(A) Establishment and composition. A Planning and Zoning Commission is hereby created to consist of five members serving three-year terms. Two Commissioners’ terms shall expire the first year, two terms the second year and one term the third year. Commissioners shall be appointed in accordance with the city charter.
(Adopted 1-25-1994; amended 5-12-1998)
(B) Duties and responsibilities.
(1) The Department of Planning and Zoning shall be governed by the Planning and Zoning Commission. It shall be the duty of the Commission to make plans for the direction and extent of the city’s settled territorial area and for the arrangement of streets and the location of park and school areas; to divide the territory of the city into residential, commercial and other zones; to propose changes in previously established zones; to propose rules regulating the location of buildings on lots or in relation to other buildings; to propose rules or specifications concerning the structure of any building to be erected in the city. No plat restrictions relating to use of premises or location of buildings on the premises shall be valid without prior approval of the Commission.
(2) No zoning or building proposal by the Commission shall take effect until it shall have been enacted as an ordinance, as in this charter described, by the Council. No exception to any building or zoning ordinance shall be made by the Council, except by resolution and unless the exception shall have been recommended by the Planning and Zoning Commission. The Commission shall perform all duties assigned to it from time to time by the City Council.
(Amended 5-12-1998)