[Ord. of 4-2-1969, § 3; Ord.
No. 99-33 § 1, 8-10-1999; Ord. No. 2005-45 § 1, 12-13-2005]
The Planning Commission shall consist of eight (8) members,
including a member of the City Council selected by Council annually
at its first organizational meeting in April and seven (7) citizen
members appointed by the Mayor and approved by the Council.
[Ord. of 4-2-1969, § 3]
All citizen members of the Planning Commission shall serve without
compensation.
[Ord. of 4-2-1969, § 3; Ord.
No. 2001-64 § 1, 11-13-2001; Ord. No. 2014-14 § I, 6-10-2014]
The term of each of the citizen members shall be for four (4)
years, except that the terms of the citizen members first appointed
shall be for varying periods so that succeeding terms will be staggered.
The members shall not serve more than two (2) complete terms consecutively,
however they may be reappointed after a one-year absence. All citizen
members shall serve without compensation. Any vacancy in a membership
shall be filled for the unexpired term by appointment as aforesaid.
The Council may remove any citizen member for cause stated in writing
and after public hearing.
[Ord. of 4-2-1969, § 3]
Any vacancy on the Planning Commission shall be filled for the
unexpired term of the member whose office is vacated by appointment
of a new member in the same manner as original appointments.
[Ord. of 4-2-1969, § 3]
The City Council may remove any citizen member of the Planning
Commission for cause, stated in writing, and after a public hearing.
[Ord. of 4-2-1969, § 4]
The Planning Commission shall elect a Chairman and Secretary
from among its citizen members. The term of the Chairman and Secretary
shall be for one (1) year, with eligibility for re-election.
[Ord. of 4-2-1969, § 4]
The Planning Commission shall hold regular meetings and special
meetings as they may provide by rules, and shall adopt rules for the
transaction of business and keep a record of its proceedings. These
records shall be public records.
[Ord. of 4-2-1969, § 10]
The Planning Commission shall have and perform all of the functions
of the Zoning Commission provided for in Chapter 89, RSMo. and shall
have and perform all of the functions of a Planning Commission as
outlined in said Chapter.
[Ord. of 4-2-1969, § 4]
The Planning Commission shall appoint the employees and staff
necessary for its work, and may contract with City planners and other
professional persons for the services that it requires. The expenditures
of the Planning Commission, exclusive of grants and gifts, shall be
within the amounts appropriated for the purpose by the City Council.
[Ord. of 4-2-1969, §§ 2,5]
The Planning Commission shall adopt, amend and carry out a City
Plan for the physical development of the City. The City Plan, with
the accompanying maps, plats, charts, and descriptive and explanatory
matter, shall show the Planning Commission's recommendations
for the physical development and uses of land, and may include, among
other things, the general location, character and extent of streets
and other public ways, grounds, places and spaces, the general location
and extent of public utilities and terminals, whether publicly or
privately owned, the acceptance, widening, removal, extension, relocation,
narrowing, vacation, abandonment, or change of use of any of the foregoing
and the general character, extent ad layout of the replanning of blighted
districts and slum areas of the City.
[Ord. of 4-2-1969, § 5]
The Planning Commission shall prepare a Zoning Plan for the
regulation of height, area, bulk, location and use of private, nonprofit
and public structures and premises, and of population density.
[Ord. of 4-2-1969, § 7]
The Planning Commission may adopt the City Plan as a whole by
a single resolution, or, as the work of making the whole City Plan
progresses, it may from time to time adopt a part or parts thereof,
any part to correspond generally with one (1) or more of the functional
subdivisions of the subject matter of the plan.
[Ord. of 4-2-1969, § 7]
Before the adoption, amendment or extension of the City Plan
or a portion thereof, the Planning Commission shall hold at least
one (1) public hearing thereon. Fifteen (15) days' notice of
the time and place of such hearing shall be published in at least
one (1) newspaper having a general circulation within the City. The
hearing may be adjourned from time to time.
[Ord. of 4-2-1969, § 7]
The adoption of the City Plan shall require a majority vote
of the full membership of the Planning Commission. The resolution
shall refer expressly to the maps, descriptive matter and other matters
intended by the Planning Commission to form the whole or part of the
plan and the action taken shall be recorded on the adopted plan or
part thereof by the identifying signature of the secretary of the
Planning Commission, and filed in the office of the Planning Commission,
identified properly by file number, and a copy of the plan or part
thereof shall be certified to the City Council and the City Clerk,
and a copy shall be recorded in the office of the County Recorder
of Deeds.
[Ord. of 4-2-1969, § 8]
All public officials shall, upon request, furnish to the Planning
Commission within a reasonable time, all available information required
for its work.
[Ord. of 4-2-1969, § 8]
The Planning Commission, its members and employees, in the performance
of its functions, may enter upon any land to make examinations and
surveys. In general, the Planning Commission shall have the power
necessary to enable it to perform its functions and promote City planning.