Ord 1684 3/22/1954 e • ,
ORDINANCE NO. / 6 (`"J1 1-1---
AN ORDINANCE CREATING A PLANNING BOARD FOR THE CITY OF WICHITA FALLS; PROVIDING
OR THE APPOINTMENT OF ITS MEMBERS; SETTBiIG OUT THEIR PL ERS AND DUTIES; PRE-
SCRIBING THE NUMBER AND QUALIFICATIONS OF ITS i;1EMUERS AND TTEEIR T ll OF OFFICE
MAKING DEPARTMENT HEADS AND OFFICIALS OF THE CITY AVAILABLE 'IC THE PLANNING
I %ARD; PRESCRIBING THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE PLANNING BIARi); PRESC RI RING
THE JURISDICTION OF THE PLANNING BOARD AND ADOPTING ARTICLE 974a, REVISED
CIVIL STATUTES OF TEXAS, AUTHORIZING CITIES TO REGUTATE THE PLATTING OF SUB-
DIVISIONS WITHIN THE CITY AND WITHIN FIVE (5) MILES OF THE CITY LIMITS.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE ICARD OF ADMEN OF THE CITY OF WICHITA FALLS, T.EXIL:
SECTICN 1. There is hereby created a Planning Board for the City of
Wichita Falls, composed of not less than 5, nor more than 7 members, each of
whom shall be a resident tax-paying citizen of the City of Wichita Falls, and
who shall serve without pay.
SECTION 2. The Mayor shall appoint the members of the Board and eat ,e
person so appointed must be approved by the Board of Aldermen before becoming /
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member thereof. As soon as practicable after final passage of this Ordinance
the Mayor, with the approval of the Board of Aldermen, shall appoint not less a s1, ''. . \
than 5 nor more than 7 persons who shall serve on such Board for a period of
three years and as long thereafter as the Mayor shall fail to appoint a new A-
member thereof. At the option of the Mayor of said City and with the approval ._ °""''
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of the Board of Aldermen, such terms may be staggered for 1, 2, and 3 years so
that not more than two persons shall be appointed any one 1'.
p pP y year to replace in-
dividuals appointed and acting as members of such Board. Terms of office of � ' `
members of such Board shall begin immediately and shall end on the first day of`�
January next, in accordance with their appointment. All vacancies on the Boar .;• :_ '
shall be filled by appointment of the Mayor, with the consent and approval of , r'.
the Board of Aldermen, and shall be for the remainder of the term of the vacat-'
ing member. Any member of the Planning Board may be removed from his office at
any time by a 5/7 majority vote of the Board of Aldermen, without any reason
being given therefor.
SECTION 3. 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,
`re 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 4. All department heads and officials of the City shall be
available to the Board for advice 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 Planning Board upon the written
request of the Planning Board or its duly authorized official or officials.
SECTION 5. The Planning Board shall elect one of its members as
Chairman and one as Vice-Chairman, and shall elect one of its members as Secre-
tary who shall keep minutes of the proceedings of such Board and shall take care
of all the correspondence or communications necessary to the conduct of the Board.
The Chairman or Vice-Chairman shall preside at all meetings of the Planning Board
and all communications to the Board shall be addressed in his care. As soon as
practicable after appointment of such Board under this Ordinance, the Board shall
hold its first meeting and shall appoint the Chairman, Vice-Chairman, and Secre-
tary. Thereafter, the Board shall conduct meetings as in its opinion may be
necessary, but not less than once every sixty (60) days.
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SECTION 6. 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 recommend to the
Board of Aldermen all matters for the development and advancement of the Cityts
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 portion 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 pertaining
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 performance 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 procuring 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.
(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 development and growth. fl
(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
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publicly or privately owned, for water, lights, sanitation, sewerage, sewage
disposal, drainage, flood control, 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, including the opening, widening and abandoning
of the same, or of any alley, or the changing thereof to conform with the cityts
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 clearing
the City of slums and blighted areas.
(j) 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 considera-
tion 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 Alder-
men the passage of such ordinances as may be necessary to carrying out its program.
PASSED AND APPROVED THIS Zv day of _ _ .1. D. 1954.
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