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ORDINANCE NUMBER 781 .
AN ORDINANCE CREATING A CITY PLANNING COMMISSION , PRESCRIBING !
THE NUMBER AND QUALIFICATIONS OF ITS MEMBERS AND DEFINING ITS
DUTIES .
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FAYEPTEVILLE,
ARKANSAS , as follows :
SECTION ONE : in order to direct the future development of the
City and 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 future public works. .projects , there is herebycreated a City .
planning Commission .
SECTION TNIO . MEMBERS : The City Planning Commission shall consist
of nine ( 9 ) members , including the Mayor ( or City Manager ) , City
Engineer, and a member of the City Cluncil , the latter to be select -
ed by the Council from among its members . The other six members
shall be citizens qualified by experience or knowledge to act
upon matters pertaining to the physical , socail and economic '
development of the City . The citizen members shall be appointed by
the Mayor , and in the first instance three ( 3 ) members shall be
appointed for a period of two years ; three for four years , and .
thereafter all appointments shall be made for terms of four years .
Appointments to fill vacancies shall be. for unexpired terms only .
Any member of the Commission , except the member of the City j
Council , may beremoved by the Mayor at any time for due cause shown .
All members shall serve without compensation .
SECTION THREE . PROCEDURE : The Commission shall elect from among its
citizen members , its own Chairman, Vice -Chairman , Secretary and
Treasurer and may , from time .to , time , adopt such rules and regulation
not inconsistent with existing laws of the State , for its own
organization and procedure as it may deem proper .
SECTIov FOUR . DUTIES : The duties of the Commission shall be to
prepare a comprehensive plan or plans showing its idea and recom -
mendation 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 any lands outside of said City which, in the
opinion of the . Commission , bears relation to the development or
welfare of the City and said plan or plans shall show the
Commission ' s idea 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 a railroad, railways
and motor ; street appubtenances , including lighting standards street
name signs , poles and wires , projecting signs and the like ; zoning
plan and ordinance for the classification and regulation of land
uses and open spaces about buildings ; and any other matters pertainin
to the social and economic improvement of ' said City or any portion
thereof .
SECTION FIVE . SUB-DIVISION TF LARD : All plans and plats for the
sub -division or re -subdivision of land into streets and /or buildings
lots shall be submitted to the City Planning Commission for its
recommendation before final acceptance or approval by the City .
Such recommendations by the Commission shall be made within
fifteen ( 15 ) days and failure to do so shall constitute a waiver
of its rights to pass upon such plan or plat ,
SECTION SIX . 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 ' Council on the first day , of Jany .
MICROf yO isieof each year , and it shall be the duty of each and every City ,
DA1E�— Department or Agency to furnish the Commission, upon request , any
REEL data , plans , estimates or , programs and to collaborate with the said
Commission in the preparation of wuch public works programs . ;
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SECTION SEVEN , REPORTS : The Commission shall make an annual report
during the month of February to the Mayor and City Council , covering
their investigations and recommendations , and such other reports
relative . thereto as it may deem proper or as requested by the Mayor
or City council amd said Commission may employ such City planners ,
engineers , architects , clerks and other persons , whAse salaries and
compensations and other necessary expenses of said Commission and
its members shall be provided for at the discretion of the City ,
Council by the proper appropriations or ordinances of said City
Gouncil is hereby authorized. to do so in any manner not inconsistent
with the laws of the State of Arkansas .
SECTION EIG3T : LEGISLATION : It shall also be the duty of the t
Commission to prepare and recommend such national , state and
municipal legislation as may be necessary in carrying out the
recommendations or suggestions of , the Commission .
SECTION NINE . EFFECT : . This ordinance shall take effect and be in force
from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor .
Attest : Approved :
City Clerk . Mayor .
Published in the . Fayetteville ' Daily Democrat May • 25 , 1936 .
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Passed and Approved May 20 , 1935
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