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Upon application please note; The Board of Adjustment shall consist of five (5) members. Members of the Board of Adjustment shall be appointed by the Starke City Commission for a period of three (3) years. The terms shall be staggered so that no more than two (2) members’ terms expire in any given year.
A Position held by a member of the Planning & Zoning Board will consist of hearing all requests for zoning and land use changes and offer a recommendation to the City Commission for approval or denial. A member shall be a person who can represent the public interest, and no person whose private or public interests are likely to conflict with it.
Meetings shall be held at the call of the chairperson or Administrative Official and at such times as the Planning and Zoning Board may determine, provided that the Board shall hold at least one (1) regularly scheduled meeting each month, after due public notice, on a day to be determined by the Board. Meetings not regularly scheduled shall not be held without reasonable notice to each member and the public. If there are no zoning requests to review for that month, the meeting may be canceled by the Administrative Official.
Members of the Planning and Zoning Board may be removed from office for cause by a majority vote of the City Commission. A member of the Planning and Zoning Board who is absent from three consecutive regularly scheduled meetings of the Planning and Zoning Board will be declared vacant by the City Commission. Any vacancy occurring during the unexpired term of any member shall be filled by the City Commission for the remainder of the term.
All applicants are welcome to apply, a review screen will be completed by the Administrative Official, then applications will be advanced onto the City Commission for appointment.
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