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The design review board of the City of Davenport is hereby established. The word "board", when used in this chapter, means the design review board.
[Ord. No. 2019-02 § 3]
All members of the board shall be legal residents of the City of Davenport or own a property within the C-D Downtown Zoning District, C-V Village of East Davenport Zoning District or C-E Elmore Corners Zoning District.
[Amended 5-11-2022 by Ord. No. 2022-244; Ord. No. 2019-02 § 3]
The board shall consist of 9 members. An interest in urban planning, urban design and City development or experience as an architect, urban designer, urban planner, architectural historian, landscape architect, civil or structural engineer, real estate development professional, contractor or similar occupation is preferred.
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Members shall serve terms of three years, provided however that all members shall hold over until their successors are appointed and approved. Appointments shall be staggered such that no more than four members are appointed and approved each year. Appointments for nonreappointed members shall begin from the date of the expired term of the non-reappointed member.
Vacancies occurring on the board, other than those due to the normal expiration of term of office, shall be filled only for the unexpired portion of the former member's term.
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A member shall forfeit his or her appointment to the board if he or she changes their legal residence to outside the City's corporate limits, no longer owns a property within the C-D Downtown Zoning District, C-V Village of East Davenport Zoning District or C-E Elmore Comers Zoning District or fails to attend in person at least two-thirds of all regularly scheduled meetings during the calendar year.
[Ord. No. 2019-02 § 3]
Meetings shall be held at regularly scheduled times and location as determined by the board. All meetings shall be open to the public. Special meetings may be called by the chairperson or upon written request by three members of the board. Special meetings shall be held at the time and location as determined by the chairperson or three requesting members of the board. All meetings shall be in accordance with Iowa Open Meetings Law, Iowa Code, Chapter 21.
A public record of meetings shall contain the minutes, attendance records, voting results and summaries of all pertinent action of the board. A copy shall be filed with the City of Davenport community planning and economic development department for public review.
[Ord. No. 2019-02 § 3]
The presence of a majority of the official members of the board shall constitute a quorum to legally transact board business.
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The board shall have and exercise all the powers and privileges and shall perform the duties and conduct as established by state law, or as same may be from time to time amended and the provisions thereof being incorporated herein by reference, and such other powers and duties as may from time to time be conferred by or imposed upon it by law. The board shall hold public meetings and make final decisions on design approvals, demolitions within the C-D Downtown Zoning District and C-V Village of East Davenport Zoning District and to make recommendations on applications for encroachments into and over the public right-of-way.
The board shall adopt its own rules of procedure not in conflict with this Chapter or with the Iowa Code.
[Ord. No. 2019-02 § 3]
It shall be the duty of all City officers and employees of the City to provide assistance to the board and its members as this will enable the board to most effectively perform its duties. City officers and employees of the City are authorized and directed to furnish to the board, upon its request, records, documents, other information which the board may need for its consideration in connection with its duties.