563ORDINANCE NO. 563
AN ORDINANCE CREATING A CITY PLANNING BOARD;
SETTING FORTH ITS MEMBERSHIP, METHOD OF
APPOINTING MEMBERS, TERMS OF MEMBERS AND
METHOD AND MANNER OF FILLING VACANCIES AND
SETTING FORTH THE FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES AND
THE POWERS OF SAID CITY PLANNING BOARD.
WHEREAS, the City Council, in order to insure and provide for the
orderly growth and development of Edgewater, Florida, has determined
that it would be in the best interest of the public to create a
City Planning Board.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF EDGEWATER,
FLORIDA:
Section 1. Membership. There is hereby created a City Planning
Board which said board shall consist of ten members to be appointed
by the City Council for the City of Edgewater, Florida. There
shall be a Chairman and a Secretary of the said City Planning
Board who shall be selected by vote of the members of the said
Board. Each member, including the Chairman and Secretary, shall
serve on the said Board for a period of two years. Each voting
district within the City of Edgewater shall be represented on the
Board by at least two members. In case of the resignation of any
member of the Board, the City Council shall appoint a successor
for the unexpired term created by the said resignation. The
members of the City Planning Board, including the Chairman and
Secretary thereof, shall receive no compensation for their services.
Section 2. Functions and Duties. It shall be the function and the
duty of the City Planning Board to prepare and develop and maintain
a comprehensive Land Use Plan which shall be designed to accommodate
and facilitate the community growth and development. The said Land
Use Plan shall include but not be limited to:
(a) a public facility plan illustrating the desired
system of transportation, parks and open space,
schools and cultural facilities, utilities,
hospitals, public health buildings, fire and
police facilities and other public uses.
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(b) a plan of desired patterns of residential, commercial,
industrial, institutional and agricultural use.
(c) miscellaneous elements such as community renewal, flood
control, pollution control, conservation, beautification
and other similar items.
(d) it shall be the duty of the City Planning Hoard to draw
a set of by-laws for its own internal organization and
procedure.
Section 3. Powers of the Board. In order to facilitate the
preparation and implementation of the said comprehensive Land Use
Plan, the said Planning Board shall be authorized as to:
(c) Acquire and maintain such basic information and
materials as are needed to understand trends and
present conditions, to conduct special studies on
the location, condition and adequacy of specific
facilities such as housing, commercial and
industrial conditions, schools, parks, open space,
utilities, traffic and parking.
(b) To aid and make recommendations to all governmental
units in order to help coordinate the plans and
programs and polities of all governmental units in
the City of Edgewater whose actions will affect the
city's overall growth and development. The said aid
and recommendations are to be advisory only.
(c) To recommend to the City Council ordinances and/or
resolutions needed to promote the orderly development
of the community. Such ordinances and/or resolutions
shall be advisory only.
Section 4. That all resolutions or parts of resolutions in conflict
herewith be and the same are hereby repealed.
Section 5. That this ordinance shall take effect immediately upon
its adoption by the Council and approval by the Mayor.
The foregoing ordinance was read in full and passed by vote of
the City Council for the City of Edgewater, Florida at a regular
meeting of the said Council held on July 17, 1967. Upon motion
duly made, seconded and carried, the requirement of reading said
ordinance upon second reading was waived and the ordinance was
ordered put upon final passage.
Passed by vote of the City Council of the City of Edgewater,
Florida at a regular meeting of said Council held on Julyl7,1967
and approved as provided by law, the vote of said Council
being as follows:
Mayor
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Councilman
Attest:
. City Clerk
Approved this 17th day of July
A...,D. ,, `1967.
Mayor