(A) Establishment. There is established a Village Planning Commission of five members consisting of the Mayor, Village Administrator and three electors of the municipality appointed by the Mayor subject to the approval of a majority of the members elected to Council, serving for terms of six years each.
(B) Officers and rules. The Planning Commission shall elected a Chairperson and Secretary from its members. It shall adopt rules or by-laws for the holding of regular and special meetings, the transaction and disposition of its business and the exercise of the powers of the Commission, such procedure shall be followed.
(C) Quorum. All meetings of the Planning Commission shall be open to the public. A majority of its members shall constitute a quorum at any meeting. No action of the Commission shall be deemed taken unless concurred in by a majority of its members.
(D) Powers. The Planning Commission shall have such powers as are conferred by the general laws of the state or by ordinance of the Council.
(E) Employment of consultants. The Planning Commission may control, appoint or employ professional services, and may appoint a Secretary, clerks, draftsmen, and other subordinates as it finds necessary in connection with the performance of its functions and duties. Expenditures for such service and employment shall be within the amount appropriated for such purpose by the Council.
(F) Access to property. For the purpose of making necessary surveys, engineers, agents and representatives of the Planning Commission may enter upon all property within the limits of the village. Members, agents and representatives of the Commission shall have access to all property in making any survey in connection with any matter being considered by the Commission.
(G) Planning Commission approval required. No public building or structure, street, park, playground, public ground, bridge or other public way, ground, works or utility, whether publicly or privately owned, or a part thereof, shall be constructed or authorized to be constructed within the limits of the village unless and until it shall have been submitted to the Planning Commission for report and recommendation. In the case of disapproval, the Commission shall communicate its reasons therefore to the Council and to the head of the department which has control of the construction of the proposed improvement or utility. The Council, by a vote of not less than two-thirds of its members, may over-rule such disapproval. If such public way, ground, works, building, structure or utility is one of the authorization or financing of which does not, under the law, fall within the province of the Council, the submission to the Commission shall be by the state, school, county, district, board, commission or body having jurisdiction and the Commission’s disapproval may be over-ruled by such official, board, commission or body by a vote of not less than two-thirds of its membership. The opening, widening, narrowing, relocating, vacation or change in the use of streets and other public ways, grounds, and places, shall be subject to similar approval and this approval may be similarly over-ruled.
(Ord. 656-70, passed 2-16-1970)