HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance-1969-0012 - Establishing a Planning CommissionBY COUNCILMAN ROBERT G. HOWARD
ORDINANCE NO. 12
Series of 1969
TITLE. AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A CITY PLANNING COMMISSION; THE
APPOINTMENT OF MEMBERS THERETO; THEIR TERM OF OFFICE; THE ELECTION
OF ITS OFFICERS AND ITS RULES OF CONDUCT; ITS POWERS AND DUTIES
GENERALLY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WHEAT RIDGE,
COLORADO:
Section 1. Membership; appointment of members; term of
office. The city planning commission shall consist of seven (7)
members who shall be as follows: Five members shall serve as full
members of the planning commission. Two members shall serve as alternate
members of the planning commission and attend and participate in meetings
as members of the planning commission only when called by the Chairman
to sit in the place of an absent regular member. The members of the
planning commission shall be appointed by the mayor with the approval
of the council, and shall serve at the pleasure Of the council. All
members shall be selected from among the duly qualified electors Of
the city. The term of each appointed member shall be five years or
until a successor takes office, except that the terms of the members
first appointed shall provide that one member will be appointed for a
five year term, one member. for four years, one member for three years,
one member for two years, one member for one year, one alternate shall
be appointed for a three year term and one alternate shall be appointed
for a five year term. After said initial appointments all subsequent
appointments shall be for five year terms in order to provide for the
appointment Of at least one member of the commission each year, provided
that any appointments to fill unexpired terms shall be for the balance
of the term of the member being replaced and in the same manner pre-
scribed in this section.
Section 2. Chairman; rules for transaction of'business•
records to be kept. The city planning commission shall elect its
chairman from among the appointed members and create slid fill such other
of its offices as it may determine. The term of the chairman shall be
one year, with eligibility for reelection. The commission shall hold
at least one regular meeting in each month. It shall adopt rules for
transaction of business and shall keep a record of its resolutionp,
transactions, findings and determinations, which record shall be a
public record.
Section 3. Powers and duties generally. The city planning
commission shall have all of the powers and perform each and all of the
duties specified by chapter 139, articles 59 and 60, of the 1963 _
Colorado Revised Statutes, as amended, together with any other duties
or authority which may hereafter be conferred upon them by the laws of
the state. The performance of such duties and the exercise of such
authority is to be subject to each and all the limitations expressed
in such legislative enactments.
Section 4. Emergency clause. The provisions of this
ordinance are to establish a planning commission pursuant to Chapter 139,
Atricle 59, of the Colorado Revised Statutes, 1963, as amended for the
following reasons:
A. This ordinance is necessary for the immediate preservation
of the public health or safety.
B. No ordinances establishing a planning commission exist in
the city because the city, having completed incorporation August 20, 1969,
has not heretofore adopted any ordinance establishing a planning
commission.
Section 5. Effective Date. This ordinance shall take effect
and be in force five (5) days after publication following final passage
providing it shall have been passed by an affirmative vote of three
fourths (3/4) of the members of the City Council; otherwise said ordinance
shall take affect thirty (30) days after publication following final
passage.
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INTRODUCED, READ, ADOPTED AND ORDERED PUBLISHED AND POSTED
on first reading by a vote of 5 to 0 this 6th day of November,
A. D. 1969.
READ, ADOPTED AND ORDERED PUBLISHED AND POSTED ON second andg
final reading by a vote of S- to this S Q° day of Se r~e2
A. D. 1969.
ATTEST:
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LOUISE F. TURNER CITY CLERK
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CERTIFICATE OF POSTING
I, Louise F. Turner hereby certify that Ordinance # 4 was
duly posted by me following first reading on the J3 /4 day of
A/oae,~)eE2 1969, at-the following locations within the City ❑f
Wheat Ridge:
Wheat Ridge Post Office
Wheat Ridge Eranch Library
Westridge Sanitation District Office 3
Columbia Heights School
Prospect Valley Fire Department
Wheat Ridge City Office
I, Louise F. Turner hereby certify that Ordinance #2272- was
duly posted by me following second reading on the 7 g day of
NaufM &e _1969, at the above locations within the City of
Wheat Ridge.
Louise F. Turner
v City Clerk
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