[HISTORY: Adopted by the Common Council of the City of North
Tonawanda 12-19-1927. Amendments noted where applicable.]
That it place the City under and within the provisions of Chapter
690 of the Laws of 1926, entitled: "An Act to Amend the General City
Law in Relation to Official Maps and Planning Boards," which act became
effective April 30, 1926.
It is the declared policy of this City to immediately prepare,
adopt and file an official map, within the authority and meaning of
Section 26.[1] To this end, the City Engineer is directed to complete
a map of the City, as contemplated by Section 26,[2] and to submit it to the City Planning Commission created
by a subsequent portion of this ordinance. The Commission shall give
consideration to this map, suggesting in writing necessary or expedient
changes therein. The Official Map, as prepared in the first instance
by the City Engineer, together with the suggested changes therein,
indicated both by map line and written memorandum, shall be submitted
to this body for final approval. When so approved it shall be filed
in the proper public offices as the first and initial official map
of the City for the purposes contemplated by Chapter 690 of the Laws
of 1926. The Clerk of the City of North Tonawanda is hereby directed
to file in the office of the Clerk of Niagara County an instrument
certifying that the City has established an official map and plan,
as provided by Section 26.[3]
The City Planning Commission heretofore created in the City
by ordinance adopted by the Common Council, November 14, 1921, in
accordance with Article 12-A of the General Municipal Law, shall continue.
The members thereof to be appointed in accordance with the provisions
of said Article 12-A, with the powers and duties as specified for
a planning board appointed as provided in Article 3 of the General
City Law in addition to the powers and duties as specified in said
Article 12-A; and the powers and duties of City planning boards as
provided by Article 3 of the General City Law are hereby conferred
upon such Planning Commission. The Commission shall exercise the powers
and perform the duties vested in it under Chapter 690 except as this
Council holds in abeyance certain powers or reserves the right to
pass upon certain decisions of the Commission, under the discretionary
provisions of Chapter 690.
The Commission is hereby vested with the power to approve plans
showing new streets or highways, pursuant to Sections 32, 33 and 34
of said law.[1] In accordance with Section 32,[2] the City Clerk is hereby directed to file with the Clerk
of Niagara County an instrument certifying that this Commission has
been authorized to approve plans and to exercise the powers in relation
to the same provided by Chapter 690, and that the Building Inspector
of the City of North Tonawanda, and his successor in office, is the
officer of the City, who shall issue in the name of the Commission,
a certificate of failure to take action in relation to such plans,
within the meaning of Section 32.[3]
The Commission is authorized to exercise the powers contemplated
by Section 37.[1]
The Building Inspector of the City shall be the executive officer
of the Commission. He shall issue the permits, certificates and instruments
contemplated by the several sections of Chapter 690. He shall retain
copies in his office as part of the public records of the City.
The City Clerk shall act as Secretary of the Commission and
shall keep a minute of its proceedings.
The Commission shall determine the rules of its procedure. It
shall keep a record of its hearings and the testimony and statements
of persons relative to proposals pending before it. The stenographer
assigned to the Board of Appeals shall act as the stenographer of
the Commission.
The office of the Commission shall be located in the room assigned
to the Building Inspector in the Department of Public Works.
The City Engineer shall act as the technical advisor of the
Commission, and his staff shall prepare the maps, descriptions and
records required by it.
The Corporation Counsel shall act as the legal advisor of the
Commission.
Following the completion and filing of the Official Map of the
City, the Commission shall submit to this Council for consideration
during the latter part of 1927, a proposed budget for 1928. In the
interval, the routine expenses of this Commission shall be presented
on verified voucher to the City Clerk for the approval of this Council.
The members of this Commission shall take and file, with the
City Clerk, their oaths of office in the form provided by the City
Charter. The members shall serve without compensation but shall be
paid for the necessary expenses in the performance of the duties of
their office. No administrative or appointive officer of the City
required to render services to the Commission under this ordinance,
shall receive additional compensation.
The reference to various sections in this ordinance means the
particular sections of Chapter 690 of the Laws of 1926, effective
April 30, 1926.
[Added 5-2-2000]
The application fees for the Planning Commission are hereby
set at $100.
