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ARTICLE VII. PLANNING COMMISSION
For the purpose of this ordinance, certain terms are defined as provided in this section.
CITY COUNCIL. The chief legislative body of the City of Flint.
PLANNING COMMISSION. The Commission empowered to make, adopt and apply a municipal plan.
STREETS. Includes streets, avenues, boulevards, roads, lanes, alleys, viaducts and other ways.
(Ord. 277, passed 2-14-1939)
Cross-reference:
Zoning, see Ch. 50
The Planning Commission shall consist of nine members, who shall represent insofar as possible different professions or occupations and each of the nine wards of the City who shall be appointed by the Mayor. The appointments by the Mayor shall always be subject to the approval of a majority vote of the City Council. All members of the Planning Commission shall serve as such without compensation and shall hold no other municipal office. The term of each member shall be three years, except that three members of the first Commission to be so appointed shall serve for the term of one year, three for a term of two years and three for a term of three years. All members shall hold office until their successors are appointed. All appointments to the Commission as they existed prior to the effective date of this ordinance shall terminate on said effective date. Members may after public hearing be removed by the Mayor for inefficiency, neglect of duty or malfeasance in office. Vacancies occurring otherwise than through the expiration of terms shall be filled for the unexpired term by the Mayor, subject to the approval by a majority vote of the City Council.
(Ord. 277, passed 2-14-1939; Ord. 2544, passed 2-23-1976)
Causes for removal of Commission members from the Commission by the Mayor shall include malfeasance, misfeasance, nonfeasance generally, and in particular:
(a) Failure to maintain reasonable familiarity with State statutes and local ordinances and rules affecting the Commission or failure to be governed thereby;
(b) Failure to disclose conflict of interest for purposes of disqualification when a member has personal or monetary interest in the matter involved, or will be directly affected by a decision of the Commission; and,
(c) Failure to attend three consecutive regular meetings or more than one-half of the last 12 regular meetings may require a hearing by the Commission at its next regular meeting following receipt of an attendance report from the Zoning Administrator. The Commission shall determine at that hearing if the circumstances warrant removal or continuation of said member(s) in the appointment and shall transmit only a recommendation of removal to the Mayor.
Upon a recommendation of removal being made the member shall not serve further unless reappointed as a new member.
(Ord. 3095, passed 3-13-1989)
The Planning Commission shall elect its Chairman from the appointed members and fill such other of its offices as it may determine. The term of Chairman shall be determined by the Commission, which shall also adopt rules for transaction of business and shall keep a record of its resolutions, transactions, findings and determinations, which shall be a public record.
(Ord. 277, passed 2-14-1939)
Expenditures of the Planning Commission, exclusive of gifts, shall be within the amounts made available by appropriation by the City Council, which shall determine the funds necessary for the Planning Commission work. Within the amounts received, the Planning Commission may appoint, in the same manner as with corresponding civil employees of the municipality, such employees as it may deem necessary for its work. Within the amounts received, the Planning Commission may also contract with City planners, engineers, architects, and other consultants for necessary services. Insofar as possible, the necessary services shall be obtained from regular City employees and through regular City departments.
(Ord. 277, passed 2-14-1939)
The Planning Commission shall make and adopt a Master Plan for the physical development of the City including any areas outside the City limits which in the Planning Commission’s judgment bear relation to City planning. The plan, with its accompanying maps, plats, charts and descriptive matter, shall show the Planning Commission’s recommendations for the development of such territory, including among other things the general location, character and extent of streets, viaducts, subways, bridges, playgrounds and open spaces, the general location of public buildings and other public property, and the general location and extent of public utilities and transportation terminals whether publicly or privately owned or operated for utilities and transportation services and other purposes; also the removal, relocation, widening, narrowing, vacating, abandonment, change of use or extension of any of the foregoing streets, open spaces, buildings, public utilities or terminals as well as a zoning plan for the control of the height, area, bulk, location and use of land and buildings. As the work of making its plan progresses, the Planning Commission may from time to time adopt and publish a part or parts thereof, any such part to cover one or more major sections or divisions of the City or one or more of the aforesaid or other functional matters to be included in the Master Plan.
(Ord. 277, passed 2-14-1939)
In the preparation of such plan the Planning Commission shall make careful and comprehensive surveys and studies of present conditions and future growth of the City and with due regard to its relation to the neighboring territory. The plan shall be made with the general purpose of guiding and accomplishing a coordinated, adjusted and harmonious development of the municipality and its environs which will, in accordance with present and future needs best promote health, safety, morals, order, convenience, prosperity, and general welfare, as well as efficiency and economy in the process of development; including, among other things, adequate provisions for traffic, the promotion of safety from fire and other dangers, adequate provision for light and air, the promotion of the healthful and convenient distribution of population, the promotion of good civic design and arrangement, and the adequate provision of public utilities and other public requirements, consistent with the efficient expenditure of public funds.
(Ord. 277, passed 2-14-1939)
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