[R.O. 2011 Charter Art. VIII § 61; Ord. No. 3375, § 1; Ord. No. 4389, § 3]
The city plan commission shall consist of seven members, who
shall serve without compensation and who shall be appointed by the
council for such terms as the council may provide. Such members shall
be qualified voters, residents of the city at least two years immediately
prior to the date of their appointment and shall hold no other office
or position in the city government. In addition thereto, one member
of the city council, to be designated by the council, the city manager
and the city planner shall be ex officio members, but shall have no
vote on matters coming before the commission. The plan commission
shall elect its chairman annually from among the appointed members
and shall have authority to employ such assistants and technical advisers
as it considers necessary within the limits of the budget appropriation.
[R.O. 2011 Charter Art. VIII § 62]
The plan commission shall have the authority to prepare and
submit to the council for its approval a master plan for the physical
development of the city, including the general location, character
and extent of streets, bridges, parks, waterways, and other public
ways, grounds and spaces, together with the general location of public
buildings and other public property, public utilities, and the extent
and location of any public housing or slum clearance projects, and
shall recommend such modifications of said plan, from time to time,
as it deems in the city's interest.
[R.O. 2011 Charter Art. VIII § 63]
The plan commission shall also act as the zoning commission
and shall have the authority to prepare, adopt and recommend to the
council for enactment into an ordinance a comprehensive plan for the
zoning of the city, with such regulations as to the location, height,
width and bulk of buildings and other structures, and the size of
the yards, courts and other open spaces surrounding the same, and
as to the use of such buildings, structures and land as it shall determine
to be necessary or desirable for the promotion of the health, safety,
morals and general welfare of the inhabitants of the city.
The plan commission shall have general supervision of the enforcement
of any zoning ordinance enacted by the council, shall hear applications
for amendments, modifications or revision of the same, and shall forward
such applications to the council with its recommendations thereon.
The recommendations of the plan commission shall not be binding
on the council, which may approve or disapprove the commission's
findings; however, no general city plan or zoning ordinance, or any
modification, amendment or revision thereof, shall be considered by
the council unless the same shall have been first submitted to the
plan commission for its examination and recommendation.
[R.O. 2011 Charter Art. VIII § 64; Ord. No. 4389, § 3]
There shall be a board of adjustment, the appointment of which
shall be provided for by the council as required by state law, which
shall hear all appeals from decisions as provided by law.
[R.O. 2011 Charter Art. VIII § 65]
All plats of proposed subdivisions presented to the council
for approval shall be submitted to the city plan commission, which
shall make recommendations to the council with respect thereto.
