O65-01KENNEDALE ORDINANCE NO. 65-1
AN ORDINANCE CREATING THE KENNFDALE
CITY PLANNING COMMISSION; PRESCRIBING
THE DUTIES AND QUALIFICATIONS OF ITS
MEMBERS, AND THEIR TERMS OF OFFICE;
PROVIDING FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF ITS
ME_HERS, THE METHOD OF FILLING VACANCIES,
EKING DEPARTMENT .ii ;ADS AND OFFICIALS
AVAILABLE TO THE CITY PLANNING COMMISSION,
PRESCRIBING POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE
CITY PLANNING COMMISSION, PROV I;SING FOR
ADOPTION OF RULES AND REGULATIONS AND -
LAWS, REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS
OF ORDINANCES INCONSISTENT OR CONTRARY
HERETO, AND PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE
A '' EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY T!at" CITY COUNCIL OF THE
C ITY OF KENNEDA LE, TEXAS:
Section 1. There is hereby created and
established within the City of Kennedale, Texas, a
City Planning Commission, which shall be subject to the
jurisdiction of the City Council of the City of Kennedale,
Texas. SaiCity Planning Commission shall be composed
of five (5) members, whose offices are hereby created nd
established. Said members shall be resident citizens of
the City of Kennedale, Texas, owners of real estate
situated within the City of Kennedale, tax -payers and
qualified voters of the City of Kennedale, Texas. Members
shall be appointed by the City Council. The term of office
of members of the City Planning Commission shall be five (5)
years; provided, however, at the initial meeting of the
first five appointed members of the Commission, said
members shall draw by lot to determine which of them shall
serve one, two, three, four and five year terms, respectively,
so that their terms shall expire in consecutive years;
thereafter, one member shall be appointed each year for
a full term of five years upon the expiration of the terms
of each of the initial members. The City Council, in making
appointments, shall designate one appointee as Chairman and
one as Vice Chair of the Commission. All vacancies oc-
curring on the City Planning Commission shall be filledby
appointment of the City Council for the unexpired term of
the vacating member. Members of the Commission shall receive
$5.00 for each regular meeting attended in the performance
of their duties, but no compensation shall be paid for
special meetings.
Section 2. The City Planning Commission sall
recommend to the City Council the appointment of such
individuals as 1.!y, in the opinion of the Commission,
be necessary for the proper conduct, operation and
undertakings of the City Planning Commission, including
as it may find necessary a City Planning Consultant of
recognized standing and ability. Said City Planning
Consultant shall perform the duties prescribed by the
City Planning Commission, subject to the approval of the
City Council, and shall receive such compensation gas ,x-y
be fixed by the City Council.
Section 3. All department heads and offici,-als
of the City of Kennedale shall be available to the City
Planning Commission for advice and consultation, and they
shall cooperate with and render such services for the
City Planning Commission as shall reasonably come within
the scope of the duties of said officials. They shall
attend meetings of the City Planning Commission upon
request of the Commission or its duly authorized re-
presentative.
Section 4. The City Planning Commission shall
have the following powers,authority and duties:
(1) To make studies and project plans
for the improvement of the City
of Kennedale, with a view to its
development and extension, and to
recommend to the City Council all
matters for the development and the
advancement of city facilities, lay-
outs and appearanc-s, and to perform
the duties imposed upon the City
Planning Commission by the statutes
of the State of Texas, and specifically
by Chapter 231, Acts of Regular Session
of the 40th Legislature, 1927, being
also Article 974a, Vernon's Revised
Civil Statutes of Texas.
(2) To ke plans and ps of the whole
or any portion of the City of Kenne-
dale, and of land outside the City
limits located within three (3) miles of
said City limits, and any other land
outside the City of Kennedale which
in the opinion of the Commission bears
a relation to the planning of the City
of Kennedale, and to 1.ke such changes
and additions and extensions of plans
or maps within the City as it deems
advisable.
