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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 157ORDINANCE !~0. 157 A~ ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A C0~E~ISSION TO PLAN FOR TKE PHYSICAL DEVELOP~,,~NT OF TKE CITY OF COLUMBIA HEIGHTS AS AUTHORI~D BY LAWS OF 19S7, CHAPTER 267, AND TO RECOMI~]IfD A ZOI~ING PLAN FOR ADOPTION UNDER L~WS OF 1929, CHAPTER 176, AS A~re~krDED. TEE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF 00LU~IAHEIGHTS DOES ORDAIN: Section 1. Establishment..of Qo~m%ssio~. A City Planning Commission for the City of Columbia Heights is hereby established. Section 2. ¢omoosition. Such Planning Commission shall consist of seven members. Four members shall be appointed by the City Council and ma~ be removed by a four-fifths vote of the Council; the City Engineer and the City Attorney shall be members ex officio, and the Council shall select one member of the Co~nission from among its own members.. Of the m&mbers of the Co~mission first appointed, one shall be appointed for the term of one year, one for the term of two years, one for the term of three years, and one for the te~n of four years. Their successors shall be appointed for terms of four years. Both original and successive appointees shall hold their offices until their successors are appointed and qualified. The terms of ex officio members shall correspond to their respective official tenures. Vacancies during the term shall be filled by the Council for the ~expired portion of the term. Every appointed member shall before entering upon the discharge of his duties take an oath that he will faithfully discharge the duties of his office. All members shall serve without compensation. Section ~. Or~anizat. i0nf. MeetinMs,_ Et~. The officers of the Commission shall be a chairman, a secrets~y, and such other offices as the Commission n~ky determine. The chairman shall be an elective member of the Co~mission with the shortest expiration term of the office. The offices of secretary and any other office cre~ted bM the Commission shall be filled by the Oon=nission from within or without its own membership. The Oonm~ission shall hold at least one regular meeting each month. It shall adopt rules for the transaction of business and shall keep a record of its resolutions,transactions, ~ud Findings, which record sluall be a public record. On or before Jauuary first of each year the Commission sh~ll submit to the City Council a report of its work during the preceding year. Exoenditures of the Commission shall be within the amounts appropriated for the purpose by the City Council. Section 4. Adoptio~.pf Program of Work. Upon the appointment and organization of the Commission, it shall proceed with the preparation and adoption by resolution of a program of work, outlining activities proposed to be undertaken in the e×ercise of its powers and the' performance of its duties. Such a program will include: (a) Au outline of data and inform~tlon to be assembled as a basis for the city plan; (b) ~u outline of subjects to be covered by the city plan; (c) Au outline of types of procedure necessary to m~ke the city plan effective. The Planning Con~ission m~y, by resolution, revise its program of work from time to time. Section ~. ~reoaration of City p!.~. It shall be the function and duty of the Plsnning Commission to prepare and adopt a comprehensive city plan for the physical development of the city, including proposed public buildings, street arrangements and improvements, public utility services, parks, pl~vgrouuds, and other similar developments, the use of property, the density of population, and other matters relating to the physical development of the city. Such plan may be prepared in sections, each of which shall relate to a major subject of the pl~u, as outline~ in the Commission's program of work. Section 6. Procedure for Adootion of Plan. Before adopting the city plan or any section of it or auy substantial amendment thereof, the Commission shall hold at least one oublic hearing thereon, notice of the time and place of which shall be given by publication in a newspaper of general circulation at least ten days before the da~ of the hearing. The adoption of the city plan or of any section or amendment thereof shall be by resolution of the ConLmission, approved by the affirmative votes of not less than five-sevenths of its total membership. The Co~!ssion may from time to time amend or add to the city plan or any section thereof as herein provided for the adoption of the original plan whenever changed conditions or further studies by the Commission indicate that such Amendment or addition is necessary or desirable. An attested copy of the plan or of any section, amendment, or addition to the city plan adopted by the Planning Commission shall be certified to the City Council. Section 7. ~eans of Executing Plan. Upon the adoption of the city alan or any section thereof, it shall be the duty of the Planning Cormmission to recommend to the City Council reasonable and practicable means for putting into effect such plan or section thereof in order that the same will serve as a Pattern ~ud guide for the orderly physical development of the city ~nd as a basis for the efficient exoenditure of the funds therof relating to the subjects of such city pl~u. /~ Such means shall consist of zoning plan, the control of sub-division plats, a plan o£ future streets, coordination of the normal public improvements of the city, a long term program of capital expenditures and such other matters as will accomolish the purposes of this section. Section 8. ZoninM Plan. The Pl~_~ing Commission upon its own motion may and upon instructions