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Home My WebLink About~Master - Relating to a City Plan Commission, Repealing Ordinance 407 TEMPORARY ORD. .NO. 9 Permanent Ord. NO. �64 AN ORDINANCE CREATING A CITY PLAN COMMISSION AND FIXING AND PRE—I SCRIBING THE DUTIES AND POWERS THEREOF, AND REPEALING ORDINANCE NUMBER 407. i BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AMES, IOWA: Section 1. Commission Created. That under and by virtue of the authority conferred by the Code of Iowa, now incorporated in Chapter 373 Code 1954, a city plan commission has heretofore been created and established. Section 2. Membership. Said city plan commission shall consist of seven (7) members. Said members shall be appointed by the mayor and approve by the council, be citizens of Ames and qualified by knowledge or experience to act in matters pertaining to the development of a city plan and who shall not hold any elective office in the municipal government. Section 3. Term of Office. The term of office of the members of sai Commission shall be five (5) years. Section 4. Vacancies. If any vacancy shall exist on said commission caused by resignation, or otherwise, the mayor shall appoint a successor for the residue of said term, subject to the approval of the city council. Section 5. Compensation, Expenses. All members of the commissio shall serve without compensation, except their actual expenses, which shall be subject to the approval of the city council. Section 6. Organization. The czity plan commission shall choose annually at its first regular meeting one of its members to act as chairman of this commission and another as vice eha�rman, who shall perform all the duties of the chairman during his absence or disability. Section 7. Rules and Regulations. The commission shall adopt such rules and regulations governing its organization and procedure as it may deem necessary. Section 8. Annual Report. The commission shall each year make a +� report to the mayor and city council of its proceedings, with a full statement of its receipts, disbursements, and the progress of its work during the preceding fiscal year. Section 9. Assistants. Subject to the limitations contained in this ordinance as to the expenditure of funds, it may appoint such assistants as it may deem necessary and prescribe and define their respective duties and fix and regulate the compensation to be paid to the several persons employed by it. Section 10. Power s. It shall have full power and authority to make o cause to be made such surveys, studies, maps, plans, or charts of the whole I� or any portion of such municipality or of any land outside thereof, which in the opinion of the commission bears relation to a comprehensive plan, and shall bring to the attention of the council and may publish its studies and recommenda= tions. Section 11. Recommendations on Works of Art and Public Buildings. No statuary, memorial or work of art in a public place, and no public building, bridge, viaduct, street fixtures, public structure, or appurtenances, shall be located or erected, or site therefor obtained, nor shall any perrdt be issued by any department of the municipal government for the erection or location thereof until and unless the design and proposed location of any such improvement shall have been submitted to the city plan commission and its recommendations thereon obtained, except such requirements and recommendations shall not act as a stay upon action for any such improvement when such commission after thirty days' written notice requesting such recommendations, shall have failed to file same. I Section 12. Recommendations on Plats. .All plans, plats, or replats of subdivision or resubdivisions of land embraced in said municipality or adjacent thereto, laid out in lots or plats with the streets, alleys, or other portions of the same intended to be dedicated to the public in such municipality, shall first be submitted to the city plan commission and its recommendations obtained before approval by the city council. Section 13. Recommendations on Public Improvements. No plan for any street, park, parkway, boulevard, traffic-way, or other public improvement affecting the city plan shall be finally approved by the municipality or the character or location thereof determined, unless such proposal shall first have been submitted to the city plan commission and the latter shall have had thirty days within which to file its recommendations thereon. Section 14. Authority to Expend Funds. The commission shall have full, complete and exclusive authority to expend for and on behalf of the City of Ames all sums of money appropriated as hereinafter provided, and to use and expend all gifts, donations, or payments whatsoever which are received by the said city for city plan purposes. Section 15. Limitation on Contracting Debts. The commission shall have no power to contract debts beyond the amount of its appropriation for the current year. Section 16. Comprehensive Plan. For the purpose of making a com- prehensive plan for the physical development of the municipality, the city plan commission shall make careful and comprehensive studies of present conditions and future growth of the municipality and with due regard to its relation to neighboring territory. The plan shall be made with the general purpose of guiding and accomplishing a coordinated, adjusted, and harmonious development of the municipality and its environs which will, in accordance with the present and future needs, best promote health, safety, morals, order, convenience, prosperity, and general welfare, as well as efficiency and economy in the process of development. Section 17. Hearings. Before adopting a comprehensive plan as referred to in the preceding paragraph, or any part of it, or any substantial amendment thereof, the commission shall hold at least one public hearing thereo notice of the time of which shall be given by one publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Ames not less than ten nor more than twenty days before the date of hearing. The adoption of the plan or part or amendment thereof shall be by resolution of the commission carried by the affirmative vote of not less than two-thirds of the members of the commission. After adoption of said plan by the commission, an attested copy thereof shall be certified to the council of the City of Ames and the council may approve the same, and when said plan or any modification or amendment thereof shall receive the approval of the council, the said plan, until subsequently modified or amended as hereinbefore authorized, shall constitute the official city plan. Section 19. Amendment to Plan. When such comprehensive plan as hereinbefore provided has been adopted no substantial amendment or modification thereof shall be made without such proposed change first being referred to the city plan commission for its recommendation. If this commission disapproves Ithe proposed change it may be adopted by the city council only by the affirmative vote of at least three-fourths of the members of the said city council. Section 19. Zoning Changes Recommended. The commission may, from time to time, recommend to the city council changes in the zoning regulations or districts. Section 20. Time Limit on Zoning Changes. When proposed changes i tt I ! t the zoning regulations or districts are referred to the commission by the city council, the commission shall within thirty (30) days thereafter file its recommen dations approving, disapproving, or modifying such proposed changes with the city council. Section 21. Appropriation of Funds by Council. The city council shall annually appropriate a surn of money from the general fund for the payment of the expenses of the city plan commission. Section 22. Budget to be Filed. The commission shall, on or before July first of each year, prepare and file with the city clerk a proposed budget of its funds for the .following fiscal year. Section 23. Repeal. Ordinance No. 407 and all other ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Section'24. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and publication as provided by law. Passed this 14th day of September, 1954. i V t.�G J, W, rather, City Cler'_ti J. P. Lawlor, Mayor Moved by Smith and seconded by Bolton that Temporary Ordinance No. 9 be passed on its first reading. Voting Aye: Griffith, Judge, Smith, De Hart, Bolton and Bliss Voting Nay: None Absent: None Moved by Bliss and seconded by Griffith that the rules governing the passage of ordinances be suspended, the second and third readings omitted and Temporary Ord. No. 9 be placed on its final passage. Voting Aye: : Griffith, Judge, Smith, De Hart, Bolton and Bliss Voting Nay: Nrie Absent: None Moved by Bolton and seconded by Judge that Temporary Ord. No. 9 do now pass. Voting Aye: Griffith, Judge, Smith, De Hart, Bolton and Bliss Voting Nay: None Absent: None F IMayor Lawlor declared Temporary Ord. No. 9 duly adopted. I, J. W. Prather, CityClerk of the City y of Ames, Iowa, do hereby certify that rdinance No. 764 was duly and properly adopted by the CityCouncil at a eeting on September 14, 195¢and published by codifying on the -fit dayof( -,I J. W. Prather, CLtyClerk