[1982 Code, Ch. XIII, § 1]
The Department of Community Development and Planning (hereinafter
called the Department) is hereby created with the general intent and
purpose of providing a coordinating/centralizing function for matters
relating to the planning and development of the community environs,
physical plant and socioeconomic features. This is to be accomplished
through the application of technical skills, the exercise of regulatory
controls, the implementation of program initiatives and the providing
of coordinating services to the various municipal agencies, boards,
and authorities which impact upon the community's growth and development.
[1982 Code, Ch. XIII, § 2]
(A)
The Department of Community Development and Planning shall have all
the powers and duties imposed and conferred by the Massachusetts General
Laws, City ordinances and any special legislative act, upon city planners,
community development block grant administrators, program coordinators,
municipal code enforcement inspectors, building inspectors, plumbing
inspectors, wire/electrical inspectors, gas inspectors, housing code
inspectors and sealers of weights and measures. It shall be responsible
for:
(1)
Federal and state fund coordination;
(2)
Community development block grant administration;
(3)
Capital improvement planning;
(4)
Land use planning;
(5)
Zoning code research and enforcement;
(6)
Environmental and long range physical planning and financing;
(7)
Transportation systems planning; and
(8)
Municipal code enforcement pertinent to building, plumbing,
wire, gas, weight/measure and housing code inspection.
(B)
It shall function to provide direct advisory technical services and
coordinating services to the Planning Board, Zoning Board of Appeals,
Conservation Commission, and Industrial Development Finance Agency.
In all cases, except where specifically noted herein or contained
in subsequent amendment hereto by ordinance and/or special act, the
Planning Board, Zoning Board of Appeals and Conservation Commission
shall retain all enabling powers and duties as presently conferred.
(C)
In so much as these or other bodies may be assisted through the reorganization
of agency support personnel and/or activities budget, within the Department
of Community Development and Planning, the City Manager shall undertake
the administrative actions as noted herein or as subsequently determined
and approved by City Council. Advisory, technical, and coordinating
services shall also be provided by this Department, as required to
the City Council, City Manager, and any and all other City department,
board or commission.
[1982 Code, Ch. XIII, § 3]
The positions and functions as conferred by existing ordinance
or agreement of the City planner(s), Building Inspector(s), Plumbing
Inspector(s), Wire Inspector(s), sealer of weights and measure and
all ancillary/support positions(s) to the above personnel categories
shall be and are hereby transferred to and made employees of the Department.
All existing ordinances in whole or in part, which serve to define
and/or limit those functions noted above as transferred to the Department
shall be assumed incorporated within this subchapter.
[1982 Code, Ch. XIII, §§ 4 — 5]
(A)
General.
(1)
The Department shall be constituted as a municipal department
of the general City government under the supervision and control of
the City Manager. For the purpose of Mass. Gen. Laws Ch. 68A, the
Department shall be considered a municipal agency, without limiting
the power of the City Manager, to classify additional special municipal
employees pursuant to this chapter, and any person who performs professional
or personal services for the department on a part-time, intermittent,
or consultant basis, such as those of architect, attorney, engineer,
planner, or real estate or traffic expert, shall be considered a special
municipal employee.
(2)
The City Manager, in consultation with the director, shall appoint
officers, employees and special employees as may be determined necessary
to carry out the work of the office, each of whom may have functions,
rights and powers as may be delegated to them by the director. Specific
administrative support inclusive of personnel and activities budget
will, to the extent determined by the City Manager, be vested within
the Department's jurisdiction for the Planning Board, Zoning Board
of Appeals, Conservation Commission, and Industrial Development Finance
Agency.
(3)
The City may annually appropriate money sufficient to fund expenses
incurred by the Department in exercising powers and performing duties
under this subchapter.
(B)
Department head.
(1)
An officer to be known as the director of the Department who
shall be executive and administrative head of the Department, who
shall serve at the pleasure of the City Manager. Qualifications for
appointment as director shall be at minimum, a bachelor's degree and
five years of increasing responsibility in areas of community development
administration, capital improvement and programming, land use, zoning,
environmental analysis, public administration, and facilities planning/construction.
At least four years of experience shall be related to the operation
of municipal government or equivalent qualifications.
(2)
Subject to the powers exclusively, vested in the City Council,
City Manager and/or any other City department, board or commission
by the City Charter and the statutes of the Commonwealth, the director
shall have cognizance and exercise supervision of:
(a)
Federal funds coordination;
(b)
Community development block grant administration;
(c)
Capital improvement planning;
(d)
Land use;
(e)
Zoning;
(f)
Environmental and long range planning;
(g)
Rehabilitation, residential, industrial, and commercial development
planning and financing;
(h)
Transportation planning;
(i)
Municipal code enforcement pertinent to building, plumbing,
wire, gas and weights and measures, and housing code inspection.
(3)
The director shall be charged with internal organization of
staff, exercising supervision over staff wherein the director shall
delegate to members of the Department, from time to time, his or her
powers and duties as he or she may consider expedient and proper so
as to accomplish the greatest efficiency of the Department.
