HomeMy WebLinkAbout1231 ',~ ,i ORDINANCE N0. 1231
ORDINANCE creating a planning commission for the City of Bremerton,
Washington; relating to the organization of such planning commission; and pre-
scribing and regulating the duties and powers of such commission. ~ ~g
BE IT ORDAINED BY ~E CITY COL~.?ISSION 0F ~E CITY 0F BR~RTON:
Sea,ion 1. As used in ~his ordinsn~o ~ho lorm: "Council" means Lhe ohie~
leglslativ~ body of the City of ~r~m~rton, consisting of the l~ayor, the Commiss-
ioner of Public Works, and the Commissioner of Finance.
"Mayor" means the chief executive of the City of Bremerton.
"Co~ission" means the planning co~ission of the City of Bremerton.
"Highways" includes streets, roads, boulevards, lanes, alleys, viaducts, and
other traveled ways.
"Ex-Officio ~fembers" means the members of the planning commission chosen
from ~ong the city officials of the City of Bremerton.
"Appointive members" means all the other members of the planning co~nission.
Section ~. There is hereby created in the City of Bremerton a planning
co~ission consisting of twelve (l~) members, to be appointed by the mayor and
confirmed by the council. Sight (8) of the members of said planning co~ission
shall be appointive members and four (~} of the members of said planning co~-
ission shall be ex-officio members by virtue of office held in the City of
Bremerton. The term of office for ex-officio members shall correspond to their
respective tenures. The term of office for the first appointive members appointed
to said planning co~ission shall be designated ~rom one to six years, so that the
terms of three appointive members shall expire at the end of two years, three at
the end of six years. Thereafter, the term of office for each appointive member
shall be six years. Vacancies occurring otherwise than through the expiration of
terms shall be filled for the unexpired term. Members may be removed, after
public hearing, by the mayor, with the approval of his council, for inefficiency,
neglect of duties or malfeasance in office. The members shall be selected with-
out respect to political affiliations, and they shall serve without compensation.
Section $. The co~ission shall elect its o~ chairman and create and fill
such other offices as it may determine it requires. The co~nission shall hold
at least one regular meeting in each month for not less than nine months in each
year. It shall adopt rules for transaction of business and shall keep a ~itten
record of its meetings, resolutions, transactions, findin~and determinations,
which record shall be a public record.
Section ~. The expendit~es of the co~nission authorized and established
under this ordinance, exclusive of gifts, shall be within the amounts appropriated
for the purpose by the council. '~ithin such limits, the co,lesion is authorized
to employ such employees and expert consultants as are deemed necessary for its
work.
Section ~. The council of the City of ~remerton is hereby authorized and
empowered to provide for the preparation by ~ts co~nission and the adoption and
enforcement of coordinated plans for the physical development of sa~d city'. ~for
this purpcse such council in suc~ measure as is deemed reasonably necessary
requisite in the interest of health, safety, morals, and the general welfare,
upon reconmiendation by its commission, by general ordinances of the City, may
regulate and restrict the location and the use of buildings, structures and
land for residence, trade, industrial and other purposes; the height, n~nber of
stories, size, construction, ~d design of buildings and other structure~, the
size of yards, co~ts and other o!.eh spaces on the lot or tract; the density of
population; the set back of buildings along highways, t. arks or of buildings
along highways, parks or public water frontages; and the subdivision and
development of land.
Section 6. For any or all of such purposes the core, oil, on re~endation
of the co~isston, may d&vide the City or any portion thereof into districts of
such size, shape and area, or may establish such official map or maps, or
development plans for the whole or any portion of the area of said City as may
be deemed best suited to carry out the purposes' of this ordinance and within such
districts it may regulate ~d restrict the erection, construction, reconstruction,
alteration, repair, or use of buildings, struc't~es or land.
Section 7. All such regulations shall be worked out as parts of a compre-
hensive plan which the commission shall prepare for the t~hysical and other
generally advantageous develppment of said City, and shall be designed among
Ordinance 1231 con.
other things, to encourage the most appropriate use of land throughout the
City: to lessen traffic congestion and accidents; to secure safety from
fire; to provide adequate ligt~t and air; to prevent overcrowding of land;
to avoid undue concentration of population; to promote a coordinated develop-
ment of the unbuilt areas; to encourage the forn'lation of neighborhood or
conmmnity units; to secure an appropriate allotment of land area in new
developments for all the requirements of con~mnity life; to conserve and
restore natural beauty ........................ ~ ~*-~'~ ~'.~-~-~-~.~-~, and other natural resources;
to facilitate the adequate provision of transportation, water, sewerage, and
other public uses and requirements.
Section 8. The commission may recommend to its council the pla. n. so t~re-
pared as a whole or may recommend parts off the plan by successive recommenda-
tions, sai~ parts corresponding with geographic or politi~al sections, divisions
or subdivision of the City or with functional subdivisions of the subject
matter of the plan; and may prec'.are and reco~.m~end any amendment or extension
thereof or addition thereto. Before the r~cor~:,endation of the initial plan to
the City, the co~m~ission shall hold at least one public hearing thereon, givin~
notice of the time and place by one publication in a newspaper cf general
circulation in the City and in the official gazette, if any, of the City. ~
copy of the ordinance or resolution adopting or embodying such plan or any part
thereof or any amendment thereto duly certified as a true copy by the clerk of
said City, shall be filed with the county auditor. A like certified copy of
any map or plat referred to or adopted by the ordinance or resolution shall
likewise be filed with the county auditor. The auditor shall record the ord-
inance or resolution and keep on file the map or plat.
Section 9. Any ordinance or ordinances, resolution or resolutions, adopt-
ing any such plan or regulations, or any part thereof, may be amended, supple-
m.ented, changed or modified by subsequent ordinance or resolution adopted by
the council upon recommendation of or with the concurrence of the corr~aission.
Section 10.. The commission is authorized and empowered to act as the
research and fact finding agency of said City. To that end it may make such
surveys, analyses, researches, and reports as are generally authorized or
requested by its council, or by the state council with the approval of its
council. The commission, upon such request or authority, is Further empowered
and authorized:
(1) To make inquiries, investigations and surveys concerning the resources
of the county;
(2) To assemble and analyze the data thus obtained and to formulate plans
for the conservation of such resources and the systematic utilization and
development thereof;
(3) To make recomm~endations from time to time as to the best methods of
such conservation, utilization and development;
(4) To cooperate with other commissions, with the state council and with
other public agencies of the city, state, and United States in such planning,
conservation and development; and
(5) In particular to cooperate with and aid the state council within its
territorial limits in the preparation of the state master plan provided for in
section 3, chapter 54 of the Special Session laws of 1933, and in advance
planning of public works programs.
PASSED by the City Commission, signed by the ~Jayor and attested by the
City Clerk this 23rd day of July, 1938.
Acting Mayor
Attest:
v,, tl,~ ci~ o~ Oreme6on, Washi~toa us
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