[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Clairton 8-14-1973 by Ord. No.
1249 as Ch. 44 of the 1973 Code. Amendments noted
where applicable.]
CHARTER REFERENCES
Boards, commissions and authorities — See Art.
XX.
[Amended 11-13-1990 by Ord. No. 1476]
The Council of the City of Clairton shall appoint a Planning
Commission in and for the City to consist of five residents of the
City. The terms of office for the members of the Planning Commission
shall be four years and shall be so fixed that the terms of two of
the members shall expire once every four years and the term of one
member shall expire during each of the other three years. Members
of the Planning Commission shall hold no other elective office of
the City. The City Manager shall appoint an administrative head from
the administrative unit responsible for planning as an ex officio
member of the Planning Commission.
[Amended 4-14-1992 by Ord. No. 1518]
The City Planning Commission shall organize not later than the
first Monday of October 1923, and annually thereafter by electing
a Chairperson from its own number.
The City Planning Commission may make and alter rules and regulations
for its own organization and procedure consistent with the laws of
the commonwealth and ordinances of the City and shall at the first
regular meeting of the Council in January of each year make a report
of its transactions to the Mayor and Council.
The City Planning Commission, in accordance with the spirit
and intent of provision of the Act of Assembly of July 16, 1913, and
general legislation governing Third Class Cities and ordinances of
the City, may employ only such engineers and assistants who shall
have had their salaries and wages previously provided for through
proper appropriations by the Council and shall not incur any other
expense unless authorized by the Council, together with suitable appropriation
made therefor.
[Amended 4-14-1992 by Ord. No. 1518]
The City Planning Commission shall hold its meetings in the
Council chamber of the City, and the City Manager or the City Manager's
designee shall act as official Clerk of the City Planning Commission.
[Amended 4-14-1992 by Ord. No. 1518]
The City Engineer shall act as official engineer of the City
Planning Commission, and engineering services and equipment required
by the Commission shall be furnished and provided by the Department
of Engineering.
All specific programs or individual proposals for public works,
whether originating in the Council, within the Department of Public
Works or other municipal department, with the City Engineer or with
a public authority functioning in but independent of the City, shall
be presented to the Planning Commission at the earliest stage of their
inception.
The Planning Commission shall study and make a written report
to the Mayor and Council on each such proposal referred to in the
preceding section, with special reference to:
A.
Its relationship to the approved Master Plan.
B.
Its preferential time order (priority) in terms of public need, logical
sequence in program, cost and feasibility.
C.
Its practicability and appropriateness to the ends to be attained.
D.
Its effect upon existing conditions.
E.
Its relationship to planned projects already approved.
F.
The changes or new projects necessarily sequential to it.
[Amended 4-14-1992 by Ord. No. 1518]
The City Manager shall, upon introduction, furnish to the City
Planning Commission, for its consideration, a copy of all ordinances
and all amendments thereto relating to the location of any public
building of the City; to the location, extension, widening, narrowing,
enlargement, ornamentation of any street; to parking on any street,
boulevard, parkway, park, playground or other public ground; to the
relocation, vacation, curtailment, changes of use or any other alteration
of the City plan, with relation to any of the same; and to the location
of any bridge, tunnel and subway or any surface, underground or elevated
railway. The Planning Commission shall have the power to disapprove
any of the ordinances or amendments, which disapproval, however, must
be communicated to the City Council, in writing, within one week from
the introduction of such ordinance, but such disapproval shall not
operate as a veto.
No acquisition of land by the City through gift, purchase, dedication,
condemnation or other process (except foreclosure of tax lien) shall
be authorized and no sale of public real property, however acquired,
shall be approved until after the Planning Commission shall have been
requested to inquire into the need, proposed use or disposition of
such property insofar as the same might affect:
The City Engineer shall prepare and keep up-to-date all maps
and statistical information under his or her jurisdiction which may
be necessary or useful to the Planning Commission in the discharge
of its duties. Such material shall be furnished the Planning Commission
in duplicate or be made readily accessible to it at all times.
The Zoning Officer or his or her assistants charged with the
enforcement of zoning regulations, building inspection or the issuance
of permits for the construction, occupancy, repair, rehabilitation,
conversion or demolition of structures shall make a full, written
report of all transactions to the Planning Commission monthly.
The City Attorney shall advise the Planning Commission of all
properties scheduled for Sheriff's or Treasurer's sale for
delinquent taxes or municipal improvement liens.
