§ 2-1-4. Powers and duties.

(A)

The city planning and zoning commission shall procure information and make recommendations to the City Council, and shall cooperate with all boards and other agencies as to all facts bearing upon the needs of the City with regard to recreation grounds, the development and improvement of parks and boulevards, the improvement of drainage, the extension or opening of streets and avenues and other public ways or places and city plans and improvements generally, in relation to existing or future planning and zoning.

(B)

The city planning and zoning commission shall recommend the boundaries of the original zoning districts and all subsequent changes therein, and appropriate regulations to be enforced therein in relation to the height, number of stories and size of buildings, and other structures, the percentage of lot that may be occupied, the size of the yards, courts and other open spaces, the density of population, and the location and use of buildings, structures and land for trade, industry, residences, or other purposes in accordance with V.T.C.A., Local Government Code ch. 211, as amended, and Title XI, Chapter 1 of this Code.

(C)

The city planning and zoning commission shall recommend to the City Council whether property should be acquired for boulevard purposes and also whether or not any change should be made in the width or length of any street or boulevard.

(D)

The city planning and zoning commission shall cooperate with and advise the City Council with respect to any plan for the location or change of public buildings, bridges, approaches or other structures erected by the City.

(E)

The city planning and zoning commission shall keep itself informed with reference to the progress of city planning in this and other counties and shall make studies and recommendations for the improvement of the plan of the City with a view to the present and future movement of traffic, the convenience, health, recreation, safety, general welfare and needs of the City dependent upon the city plan. The city planning and zoning commission shall consider and report to the City Council with reference to all facts bearing on the designs and their relations to the city plan of all new public ways, lands, buildings, bridges, improvements of drainage, extensions or opening of streets and avenues.

(F)

The city planning and zoning commission shall provide plans for all original landscape work to be done by the City on boulevards and streets which are not under the supervision of the park board.

(G)

The city planning and zoning commission shall pass upon and recommend to the City Council whether or not plats of land and proposed plats of land within the City and/or coming under the city's jurisdiction shall be accepted and shall formulate and furnish to the City Council regulations governing the platting of additions for the guidance of the public.

(H)

It is contemplated in this Chapter that the city planning and zoning commission shall act as an advisory board to the City Council relating to all nature of zoning, public improvements, civic improvements, city planning, opening, widening and changing of streets, routing of public utilities, and the controlling and regulating of traffic upon the public streets and ways of the City, and other matters relating to civic improvements as the said commission may deem beneficial and to the interest of the City.

(I)

In addition to the notices required by V.T.C.A., Local Government Code ch. 211, as amended, notice of public hearing before the city planning and zoning commission and the City Council in regard to proposed individual changes in zoning classification, as distinguished from comprehensive revisions, shall be given by posting a prominently displayed sign board on the premises involved. Such sign shall announce the proposed change, the public body holding the hearing, and the date, time and place thereof and any other information deemed pertinent by the city engineering and development department.

(J)

The city planning and zoning commission shall also function as the airport zoning commission as authorized by V.T.C.A., Local Government Code § 241.016. The city planning and zoning commission shall exercise all powers and duties delegated to the airport zoning commission by federal, state, or local laws, including, but not limited to, recommending boundaries of zones to be established around the airport and the regulations for these zones.

(Ord. No. 7345, 7-12-1994; Ord. No. 7472, § 1, 9-26-1995; Ord. No. 9497, § 1, 10-20-15 )