That the commissioners of the City of Forest Hills do hereby create and establish a municipal planning commission, the same to be known as the "Municipal Planning Commission of the City of Forest Hills." Such commission shall consist of ten members, three of the said ten members shall be the mayor and the two commissioners of the City of Forest Hills, and, the other seven of said ten members shall be appointed by the mayor of the City of Forest Hills, who shall make his appointment in writing and shall file said written appointment with the city recorder of the City of Forest Hills. The terms of the members of the City of Forest Hills Planning Commission shall be as follows:

(1)

The mayor shall serve during such period of time as he is mayor of the City of Forest Hills.

(2)

The other two commissioners shall serve during their term as commissioner of the City of Forest Hills.

(3)

The seven members to be appointed by the mayor shall serve for a term of four years.

(4)

Any vacancy in any appointed membership shall be filled for the unexpired term by the mayor, who shall also have authority to remove any appointed member, at his pleasure, or accept the resignation of any such appointed member.

(5)

No member of the Municipal Planning Commission of the City of Forest Hills shall receive any compensation for his services as such.

(Ord. #2, May 1957, modified)

The commission shall select its chairman, vice chairman and secretary from among its appointed members. The terms of chairman, vice chairman and secretary shall be one year with eligibility for re-election. The commission shall adopt rules for its transactions, findings and determinations, which record shall be a public record. The commission may appoint such employees and staff as it may deem necessary for its work, but, shall make no expenditure of money and incur no obligation for the payment of money, without specific authorization from the mayor, and/or commissioners of the City of Forest Hills.

(Ord. #2, May 1957)

It shall be the function and duty of the commission to make and adopt an official general plan for the physical development of the municipality. The plan, with the accompanying maps, plats, charts and descriptive and explanatory matter, shall show the commission's recommendations for the said physical development, and may include, amongst other things, a zoning plan for the regulation of the height, area, bulk, location and use of private structures and premises and of population density;

The commission may from time to time amend, extend or add to the plan or carry any part or subject matter into greater detail.

The commission may adopt the plan as a whole by a single resolution, or, as the work of making the whole plan progresses, may from time to time adopt a part or parts thereof, any such part to correspond generally with one or more of the functional subdivisions of the subject matters of the plan. The adoption of the plan or any part, amendment or addition shall be by resolution carried by the affirmative votes of not less than a majority of all the members of the commission. The resolution shall refer expressly to the maps, descriptive matter and other matters intended by the commission to form the whole or part of the plan, and the action taken shall be recorded on the adopted plan or part thereof and descriptive matter by the identifying signature of the secretary of the commission, and a copy of the plan or part thereof shall be certified to the chief legislative body.

In the preparation of the plan, the commission shall make careful and comprehensive surveys and studies of the existing conditions and future growth of the municipality and its environs. The plan shall be made with the general purpose of guiding and accomplishing a coordinated, adjusted and harmonious development of the municipality which will, in accordance with existing and future needs, best promote public health, safety, morals, order, convenience, prosperity and general welfare, as well as efficiency and economy in the process of development.

(Ord. #2, May 1957)