Item 6: Ordinance on Chapter 2 Amendments: PC Bylaws

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Statewide Planning Goal 1, responsible for assisting the city council with the development of a program that promotes and enhances citizen involvement in land-use planning, assisting in the implementation of the citizen involvement program, and evaluating the process being used for citizen involvement. (i) h To exercise any express or implied power, right or act pursuant to this Code or ORS Chapter 227. Section 7. Section 2.355 of the Eugene Code, 1971, is amended to provide as follows: 2.355 Planning Commission – Standing Comittees. (1) Created. The Historic Review Board is hereby created as a standing committee of the Planning Commission. (2) Membership. The committee shall have seven members, consisting of [two] one member[s] of the planning commission; two members, to the extent they are available in the community, who are an architect with preservation expertise and a historian with knowledge of local history; two professionals with demonstrable interest, competence, or knowledge of historic preservation in the disciplines of landscape architecture, real estate, construction, community development, urban planning, archeology, law, finance, cultural geography, cultural anthropology, or related disciplines; and [one] two citizens. (3) Appointment and Terms of Office. Members shall be nominated by the mayor and planning commission [president] chair and appointed by the council, except for the planning commission member[s] who shall be appointed by the [president] chair of the planning commission. Other members shall serve for four-year terms[, except for the first appointees who shall serve for the following terms: three members shall be appointed initially for three-year terms, and two members shall be appointed initially for four-year terms]. A vacancy shall be filled in the same manner as original appointments and the appointee shall hold office for the remainder of the unexpired term. A member who is absent for more than three consecutively scheduled meetings without having been excused by the [president] chair of the planning commission shall be removed and the vacancy filled. (4) Officers, meetings and rules of procedure. The officers of the committee shall be a chair[person] and vice-chair[person], elected by majority vote of the committee. The chair[person] shall preside at meetings of the board and shall have the right to vote. The vice- chair[person] shall, in case of absence or disability of the chair[person], perform the duties of the chair[person]. Officers shall serve for terms of one year or until their successors are regularly elected and take office. The committee shall hold meetings at such times as it deems Ordinance - 4