Ord 1914 6/13/1960ORDINANCE NO. 1914
AN ORDINANCE CREATING A PLANNING BOARD FOR THE CITY OF WICHITA
FALLS, PROVIDING FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF ITS MEMBERS; SETTING OUT
THEIR POWERS AND DUTIES; PRESCRIBING THE NUMBER AND QUALIFICATIONS
OF ITS MEMBERS AND THEIR TERM OF OFFICE; MAKING DEPARTMENT HEADS
AND OFFICIALS OF THE CITY AVAILABLE TO THE PLANNING BOARD; PRE-
SCRIBING THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE PLANNING BOARD; PRESCRIBING
THE JURISDICTION OF THE PLANNING BOARD AND ADOPTING ARTICLE 974a,
REVISED CIVIL STATUTES OF TEXAS, AUTHORIZING CITIES TO REGULATE THE
PLATTING OF SUB - DIVISIONS WITHIN THE CITY AND WITHIN FIVE (5) MILES
OF THE CITY LIMITS; REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 1684 AND DECLARING AN
EMERGENCY.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN OF THE
CITY OF WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS:
SECTION I.
There is hereby created a Planning Board for the City of Wichita
Falls composed of fifteen (15) members, each of whom shall be a resi-
dent tax- paying citizen of the City of Wichita Falls, and who shall
serve without pay.
SECTION II.
The Mayor shall appoint the members of said Board, and each
person so appointed must be approved by the Board of Aldermen of the
City of Wichita Falls before becoming a member thereof. The terms
of said members shall be for a period of three (3) years; however,
the initial terms shall be staggered so that one -third (113) of said
Board shall be appointed each year. The Mayor with the approval of
the Board of Aldermen shall nominate one of said members as chairman
and one of said members as vice - chairman of said Board. The terms of
office of the members of said Board shall commence upon the approval
of said appointment by the Board of Aldermen and shall terminate
whenever the members replacement has been appointed and approved by
the Board of Aldermen. All vacancies shall be filled by appointment
of the Mayor with the consent and approval of the Board of Aldermen
and shall be for the remainder of the term of the vacating member.
Any member of the Planning Board may be removed from his office at
any time by a five - seventh (5/7) majority vote of the Board of Alder-
men and no reason need be given for such removal.
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SECTION III.
Statutes of the State of Texas authorizing and empowering
cities to regulate the platting and recording of subdivisions or
additions situated within the corporate limits, or within five
(5) miles of such city, the same being Article 974a of the Revised
Civil Statutes of Texas, as amended, are hereby adopted for and on
behalf of the City of Wichita Falls, and the City of Wichita Falls,
acting through its duly authorized officials shall have all the
rights, powers, privileges and authority authorized and granted by
and through said statutes.
SECTION IV.
All department heads and officials of the City shall be available
to the Board for adivice and consultation, and they shall co- operate
with and render such services for the Board as shall come within the
scope of the duties of such department heads and officials. All such
department heads and officials shall attend meetings of the Plann-
ing Board upon the written request of the Planning Board or its
duly authorized official or officials.
SECTION V.
For the purpose of transacting any business five (5) members
of the Planning Board shall constitute a quorum, and all actions of
the Planning Board shall be approved by a vote of the majority of
the members present, but in no case shall less than five (5) affir-
mative votes be effective to carry any action of the Planning Board.
SECTION VI.
The Planning Board shall have the power and it shall be its
duty:
(a) To make studies and project plans for the improvement of the
City, with a view for future development and extension and to recD-
mmend to the Board of Aldermen all matters for the development and
advancement of the City's facilities and, particularly shall pass
upon the application for plats requested under Article 974a of the
Revised Civil Statutes of Texas.
(b) To make plans and maps of the whole or any part or ortion of
the City and of land outside the City located within five (5 miles
of the City limits and any other land outside the City which, in the
opinion of the Planning Board, bears a relation to the planning of
the City and to make changes in, additions to, and extensions of such
plans or maps when it deems the same advisable.
(c) To confer with and advise private property owners pertain-
ing to location and erection of private structures with the view of
having same conform to the over -all city plan and to advise with the
building inspectors and Department of Public Works in the perfor-
mance of their duties.
(d) To aid and assist the Board of Aldermen in the preparation
of budgets and determination of sources of funds and in the procur-
ing of financial and other assistance for the City from the State
and Federal Governments and their agencies, for each and all of the
purposes herein enumerated.
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(e) To act with and assist all other municipal and governmental
agencies, and particularly the Board of Aldermen of the City of Wichita
Falls, in formulating and executing proper plans of municipal develop-
ment and growth.
(f) To plan and recommend the location, plan and extent of city
alleyways, viaducts, bridges, subways, parkways, airports, automobile
parking places and other public grounds and public improvements; for
the location of public buildings, schools, and other public properties,
and of public utilities, including bus terminals, railroads, railroad
depots, and terminals, whether publicly or privately owned, for water,
lights, sanitation, sewerage, sewage disposal, drainage, flood con-
trol, transportation, communication, marketing and shipping facilities,
power and other purposes, and for the removal, relocation, widening,
extension, narrowing vacation, abandonment or change of use of any
of the foregoing public places, facilities or utilities.
(g) To select and recommend to the Board of Aldermen, routes of
streets, avenues and boulevards, fmcluding the opening, widening and
abandoning of the same, or of any alley, or the changing thereof to
conform with the city's system, present and future, with reference
to traffic.
(h) To investigate, consider, and report to the Board of Aldermen
upon the lay -out or platting of any new subdivision of the City or of
property situated within five (5) miles of the City limits, and to
recommend the approval of all plans, plats, or re -plats of additions
within the City limits or within five (5) miles of the same, or of the
rejection of either.
(i) To suggest to the Board of Aldermen of the City plans for
clearin the City of slums and blighted areas.
(jJ To make any recommendation that seems expedient with reference
to future zoning plans or laws, and with reference to the use of the
present zoning of the City.
(k) In all of its deliberations the Board shall take into consider-
ation the advice or recommendations of the Park Board of the City of
Wichita Falls, as the same has been created by Ordinance No. 1512.
(1) The Board shall from time to time recommend to the Board of
Aldermen the passage of such ordinances as may be necessary to carry-
ing out its program.
SECTION VII.
Ordinance No. 1684 and any other ordinances in conflict herewith
are hereby expressly repealed.
SECTION VIII.
Due to the fact that this ordinance repeals Ordinance No. 1684
which created a Planning Board and unless this ordinance is effective
immediately there would be no Planning Board in existence for a period
of thirty (30) days after the passage of this ordinance creates an ur-
gent public need for the preservation of the peace, health and safety
of the property of the City of Wichita Falls, and an emergency is
hereby declarad so that upon the passage of this ordinance the same
will become effective immediately, and it is so ordained.
PASSED and APPROVED, This ,! day of June, A. D. 1960.
ATTEST:
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PREPARED BY:
Frank son, City Attorney
Kenneth Johnson,' Mayor
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THE STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF CLAY I, C. E. MORTON, Clerk of the County Court of Clay County d
i�ereby certify that the foregoing instrument with its certificates of authentication was duly record
et on the _ day of
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Record in said County in Vol. , Page —`
Witness my hand and seal of the County Court of said County, at my office in Henrietta,
exas, the day and year last written.
'L/ C. E. MORTON,
Deputy Clerk of County Court, Clay County, Texas