CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY GIFT OF Urban America, Inc. FINE ARTS [Charter Provisions for the City Plan Commission Effective March 1st, 1919 Cornell University Library NAC 713 .D48A25 1920 Charter provisions for the City Plan Com 3 1924 024 445 151 Commission EAMUND T. PATERSON PRESIDENT EDWARD A. SCHILLING VICE-PRESIDENT T. GLENN PHILLIPS CONSULTANT AND SECY. WALTER E. CAMPBELL DR. J, H. CARSTEN6 WARD A. DETWILER JAMES 8. HOLDEN CHAS. H. MAHONEY EDWARD M. WALKER JAMES T. WHITEHEAD J)ETROIT Re-Fublished bylbe City Plan Commission Mayft920 CHAPTER X City Flan Commission Commission Established: Section 1. There shall be a City Plan Commission, which shall consist of nine members. Appointments; Qualifications: Sec. 2. The members of the commission shall be appointed by the mayor, and shall include an architect, a civU engineer, a structural engineer, a real estate dealer, a builder, an attorney and a physician. No person shall be eli- gible to appointment who is not a citizen of the United States and a resident of the city. Term of Office; Compensation: Sec. 3. Three members of the first commission existing hereunder shaU be appointed, subject to removal from oflSce as herein provided, for a term of one year, three for a term of two years, and three for a term of three years, and annually thereafter three members shall be appointed for a term of three years. The term of office in each instance shall begin on the first day of March. Mem- bers shall serve without compensation. Removals from Office; Vacancies: Sec. 4. Members of the commission shall be subject to removal from office by the mayor without cause assigned. Any vacancy in office shall be filled by the mayor for the remainder of the unexpired term. Appointments to fill vacancies shall be made as herein provided for appointments in the first instance. Officers and Employes: Sec. 6. The members of the commission shall select a president and vice- president. The commission shall choose a secretary, and, in accordance with the provisions of this charter relative to the civil service, such other assistants as may be necessary. The commission shall prescribe the duties of the sec- retary and other assistants, and, subject to the approval of the common coun- cil, fix their compensation. The commission may from time to time employ engineers and other experts and pay for their services out of such funds as shall have been appropriated in the budget for the purposes of the commission or shall be made available by special appropriation. Meetings; Records; Quorum: Sec. 6. The commission shall hold meetings regularly, at least once in each week, and shall designate the time and place thereof. It shall adopt its own rules of procedure and keep a record of its proceedings. Proper accounts of its receipts and disbursement of money shall be kept. All meetings, records and accounts of the commission shall be public. Five members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. General Powers and Duties: Sec. 7. The general powers and duties of the commission, which shall be exercised and performed as herein provided, and in accordance with the general ordinances of the city, shall be as follows: (a) The commission shall procure information and make recommenda- tions to iSie mayor and the common council as to all facts bearing upon the needs of the city with regard to recreation grounds, the development and im- JjrovetAeitt of parks and boulevards, the improvement of river fronts, the extension or opening, of streets and avenues, or other public ways or places and city plans and improvements generally; (b) Shall receive and report on suggestions offered by citizens or officials within the scope of its powers and when it deems such suggestions practicable to report them to the mayor and the "common council with its recommenda- tions; (c) Shall provide plans for all original landscape work to be done by the city in parks and boulevards hereafter acquired. Shall provide plans for all landscape work to be done, by the city of Detroit; (d) Shall formulate a plan to regulate and restrict the location of trades and industries and the location of buildings designed for specific uses, to reg- ulate and limit the height and bulk of buildings hereafter erected, and for such purposes to divide the city into zones in such number, shape and area as may seem best suited to carry out a definite plan for the betterment of the city, and upon its approval and adoption by the common council, shall have the power and authority to enforce its provisions; (e) Shall pass upon all questions involving the custody, possession, removal or alteration in any way of any work of art belonging to the city, except such as are under the superTOion and control of the art commission, and no action with reference to such works of art under the jurisdiction of the city