[Ord. 325, 5/3/1965; as amended by Ord. 434, 10/4/1976]
There is hereby created a Borough Planning Commission.
[Ord. 325, 5/3/1965; as amended by Ord. 387, 7/10/1972]
1.
The Borough
Planning Commission shall consist of seven residents of the Borough
of Selinsgrove, appointed by the Council to serve without pay. In
the first instance, two members of the Commission shall be appointed
for one year, two members for two years, one member for three years,
one member for four years and one member for five years; and annually
thereafter, as each of the original terms expire, members of said
Commission shall be appointed for a term of four years or until his
successor is appointed and qualified. An appointment to fill a vacancy
shall be only for the unexpired portion of the term.
2.
At least
five of the seven members of the Planning Commission shall not hold
any other office or position in the government of the Borough of Selinsgrove.
3.
The Borough
Planning Commission may make and alter rules of its own organization
and procedure, consistent with the ordinances of the Borough and the
laws of the Commonwealth, and shall make an annual report to the Council
of its transactions.
4.
Any member
of the Selinsgrove Planning Commission, once qualified and appointed,
may be removed from office for malfeasance, misfeasance or nonfeasance
in office or for other just cause by a majority vote of the Selinsgrove
Borough Council which appointed the member, taken after the member
has received 15 days' advance notice of the intent to take such a
vote. A hearing shall be held in connection with the vote if the member
shall request it in writing. Any appointment to fill a vacancy created
by removal shall be only for the unexpired term.
[Ord. 325, 5/3/1965; as amended by Ord. 434, 10/4/1976]
The Borough Planning Commission may employ engineers and other
persons, whose salaries and wages and other necessary expenses of
the Commission, where approved by Council, shall be provided for through
proper appropriation by the Council; additionally, the Borough Planning
Commission may contract for professional services, the costs and expenses
of which, when approved by Council, shall be provided for through
proper appropriation by the Council.
[Ord. 325, 5/3/1965; as amended by Ord. 434, 10/4/1976]
The Secretary of the Council shall, upon introduction, furnish
to the Borough Planning Commission, for its consideration, a copy
of all proposed ordinances and all amendments thereto relating to
the location of any public building of the Borough and to the location,
extension, widening, narrowing, enlargement, ornamentation and parking
of any street, boulevard, parkway, park, playground or other public
ground and to the relocation, vacation, curtailment, changes of use
or any other alteration of the Borough plan with relation to any of
the same and to the location of any bridge, tunnel and subway or any
surface, underground or elevated railway. The Commission shall have
the power to disapprove any of the said ordinances, bills or amendments,
which disapproval, however, must be communicated to the Council, in
writing, within 10 days from the introduction of said ordinance; but
such disapproval shall not operate as a veto.
[Ord. 325, 5/3/1965; as amended by Ord. 434, 10/4/1976]
The Borough Planning Commission may make or cause to be made
and lay before the Council and, at its discretion, cause to be published
maps of the Borough or any portion thereof, including territory extending
three miles beyond the Borough limits, showing the streets and highways
and other natural and artificial features and, also, locations proposed
by it for any public building, civic center, street, parkway, park,
playground or any other public ground or public improvement or any
widening, extension or relocation of the same or any change in the
Borough plan by it deemed advisable; and it may make recommendations
to the Council, from time to time, concerning any such matters and
things, aforesaid, for action by the Council thereon and, in so doing,
have regard for the present conditions and future needs and growth
of the Borough and the distribution and relative location of all the
principal and other streets and railways, waterways and all other
means of public travel and business communications, as well as the
distribution and relative location of all public buildings, public
grounds and open spaces devoted to public use.
[Ord. 325, 5/3/1965; as amended by Ord. 434, 10/4/1976]
The Borough Planning Commission shall have the powers of a planning
agency, including the right to recommend to the Selinsgrove Borough
Council the boundaries of the various zoning districts and appropriate
regulations to be enforced therein, in accordance with the Pennsylvania
Municipalities Planning Code, Act 247 of 1968, 53 P.S. §10101 et seq., as amended.
[Ord. 325, 5/3/1965; as added by Ord. 387, 7/10/1972]
[Ord. 325, 5/3/1965; as added by Ord. 387, 7/10/1972]
The Selinsgrove Planning Commission may, with the consent of
the Selinsgrove Borough Council, accept and utilize any funds, personnel
or other assistance made available by the County, the Commonwealth
or the Federal government or any of their agencies or from private
sources. The Commission may enter into agreements or contracts regarding
the acceptance or utilization of the funds or assistance in accordance
with the consent of the Council and of the governmental procedures
of the Borough.
