A DRAC shall be established for each Hometown Overlay District. The Department shall be the professional staff for each Committee.

A.

Purposes and duties of each Committee shall be:

1.

The Committee shall review plans for land development applications for compliance with the Community Redevelopment Plan and/or Design Guidelines manual and make recommendations to the Department.

2.

The Committee shall review the community standards and make recommendations for revisions and updates to the Community Redevelopment Plan and/or Design Guidelines manual.

3.

Any other purpose provided in Division 40.26.400.

B.

The Committee shall adopt bylaws and rules in accordance with Article 30. Each Committee shall comply with the following:

1.

All public meetings shall be open to the public.

2.

A majority of the Committees' members shall constitute a quorum necessary to take action and transact business. All actions shall require a simple majority of the quorum.

3.

In the event that any member is no longer a resident of the County; is convicted of a felony or an offense involving moral turpitude; violates rules of the board; fails to attend any three (3) consecutive, regularly scheduled meetings except where such absence is deemed by the chairman to be due to illness, incapacity, or a family crises; or, has three (3) unexcused absences in one (1) year, that member shall forfeit his/her membership on such committee. "Regularly scheduled meeting" shall mean a meeting at which a committee member is expected to be present. The chairman of each committee shall forward a letter to the County Executive stating that a vacancy exists on the board and the name of the member who held the forfeited position. The County Executive shall terminate the appointment of such person with the consent of the County Council.

C.

Members. The District Council person(s), in whose councilmanic district a Hometown Overlay is found, shall make recommendations to the County Executive who shall appoint members subject to County Council consent. The County Executive shall appoint members subject to the following guidelines:

1.

The minimum number of members shall be five (5) and the maximum number shall be nine (9). The chairperson shall be appointed and serve at the pleasure of the County Executive. The Vice-chairperson is appointed by the Chairperson. The Chairperson shall be in charge of all proceedings, and take such action as necessary to preserve order and integrity of all proceedings.

2.

Each committee shall, with the exception of the chairperson, be comprised equally of business and homeowner/residential interests.

3.

The committee shall be comprised of residents or property owners of the area affected by the overlay district and the surrounding area identified in the Community Redevelopment Plan, except that one (1) registered landscape architect and one (1) registered architect who resides outside of the community may be appointed to the committee.

4.

Each committee member shall be appointed for a term of three (3) years. Initial appointments shall be staggered as one (1), two (2) and three (3) year appointments, with each subsequent appointment to be three (3) years. An individual may serve until replaced and may be reappointed any number of times.

(Ord. No. 03-107, § 1(Exh. A), 3-23-2004; Ord. No. 08-032, § 3, 7-8-2008; Ord. No. 10-113, § 1(Exh. A), 1-18-2011)