plan commission, which shall include monuments, and other memorials, foun- tains, statuary and the like, shall be taken by any officer or department, unless approved by the commission; (f) Shall have power to determine whether property shall be acquired for park and boulevard and recreation purposes, or condemned for the enlarg- ing of any park or the widening or extension of any boulevard and no property shall be so acquired or condemned without the approval of the commission;, and shall have power to pass upon the acceptance of all plats of land within and for a distance of three miles beyond the limits of the city. (g) Shall be authorized to approve any sketch or plan of any gift to the city in the form of a monument-or memorial, and the proposed location thereof, and no gift shall be accepted unless the plan or sketch and the location of such monument shall have been so approved; (h) Shall, when requested by the mayor and the common council, or either of them, or by any other commission or department, act in an advisory capacity in respect to plans for and the location of public buildings, bridges, approaches, or other structures erected or to be erected by the city; (i) Shall have power to call on any other department for assistance in the performance of its duties hereunder and it shall be the duty of such other department to render such assistance as may be reasonably required, all ques- tions as to what shall constitute a reasonable requirement to be determined by the common council; (j) Shall provide, through the purchasing department of the city, all necessary materials and supplies for the use of the department; (k) Make, with the approval of the common council, contracts to carry out the objects and purposes of the commission as herein provided; and (1) Shall have such other powers as are herein prescribed or may be necessary hereunder for the proper discharge of its duties. Limitation of Time for Approval: Sec, 8. If the commission shall fail to decide upon any matter submitted to it within ninety days after such submission, its decision or approval shall be deemed unnecessary. Annual Estimate: Sec. 9. On or before the fifteenth of January of each year, the commis- sion shall transmit in duplicate to the city controller its estimate of the amount of money required for its purposes for the ensuing fiscal year. Annual Report: Sec. 10. The commission shall, on or before the fifteenth of January of each year, make a written report to the common council of. the work of the commission during the preceding year. The report shall be certified by the commission and entered of record by the city clerk, and pubUshed in such manner as the council may direct. The commission shall also make such other reports, as the council may, from time to time, require. Member of Board of Supervisors: Sec. 11. The president of the commission if an elector qualified to vote for mayor shall be ex-officio a member of the board of supervisors of the county of Wayne. Legislation by the Common Council: Sec. 12. The common council shall enact such ordinances as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter. PUBLICATIONS OF THE DETROIT CITY PLAN COMMISSION Report No. 1. City Tree Planting, by T. Glenn Phillips, Landscape Architect, First edition, 1910; revised edition, 1914. Report No. 2. A Center of Arts and Letters; report to the Mayor of Detroit from a joint committee consisting of representatives of the Museum of Art, the Library Commission, the City Plan and Improvement Commission, the School of Design, the Orchestral Association, and the Michigan Cliapter of the American Institute of Architects; together with plans and a report by Edward H. * Bennett and Frank Miles Day, November, 1913. Report No. 3. Preliminary Keport on a programme for the competition to select an architect to design the James Scott Fountain; by E. J. A, Duquesne, November, 1913. Report No. 4. Programme of Competition for the selection of an architect to design and supervise the construction of the James Scott Fountain; by E. J. A. Duquesne, professional adviser, Feb- ruary, 1914. Report No. 5. Report of progress to the Mayor of Detroit on the results of the competition to select an architect to design the Scott Fountain, Report No. 6. Detroit Suburban Planning. Report to the City Plan and Improvement Commission by Arthur Coleman Comey, based on the Preliminary Plan for Detroit by Edward H. Bennett; May, 1913. Report No. 7. Report on Conditions in Detroit by Prof. Frederick Law Olmstead. June, 1915. Report No. 8. A Preliminary Plan for Detroit; by Edward H. Bennett, ArcMtect. June, 1915, Report No. 9. Excess Condemnation. March, 1919. Report No. 10. Charter Provisions. April, 1919. Report No. 11. Excess Condemnation Act, November, 1919. Report No. 12. A Building Zone Plan for Detroit. November, 1919^ IB -2)42 i..,,' }M:^-^' ^yf-' "'^ "ยง