The Council of the City of East Cleveland shall establish and appoint a City Planning Commission consisting of five (5) members consisting of the Mayor, who shall act as Chairman, two (2) members of the Mayor’s staff to be appointed by the Mayor with the approval of the Council, and two (2) citizen members who shall be appointed by the Council who shall serve until their successors are appointed and qualified. The two citizen members shall be qualified electors of the city and shall not be employees of the city. The term of the citizen appointed members shall be for two (2) years except as to the first appointments provided for hereunder in which one of the citizen appointees shall be appointed for a term of one (1) year only. Vacancies of the City Planning Commission by citizen appointees shall be filled by the Council by appointment for the unexpired terms. The Mayor shall have the power to remove and replace start appointees with the approval of the Council. The City Engineer shall act as Secretary. The City Planning Commission shall be the platting commission, and all the powers and duties provided by law for platting commissioner or commissioners shall upon the appointment of said City Planning Commission under this Charter, be deemed transferred to such Commission. The City Planning Commission shall have the powers and duties to make plans and maps of any portion of the city.
Such plans and maps shall show the Commission’s recommendations for the general location, character and extent of streets, alleys, ways, viaducts, bridges, subways, boulevards, parkways, parks, playgrounds and other public grounds, ways and open spaces; the general location of public buildings and other public property; the general location and extent of public utilities and terminal, whether publicly or privately owned or operated, for water, light, sanitation, transportation, communication, power and other purposes; and the removal, relocation, widening, narrowing, vacating, abandonment, change of use of or extension of such public ways, grounds, open spaces, buildings, property, utilities, or terminals. The City Planning Commission shall systematically plan the relocation and development of the City of East Cleveland and shall make recommendations to the Council of the City of East Cleveland concerning the location, character and extent of a comprehensive plan for the progress and the proper development of the City of East Cleveland.
The Commission shall have the power to recommend the preservation of historical land marks and works of art, the removal, relocation and alterations of such works belonging to the Municipality and the design of any bridges, viaducts, street fixtures or public structures or appurtenances.
The power and duties of the City Planning Commission shall be to make recommendations to the Council, and the Council of the City of East Cleveland shall have full power and authority to accept, modify, change and otherwise adopt or refuse to adopt the recommendations of the City Planning Commission, and nothing herein contained shall be construed as authorizing or intending to transfer the complete control of the parks, streets, bridges, viaducts and other public property from the exclusive control of the Council of the City of East Cleveland.
(Amended 11-7-72)