a. Establishment and Membership
There is hereby created a Planning and Zoning Commission which must consist of seven members.
b. Powers and Duties
1. The Planning and Zoning Commission will act and function as the city municipal planning commission. The commission will have the power and duty to make and adopt rules and regulations governing its procedure.
2. The Commission will make, adopt, and recommend to the City Council a comprehensive (master) plan for the physical development of the city, including any area outside of its boundaries and within five miles thereof which in the Commission's judgment may bear a relation to city planning, subject to state law limitations.
3. The Commission will also act and function as the city zoning commission, and will have all powers granted by state law.
4. The Commission is designated as the Airport Zoning Commission for all airport zoning purposes under Texas Local Government Code Chapter 241 or successor. The Commission shall be responsible for recommending airport zoning regulations, airport hazard zoning regulations, and airport compatible land use regulations, to the City Council. All proposed airport zoning regulations, airport hazard zoning regulations, and compatible land use regulations affecting the airport, shall be also be reviewed by the Airport Advisory Board, which shall provide its recommendations.
5. The Commission will review all proposed annexations and recommend action to the City Council.
c. Comprehensive (Master) Plan
1. Authority
The Planning and Zoning Commission may, from time to time, amend, extend, or add to the comprehensive (master) plan, and will have all of the powers and duties vested, created, and granted by state law.
2. Scope
(a) The comprehensive plan, with accompanying maps, plats, charts, and descriptive matter must show the Commission's recommendation for city development as well as the extraterritorial jurisdiction.
(b) The Planning and Zoning Commission may, from time to time, adopt and publish a part of the plan covering one or more major sections or city subdivisions or one or more of the aforesaid or other subject matter.
3. Content
The comprehensive plan may include or depict, among other things:
(a) The general location, character, and extent of the streets, viaducts, bridges, waterways, boulevards, parkways, playgrounds, squares, parks, aviation fields and other public ways, grounds and open spaces:
(b) The general location of public buildings and other public property and general location and extent of public utilities and terminals, either publicly or privately owned and operated, water, lights, sanitation, transportation, communication, power and other purposes.
(c) The removal, relocation, widening, narrowing, vacation, abandonment, change of use or extension of any of the foregoing ways, grounds, open spaces, buildings or property, utilities or terminals;
(d) A zoning plan for the control of the height, area, bulk, location, and use of buildings and premises, subject to the limitations set forth in state law.
4. Area development plans. Plans for specific areas of the City may be established to analyze the needs and opportunities for growth. The recommendations from the area development plans shall be in line with the principles established in the Comprehensive Plan. (Ord. No. 0-2013-16; 2/27/13)
d. Training
Within one year of assuming duties, and on an annual basis thereafter, Commission members must attend at least one training session or seminar that addresses zoning issues. (ORD. 0-97-62, 12/10/97) (Ord. 0-2003-38, 7/23/03) (Ord. No. 0/2010/20, 3/10/10) (Ord. No. 0-2013-16; 2/27/13)(Ord. No. 0-2013-42; 5/22/13)