Planning & Zoning Commission

The Planning & Zoning Commission is statutorily required. Commonly known as "P&Z," the Planning & Zoning Commission works to ensure the community carefully plans the City's land use for potential development. It is an important step for both the City and developer to have an effective and efficient Commission.

All plans, plats or re-plats of subdivisions or resubivisions of land embraced in said Municipality or adjacent thereto, laid out in lots or plats with the streets, alleys or other portions of the same intended to be dedicated to the public in such Municipality, shall first be submitted to the City Planning and Zoning Commission and its recommendations obtained before approval by the City Council.

No plan for a street, park, parkway, boulevard, trafficway, river front, or other public improvement affecting the City Plan, shall be finally approved by the Municipality or the character or location thereof determined, unless such proposal shall first have been submitted to the Commission and the latter shall have had thirty (30) days within which to file its recommendations thereon.

The Council may then act on the recommendation of the Planning & Zoning Commission.

• 7 member commission
• 5 year terms
• Council appointment