(A) There shall be a Planning Board consisting of ten members. Six members shall be appointed by the City Council and four members shall be appointed by the County Board of Commissioners. The county appointments must reside in the extraterritorial planning area. If the Board of Commissioners fails to make the appointments requested by resolution from the City Council within 90 days, the Council shall make them. Members may be removed by the appointing authority at any time for missing three consecutive regular meetings, for missing more than 50% of regular meetings of the Planning Board within a 12-month period or for other good cause determined by the appointing authority.
(B) Planning Board members shall be appointed for three-year staggered terms, but members may continue to serve until their successors have been appointed. Vacancies shall be filled for the unexpired terms only.
(C) Members may be appointed to successive terms without limitation.
(D) All members may participate in and vote on all issues before the Board, regardless of whether the issue affects property within the city or within the extraterritorial planning area.
(E) All members appointed to the Planning Board shall, before entering their duties, qualify by taking an oath of office as required by G.S. § 160D-309.
(F) Proportional representation of populations within the extraterritorial area shall be provided by appointing residents of the entire extraterritorial planning and development regulation area to the Planning Board with a minimum of one resident appointed from the extraterritorial area. The population estimates for this calculation shall be updated no less frequently than after each decennial census.
(2009 Code, § 155.190) (Ord. passed 10-27-1992; Ord. 2017-O-57, passed 11-14-2017; Ord. 2021-Z-19, passed 6-22-2021)