[Amended 11-2-2010]
There shall be a Planning Board consisting of
seven members appointed by the Town Council at the first Town Council
meeting of the new year. There shall be at least one member from each
Council voting district and two at-large members appointed for staggered
three-year terms. All current Planning Board positions shall be vacated
upon passage of the Charter amendment. The first appointment subsequent
to the Charter amendment shall be three for one year, two for two
years, and two for three years. Thereafter, all appointments shall
be for three-year terms, each member to hold office up until his/her
successor is appointed and qualified. Any other vacancies, if any
exist, shall be filled by appointment by the Town Council. The Planning
Board members shall take office immediately after their appointment.
The Planning Board shall prepare for submission
to the Town Council a Comprehensive Plan for the physical development
of the territory of the Town. Such Comprehensive Plan shall include
the location, character and extent of streets, bridges, parks, rights-of-way,
utilities, waterways, public buildings, and other public property
of the Town and may also include the relocation, removal, widening,
extension, abandonment or change of use of existing streets, public
buildings, parks and other public property. Such Comprehensive Plan
shall include the zoning plan and a general plan for the routing of
all vehicular traffic. The Comprehensive Plan submitted may be accompanied
by maps, plats, charts and descriptive and explanatory materials.
The Planning Board shall submit the Comprehensive
Plan to the Town Council in whole or in sections, but before such
submission of the Comprehensive Plan or any section thereof, amendment
or addition thereto, the Board shall hold at least one public hearing
thereon. After said public hearing or hearings the Planning Board
shall submit said Comprehensive Plan, in whole or in sections as aforesaid,
or any section, amendment or addition thereto as aforesaid, to the
Town Council for adoption. The Town Council shall not be bound by
the decisions of the Planning Board, but such decisions shall be considered
as of an advisory nature for the future development of the Town.
[Amended 11-2-2010]
{Created.} There shall be a Zoning Board of Review in the Town of Lincoln as is authorized by Title 45, Chapter
24, General Laws of Rhode Island, 1956.
Composition of Zoning Board of Review. The Board
of Review shall consist of five members, with one member from each
Council district, each to hold office for the term of five years;
provided, however, that the original selection shall be made for terms
of one, two, three, four and five years respectively; and two alternates,
each to hold office for the term of two years. The Town Council shall
provide for the selection and organization of said Board of Review
and shall have the right to name an auxiliary or sixth member of said
Board of Review of said Town who shall sit as an active member when
and if a member of said Board is unable to serve at any hearing, upon
request of the Chairperson of said Board.