[R.O. 2008 §402.010; Ord. No. 371 §1, 7-30-1986]
There is hereby established by the City a Planning and Zoning
Commission.
[R.O. 2008 §402.020; Ord. No. 371 §2, 7-30-1986]
The Planning and Zoning Commission of the City shall consist
of not more than fifteen (15) nor less than seven (7) members, including:
the Mayor, if the Mayor chooses to be a member; a member of the Board
selected by the Board, if the Board chooses to have a member serve
on the Commission; and not more than fifteen (15) nor less than five (5)
citizens appointed by the Mayor and approved by the Board of Aldermen.
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 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 may remove any citizen member
for cause stated in writing and after public hearing.
[R.O. 2008 §402.030; Ord. No. 371 §3, 7-30-1986]
The term of each citizen member of the Planning and Zoning Commission
shall be for four (4) years, except that terms of the citizen members
first appointed shall be for varying periods, so that the succeeding
terms shall be staggered.
[R.O. 2008 §402.040; Ord. No. 371 §4, 7-30-1986]
All citizen members of the Planning and Zoning Commission shall
serve without compensation.
[R.O. 2008 §402.050; Ord. No. 371 §5, 7-30-1986]
The Planning and Zoning Commission shall elect a Chairman and
Secretary from among the citizen members thereof.
[R.O. 2008 §402.060; Ord. No. 371 §6, 7-30-1986]
The term of the Chairman and Secretary of the Planning and Zoning
Commission shall be for one (1) year, with eligibility for reelection.
[R.O. 2008 §402.090; Ord. No. 371 §9, 7-30-1986]
The Planning and Zoning Commission shall have the authority
necessary to enable it to perform its functions and promote municipal
planning.
[R.O. 2008 §402.100; Ord. No. 371 §10, 7-30-1986]
The Planning and Zoning Commission shall perform all of the
functions of a Planning Commission and a Zoning Commission, as provided
for in Chapter 89, RSMo.
[R.O. 2008 §402.110; Ord. No. 371 §11, 7-30-1986]
The Planning and Zoning Commission shall hold regular and special
meetings as it provides by rule.
[R.O. 2008 §402.120; Ord. No. 371 §12, 7-30-1986]
The Planning and Zoning Commission shall have the authority
to adopt rules for the transaction of business and shall keep records
of its proceedings, which records shall be available for public inspection.
[R.O. 2008 §402.130; Ord. No. 371 §13, 7-30-1986]
The Planning and Zoning Commission shall, subject to the limitations
prescribed in this Chapter, 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.
[R.O. 2008 §402.140; Ord. No. 371 §14, 7-30-1986]
The expenditures of the Planning and Zoning Commission, exclusive
of grants and gifts, shall be within the amounts appropriated for
such purpose by the Board of Aldermen.
[R.O. 2008 §402.150; Ord. No. 371 §15, 7-30-1986]
All public officials shall, upon request of the Planning and
Zoning Commission, furnish to it, within a reasonable time, all available
information it requires for its work.
[R.O. 2008 §402.160; Ord. No. 371 §16, 7-30-1986]
The members and employees of the Planning and Zoning Commission,
in the performance of the functions of the Planning and Zoning Commission,
may enter upon any land to make examinations and surveys.
[R.O. 2008 §402.170; Ord. No. 371 §17, 7-30-1986]
A.
The Planning and Zoning Commission shall make and adopt
a City Plan for the physical development of the City, which plan,
with accompanying maps, plats, charts and descriptive and explanatory
matter, shall show the Planning and Zoning Commission's recommendations
for the physical development and uses of land, and may include, among
other things:
1.
The general location, character and extent of
streets and other public ways, grounds, places and spaces;
2.
The general location and extent of public utilities
and terminals, whether publicly or privately owned;
3.
The acceptance, widening, removal, extension,
relocation, narrowing, vacation, abandonment or change of use of any
of the foregoing;
4.
The general character, extent and layout of the
replanning of blighted districts and slum areas.
[R.O. 2008 §402.180; Ord. No. 371 §18, 7-30-1986]
In the preparation of a City Plan, the Planning and Zoning Commission
shall make careful and comprehensive studies of the existing conditions
and probable future growth of the City. Such plan shall be made with
the purpose of guiding and accomplishing a coordinated development
of the City which will, in accordance with existing and future need,
best promote the general welfare, as well as efficiency and economy
in the process of development.
[R.O. 2008 §402.190; Ord. No. 371 §19, 7-30-1986]
The Planning and Zoning Commission shall 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.
[R.O. 2008 §402.200; Ord. No. 371 §20, 7-30-1986]
The Planning and Zoning Commission may adopt a City Plan as
a whole by a single resolution or, as the work of making the City
Plan progress, may from time to time adopt a part thereof, any such
part to correspond generally with one 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 Planning and Zoning
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. Such 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 Planning and Zoning Commission to form the whole or part of
the Plan and the action shall be recorded on the adopted City Plan,
or part thereof, by the identifying signature of the Secretary of
the Planning and Zoning Commission and filed in the office of the
Planning and Zoning Commission, identified properly by file number.
