[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council of the City of Crisfield 9-12-1979
by Ord. No. 335. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Zoning — See Ch. 112.
[Amended 9-13-2006 by Ord. No. 568]
A City Planning Commission of the City of Crisfield is hereby created.
The Commission shall consist of an attorney and the Commissioner of Public
Works and seven other persons, residents of the city, appointed by the Mayor
as follows: one of the members shall be appointed for a term of one year,
one for a term of two years, one for a term of three years, one for a term
of four years and one for a term of five years. Their successors shall in
all cases be appointed for terms of three years, and all appointments to fill
vacancies shall be for the unexpired terms. The members presently serving
shall continue in office until their successors are appointed.
[Amended 12-14-2005 by Ord. No. 558]
The Commissioners shall receive $25 each, per meeting, for their services
as such Commissioners.
The Planning Commission is authorized and empowered to act or authorize
under Article 66B of the Annotated Code of Maryland, subject to the limitations
and provisions and limitations of said Article as the same may be amended
from time to time, including by way of enumeration and not limitation the
following:
A.
To review the substance and implementation of the Zoning
Ordinance and the Comprehensive Plan and make recommendations thereon to the
Mayor and Council.
B.
To develop and recommend a transportation plan to the
Mayor and Council.
C.
To develop and recommend subdivision regulations to the
Mayor and Council.
D.
To study, evaluate and recommend programs and plans for
public structures, improvements, land acquisitions and their financing.
The time within which the City Planning Commission shall report on any
matter or class of matters referred to it, in accordance with the provisions
of Article 66B of the Annotated Code of Maryland, shall be 90 days, and in
default of such report within such period, the Planning Commission shall forfeit
the right further to suspend action with regard to the particular matter on
which it has so defaulted. However, in any specific case, the Mayor and City
Council may grant such longer period as it may deem proper within which the
Commission may make its report.
No plan, plot or description showing the layout of any highway or street
on private property or of building lots in connection with or in relation
to such highway or street within the limits of the City of Crisfield shall
be received for record in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for
Somerset County until a copy of such plan, plot or description has been filed
with the Commission and it has certified its approval thereof.
Whenever a copy of a plan, plot or description is filed with the City
Planning Commission, the Commission shall, within 60 days, report to the City
Council its recommendations in relation thereto. The City Council shall then
consider the same and direct the City Planning Commission either to certify
its approval thereof or to refuse to approve of the same, and the Commission
shall act at once in accordance with such directions.
