§ 19-36. Duties of the planning and zoning board.

(a)

The duties and responsibilities of the planning and zoning board shall be to hold public meetings and develop a comprehensive city plan meeting the requirements of the state act. Once the plan has been recommended by the agency and adopted by the city council, the planning and zoning board shall also consider amendments of such adopted comprehensive city plan, element or portion thereof, and make specific policy advice on such amendments for the city council's guidance, and shall further consider any amendment to any land development regulation or land development code as said terms are used in the state act, so that the city council may have the benefit of the board's advice on such matters.

(b)

The planning and zoning board shall also appoint a member as representing Plantation on the Broward County Technical Advisory Committee to coordinate technical elements of the comprehensive plans, elements and portions thereof of the various comprehensive plans being created in Broward County.

(c)

The board, as Plantation's local advisory agency under the state act, shall prepare periodic reports on the city plan once adopted or elements thereof at least once every five (5) years after adoption of the plan or elements thereof and make recommendations on any amendments or modifications that should then be made by the city council to the adopted city plan or element thereof as well as submitting the city council such additional reports as the city council may deem appropriate upon the request of the city council for same.

(d)

The city planning and zoning board as the city's local planning agency under the state act shall perform all other functions, duties, and have all other powers and responsibilities as set forth and established in the state act for local planning agencies.

(Code 1964, § 18½-4; Ord. No. 1959, § 2, 9-22-93; Ord. No. 2222, § 1, 5-31-2000)