[Code 1961, § 13.01.02; Ord. No. 75-1, 2-3-1975]
There is hereby established in accordance with General Statutes, Section 8-4a, a Town Planning and Zoning Commission.
[Code 1961, § 13.01.03; Ord. No. 75-1, 2-3-1975]
The Town Planning and Zoning Commission shall consist of five members who shall be electors of the Town, holding no salaried municipal office, and who shall not also be alternate members of this Commission, members or alternate members of the Zoning Board of Appeals, or the Town Commission on inland wetlands and watercourses.
[Code 1961, § 13.01.04; Ord. No. 75-1, 2-3-1975; Ord. No. 86-1, § 1, 2-3-1986]
Each member shall be appointed by the Town Council to serve a term of five years, commencing the second Monday of November. All members servicing on said Commission with terms expiring November, 1986, November, 1987, November, 1988, November 1989, and November, 1990, are reappointed for the remainder of their terms. In the event no successor member is appointed on the expiration of any term, the term shall automatically be extended until that member's successor is appointed and qualified.
[Code 1961, § 13.01.05; Ord. No. 75-1, 2-3-1975]
There is hereby established a panel of three alternate members who shall be electors of the Town, holding no salaried municipal office, and who shall not also be regular members of the Planning and Zoning Commission, or members or alternate members of the Zoning Board of Appeals, or the Town Commission on inland wetlands and watercourses.
[Code 1961, § 13.01.06; Ord. No. 75-1, 2-3-1975; Ord. No. 86-1, § 2, 2-3-1986]
Each alternate member shall be appointed by the Town Council to serve a term of two years, commencing the second Monday of November. All alternate members serving on the Commission with terms expiring November, 1987, are reappointed for the remainder of their terms. In the event no successor member is appointed on the expiration of any term, the term shall automatically be extended until that member's successor is appointed and qualified.
[Code 1961, § 13.01.07; Ord. No. 75-1, 2-3-1975]
Such alternate members shall, when seated as herein provided, have all the powers and duties set forth in the general statutes for regular members of the Planning and Zoning Commission. If a regular member of the Commission is absent or is disqualified, the chairperson of the Commission shall designate an alternate to so act, choosing alternates in rotation so that they shall act as nearly equal a number of times as possible. If any alternate is not available in accordance with such rotation, such fact shall be recorded in the minutes of the meeting.
[Code 1961, § 13.01.09; Ord. No. 75-1, 2-3-1975]
Under the authority of General Statutes, Section 8-19, the Town Manager and the Town Engineer shall also be members of said Commission without voting privileges.
[Code 1961, § 13.01.08; Ord. No. 75-1, 2-3-1975]
The Planning and Zoning Commission shall have all the powers and duties now or hereinafter conferred upon it by the General Statutes of the state or ordinance of the Town, including but not limited to the power to issue, adopt, promulgate, repeal or amend zoning regulations and subdivision regulations for the Town. All regulations adopted by the Commission which were in effect prior to the effective date of the ordinance from which this section is derived shall continue in full force and effect until modified, repealed or superseded in accordance with the provisions of Chapters 124 and 126 of Title 8 of the General Statutes.
[Ord. No. 90-1, § 1, 9-10-1990]
In appointing members and alternates to the Commission, the Council shall not appoint more than a bare majority of any one party on the Commission, and in filling a vacancy, the appointee shall be chosen from the same political party as the person vacating the office if he or she was a member of a political party. This shall not, however, preclude the appointment by the Council of any person who is not a member of any political party.