Planning & Zoning Commission

Overview

The Planning and Zoning Commission is created to accomplish the following purposes:

• Act as an advisory board to the City Council with respect to the planning, use, and development of land and related matters as provided by ordinance.
• Recommend a comprehensive plan for land use and the physical development of the City and its extraterritorial jurisdiction.
• Recommend zoning, subdivision and other land use and development ordinances consistent with the Comprehensive Plan.
• Recommend the zoning and rezoning of land, amendments to the zoning map, and the land use and services planning map for the extraterritorial jurisdiction that coincides with the Comprehensive Plan.
• Study and consider approval or disapproval of proposed subdivision plats and plans to ensure conformance with subdivision and development ordinances; provided that the City Council may provide for administrative approval of short-form plats.
• Recommend to the Council changes in the current Comprehensive Plan for the City and its extraterritorial jurisdiction.
• Recommend to the Council any changes deemed necessary in ordinances regulating the zoning and development of the City or its extraterritorial jurisdiction.
• Consider capital improvement plans and programs and annexation plans in connection with the Comprehensive Plan.
• Act as the Airport Zoning Commission under Tex. Local Govt. Code, Ann., section 241.
• Performs any other planning and development-related functions as required by State law or requested by the City Council.