(a) 
The provisions of chapter 212, Local Government Code, V.T.C.A, are hereby adopted, and all the powers and duties of the city planning commission therein set out are hereby made the powers and duties of the planning and zoning commission.
(b) 
The planning and zoning commission shall act as an advisory body to the city council relating to all nature of public improvements, civic improvements, city planning, opening, widening and changing of streets, routing of public utilities, controlling and regulating traffic upon the public streets and ways, and such other matters relating to city improvements as the planning and zoning commission and the city council may deem beneficial to the city.
(c) 
The planning and zoning commission shall be and it is hereby empowered to make its own rules and regulations governing the platting of new subdivisions, or the replatting of old undeveloped subdivisions, and shall also have the power to vary these regulations when, in its judgment, it is necessary in order to secure an appropriate development of the area in question.
(d) 
The provisions of section 211.007, Local Government Code, V.T.C.A., are hereby adopted, and all the powers and duties of the city zoning commission therein set out are hereby made the powers and duties of the planning and zoning commission.
(1996 Code, sec. 12.101; Ordinance adopting Code)
(a) 
Before entering any orders affecting the property rights of any person or persons, the planning and zoning commission shall publish a notice of a public hearing in the official newspaper of the city and, at such public hearing, any and all persons shall have a right to appear and object to the proposed order or action of the planning and zoning commission.
(b) 
The city council shall not hold its public hearing or take action until it has received the final report of the planning and zoning commission. However, after published notice, the city council may provide for the holding of its hearing jointly with any public hearing required to be held by the planning and zoning commission, but the city council shall not take action until it has received the final report of the planning and zoning commission.
(c) 
Written notice of all public hearings before the planning and zoning commission on proposed changes in classification shall be sent to owners of real property lying within two hundred feet (200') of the property on which the change in classification is proposed. Such notice has to be given, not less than ten (10) days before the date set for hearing, to all such owners who have rendered their said property for city taxes as the ownership appears on the last approved city tax roll. Such notice may be served by depositing the same, properly addressed and postage paid, in the city post office.
(1996 Code, sec. 12.102; Ordinance adopting Code)
Any person who shall make application to the city for hearing before the planning and zoning commission shall, at the time of filing the application with the city, pay a fee set by resolution by the city council. Such fee is to reimburse the city for publication of notices and other administrative costs.
(1996 Code, sec. 12.103)