21.01 PLANNING BOARD

21.02 PLANNING BOARD CONSULTING SERVICES AND BUDGET

21.03 FUNCTION AND DUTIES OF PLANNING BOARD

21.04 RECOMMENDATIONS OF PLANNING BOARD

21.05 VILLAGE COUNCIL REFERRALS

21.01 PLANNING BOARD

(a) Creation. There is hereby created a Planning Board for the Village of Beverly Hills to be known as the Village Planning Board.

(b) The Village Planning Board shall consist of nine (9) members, who shall be qualified electors and freeholders in the Village of Beverly Hills, and who shall represent insofar as is possible, different professions or occupations, and who shall be appointed by the Village Council. The term of each member so appointed shall be for a period of three (3) years from July 1st of the year in which he is appointed, or until his successor takes office, except that in the case of the first Village Planning Board appointed hereunder, the terms of three members shall be for a period of three (3) years each. Vacancies occurring otherwise than through the expiration term, shall be filled for the balance of the unexpired term by the Village Council. All members of the Village Planning Board shall serve without compensation.

The Village President, Village Manager and one or more members of the Village Council may be appointed as ex officio members of the Planning Board, provided that not more than one-third of the Planning Board members may be ex officio members. The term of the Village Manager shall expire with the term of the Village President who appointed him or her as Village Manager. {Ord. 331, 7-1-09}

(c) Members of the Village Planning Board may, after written notice and a public hearing, be removed for misfeasance, malfeasance, or nonfeasance in office by the Village Council. {Ord. 331, 7-1-09}

(d) Elections, Meetings and Rules. The Village Planning Board shall, from its appointed members, elect a chairman, vice-chairman and secretary. The Village Clerk, or his or her duly authorized deputy, shall assist the Village Planning Board and shall keep a record of all its proceedings. The Board shall hold at least one regular public meeting quarterly, shall adopt rules for the transaction of its business, and shall keep a full and complete record of its resolutions, transactions, findings and determinations, which record shall be available to the Village Council upon request.

21.02 PLANNING BOARD CONSULTING SERVICES AND BUDGET

The Village Planning Board may call upon the Village Council for such services and data by the various departments as it may require. The Village Planning Board may recommend to the Village Council the securing of such professional and consulting services as it may require; provided, however, that no expenditures of funds shall be made, or contracts entered into for providing such professional or consulting services, unless the same shall first be approved and authorized by the Village Council. No later than the first day of April in each year, the Village Planning Board shall prepare and submit to the Village Council a tentative outline of its program for the ensuing Village fiscal year, together with its budget for such ensuing year, which outline and budget shall serve as a guide in the appropriation of monies by the Village Council; provided, that nothing contained herein shall be interpreted to require the Village Council to appropriate the sum or amount requested for such budget. No funds shall be expended in connection with the Village Planning Board in excess of amounts appropriated for that purpose by the Village Council.

21.03 FUNCTION AND DUTIES OF PLANNING BOARD

(a) It shall be the function and duty of the Village Planning Board to advise the Village Council in regard to the proper development of the Village of Beverly Hills, and to make suggestions for the development of any areas outside its boundary which, in the Board's judgment, bear relation to the planning of the Village. In this regard, the Village Planning Board is authorized to advise with and to cooperate with the planning and legislative bodies of other governmental units in any area outside the boundaries of the Village of Beverly Hills.

(b) The Village Planning Board is authorized to prepare a recommendation for the physical development of the municipality, either in its entirety, or in part. Such recommendations, together with accompanying maps, plats, charts and descriptive matter shall indicate the Village Planning Boards's suggestions for the development of such territory.

(c) The Village Planning Board is authorized to recommend for the guidance of the Village Council, a Zoning Ordinance for the control of the height, area, bulk, location and use of buildings and premises. The Village Planning Board may, from time to time, amend, extend or add to such recommendations, and the same shall be made with the general purpose of guiding and accomplishing a coordinated, adjusted and harmonious development of the Village and its environs.

(d) The Village Planning Board may hold public meetings and/or hearings, from time to time, as it may deem advisable or necessary in connection with the proper performance of its functions hereunder. At least one joint meeting of the Village Council and Village Planning Board shall be held annually at a time to be designated by the Village President, and it shall be the duty of the Village President to call such meeting or meetings in accordance with the provisions hereof.

21.04 RECOMMENDATIONS OF PLANNING BOARD

When any recommendation, or part thereof, has been approved by the Village Planning Board, the same shall be referred to the Village Council.

21.05 VILLAGE COUNCIL REFERRALS

In addition to the functions hereinbefore set forth, it shall be the function of the Village Planning Board to pass upon all matters referred to it by the Village Council and to give the Village Council the benefit of its judgment with relation to such matters so referred. Matters so referred may include, but not be restricted to, requests for change of zoning, request for closing, opening or altering streets or alleys, requests for issuing building permits, and any other matters which bear relation to the physical development or growth of the Village.