(A) The Commission shall elect a chairman, vice-chairman and such other officers as it may be deemed necessary for a term of one year. The Commission shall adopt rules for the practical and efficient transactions, findings and determinations, which rules shall be a public record.
(B) The function and the duty of the Planning and Zoning Commission shall be to make, or cause to be made, and to recommend a Comprehensive Plan for City Council adoption which guides the physical development of the city. Such plans may relate to the comprehensive planning of the city. Such plans and the accompanying maps, plats, charts, and descriptive matter shall show the Planning and Zoning Commission's recommendations for the development of the territory, including among other things the general locations, character and extent of streets, alleys, ways, viaducts, bridges, railroads, terminals, school grounds, fire station sites, or any other public grounds or public improvements, and the removal, relocation, widening or extension of such public work then existing. As the work of making the whole Comprehensive Plan progresses, the Planning and Zoning Commission may from time to time amend, extend or add to the plan.
(C) In the preparation of such plan, the Planning and Zoning Commission shall make careful and comprehensive surveys and studies of present conditions and future growth of the city, and with due regard to its relations to neighboring territory. The plan shall be made with the general purpose of guiding and accomplishing a coordinated, adjusted and harmonious development of the city 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 provision 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 efficient expenditures of public funds, and the adequate provision of public utilities and other public requirements.
(D) The Planning and Zoning Commission shall make to the City Council an annual report, giving a statement of its work during the preceding year. In such annual report it shall also make its recommendations as to future projects to be undertaken, and from time to time it shall also make like recommendations for public improvements, which in its judgment should be undertaken.
(E) The Commission shall exercise its authority as the Zoning Commission in accordance with Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 211.007 and recommend to the City Council approval or disapproval of proposed changes in the zoning districts and related ordinances based on the adopted Comprehensive Plan.
(Ord. 2001-36, passed 11-13-01; Am. Ord. 2006-40, passed 10-24-06)