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Cross References: Zoning, App. A; Subdivisions, App. B.
[Ord. No. 7497, § 1, 3-13-1986]
There is hereby created a Planning and Zoning Commission. Those
members presently serving in office under the prior ordinance shall
continue to serve for the remainder of their respective terms and
all business before the present commission shall continue to be considered
by the commission pursuant to the authority granted to it by this
Code.
[Ord. No. 7497, § 1, 3-13-1986; Ord. No. 8727, § 1, 5-21-1998; Ord. No. 8847, § 1, 9-2-1999; Ord. No. 9221, § 1, 2-6-2003[1]]
The Planning and Zoning Commission shall consist of nine members,
all of whom shall be residents of the City. The nine resident members
shall be appointed by the City Council for a term of four years, and
any person chosen to fill a vacant position shall be appointed to
serve the balance of such term. The Commission shall also include
the Mayor, if the Mayor chooses to be a member, and a member of the
Council selected by the Council, if the Council chooses to have a
member serve on the Commission
[Ord. No. 7497, § 1, 3-13-1986]
A member of the Planning and Zoning Commission may be removed
by the City Council only after a public hearing during which good
cause for removal is shown. Four unexcused absences in succession
shall constitute a presumption of good cause for purposes of removal.
[Ord. No. 7497, § 1, 3-13-1986]
The Planning and Zoning Commission may elect from among its
members its own Chairman, Vice Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer,
and from time to time provide such rules and regulations, not inconsistent
with the provisions of this Code and other ordinances of the City,
for its own organization and procedure as it may deem proper.
[Ord. No. 7497, § 1, 3-13-1986]
The Planning and Zoning Commission may employ such City planners,
engineers, clerks and other persons as authorized by the City Council,
which shall provide, by proper appropriation or ordinance, salaries
and compensation and other necessary expenses of the Commission and
its members.
[Ord. No. 7497, § 1, 3-13-1986]
(a)
The Planning and Zoning Commission shall prepare a Comprehensive
Plan or plans showing its ideas and recommendations of a zoning system
covering the whole or any part of the City, together with its recommendations
as to restrictions and other questions or issues therewith connected,
and provide such outlines, drawings, maps or plans covering the whole
or any portion of the City and of any lands outside of the City that,
in the opinion of the Commission, bear relation to the welfare or
beauty of the City or its inhabitants. The plan or plans shall show
the Commission's ideas and recommendations relative to the location,
length, width and arrangement of the streets, alleys, bridges, viaducts,
parks, playgrounds, boulevards or other public grounds or improvements,
the platting of public property into lots, plots, streets, alleys,
railroad lines, transportation or other channels for communication
of any kind, the grouping of public buildings, the design and placing
of any memorials, works of art, power or lighting plants, streetlighting
standards, telegraph and telephone poles, street name signs, billboards
or projecting signs, and all other things pertaining to the welfare,
housing, appearance or beauty of the City or any portion thereof.
The Commission shall make recommendations to the City Council with
respect to all proposed subdivisions and changes in Zoning Maps or
regulations.
(b)
The Commission shall be responsible for all duties imposed upon it
by this Code and state statutes.
