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SubpartBLANDUSEREGULATIONS
<br />Chapter106ZONING
<br />ARTICLEII.ADMINISTRATION
<br />DIVISION2.BOARDSANDCOMMISSIONS
<br />SubdivisionII.PlanningandZoningCommission
<br />Sec. 106-63. General proceedings.
<br />The city planning and zoning commission shall adopt rules, regulations and bylaws to govern its
<br />proceedings; provided that such rules shall not be inconsistent with this section or the laws of the state.
<br />All meetings of the city planning and zoning commission shall be open to the public. Five members of the
<br />city planning and zoning commission shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
<br />(Ord. No. 3306, § 2, 12-13-10)
<br />Sec. 106-64. General powers and duties.
<br />The city planning and zoning commission shall have the following power and duties:
<br />(1) To cause studies to be made by city staff or other professionals which project plans for the
<br />improvement of the city, with a view toward its future development and extension, and to
<br />recommend to the city council all matters for the development and advancement of the city's
<br />facilities, layout and appearance, and to perform all duties imposed on the city planning and
<br />zoning commission by the statutes of the state.
<br />(2) To have plans and maps prepared by city staff or other professionals of the whole or any portion
<br />of the city and of land outside the city located within the extra territorial jurisdiction of the city,
<br />which, in the opinion of the city planning and zoning commission bears a relation to the planning
<br />of the city and to make changes in, additions to, and extensions of such plans or maps when it
<br />deems advisable.
<br />(3) To confer with and advise property owners pertaining to location and erection of structures in
<br />order to promote conformity to the overall city comprehensive plan.
<br />(4) To aid and assist the city council and city staff in the determination of sources of funds, and in
<br />the procuring of financial and other aid and assistance for the city from the state and federal
<br />governments and their agencies, for each and all of the purposes herein enumerated.
<br />(5) To assist all other municipal and governmental agencies, and especially the city council, in
<br />formulating and executing proper plans of municipal development.
<br />(6) To review and modify plans and recommend the location, plan, and extent of city alleyways,
<br />bridges, parkways, parks, playgrounds, airports, automobile parking places and other public
<br />properties, and of public utilities, including bus terminals, railroads, railroad depots, and
<br />terminals, whether publicly or privately owned, for water, lights, sanitation, sewage, sewage
<br />disposal, drainage, flood control, transportation, communication, marketing and shipping
<br />facilities, power and other purposes, and for the removal, relocation, widening, extension,
<br />narrowing, vacation, abandonment or change of use of any of the foregoing public places,
<br />works, buildings, facilities or utilities.
<br />(7) To select and recommend to the city council, based on reports from city staff, routes or streets,
<br />avenues, and thoroughfares, and particularly to investigate and recommend the opening,
<br />widening, or abandonment of streets, avenues, thoroughfares, and alleys or the changing
<br />thereof to conform with the city's system, present and future, of thoroughfares, streets, avenues,
<br />alleyways, park and parkways.
<br />(8) To investigate, consider and report to the city council upon the layout or platting of new
<br />subdivisions and developments of the city or of property situated within the extraterritorial
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