by the City Council shall orepare a proposed zoning plan for the city. Before recommending such plan to the City Council, the Planning Commission shall hold at least one public hearing thereon after a notice similsr to that required by Section 6. The same procedure shall apoly for the preparation of any plan of preposed rights of way for future streets or highways, or the future widening of existing streets or highways, or for the reservation of lands for other public purposes. Section 9. Official M~P of Street Extensions. The Planning Co~uission, with the assistance of the City Engineer, n~y and upon instruction by the City Council shall prepare an offi6ial map of the platted and unplatted portions of the city and adjoining territory, or portions thereof, indicating upon such ma_o the proposed future extension or Widening of streets of the city within such existing platted and developed territory or across such unplatted territory. After such map has been prepared and a hearing on it has been held as provided in Section $, it shall be submitted to the Council, which shall thereupon consider such map and may adopt it or any part of it with such amendments as it deems advisable. Before such adoption by the Council, public hearing shall be held upon the oroposal at least ten days after a notice thereof has been published in a newspaper published in the city. After such map has been adopted by the Council, whenever any existing street or highway is widened or im'oroved, or whenever ar4v new street is opened or aceuired by action of the city it shall not be required in such proceedings to pay for any buildin~ or structure whatsoever constructed upon such mapped street, or situated outside of any building line that may have been established upon the existing street or within any ~rea thus reserved by the map for oublic purposes, if such building, or structtu-e has been placed there after the ado0tion and oublication of such map. Section 10. Plats. Every plat of land oroposed within the city or within two miles of the limits of the city and not within the limits~of a neighboring ~'.~nicioality sh~ll be s~0mitted to the City Council before being filed and no plat of land shall be filed unless and ttutil the san~e shall first have been approved by the City Council. Before acting on such olat the City Council shall submit the same to the Planning Comn~ission for its reco~uendations. The Planning Commdssion, within forty days after any such plat has been referred to it by the City Council, shall act on the same and shall mske its recommendations with respect thereto. Such recommendations m~ consist of: (a) reco~mmendation that the City Council a~r~o~rove such plat; or (b) recommendatio~ t~at the City Council disapprove such plat, in which case such recommendation shall include a statement of the specific reasons for such recormuendation; or (c) recon~uendation that the City Council approve such plat after specified changes or revisions are made therein, which~ reconzmendations nu~y include the condition that a revised plat, containing such ch~uges or revisions, be submitted to the Planning Conzmission, in which case such revised plat sh~ll be so submitted to the Planning Commission for its mflLrther consideration and recommendations before action thereon by the City Council. Section ll. Procedure for .Ch~nEes. No change shall be made in the zoning plan, future street ~nd public lands pl~u, or regulations governing the platting of land after such p~tans or regulations have been adopted by the City Council, until the proposed change shall ~ve been referred to the Planning Commission for report thereon ~ud an attested copy of such report shall have been filed with the Co~zucil; and no ordinance or resolution establishing any of such plans or regulations shall be adopted by the City Council until such ordinance or resolution shall have been referred to the Planning Commission for a report thereon and ~n attested copy of such reoort shall have been filed with the Council. Failure of the Planning Commission so to report within forty days or such longer period as m~ be designated by the Council after such reference shall be deemed to be approval of the proposed change. Section lB. List of Recommended Public Works. Each officer, department, board, or co~i~ion of or in the city whose ~unctions include recommending, preparing plans for, or constructing public works shall, at least three months before the end of each fiscal year, submit to the Planning Commission a list of the proposed public works reco~lended by such officer, department, board, or con~nission for planning, initiation, or construction during the ensuing fiscal year. The Planning Commission shall request from the local school district a similar list of its proposed public works. The Planning Commission shall list and classify all such proposed public works and shall prepare a coordinated program of proposed public works for the ensuing fiscal year. Such program shall be recommended by the Commission to the Council and to such other officers, departments, boards, or public bodies as have jurisdiction over the recommending, planning, or constructing of such public works. A copy of such recommended, program of oublic works shall be included in the annual report of the Planning Commission provided for in Section S.' Section 1S. Time of T~king Effect. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after thirty (S0) days after its passage. 1st Reading: Ms. rch 28, 1959. Passed: April Il, 1959. Offered by: Pritchard Seconded by: Severson LQUIS %~. BASSETT Roll Call - ~ves: Bentzen, Pritchard, Severson, Wohlford, Bassett ~ays: None / Secretary g~ the Council.