(3)
To consult with and advise private
property owners pertaining to location
erection of privatestructures
with the view of having the same
conform to the over-all city plan,
and to advise with the Building
Commissioner and Inspector in the
performance of his duties.
(4) To aid and assist the City Secretary
and City Coucil in the preparation
of the City Budget, and determination
of sources of funds and i the procuring
of financial and other aid and assistance
for the City froi, the State and Federal
Government and their agencies for each
and all of the purposes herein enumerated.
(5)
To act with and assist all other
municipal and governmental agencies,
and especially the City Council, in
for,ulating and executing plans for
municipal •fevelopment.
(6) To plan and recommend te location, plan
and extent of city alleyways, parks, play-
grounds, airports, automobile parking places
and other public grounds and improvements,
for the location and planning of public
buildings, schools and other properties,
and of public utilities, including bus
terminals, railway depots and terminals,
whether public or private, water, lights,
sanitation, sewage disposal, drainage,
flood control, transportation, commu-
nication and shipping facilities, and
for the removal, relocation, widening,
extension, narrowing, vacation, abandon-
ment or changes of use of any of the
foregoing public places, works, buildings,
facilities or utilities.
To select and recommend to the City
Council routes of streets, avenues,
and boulevards, and particularly to
investigate and recommend the opening,
widening or abandonment of streets,
avenues, boulevards and alleyways, or
the changing thereof to confor nr to the
City's system, present and future, of
all streets, avenues, boulevards, alley-
ways and parks.
To investigate, consider and report to
the City Council upon the lay -out and
plans of any new subdivision to the
City of Kenny Bale, or property situated
within three miles of the city limits,
and to approve or reject all plans,
plats or re fiats of additions within
the city limits or within three
miles thereof.
(7)
(8)
(9)
To recommend to the City Council for
adoption, rules and regulations governing
plats and subdivisions of land within
the corporate limits of the City, or within
three miles thereof, to promote health,
safety, moral and general welfare of the
community, and the safe, orderly and health-
ful «evelopment of the community, which
rules and regulations may be adopted by
the City Council after public hearing
held thereon.
C1To recommend plans to the City Council
for improving, developing, expanding and
beautifying the parks, lakes and public
buildings in or adjcent to th City,
and to cooperate with the City Council
and other agencies of the City in
devising, establishing, locating, im-
proing, selecting,expanding and
maintaining public parks, works,
playgrounds, lakes and other areas
for public recreation.
(11) To aid and .lssist the City Council by
recommending plans for the development
of civic centers, and to ke inesti-
gations, consider and make recoendations
to the City Council concerning traffic
regulations, routing and control, and
highway designations.
(12) To investigto and establish zoning
regulations for the entire City,
and, from time to time, to review
all zoning regulations, and make re-
commend.tions on amendments, and to
review and act on 11 exceptions
permitted under zoning changes involving
major land use.
Section 5. Said City Planning Commission
shall, subject to the approval of the City Council, ike
such rules and regulations and adopt such by-laws for its
own government, and designate sue timesand pl,ces
for holding regular meetings, as it deems proper,
but said regular meetings shall not exceed one meeting
per month, and three members of the City Planning Com-
mission shall constitute a quorum for transction of
business at any special or regular meeting.
Section 6. All ordinances and parts of ordinances
inconsistent with or contrary hereto are hereby repealed,
but only to the extent that the same are necessarily in
conflict herewith. This ordinance -shall be in effect Il ediate-
1 y upon its passage and approval.
Section 7. If any section, sub -section, sentence,
clause, phrase or portion of this ordinance shall for any
reason be help invalid or unconstitutional by any court of
competent jurisdiction, such section, sub -section, sentence,
clause, phrase or portion shall be deemed separate, distinct
and independett from other provisions hereof, and such holding
shall not affect the validity of the rem -wining portions hereof.
ADOPTED AND APPROVED this loth day of January,1965.
ATTEST:
Secretary
(CITY SEAL)
A PP OV
.T.Webb, Mayor, City of
Kennedale, Texas