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AN ORDINANCE TO CREATE A CITY PLANNING COMMISSION FOR THE CITY OF JONESBORO PURSUANT TO ACT 108 OF ACTS OF ARKANSAS OF 1929 AND AMENDMENT BY ACT 295 ACTS OF ARKANSAS OF 1937 AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF JONESBORO, THAT:
Section 1. A City Planning Commission of the City of Jonesboro is hereby created consisting of nine members all of whom shall be owners of real estate and residents within the City of Jonesboro and qualified electors therein. No member of the board shall hold any other municipal office or appointment and the board shall elect a chairman and secretary with the usual duties of those offices and in case of vacancy of any of the memberships the City Council by a majority vote shall select a qualified successor and each member shall serve until his successor is appointed and qualified.
Section 2. The member shall serve without compensation but any expense considered proper for payment by the city shall be approved by the chairman and secretary of the Commission and presented as a claim against the city and paid only after approval for payment by the council in the usual manner in which other bills are paid by the city.
Section 3. The following persons, who are found to be qualified are named as the original nine members of said Commission, to-wit:
Elton Patterson
Eric Rogers, Sr.
Neal Thayer
Morris McKinney
Joe Burns
Oscar Melton
Albert Herringer, Jr.
Ralph Sloan
George Greenhaw
The said Planning Commission shall meet and determine by lot three members who shall serve for a period of one year, three other members who shall serve for a period of two years and three other members who shall serve for a period of three years after this date. At the termination of the term of each group of three members, the City Council shall appoint their successors who shall serve for a period of three years so that the terms of the members will be staggered and three new members will be elected each year for a three year term thereafter.
Section 4. The Commission shall report to the City Council from time to time the selection of employees, engineers or other agents it deems advisable to employ and the City Council shall have the right to fix fees, salaries or wages for any and all such employees by resolutions from time to time.
Section 5. The City Planning Commission shall make a comprehensive study of the present conditions and future growth of the municipality and its neighboring territory embracing an area of five miles outside of and adjoining said city and shall have power to plan a coordinated, adjusted and harmonious development of the city and its environs which would promote, in accordance with present and future needs, the safety, morals, order, convenience, prosperity and general welfare of the citizens, efficiency and economy in the process of development, convenience of traffic; safety from fire and other dangers; adequate light and air; healthful and convenient distribution of population; good civic design and arrangement; wise and efficient expenditures of public funds; adequate provisions for public utilities and other public requirements.
Section 6. The plan may include all said matters referred to in the previous section and also include a master street plan and the other provisions set out in Section 3 of Act 108 of the Acts of Arkansas of 1929 and also may include any additional plans or matters set out in Act No. 295 of the Acts of Arkansas of 1937, and may include any plans needful or advisable to reach the objects of the plan in general as set out in the said two acts of the legislature of Arkansas.
Section 7. After the Commission shall have adopted by resolution a master plan for the City of Jonesboro and its environs or of one or more major sections or districts thereof a public hearing shall be held in accordance with the Acts of the Legislature before the same is officially adopted and shall be subject to the hearings as provided in said acts and if and when the same be finally adopted by the City Planning Commission the plan shall be presented to the City Council which may adopt the city plan as a whole, or in part; and it may alter, amend, extend or abridge or abolish the same. Upon adoption of the plan, or any part of it, the same shall be placed on record and filed with all maps, plats, charts and descriptive matter in the office of the City Clerk and a copy thereof filed in the office of the Recorder of Craighead County, Western District, as provided by said acts.
Section 8. All of the notices and hearings provided by said Acts of the Legislature shall be carried out and given as provided by said laws and any amendments thereto.
Section 9. If any part of this ordinance be held unconstitutional or invalid for any reason it shall not affect the remainder of this ordinance.
Section 10. Whereas, it is necessary in order to lessen congestion in the streets, to secure safety from fire, panic and other danger and to provide adequate lights and air; and to prevent over-crowding of land and to conserve the value of buildings and lands and provide for a more efficient plan for the City of Jonesboro and its environs it is declared that this ordinance is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public health, safety and welfare and an emergency is hereby declared to exist and this ordinance shall be in the effect and be in force from and after its passage, adoption and publication.
Passed and adopted that November 6, 1946.