance. The Board of Adjustment may impose conditions in the granting of variances to insure compliance and to protect adjacent property.
a. 
To permit the extension of a district where the boundary line thereof divides a lot held in a single ownership at the time of adoption of Chapter 405.
b. 
Interpret the provision of this Title in such a way as to carry out the intent and purpose of the plan, as shown upon the Zoning District Map where the street layout on the ground varies from the street layout as shown on this map.
c. 
Permit reconstruction of a non-conforming building otherwise prohibited by Section 405.660 where such action would not constitute continuation of a monopoly.
d. 
Vary the yard regulations where there is an exceptional or unusual physical condition of a lot not generally prevalent in the neighborhood, which condition, when related to or a sensible arrangement of buildings on the lot.
e. 
Vary the parking regulations by not more than fifty percent (50%) where it is conclusively shown that the specific use of a building would make unnecessary the parking spaces otherwise required by this Title, or where it can be conclusively shown that adequate off-street parking to serve a particular use has been provided by or is controlled by the municipality.
f. 
Decision of the Board in respect to the above shall be subject to appeal to the Circuit Court of Scott County within thirty (30) days after the filing of the decision in the office of the Board.