(A) (1) From time to time, the Board of Commissioners may appoint one or more individuals to help the Planning Board carry out its planning responsibilities with respect to a particular subject area.
(2) By way of illustration and without limitation, the Board of Commissioners may appoint advisory committees to consider thoroughfare plans, bikeway plans, housing plans, economic development plans, and the like.
(B) (1) Members of such advisory committees shall sit as nonvoting members of the Planning Board when such issues are being considered.
(2) Members of advisory committees shall lend their talents, energies, and expertise to the Planning Board; however, all formal recommendations to the Board of Commissioners shall be made by the Planning Board.
(C) Nothing in this section shall prevent the Board of Commissioners from establishing independent advisory groups, committees, or commissions to make recommendations, on any issue, directly to the Board of Commissioners.
(Ord. passed 12-20-2001)