The mayor, with the consent of the governing body, shall appoint a city planning commission, which shall consist of nine members of which number, two members shall reside outside but within three miles of the corporate city limits of the city, and the remaining members shall be residents of the city. Each member shall be appointed for a term of three years. Vacancies in the planning commission shall be filled by appointment for the unexpired term only. The members of the planning commission shall serve without compensation for their services.
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The members of the city planning commission shall meet at least once a month at such time and place as they may fix by resolution. They shall select one of their number as chairperson and one as vice-chairperson who shall serve for one year and until their respective successors have been selected. Special meetings may be called at any time by the chairperson or in his or her absence by the vice-chairperson. A majority of the planning commission shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The planning commission shall cause a proper record to be kept of its proceedings.
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The powers and duties of the planning commission shall be as legally prescribed by the governing body of the city, including the making of plans and maps of the whole or any portion of the city and of any land outside the city, which in the opinion of the city planning commission bears relation to the planning of the city, and to make changes in such plans or maps when it deems such advisable. Such maps or plans shall show the planning commission’s recommendations for new streets, alleys, ways, viaducts, bridges, subways, parkways, parks, playgrounds or any other public improvements, and the removal, relocation, widening or extension of such public works then existing with a view to the systematic planning of the city. The planning commission may make recommendations to the governing body, concerning the location of street, transportation and communication facilities, agree upon a plan for the development of the municipality or any portion thereof, and such plan shall be submitted to the governing body for its consideration and action.
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All plans, plats or replats of land laid out in building lots and the streets, alleys or other portions of the same intended to be dedicated for public use, or for the use of purchasers or owners of the lots fronting thereon or adjacent thereto, and plans and descriptions of all streets, alleys or public ways intended to be deeded or dedicated for public use, or for the use of purchasers or owners of the land fronting thereon or adjacent thereto which is not intended to be platted into lots or other designated tracts, and located within the city limits, or any addition or plan of streets or public ways located outside the city limits, provided such territory is within the same county in which the city is located and entirely or in part within three miles of the nearest point on the city limits, shall be submitted to the city planning commission for its consideration, and its recommendation shall then be submitted to the governing body for its official consideration and action. No such plat or replat or dedication or deed of street or public ways shall be filed with the register of deeds as provided by law until such plat or replat or dedication or deed shall have endorsed on it the fact that it has first been submitted to the city planning commission and by the city planning commission to the governing body and by the governing body duly approved.
(Ord. 00-667, Sec. 1)
On or before July 1 of each year, the city planning commission shall submit to the governing body of the city its budget of expenditures for the ensuing fiscal year, itemizing the expenses and amounts and its purpose. The governing body shall thereupon consider the budget and make such allowances to the city planning commission as it shall deem proper and shall add the same to the general budget of the city.
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