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ORDINANCE NO. 510
AN ORDINANCE CREATING A PLANNING AND ZONING
COMMISSION FOR THE CITY OF COLLEYVILLE, TEXAS,
AND PRESCRIBING THEIR POWERS AND DUTIES
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF
COLLEYVILLE:
Section 1. That there is hereby created and established for the City
of Colleyville, Texas, a Planning and Zoning Commission, which shall be
composed of five members. The members shall be resident citizens,
taxpayers and qualified voters of the City, all of whom shall be appointed by
the Mayor subject to confirmation by the City Council, to serve for a term of
two years. All vacancies shall be filled for the unexpired term in the same
manner as provided for the original appointments. Members of the Commis-
sion may be removed by the Mayor, with the consent of the City Council,
after public hearing and for cause assigned in writing. The members of the
Commission shall serve without compensation.
Section 2. The Planning and Zoning Commission shall elect a Chairman
and Vice-Chairman from its membership and shall have power to employ such
qualified persons as may be necessary for the proper conduct and undertakings
of the Commission and to pay for their services and such other necessary
expenses, provided that the cost of such services and expenses shall not exceed
the amount appropriated by the City Council for the use of such Commission.
Such Commission shall have the power to make rules, regulations and by-laws
for its own government, which shall conform as nearly as possible with those
governing the City Council, and the same shall be subject to approval by such
City Council. Such by-laws shall include, among other items, provisions for:
(a) regular and special meetings, open to the public; (b) record of its pro-
ceedings, to be open for inspection by the public; (c) reporting to the governing
body and the public, from time to time and annually; and (d) for the holding
of public hearings on its recommendations.
Section 3. The Planning and Zoning Commission shall have the power
and it shall be its duty to make and recommend for adoption a master plan,
as a whole or in parts, for the future development and re-development of the
City and its environs, and shall have power and it shall be its duty to prepare
a comprehensive plan and ordinance for zoning the City in accordance with
Chapter 283, Acts of the Regular Session of the Legislature, 1927, (Arts.
1011a to 1011j, R. C. S.). The Commission shall perform such other duties
as may be prescribed by the City Councilor State Law.
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Section 4. If any section or provIsIon or part thereof in this ordinance
shall be adjudged invalid or unconstitutional by any court of competent
jurisdiction, such adjudication shall not affect the validity of this ordinance
as a whole or any section or provision thereof not adjudged invalid or un-
constitutional.
Section 5. The fact that a planning commission is necessary for many
reasons, including that of advising and assisting with a comprehensive plan
for the City of Colleyville and that it will promote the general good and
public welfare of this City and its inhabitants and that same should be appointed
without delay creates an emergency and public necessity demanding that this
ordinance be passed as an emergency measure and that the rules requiring
an ordinance to be read at more than one meeting be suspended as to this
ordinance and the same shall take effect immediately from and after its
pas sage.
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PASSED AND APPROVED this the
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