A copy of the Plan, or part thereof, shall be certified to the Board
of Aldermen and the City Clerk, and a copy shall be 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.
[R.O. 2008 §402.210; Ord. No. 371 §21, 7-30-1986]
Whenever the Planning and Zoning Commission adopts the Plan
of the City, or any part thereof, no street or other public facilities
nor public utility, whether publicly or privately owned, 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 within the City until the location, extent and character
thereof has been submitted to and approved by the Planning and Zoning
Commission. In case of disapproval, the Planning and Zoning Commission
shall communicate its reasons to the Board of Aldermen and the Board,
by vote of not less than two-thirds (2/3) of its entire membership,
may overrule the disapproval and, upon the overruling, the Board of
Aldermen or the appropriate Board or officer may proceed, except that
if the public facility or utility is one the authorization or financing
of which does not fall within the province of the Board of Aldermen,
then the submission to the Planning and Zoning Commission shall be
by 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
of 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 Planning and Zoning Commission to act within sixty (60) days after
the date of official submission to it shall be deemed approval.
[R.O. 2008 §402.220; Ord. No. 371 §22, 7-30-1986]
When the Planning and Zoning Commission adopts a City Plan which
includes at least a major street plan or progresses in its City planning
to the making and adoption of a major street plan, and files a certified
copy of the major street plan in the office of the County Recorder,
no plat of a subdivision of land lying within the City shall be filed
or recorded until it has been submitted to and a report and recommendation
thereon made by the Planning and Zoning Commission to the Board of
Aldermen and the Board has approved the plat as provided by law.
[R.O. 2008 §402.230; Ord. No. 371 §23, 7-30-1986]
Before the adoption of any subdivision regulations, or any amendment
thereof, by the Board of Aldermen, a duly advertised public hearing
thereon shall be held by the Board.
[R.O. 2008 §402.240; Ord. No. 371 §24, 7-30-1986]
Within sixty (60) days after the submission of a subdivision
plat to the Planning and Zoning Commission, the Planning and Zoning
Commission shall approve or disapprove the plat; otherwise, the plat
shall be deemed approved by the Planning and Zoning Commission, except
that the Planning and Zoning Commission, with the consent of the applicant
for the approval, may extend the sixty-day period. The grounds of
disapproval of any plat by the Planning and Zoning Commission shall
be made a matter of record.
[R.O. 2008 §402.250; Ord. No. 371 §25, 7-30-1986]
The approval of a subdivision plat by the Planning and Zoning
Commission shall not constitute or effect an acceptance by the City
or public of the dedication to public use of any street or other ground
shown upon the plat.
[R.O. 2008 §402.270; Ord. No. 371 §27, 7-30-1986]
Upon adoption of a Major Street Plan and Subdivision Regulations,
the City shall not accept, lay out, open, improve, grade, pave, or
light any street, lay or authorize the laying of water mains, sewers,
connections or other utilities in any street within the City unless
the street has received the legal status of a public street prior
to the adoption of a City Plan; or unless the street corresponds in
its location and lines with a street shown on a subdivision plat approved
by the Board of Aldermen or the Planning and Zoning Commission or
on a street plan made by and adopted by the Planning and Zoning Commission.
The Board of Aldermen may locate and construct or may accept any other
street if the ordinance or other measure for the location and construction
or for the acceptance is first submitted to the Planning and Zoning
Commission for its approval, and approved by the Planning and Zoning
Commission, or if disapproved by the Planning and Zoning Commission,
is passed by the affirmative vote of not less than two-thirds (2/3)
of the entire membership of the Board.
[R.O. 2008 §402.280; Ord. No. 371 §28, 7-30-1986]
After the adoption of a Major Street Plan, no building permit shall be issued for and no building shall be erected on any lot within the territorial jurisdiction of the Planning and Zoning Commission unless the street giving access to the lot upon which the building is proposed to be placed conforms to the requirements of Section 400.240.
[R.O. 2008 §402.290; Ord. No. 371 §29, 7-30-1986]
Whenever a plan for major streets has been adopted, the Board
of Aldermen, upon recommendation of the Planning and Zoning Commission,
is authorized and empowered to establish, regulate, limit and amend,
by ordinance, building or setback lines on major streets, and to prohibit
any new building being located within the building or setback lines.
When a plan for proposed major streets or other public improvements
has been adopted, the Board of Aldermen may prohibit any new building
being located within the proposed site or right-of-way when the center
line 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 Board.
[R.O. 2008 §402.300; Ord. No. 371 §30, 7-30-1986]
As used in this Chapter, the following term shall have the meaning
indicated:
The division of a parcel of land into two (2) or more lots
or other divisions of land; and includes resubdivision, and when appropriate
to the context, relates to the process of subdividing or to the land
or territory subdivided.
