[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of
Jenkintown 4-29-1957. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Amended 1-31-1977 by Ord. No. 77-2]
The Borough Planning Commission shall consist of seven residents
of the Borough of Jenkintown to be appointed by Borough Council. They
shall serve without compensation for terms of four years. An appointment
to fill a vacancy shall be for the unexpired portion of such term
only.
[Amended 1-31-1977 by Ord. No. 77-2]
The members of the Planning Commission may make and alter rules
and regulations for their own organization and procedure consistent
with the ordinances of the Borough and the laws of the commonwealth.
They shall elect annually by majority vote a Chairman and a Secretary
of the Commission, and they shall make an annual report of their activities
and transactions. When specifically authorized by Council, the Planning
Commission may employ engineers and other persons and may contract
for professional planning services.
[Amended 4-28-1980 by Ord. No. 80-13]
The Secretary of Council shall, upon introduction, furnish to
the Borough Planning Commission for its consideration a copy of all
proposed ordinances, and all amendments thereto, relating to the location
of any public building of the Borough, and to the location, extension,
widening, narrowing, enlargement, ornamentation and parking of any
street, park, playground or other public ground; and to the relocation,
vacation, curtailment, change of use or any other alteration of the
Borough Plan with relation to any of the same. The said Commission
shall, within 30 days of the receipt of any proposed ordinance, advise
Council of any recommendations it has with respect to the adoption
of said ordinance.
The Borough Planning Commission may make, or cause to be made,
and lay before Council and, with approval of Council, cause to be
published maps of the Borough or any portion thereof showing the streets
and highways and other natural and artificial features, and also locations
proposed by it for any new public building, civic center, street,
parkway, park, playground or any other public ground or public improvement,
or any widening, extension or relocation of the same, or any change
in the Borough Plan by it deemed advisable. It may make recommendations
to Council from time to time concerning any such matters and things
aforesaid for action by Council thereon and, in so doing, have regard
for the present conditions and future needs and growth of the Borough
and the distribution and relative location of all the principal and
other streets and railways, waterways and all other means of public
travel and business communications, as well as the distribution and
relative location of all public buildings, public grounds and open
spaces devoted to public use.
All plans, plots or replots of lands laid out in building lots,
and the streets or other portions of the same, intended to be dedicated
to public use or for the use of purchasers or owners of lots fronting
thereon or adjacent thereto, and located within the Borough limits,
shall be submitted to the Borough Planning Commission and approved
by it before they shall be recorded. It shall be unlawful to receive
or record such plan in any public office unless the same shall bear
thereon, by endorsement or otherwise, the approval of the Borough
Planning Commission.
