[CC 1996 § 400.010; Ord. No. 331 § 1, 10-13-1969]
For the purpose of this Chapter, the following
terms mean or include:
BOARD
The Board of Aldermen of the City of Salisbury.
SUBDIVISION
The division of a parcel of land into two (2) or more lots
or other divisions of land; it includes resubdivision and, when appropriate
to the context, relates to the process of subdividing or to the land
or territory subdivided.
[CC 1996 § 400.020; Ord. No. 331 § 2, 10-13-1969]
The Board of Aldermen of the City shall adopt,
amend and carry out a City plan and appoint a Planning and Zoning
Commission with the powers and duties herein set forth.
There is hereby established within and for the
City a Planning and Zoning Commission which shall consist of not more
than fifteen (15) nor fewer than seven (7) members, including the
Mayor, if the Mayor chooses to be a member; a member of the Board
of Aldermen selected by the Board of Aldermen, if the Board of Aldermen
chooses to have a member serve on the Commission; and not more than
fifteen (15) nor fewer than five (5) citizens appointed by the Mayor
and approved by the Board of Aldermen. 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 of Aldermen may remove any citizen member for cause stated in
writing and after public hearing.
[CC 1996 § 400.040; Ord. No. 331 § 4, 10-13-1969]
The Commission shall elect a Chairman and Secretary
from among the citizen members. The term of Chairman and Secretary
shall be for one (1) year, with eligibility for reelection. The Commission
shall hold regular meetings and special meetings as they 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.
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.
[CC 1996 § 400.050; Ord. No. 331 § 5, 10-13-1969]
The Commission shall make and adopt a City Plan
for the physical development of the City of Salisbury. 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.
[CC 1996 § 400.060; Ord. No. 331 § 6, 10-13-1969]
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.
[CC 1996 § 400.070; Ord. No. 331 § 7, 10-13-1969]
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 (1) newspaper having general circulation within the City
of Salisbury. 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 be certified to the Board and
the City Clerk, and a copy shall be recorded in the office of the
Chariton County Recorder of Deeds and shall be available at the City
Clerk's office for public inspection during normal office hours.
[CC 1996 § 400.080; Ord. No. 331 § 8, 10-13-1969]
The Commission may make reports and recommendations
relating to the plan and development of the City to public officials
and agencies, public utility companies, civic, educational, professional
and other organizations and citizens. It may recommend to the executive
or legislative officials of the City programs for public improvements
and the financing thereof. 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 function, 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.
[CC 1996 § 400.090; Ord. No. 331 § 9, 10-13-1969]
Whenever the Commission adopts the plan of the
City 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 City 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, and the Board, by vote of not less than
two-thirds (2/3) of its entire membership, may overrule the disapproval
and, upon the overruling, the Board 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, 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.
[CC 1996 § 400.100; Ord. No. 331 § 10, 10-13-1969]
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.
[CC 1996 § 400.110; Ord. No. 331 § 11, 10-13-1969]
After the Planning and Zoning Commission of
the City 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 Chariton 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.
[CC 1996 § 400.120; Ord. No. 331 § 12, 10-13-1969]
Before adoption of any subdivision regulations,
or any amendment thereof by the Board of Aldermen, a duly advertised
public hearing thereof may be held by the Board.
[CC 1996 § 400.130; Ord. No. 331 § 13, 10-13-1969]
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-day period. The ground of disapproval
of any plat by the Commission shall be made a matter of record.
[CC 1996 § 400.140; Ord. No. 331 § 14, 10-13-1969]
The approval of a plat by the Commission does
not constitute or effect an acceptance by the municipality or public
of the dedication to public use of any street or other ground shown
upon the plat.
[CC 1996 § 400.150; Ord. No. 331 § 15, 10-13-1969]
No owner or agent of the owner of any land located
within the platting jurisdiction of the City, knowingly or with intent
to defraud, may transfer, sell, agree to sell or negotiate to sell
that land by reference to or by other use of a plat of any purported
subdivision of the land before the plat has been approved by the Board
or Planning and Zoning Commission and recorded in the office of the
appropriate County recorder unless the owner or agent shall disclose
in writing that such plat has not been approved by such Board or Planning
and Zoning Commission and the sale is contingent upon the approval
of such plat by such Board or Planning and Zoning Commission. Any
person violating the provisions of this Section shall forfeit and
pay to the City a penalty not to exceed three hundred dollars ($300.00)
for each lot transferred or sold or agreed or negotiated to be sold;
and the description by metes and bounds in the instrument of transfer
or other document used in the process of selling or transferring shall
not exempt the transaction from this penalty. Said penalty shall be
set by the Board of Aldermen. The City may enjoin or vacate the transfer
or sale or agreement by legal action and may recover the penalty in
such action.
[CC 1996 § 400.160; Ord. No. 331 § 16, 10-13-1969]
Upon adoption of a major street plan and subdivision
regulations, the City 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 or the Planning and Zoning Commission, or on
a street plan made by and adopted by the Commission. The Board may
locate and construct or may accept any other street if the ordinance
or other measure for the location and construction or for the acceptance
is first submitted to the Commission for its approval and approved
by the Commission, or if disapproved by the Commission, is passed
by the affirmative vote of not less than two-thirds (2/3) of the entire
membership of the Board of Aldermen.
[CC 1996 § 400.170; Ord. No. 331 § 17, 10-13-1969]
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 of Section
400.160.
[CC 1996 § 400.180; Ord. No. 331 § 18, 10-13-1969]
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.
[CC 1996 § 400.190; Ord. No. 331 § 19, 10-13-1969]
Any person violating the provisions of this
Chapter shall be guilty of an ordinance violation and, upon conviction
thereof, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) 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.
[Ord. No. 01-06-02 § 1, 6-14-2001]
A. The Mayor, with the approval of a majority of the
Board of Aldermen, shall appoint a Board of Adjustment.
B. The Board of Adjustment shall consist of five (5)
persons who shall be residents of the City, except as provided in
Section 305.410, RSMo.
C. The membership of the first board appointed shall
serve respectively, one (1) for one (1) year, one (1) for two (2)
years, one (1) for three (3) years, one (1) for four (4) years, and
one (1) for five (5) years. Thereafter, members shall be appointed
for terms of five (5) years each. Three (3) alternate members may
be appointed to serve in the absence of or the disqualification of
the regular members. All members and alternates shall be removable
for cause by the Board of Aldermen upon written charges and after
public hearing. Vacancies shall be filled by appointment as aforesaid
for the unexpired term of any member whose term becomes vacant.
D. The board shall elect its own Chairman who shall serve for one (1) year. The board shall adopt rules and decide appeals in accordance with the provisions of Chapter
405, Zoning Regulations. Meetings of the board shall be held at the call of the Chairman and at such other times as the board may determine. Such Chairman, or in his/her absence, the Acting Chairman, may administer oaths and compel the attendance of witnesses. All meetings of the board shall be open to the public. The board shall keep minutes of its proceedings, showing the vote of each member upon question, or if absent or failing to vote, indicating such fact, and shall keep records of its examinations and other official actions, all of which shall be immediately filed in the office of the board and shall be a public record. All testimony, objections thereto and rulings thereon shall be taken down by a reporter employed by the board for that purpose.