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Home My WebLink About107 Planning CommissionSECTION 107 PLANNING COMMISSION SUBSECTIONS: 107.100: COMMISSION CREATED, COMPOSITION 107.200: REMOVAL OF MEMBER 107.300: MEETINGS 107.400: DUTIES OF COMMISSION 107.500: SALARIES 107.600 BYLAWS 107.100: COMMISSION CREATED, COMPOSITION: A Planning Commission is hereby created for the City, its purpose to be of an advisory nature to the City Council and staff. Said Planning Commission shall be composed of five (5) members, appointed by the City Council. Only residents of the City shall be considered for appointment. Said members shall serve for three (3) year terms serving from November 1 to October 31. The members of said Planning Commission shall annually elect a chairperson and vice-chairperson from the appointed members of their Board. 107.200: REMOVAL OF MEMBER: Any member of the Planning Commission may be removed from office by a four-fifths (4/5) vote of the entire City Council for reasons including but not limited to: (i) failure to attend a minimum of 75% of meetings; (ii) failure to attend site visits/inspections; (iii) failure to review and understand agenda materials; (iv) failure to participate in an appropriate and productive manner; (v) failure to continue to meet any requirement set forth in Section 203; and (vi) failure to comply with any provision of these bylaws or any federal, state or local rule or regulation. 107.300: MEETINGS: The Planning Commission will meet on the second and fourth Monday of each month, or at such other time as may be deemed necessary, providing adequate notice is furnished of the public meeting. 107.400: DUTIES OF COMMISSION: The duties of said Planning Commission are as follows: (1) To acquire and maintain in current form such basic information and background data that is necessary to an understanding of past trends, present conditions and forces at work to cause changes in these conditions. (2) To prepare, draft and recommend amendments to the Comprehensive Plan for review by the City Council on the advice of the City Community Development Director. (3) To recommend policies to the City Council for guiding action affecting development. (4) To determine whether specific proposed developments conform to the principles and requirements for the Comprehensive Plan and the City Code. (5) To keep the City Council and the general public informed and advised as to all planning and development matters. (6) To review and make recommendations to the Council on planned unit development and subdivision proposals. (7) To hold public hearings for subdivisions, planned unit developments and rezoning applications and furnish the Council with information and recommendations of such hearings. (8) To prepare and submit to the City Council within sixty (60) days after the end of the calendar year a summary report of all variances granted to applicants from January 1 through December 31 of that calendar year. The summary report shall contain such information as deemed necessary and requested by the Council. (9) To act as the City of Prior Lake’s Board of Appeals and Adjustments including to hear and decide appeals where it is alleged that there is an error in any order, requirement, decision, or determination made by an administrative officer in the enforcement of the zoning ordinance and to hear requests for variances from the requirements of the zoning ordinance including restrictions placed on nonconformities. 107.500: SALARIES: 107.501 Per Meeting. The City Council deems it appropriate and prudent to remunerate the Planning Commission members for participation in certain meetings. Such remuneration encourages members to become more informed regarding constituent issues and be better representatives of the City. 107.502 Per Meeting Rate. For each eligible meeting attended, a Planning Commission member will receive $100 to remunerate time spent and out-of- pocket expenses. 107.503 Per Meeting Requests: A Planning Commission member requesting per meeting remuneration for attending a qualifying meeting shall do so on forms prescribed by the City. The request to the Finance Department shall indicate the number of meetings for which remuneration is requested, the date, time and organization conducting the meeting and the Planning Commission member’s role at the meeting. 107.504 Qualifying Meetings. The Finance Department will approve per meeting remuneration requests only for regularly planned meetings of the Planning Commission (second and fourth Monday of the month or second or fourth Tuesday in the event of a Monday holiday) whether the meeting is a regular meeting or workshop. Remuneration will also be approved for special meetings/workshops which are necessary to conduct Planning Commission business (such as specially scheduled variance hearings and joint meetings with the City Council). Remuneration will not be approved for meetings to which the Planning Commission member is invited but are not specific to conducting Planning Commission business (such as City Council meetings, SCALE meetings and advisory committee meetings). In order to receive the payment, the Planning Commission member must have attended the entire meeting. 107.600: BYLAWS: The Planning Commission, subject to City Council review and approval, is authorized to adopt is own rules and procedures to govern its proceedings which shall be set forth in Planning Commission Bylaws. (Ord. Amd. 119-09, publ. 11/09/2019)