(A) Powers. The existing Board of Adjustment is appointed as the Board of Adjustment for the City of Cleburne Regional Airport in accordance with Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 241.032 in order to have and exercise the following powers:
(1) To hear and decide appeals from any order, requirement, decision, or determination made by the City Manager in the enforcement of this subchapter;
(2) To hear and decide specific variances.
(B) Composition; terms; vacancies. The Board of Adjustment shall consist of five members; each to be appointed for a term of two years and removable for cause by the appointing authority upon written charges and after public hearing. Vacancy shall be filled for the unexpired term of any member whose term becomes vacant.
(C) Organization. The Board of Adjustment shall adopt rules for its governance and in harmony with the provisions of this subchapter. Meetings of the Board of Adjustment shall be held at the call of the Chairperson and at such other times as the Board of Adjustment may determine. The Chairperson or, in the absence of the Chairperson, the acting Chairperson may administer oaths and compel the attendance of witnesses. All hearings of the Board of Adjustment shall be public. The Board of Adjustment shall keep minutes of its proceedings showing the vote of each member upon each 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 immediately be filed in the office of the City Secretary and on due cause shown.
(D) Written conclusions. The Board of Adjustment shall make written findings of facts and conclusions of law giving the facts upon which it acted and its legal conclusions from such facts in reversing, affirming, or modifying any order, requirement, decision, or determination which comes before it under the provisions of this subchapter.
(E) Vote required for decisions. The concurring vote of four members of the Board of Adjustment shall be necessary to reverse any order, requirement, decision, or determination of the City Manager or designee, or decide in favor of the applicant on any matter upon which it is required to pass under this subchapter, or to effect variation to this subchapter.
('68 Code, § 3-107) (Ord. 3-1981-5, passed 2-23-81; Am. Ord. 06-2023-39, passed 6-13-23)