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Home My WebLink About727 - ADMIN Ordinance - City Council - 1959/12/14RA/16/59 1 Original ORDINANCE N0. 727 AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A 3OARD OF ZONING APPEALS AND DEFINING ITS DUTIES THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS PARK DOES ORDAIN: Section 1. The Board of Zoning Appeals is hereby established as follows and its duties defined as follows: DEC, 14 1959 Section 1.:127 Membership and Terms. The Board of Zoning Appeals shall consist of five members who shall serve respectively for the following terms, and until their respective successors are appointed and qualified. Initial appointments shall be for terms as follows: one for one year, one for two years, one for three years, one for four •years, and one f er five years, for the first five appointed, and all subsequent appointments shall be for terms of five years each. They shall be appointed by the Mayor with the approval of the City Council. and their terms shall run until the 31st day of December of the year in which their terms expire. In the event of a vacancy the Mayor with the approval of the Council shall appoint a person to complete the unexpired term. A member of the Commission may be removed with or without cause by the Mayor with the approval of the City Council. 70 Section1:1128 Organization. The Board shall elect its own chairman, vice-chairman, and secretary, and shall provide its own rules and procedure, determine the date and time of meetings and call public hearings when necessary and desirable. No member of the Board shall pass upon any question an which he is directly or indirectly Interested. Section 1:329. Powers and Duties The Board of Zoning Appeals shall have the following powers and duties: (a) To hear and recommend proper action to the City Council on appeals from any order, requirement, permit, decision or refusal or deter- mination made by the Zoning Administrator under the Zoning Ordinance and from any Interpretation of the tent of the Zoning Ordinance, or any location of the boundary of a zoning district as shown on the official zoning map, made by the Zoning Administrator. (b) To hear and recommend proper action to the City Council on requests • for variances from the terms of the Zoning Ordinance In the manner and subject to the standards set forth en the Zoning Ordinance. (c) To hear and make recommendations to the City Council on all :natters referred to the Board or upon which it as required to act under the Zoning Ordinance. Page 2 e Section Z. publication. Atte s t This ordinance shall take effect fifteen days after ifiB Adopted by the City Counci i . ecegnber 9 Reviewed City Manager 1 yor Prepared by; 4/7/ r Approved as to fo.•rn and legality: /71riff-f/lAt:, City Attorney ORDINANCE NO. 727 Entitled AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS AND DEFINING ITS DUTIES troduced' byDate First Reading -Date 10-5-59 Waived Y__ e_ S ` - econd Reading -Date 12-14-59Waived Yes L(bte : Aye 6 Nay Published Date December 17, 1959 Effective Date January 1, 1960 Code Reference • • • • AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION St. Louis Park Dispatch 5407 Excelsior Blvd. St. Louis Park, Minnesota State of Minnesota County of Hennepin SS. JOHN E TILTON, being duly sworn, on oath says that he now is and during all the time herein - stated has been JOHN E TILTON, the publisher and printer of the newspaper known as The St Louis Park Dispatch, and has full knowledge of the facts herein stated That foi more than one year immediately prior to the publication therein of the printed CIrdinanan No._ 22? B iitablih$og a Boarg_nflioning_Appeale hereto attached, said newspaper was printed and published in the English language from its known office of publication within the County of Hennepin, State of Minnesota, on Thursday of each week in column and sheet form equivalent in space to 450 running inches of single column two inches wide, has been issued from a known office established in said place of publication equipped with skilled workmen and the necessary material for preparing and printing the same THE ST LOUIS PARK DISPATCH has had in its makeup not less than twenty-five percent of its news columns devoted to local news of interest to said community it purports to serve, the press work of which has been done in its said known place of publication, has contained general news, comments and miscellany, has not duplicated any other publication, has not been entire- ly made up of patents, plate matter and advertisements, has been circulated at and near its said place of publication to the extent of 240 copies regularly delivered to paying subscribers, has been entered as second class mail matter in local post office of its said place of publication. that there has been on file in the office of the County Audltoi of said county the affidavit of a person hav- ing first hand knowledge of the facts constituting its qualifications as a newspaper for publication of legal notices, and that its publishers have complied with all demands of said County Auditor for proofs of its said qualification A copy of each Issue has been filed with the State Historical, Society, St Paul. That the printed---- Winona° No. 727.... hereto attached as a part hereof was cut from the columns of said newspaper, was published therein in the English language once a week for OSA successive weeks, that it was first so published on the 17th day of December , 19.59__and thereafter on of each week to and including the clay of , 19____, and that the following Is a copy of the lower case alphabet which is acknowledged to have been the size and kind of type used In the publlca- tion of aaid Ordinance No. •... abcdefghi j klmnopgrajuvwxyz CVS Publisher Subscribed and sworn to before me this___- S '- •ay of r, 1 • r D WILLIAMS Notary Public, Hennepin County, Minn. ii257 R' zarrastmon Expires June 16, 1962. y(Official Publication) ORDINANCE NO. 727 AN. ORDINANCE- ESTABLISHING A BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS AND DEFINING ITS DUTIES THE CITY OF Sr. LOUIS PARK DOES ORDAIN. . Section 1. The Board of Zoning Ap. peals is hereby established as ,fol- lows and its duties defined as' fol- lows, 1 Section " 1 127 Membership 'and Terms. The-Boaid+of Zoning Appeals shall consist of five member who shall serve respectively for the fol- lowing terms, and until their_resp`ec- tive successors _ are. appointed and qualified Initial appomtments spall be for terms as follows. one„)' one year, one for t)vo,years, one fq hree years, one for four years, an Y one for five years, for the first .five.ap- pointed, and -all subsequent appoint- ment's -shall be fol' terms df give years each They shall be appointed by the b;ayor, with the approvil of the City Council; and theuvrterms shall run unfit the 31st day of -De- cember of the year m whic-li• their terms expire In the event' of 'a va- cancy the Idayor with the approval of the Council shall appoint a per- son to complete the unexpired term. A member of. ,the Cotnmission nay be removed with or without cause by the Mayor with. the• approval of the City Council, Section 1 128 Organization. The Board shall elect its own chairman, 4 vice-chairman, and secretary, 'and shall+provide its, own rules -.and pro- ceduie;' determie the date and tune' of meetings and call public hearings when necessary and desirable, 'No member `of the Board shall pass " upon any question in which he 1r directly or indirectly interested. Section- 1.129 Powers_ and Duties . ' The Board ,of Zoning Appeals *shall have„the following powers and duties: prop- er ) ear n son totheCity Council on rap - peals from any order, requirement, per decision -or refusal or deter- mtha n made by the _Zoning Ad. minis ator under the' Zoning Ordi- nance and from any interpretation of the 'text of the Zoning Ordinance, l or any location of the boundary of a zoning district as shown, on the of- ficial zoning map; made b8 the Zon- ing Administrator. (b) To hear and recommend prop- er action to the City Council on re• quests for variances from the terms of the Zoning Ordinance in the man- ner and subject to the standtirds set forth in the Zoning Ordinance. To hear and make to the Cit Council recommen- dations on matte,whichrs itrIserequiredto to ace Board under the Zoning Ordinance. Section 2 This ordinance shall take effect fifteen days after its publica- tion ,-Adopted by the City Council De- cember 14, 1959 HERBEItr P. LEFLER ATTEST• I ' Mayor JOSEPH JUSTAD - City Clerk (Dec. 17, 1959)—D