Each owner of the tract of land situated within the corporate
limits of the City of Brady and its extraterritorial jurisdiction
who may divide the same into two (2) or more parts for the purposes
of laying out any commercial and/or residential subdivision or any
addition to the City, shall comply with the provisions of Chapter
212, Municipal Regulation of Subdivisions and Property Development,
Local Government Code, as now exists or as amended.
(Resolution 2015-007 adopted 2/17/15, prop. 9, approved at election of 5/9/15)
There shall be a City Planning and Zoning Commission, which
shall consist of seven (7) citizens of the City of Brady who shall
be qualified voters of the City. The members of said Commission shall
be appointed by the Council for a term of three (3) years, and expiration
of terms shall be staggered so that an overlapping of terms occurs
(for example, within any three year period, the terms of two members
shall expire during one of those years, and the terms of two full
members shall expire during the second year and three the third year).
Terms of office of Commission members shall expire on the first (1st)
day of June of any given year. Members of the Commission do not have
term limits and may serve consecutive terms if approved by the City
Council.
The Council shall prescribe the duties of the Planning and Zoning
commission by ordinance, which duties shall include, but not be limited
to, those prescribed herein.
The Planning and Zoning Commission shall prepare a Comprehensive
City Plan (the “Plan”) within eighteen (18) months of
its appointment. The Plan shall contain the Planning and Zoning Commission’s
recommendations for growth, development and beautification of the
City. A copy of the Plan shall be forwarded to the City Manager, who
shall submit such Plan to the Council with his recommendation.
The Council may adopt the Plan by ordinance as a whole or in
parts and may adopt any amendment thereto after at least one (1) public
hearing on the proposed action. The Council shall act on such Plan
within sixty days. If such Plan or part thereof should be rejected
by the Council, the Planning and Zoning Commission may modify such
Plan or part thereof and again forward it to the City Manager for
submission to the Council. All amendments to the Plan recommended
by the Planning and Zoning Commission shall be submitted in the same
manner as that outlined above to the Council for approval. The Planning
and Zoning Commission and the City Manager must submit to the City
Council suggested additions to the City Comprehensive Plan as necessary.
The City Manager shall update, on an annual basis during the
month of November, the Citizens of Brady as to the status of all current
projects, by placing an article in the official newspaper.
Upon adoption of the Comprehensive City Plan by the Council,
no action affecting growth, development and/or beautification which
is in conflict with the Plan shall be permitted unless a variance
is granted by the Planning and Zoning Commission. If a variance is
not granted by the Planning and Zoning Commission, the party requesting
the variance may appeal to the Council, which shall have the power
to grant such variance and upon such grant, the party may proceed.
The failure of the Planning and Zoning Commission to act within thirty
(30) days after submission of a request for variance shall be deemed
approval of the variance unless a longer period be granted by the
Council or the submitting party.
The Council may by ordinance establish a Board of Adjustment
which shall have the power to hear and determine appeals from the
refusal of building permits, appeals resulting from administrative
decisions and to permit exception to or variation from the zoning
regulations. Members of the Board of Adjustment shall hold no other
City office and no former member of the Council shall serve as a member
of the Board of Adjustment until one (1) year after completion of
his Council term.