[CC 1984 §44.010]
In order to make adequate provision for and to guide and direct
the future development and growth of the City and to avail the City
of the powers and benefits conferred by Sections 89.010 to 89.140,
RSMo., 1969, there is hereby created a commission to be known as the
City Planning and Zoning Commission.
The Planning and Zoning Commission shall consist of seven (7)
members, including the Mayor, a member of the Board of Aldermen selected
by the Board, the City Engineer or similar City Official and four
(4) citizens appointed by the Mayor and approved by the Board. All
citizen members of the Commission shall serve without compensation.
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.
Any vacancy in a membership shall be filled for the unexpired term
by appointment as aforesaid. The Board may remove any citizen member
for cause stated in writing and after public hearing.
[CC 1984 §44.030]
Each member of the City Planning and Zoning Commission shall
be appointed by the Board of Aldermen. Initially one (1) member shall
serve for four (4) years, one (1) for three (3) years, one (1) for
two (2) years and one (1) for one (1) year. The term of each member
shall be determined and assigned by the Board at the time of appointment.
Subsequent terms shall be for four (4) years. In the event of a vacancy,
a new member shall be appointed to fill such vacancy in the same manner
for the remainder of the unexpired term.
[CC 1984 §44.040]
The City Planning and Zoning Commission shall elect from its
citizen members a Chairman and a Secretary, and may adopt rules and
regulations for its own organization and procedure as it may deem
proper, not inconsistent with law and the ordinances of the City.
Such Commission shall meet at such times and at such places as may
be determined by the members of the Commission, suitable to their
needs and convenience and to the end that its final report on zoning
to the Board of Aldermen may be submitted without undue delay.
[CC 1984 §44.050]
The City Planning and Zoning Commission shall make studies,
investigations and surveys, hold public hearings, and do all things
necessary, advisable and proper to determine and shall thereupon recommend
by a report to the Board of Aldermen the boundaries of the various
original zoning districts and appropriate regulations to be enforced
therein, and shall prepare and submit a suggested comprehensive zoning
ordinance and plans, maps, outlines, and drawings, covering the whole
City and the various recommendations of a zoning system for the City.
The Commission shall make a preliminary report and shall hold public
hearings thereon before submitting its final report to the Board of
Aldermen. The Commission shall prepare and submit plans for the physical
development of the City, or portions thereof, and areas adjacent to
the City which in the opinion of the Commission bears relation to
the welfare, convenience and beauty of the City, together with its
recommendations as to restrictions and other questions and issues
relating to the development of the City and its adjacent areas, and
such plans shall show the ideas and recommendations of the Commission
relative to the location, width and arrangement of streets, alleys,
bridges, parks, playgrounds, location of public buildings, public
improvements, and other things pertaining to the welfare and appearance
of the City or any portion thereof.
[CC 1984 §44.060]
The City Planning and Zoning Commission may employ such City
planners, engineers, surveyors, clerks, and other persons as may be
authorized and approved by the Board of Aldermen, whose salaries and
compensation and the necessary expenses of the Commission shall be
provided for at the discretion of the Board of Aldermen by proper
appropriations or ordinances, and no expenditures shall be incurred
or made without the consent and approval of the Board of Aldermen,
nor shall any expenditure exceed the amount appropriated or consented
to by the Board of Aldermen.
[CC 1984 §44.070]
The Planning and Zoning Commission shall have such further powers
and duties as may be provided by ordinance or State law.
