3083 Creating City Planning Commission0. RD 3083.
(Published in the Book of Revised Ordinances 1925)__
rn Ordinance creating 2. City Planning Commission for the City of Salina
providing for the appointment of the members of and defining the
duties of such Commission, providing for the approval of such
Commission of all plats or replats of lands or additions in or
adJoi.r.ir.g; the City of Salina: and repealing; all ordinances or
parts of ordinances in conflict herewith.
BE IT ORDF.INED by the Board of Conirnissioners of the City of Salina,
Kansas:
CITY PLANNING COMNIISSION CRFJ.TED. SEC. 1. That there be and there
is hereby created a Commission to be known as the City Planning Commi-
ssion of the City of Salina.
DIC;YBERS OF CGRhISSION. APPOINTMENT. SEC. 2. The City Planning Com-
mission shall consist of 7 members, all. of whom shall. be tax payers and
residents of the City of Salina and shall be appointed by the klayor and
with the consent of the Board of Commissioners. That said members shall
serve for terms of 3 years from the lst day of May of the year in which
they are appointed and that not more than 2 of such. members shall be
appointed in any 1 ,year, provided however that vacancies caused by the
death, resin,)ation'or tother disability of any member shall be filled
for the unexpired term only. 'gnat the members of such commission shall
serve without compensation and shall perform the duties and have the
powers hereinafter provided for: and provided further that the members
of the City Planning Commission now holding, office as such shall. con-
tinue to hold such offices as members of the Commission hereby created
until the expiration of the t -cans for which they were heretofore app-
ointed.
ORGIdJZATION OF CONWISSION. SEC. 3. The members of the City Plan-
ning Commission shall meet at least once a month at such time and place
as they may fix by resolution. They shall select one of their number
as Chairman and 1 as vice chairman, who shall serve 1 year, or until.
their successor has been selected. Special meetings may be called at
any time by the Chairman or in his absence by the Vice -Chairman. A ma-
,ority of the Commission shall constitute a forum for the transaction
of business. The Commission shall cause a proper record to be kept of
its proceedings.
DUTIES OF CONMISSION. SEC. 4. The powers and duties of the Comm-
ission shall be to make plans and maps of the whole or any portion of
the City of Salina and of any land outside of the City which, in the
opinion of the Commission bears relation to the Planning of the City
of Salina and to make changes in such plans or maps when it deems the
san=e advisable/Such maps or plans shall show the Commission's reconm-
endations fox, new streets, alleys, ways, viaducts, bridges, sub -ways,
park -ways, parks, playgrounds or any other public g=round or public im-
movement and the removal, relocation, widening or extension of such
works then existing with a view to the systematic planning of the municipal-
ity, and the Commission shall make recommendations to the Lcard. of Commiss-
ioners of the City of Salina concerning the location of streets, transporta-
tion and communication facilities, public'buildings and grounds and other ciA
is improvements and matters affecting the appearance of the City; and shall
make such recommendations as the': deem prorerty relative to any matters con-
cerning the location of buildings or other matters which may be referred to
them b,,= the Board of Comn;issioners. whenever the Commission shall have made
and agreed upon a plan for the development of the municipai-ity or any por-
tion thereof, such plan or plans shall be. submitted to the Board of Commiss-
ioners for their consideration and action.
PLATS END ADDITIONS SUBMI`1'TED TO C0STISSION. SFC. 5. All maps, plats,
or re -plats of land laid out in building lots and the streets, alleys or othe
portions of the same, intended to be dedicated to public use, or for the use
of purchasers or owners of lots fronting thereon or adjacent " there to and lo-
cated within the City Limits of the City of Salina or any addition adjoining
and connecting with such City shall be submitted to theCity Planning Commis:
ion for their consideration and their recommendations, and shall then be sub.
raitted to the Board of Corrmrissioners of the City of Salina for the official
consideration e.nd action of such Board. No such plat or re -plat shall be
filed with the Register of Deeds, protrided by law, until such plat or re -plat
shall have the endorsement upon it of the fact that it has been first sub-
mitted to the City Planning Commission and by the City PlanninE, Commission
to the Governing Board or Body of such City, and by such Governing Body duly
approved, in accordance with the requirements of Section of the Revised
Statutes of Kansas 1923.
PLATS APPROVED BY BOARD OF COMfnjjSlc'�IONERS. P'TLED IFITF REGISTER OF DEEDS.
SEC. 6. Any person or corporation desiring to subdivide any tract of land
within or touching t'ne boundary line of the City shall plat the same so as tc
conform to plats, streets and alleys of said City next adjoining said land
and shall submit the plat thereof, together with an abstract of title to the
Governing Body of said City for approval before filing said plat in the offic
of the Register of Deeds. No reservation shall be made in the dedication of
the streets, alleys or public grounds by said grantor in any of such streets,
alleys or public grounds for any purpose -whatsoever. When any such plat
is filed with the Board of Commissioners of the City of oalina for approval
the same shall be referred to the City Planning Commission for their recomm-
endation as provided by the preceding Section of this ordinance. No plat or
any land of which the streets and alleys do not conform to the streets and
alleys next adjoining shall be legal unless the same be submitted to the
Board of Commissioners of the City of Salina and by such Board of Comm-
issioners approved, or if any reservation is made by the grantor in .
any street, alley or public ground contained in any such plat.
CITY OPM! STREETS. PLFTS ILLEGAL. SEC. 7. Whenever any plat is
filed, the streets or alleys of which do not conform to the streets and
alleys of the City of Salina previous17r platted and next adjoining,; such
plat, the City of Salina shall have the right, if such plat was not
duly approved by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Salina, to
open any street or alley through such land, which main conform to the
streets or alleys adjoining/such plat and in opening any such street
such plat shall be regarded as not having been filed, and the owners
of the property through which such streets or alleys are opened or
of any other property affected by such opening, shall have recourse
for such damages as they may sustain against the grantor or grantors
in said plat in accordance with the provisions of Section 13-113 of
the Hevised Statutes of Kansas, 1923.
CONFLICTING ORDINANCES REPErLED. SFC. S. That all ordinances or
parts of ordinances in conflict with the provisions of this ordinance
be and the same are hereby repealed.
TAKE EFFECT. SEC. 9. This ordinance shall take effect andbe in
force from and after its. Publication once in the book of xevised Ord -
finances of the City of Salina.
Introduced for first reading, February 16th, 1925.
'Passed and approved, March 2nd, 1925.
SEAL) J. S. HI:RGETT, Nlayor
Attost:
CHi�8. E. 9LNKER, City Clerk
STATE OF UNSAS )
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COUNTY OF SLLINE)
I, Chas. E. Banker, City Clerk of the City of Salina, Kansas do
hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true and correct copy
of Ordinance No. 30811 passed and apl,roved by the Board of Commission-
ers of the City- of Salina, Kansas, MF-rch 2nd, 1925, and a record of
the vote on its final adoption is found on page C�2 � of Journal No. 11.
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City Cier