[R.O. 2006 §415.010; CC 1978 §44.010]
For the purposes of this Chapter, the following terms mean or
include:
The Board of Aldermen of the City of Warrenton.
Any public ways.
The division of a parcel of land into two (2) or more lots,
or other divisions of land, it includes re-subdivision and, when appropriate
to the context, relates to the process of subdividing or to the land
or territory subdivided.
[R.O. 2006 §415.020; CC 1978 §44.020]
The Board of Aldermen of the City of Warrenton shall adopt,
amend and carry out a City Plan, and adopt a Planning and Zoning Commission
with the powers and duties herein set forth.
[R.O. 2006 §415.030; CC 1978 §44.030; Ord. No. 1121 §I, 4-4-2000]
The Planning and Zoning Commission of the City of Warrenton
shall consist of thirteen (13) members, including the Mayor if the
Mayor chooses to be a member, a member of the Board of Aldermen if
the Board chooses to have a member serve on the Commission, selected
by the Board annually at its first (1st) organizational meeting, the
City Engineer or similar City Official, and ten (10) citizens appointed
by the Mayor and approved by the Board of Aldermen. All citizens members
of the Commission shall receive, as compensation, fifty dollars ($50.00)
per meeting attended but no more than one hundred dollars ($100.00)
in any calendar month. 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 the succeeding
terms will be staggered. Any vacancy in membership shall be filled
for the unexpired term by appointment as aforesaid.
[R.O. 2006 §415.040; CC 1978 §44.040]
The Commission shall elect a Chairman and Secretary from among
the citizen members. The term of the Chairman and Secretary shall
be for one (1) year, with eligibility for re-election. The Commission
shall hold regular meetings and special meetings as they provide by
rule, and shall adopt rules for the transaction of business, and keep
a record of its proceedings. These records shall be public records.
The Commission shall appoint the employees and staff necessary for
its work, and may contract with City planners and other professional
persons for the services it requires. The expenditures of the Commission,
exclusive of grants and gifts, shall be within the amounts appropriated
for the purpose by the Board.
[R.O. 2006 §415.050; CC 1978 §44.050]
The Commission shall make and adopt a City Plan for the physical
development of the City of Warrenton. The City Plan, with the accompanying
maps, plats, charts, and descriptive and explanatory matter, shall
show the 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; the general character, extent
and layout of the replanning of blighted districts and slum areas.
The Commission shall also prepare a Zoning Plan for the regulation
of the height, area, bulk, location and use of private, non-profit
and public structures and premises, and of population density.
[R.O. 2006 §415.060; CC 1978 §44.060]
In the preparation of the City Plan, the Commission shall make
careful and comprehensive surveys and studies of the existing conditions
and probable future growth of the Municipality. The plan shall be
made with the purpose of guiding and accomplishing a coordinated development
of the Municipality which will, in accordance with existing and future
needs, best promote the general welfare, as well as efficiency and
economy in the process of development.
[R.O. 2006 §415.070]
The Commission may adopt the plan as a whole by a single resolution,
or, as the work of making the whole City plan progresses, 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. Before the adoption, amendment or extension
of the plan or portion thereof the 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 newspaper
having general circulation within the municipality. The hearing may
be adjourned from time to time. The adoption of the plan requires
a majority vote of the full membership of the Planning and Zoning
Commission. The resolution shall refer expressly to the maps, descriptive
matter and other matters intended by the 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 Commission and filed in the office of the Commission, identified
properly by file number, and a copy of the plan or part thereof shall
be certified to the Board of Aldermen and the City Clerk, and a copy
shall be available in the office of the county recorder of deeds and
shall be available at the City Clerk's office for public inspection
during normal office hours.
[R.O. 2006 §415.080; CC 1978 §44.080]
All public officials shall, upon request, furnish to the Commission
within a reasonable time, all available information it requires for
its work. The Commission, its members and employees, in the performance
of its functions, may enter upon any land to make examinations and
surveys. In general, the Commission shall have the power necessary
to enable it to perform its functions and promote municipal planning.
