O-2014-3551 amend Ch 106;comprehensive review and update

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facilities, power and other purposes, and for the removal, relocation, widening, extension, narrowing, vacation, abandonment or change of use of any of the foregoing public places, works, buildings, facilities or utilities. (7) To select and recommend to the city council, based on reports from city staff, routes or streets, avenues, and thoroughfares, and particularly to investigate and recommend the opening, widening, or abandonment of streets, avenues, thoroughfares, and alleys or the changing thereof to conform with the city's system, present and future, of thoroughfares, streets, avenues, alleyways, park and parkways. (8) To investigate, consider and report to the city council upon the layout or platting of new subdivisions and developments of the city or of property situated within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the city and to approve all plans, plats, or replats of additions within the city limits, or with the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the city. (9) To recommend to the city council the approval or rejection of subdivisions or developments in accordance with the subdivision ordinances of the city. (10) To make rules, regulations and bylaws for its own government which shall conform as nearly as possible with those governing the city council, and such rules, regulations and bylaws shall be subject to approval by the city council. Such bylaws shall include, among other items, provisions for: a. Regular and special meetings open to the public; b. Records of its proceedings to be open for inspection by the public; c. Reports to the city council and to the public, from time to time and annually; and d. The holding of public hearings on its recommendations. (11) To recommend any change or modification to the city council which shall have the right to adopt by ordinance any recommended change. The planning and zoning commission is to conduct a regular comprehensive review of this chapter, together with the development ordinance of the city, the first review being six months from the date of adoption of this chapter, the second 12 months from the date of adoption, and thereafter an annual review by June 30th to determine whether the chapter has become deficient, obsolete, and inadequate for any reason including the following: (1) Defects in the original text. (2) Defects in the zoning map. (3) Deficiencies created by improper or lax administration and subsequent amendments to the original ordinance which are inconsistent, conflicting or ambiguous. (4) Inconsistency with state statutes orjudicial decisions. (a) The planning and zoning commission is to hear requests for proposed changes in classification filed by any interested party when such request is made in writing and accompanied by a filing fee. (b) All hearings on requests for amendments, changes in classification and review as set out in subsection (a) of this section shall be public hearings and shall conform to the notice requirements of V.T.C.A., Local Government Code § 211.007 and shall be conducted within 30 days after receipt of the request.