(A) Establishment and continuation. The city is authorized to continue the City Plan Commission.
(Prior Code, § 32.155)
(B) Composition; qualifications, appointment, and terms of office of members.
(1) The City Plan Commission shall consist of nine members. Five of the members shall be citizens of the city who shall be qualified by knowledge or experience to act in matters pertaining to the development of a city plan, who shall not hold any other office in the city government and who shall be appointed by the Mayor, the remaining four members shall be chosen as follows: one member shall be a member of the Common Council to be selected by it; one member shall be a member of the Board of Parks and Recreation to be selected by the Board; one member shall be the President of the Board of Public Works and Safety; and one member shall be the City Engineer. The terms of the representatives from the Common Council and the Board of Parks and Recreation shall expire with the termination of their respective terms of office.
(2) The citizen members of the City Plan Commission shall hold office for the term provided by law. The expiration date of each appointment shall be shown in the certificate of appointment.
(Prior Code, § 32.156)
(C) Election of officers; office space; records; annual reports; meetings.
(1) The City Plan Commission shall choose, annually at its first regular meeting in February, one of its members to act as president of the City Plan Commission, and another of its members as Vice-President during his or her absence or disability. The City Plan Commission shall have a suitable office provided for it by the proper city authorities, where it may hold its meetings and where its maps, plans, documents, and accounts shall be kept subject to public inspection at all reasonable times. On or before the February 1 of each year, the City Plan Commission shall make a report to the Mayor of its proceedings with a full statement of its receipts, disbursements, and the progress of its work for the preceding calendar year. A majority of the members shall constitute a quorum, but no action of the City Plan Commission shall be binding unless authorized by a majority of the City Plan Commission at a regular or duly called special meeting thereof. The City Plan Commission shall fix a time for holding regular meetings thereof, but a special meeting may be called at any time by the President or by two members upon written request to the Secretary. Written notices shall be mailed by the Secretary to all members at least two days before a special meeting advising them of the time of the meeting; provided, that if the time of a special meeting shall have been fixed at a regular meeting, or if all members of the City Plan Commission are present at a special meeting, then notice shall not be required.
(2) The Plan Commission shall keep and maintain all records, including all first flood elevation certificates, plans, and other materials associated with any permit or variance issued in a Floodway District, Floodway Fringe District, or Floodplain District.
(3) The Plan Commission shall notify the FIA of all permits issued in the floodway district concerning watercourse alteration. In addition to forwarding a copy of all permits to FIA, it shall require that maintenance is provided within the altered or relocated portion of the watercourse, so that the flood carrying capacity is not diminished.
(Prior Code, § 32.157)
(D) Powers and duties.
(1) The City Plan Commission shall maintain maps, plans, and charts and shall keep records of its proceedings which shall be open to the public. The Commission shall have full and exclusive power to make rules and regulations for the proper management and government of the City Plan Commission, subject to limitations provided by law.
(2) The City Plan Commission shall also have full power and authority to make or cause to be made the recommendations, surveys, studies, maps, plans, or charts of the whole or any part of the city, including streets, alleys, viaducts, wharves, parks, parkways, public buildings, or the routing of transit lines and other related matters.
(3) The City Plan Commission shall have power to prepare and submit to the Common Council a zoning ordinance to make the investigations, studies, and reports to the Common Council on housing conditions in the city as it may, from time to time, deem necessary, and to accompany its report with recommendations and to perform other duties as may be delegated to or required of it by this code or ordinances of the Common Council with reference to enforcement thereof.
(4) The City Plan Commission shall consider and report its decisions regarding requested changes in the zoning regulations.
(Prior Code, § 32.158)
(E) Requests for information. All city officers shall, when requested by the Mayor or the City Plan Commission, cooperate and furnish pertinent ordinances, plans, maps, and other pertinent information.
(Prior Code, § 32.159)
(F) Board of Zoning Appeals.
(1) The City Plan Commission shall act as, shall be and shall have all rights, powers, and duties of the Board of Zoning Appeals, as provided by law or this code.
(2) Any reference to the Board of Zoning Appeals shall be considered as having been made to the City Plan Commission.
(Prior Code, § 32.160)
(G) Employees.
(1) The City Plan Commission may recommend the hiring of suggested employees to the Mayor. The Mayor shall have exclusive power to employ assistants who shall serve at the pleasure of the Mayor, but under the direction of the City Plan Commission.
(2) No person shall be employed for the Commission unless provision has been made for compensation.
(Prior Code, § 32.161)
(H) Expenses; vouchers.
(1) The Common Council shall in the annual budget appropriate from the General Fund of the city for the payment of the expenses of the City Plan Commission.
(2) All vouchers of the City Plan Commission shall be signed by the President or Vice-President and Secretary.
(Prior Code, § 32.162)
(Ord. 3241, passed - -1979; Ord. 3256, passed - -1980)