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258.,i- ORDINANCE N0. +~ AN ORDINANCE CREATING A CITY PLANNING COMMI;5SION AND PRESCRIBING THE NUMBER, QUALIFICATIONS, AND DUTIES OF ITS MEMBERS. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST MEMPHLS, ARKANSAS; SECTION l: PURPOSE In order to direct the des~elopment of the City an encourage its social and economic improvement in accordance with modern city planning principles and to insure the orderly, efficient, and economic arrangement and development of public works projects. SECTION 2: MEMBERS The City Planning Ccxinmission shall consist of not less than nine (9) members including the Mayor and City Engineer; a member of the City Council to be selected by the City Council fraan among its members, and the other members shall be citizens qualified by knowledge or experience to act upon matters pertaining to the physical, social, and economic development of the City, who shall sex-ve without compensation and at least two-thirds of whom shall. not hold any other municipal office or appointment. The citizen members shall be appointed by the Mayor. Any members of the Commission, except the member of the ~.ty Council, may be rem©v,ed by the Mayor at any time for due cause shown.•-All members shall serve without compensation. SECTION 3: PROCEDURE -.__.....r___._ The Council,~e~¢ eonferson such Commission the powers necessary to carry out and enforce the City Plans as set out in ordinances enacted and all amendments thereto. The Commission may adopt such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with laws of the State, for its own organization and procedure as it may deem proper. The Mayor shall be Chairman of .the Commission. Til the absence of the Mayor, a quorum being present, the Commission shall elect a Chairman, who shall preside. l r SECTION 1t : DUTIES The duties of the Commission sha7.1 be to prepare a comsprehensive plan or plans showing its ideas and recommendations for the physical development of the City; to provide such programs, drawings, maps, or plans covering the whole or any portion of said City and of nay lands outside of said City which in the opinion of the Commission bears relation to the develop~aent or welfare of the City and said plan or plans shall show the Commissions ideas and recommendations relative to the location, width, and arrangements of streets, alleys, bridges, grade separations, parks, parkways, playgrounds, schools, public institutions, .or other public grounds or improvements; the grouping of public buildings, the design and placing of any memorials or works of art; transportation facilities, such as railroad, railway and motor; street appurtenances, including lighting standards, street name signs, poles and wires, projection signs and the like; zoning plan and ordinance for the classification and regtalation of land uses and open spaces about buildings and any other matters pertaining to the physical, social, and economic improvement of said City or any portion thereof. SECTION 5: SUB-DIVISION OF LAND All pleas and plats for the sub-dbision or re-subdivision of land into streets and/or building lots shall be submitted to the City Planning Commission for its recommendations before final acceptance or approval by the City. Such recommendations by the Commission shall be made within thirty (30) days and failure to do so shall constitute a waiver of its rights to paw upon such plan or plat. SECTIOIJ 6: PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAM It shall be the duty of the City Planning Commission to prepare and submit an annual public works program to the Mayor and City Couneil on the first day of January each year, and it shall also be the duty of each and every City department or agency to furnish the Commission, upon request, any data, plans, estimates, or programs and to collaborate with said Ccumnission in the preparation of such public works program. ,~ ..~ i h r SECTION 7: REPORTS The Commission shall m~e an annual report to the Mayor and City Council cornering their investigations, transactions, and recommendations, and such other reports relative thereto, as it may deem proper or as raga®sted by the Mayor or City Council and said Commission may employ such city planners, engineers, architects, clerks, secretary, and other persons, whose salaries and compensations and oth®r necessary expenses of said Commission and its members sha11 be provided for at the discretion and approval of the City Council by proper appropriations or ordinances and said City Council is hereby authorized to do so in any manner not inconsistent with the laws of the State of Arkansas. sECTION s : z.E~zsr~Tlora It shall also be the duty of the Commission to prepare and recommend such national, state, and municipal legislation as may be necessary in carrying out the recommendations or suggestions of the Comm~i.ssion. SECTION 9: EFFECT This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor. SECTION 10: WHEREAS the City of West Memphis is growing at a wry rapid rate and additional plans are immediately necessary in order to provide for the dewlopaaent of said City, now therefore an emergency is hereby declared and this ordinance being necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety, shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. PASSED AND APPRODED THIS ~,~DAY OF ~ J f~ 1953. +_.` ,. l~ - - MAR ATTEST: ~_ '- --