[R.O. 2006 §415.090]
Whenever the Commission adopts the plan of the municipality
or any part thereof, no street or other public facilities, or no public
utility, whether publicly or privately owned, and, the location, extent
and character thereof having been included in the recommendations
and proposals of the plan or portions thereof, shall be constructed
or authorized in the Municipality until the location, extent and character
thereof has been submitted to and approved by the Planning and Zoning
Commission. In case of disapproval the Commission shall communicate
its reasons to the Board of Aldermen, and the Board of Aldermen, by
vote of not less than two-thirds (2/3) of its entire membership, may
overrule the disapproval and, upon the overruling, the Board of Aldermen
or the appropriate board or officer may proceed, except that if the
public facility or utility is one the authorization or financing of
which does not fall within the province of the Board of Aldermen,
then the submission to the Planning and Zoning Commission shall be
by the Board having jurisdiction, and the Planning and Zoning Commission's
disapproval may be overruled by that Board by a vote of not less than
two-thirds (2/3) of its entire membership. The acceptance, widening,
removal, extension, relocation, narrowing, vacation, abandonment,
change of use, acquisition of land for, sale or lease of any street
or other public facility is subject to similar submission and approval,
and the failure to approve may be similarly overruled. The failure
of the commission to act within sixty (60) days after the date of
official submission to it shall be deemed approval.
[R.O. 2006 §415.100; CC 1978 §44.100]
The 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 and Zoning Commission
as outlined in said Chapter.
[R.O. 2006 §415.110; CC 1978 §44.110]
After the Planning and Zoning Commission of the City of Warrenton
adopts a City Plan which includes at least a Major Street Plan or
progresses in its City Planning to the making and adoption of a Major
Street Plan, and files a certified copy of the Major Street Plan in
the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Warren County, then no plat
of a subdivision of land lying within the Municipality shall be filed
or recorded until it has been submitted to and a report and recommendation
thereon made by the Commission to the Board of Aldermen, and the Board
has approved the plat as provided by law.
[R.O. 2006 §415.120; CC 1978 §44.130]
Within sixty (60) days after submission of a subdivision plat
to the Commission, the Commission shall approve or disapprove the
plat, otherwise the plat is deemed approved by the Commission, except
that the Commission, with the consent of the applicant for the approval,
may extend the sixty (60) day period. The ground of disapproval of
any plat by the Commission shall be made a matter of record.
[R.O. 2006 §415.130; CC 1978 §44.140]
The approval of a plat by the Commission does not constitute
or effect on acceptance by the Municipality or public of the dedication
to public use of any street or other ground shown upon the plat.
[R.O. 2006 §415.150]
Upon adoption of a major street plan and subdivision regulations,
the municipality shall not accept, lay out, open, improve, grade,
pave or light any street, lay or authorize the laying of water mains,
sewers, connections or other utilities in any street within the municipality
unless the street has received the legal status of a public street
prior to the adoption of a City plan; or unless the street corresponds
in its location and lines with a street shown on a subdivision plat
approved by the Board of Aldermen or Planning and Zoning Commission
or on a street plan made by and adopted by the Commission. The Board
of Aldermen may locate and construct or may accept any other street.
[R.O. 2006 §415.160; CC 1978 §44.170]
After the adoption of a Major Street Plan, no building permit
shall be issued for and no building shall be erected on any lot within
the territorial jurisdiction of the Commission unless the street giving
access to the lot upon which the building is proposed to be placed
conforms to the requirements above described.
[R.O. 2006 §415.170; CC 1978 §44.180]
Whenever a plan for major streets has been adopted, the Board
of Aldermen upon recommendation of the Planning and Zoning Commission,
is authorized and empowered to establish, regulate and limit and amend,
by ordinance, building or setback lines on major streets and to prohibit
any new building being located within building or setback lines. When
a plan for proposed major streets or other public improvements has
been adopted, the Board may prohibit any new building being located
within the proposed site or right-of-way when the centerline of the
proposed street or the limits of the proposed sites have been carefully
determined and are accurately delineated on maps approved by the Planning
and Zoning Commission and adopted by the Board.
[R.O. 2006 §415.180; CC 1978 §44.190]
Any person violating the provisions of this Chapter shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined
not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than five hundred
dollars ($500.00) or by confinement in the County Jail for not more
than ninety (90) days, or by both such fine and confinement.
