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11-19-18
Section 11-19-18 Procedure for preparation, adoption, amendment, etc., of zoning ordinance
and map. (a) The planning commission shall have the duty of preparing a zoning plan, including
both the written provisions of the ordinance and a map or maps showing the district boundaries.
The commission may hold such public hearings as it deems necessary concerning the zoning ordinance.
It shall certify the zoning ordinance and map to the county commission. On receipt of a zoning
ordinance and map from the county planning commission, the county commission shall hold a
public hearing thereon, after which it may adopt the zoning ordinance and map as recommended,
adopt it with modifications, or reject it. (b) The zoning ordinance, including the map or
maps, may from time to time be amended, supplemented, changed, modified, or repealed. No amendment
shall become effective unless it first is submitted to the county planning commission for
its recommendations; failure of the county planning...
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11-44B-25
Section 11-44B-25 Procedures to reduce or delete areas from police jurisdiction. Notwithstanding
any law to the contrary, any Class 4 municipality that is organized pursuant to this article
may from time to time reduce or delete various portions and areas from the territorial limits
of its respective police jurisdiction or its planning jurisdiction or both as established
by law, including, but not limited to, Sections 11-40-10 and 11-52-30, Act 76-594 and as amended
by Act 94-539, the reduction and deletion shall be pursuant to the following procedure: (1)
INITIATION. The governing body of the municipality shall adopt a resolution calling for public
hearings to consider the adoption of an ordinance or ordinances for the purpose of deleting
a portion or portions of territory from its respective police jurisdiction or planning jurisdiction,
or both, as the case may be. The resolution shall state the time, date, and place of all public
hearings in regard to the ordinance and a reasonably...
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11-52-32
Section 11-52-32 Approval or disapproval of plat generally; legal effect of approval; powers
of planning commission as to subdivision zoning; approval or disapproval of plat in certain
cities. (a) Except where the development of a subdivision within the territorial jurisdiction
of a municipal planning commission is regulated by the county commission pursuant to Section
11-52-30, the municipal planning commission shall approve or disapprove a plat within 30 days
after the submission thereof to it; otherwise, the plat shall be deemed to have been approved,
and a certificate to that effect shall be issued by the municipal planning commission on demand;
provided, however, that the applicant for the municipal planning commission's approval may
waive this requirement and consent to an extension of such period. The ground of disapproval
of any plat shall be stated upon the records of the municipal planning commission. Any plat
submitted to the municipal planning commission shall contain the...
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11-52-31
Section 11-52-31 Adoption, publication, and certification of subdivision regulations; contents
of regulations; bond. (a) Except where the county commission is responsible for the regulation
of subdivision regulations within the territorial jurisdiction of a municipal planning commission
pursuant to Section 11-52-30, the municipal planning commission shall adopt subdivision regulations
governing the subdivision of land within its jurisdiction. The regulations may provide for
the proper arrangement of streets in relation to other existing or planned streets and to
the master plan, for adequate and convenient open spaces for traffic, utilities, access of
fire-fighting apparatus, recreation, light and air and for the avoidance of congestion of
population, including minimum width and area of lots. The regulations may include provisions
as to the extent to which streets and other ways shall be graded and improved and to which
water and sewer and other utility mains, piping, or other...
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11-19-10
Section 11-19-10 Powers and duties of planning commission generally; special surveys or studies;
right of entry upon lands for preparation of examinations and surveys. (a) It shall be the
function and duty of the county planning commission to make and maintain comprehensive surveys
and studies of existing conditions and probable future developments in the flood-prone area
of the county and to prepare comprehensive plans for physical, social, and economic growth
as will best promote the public health, safety, morals, convenience, prosperity, or the general
welfare as well as efficiency and economy in the development of the flood-prone area of the
county. The county planning commission shall have the authority to: (1) Promote public interest
and understanding of the economic and social necessity for long-term, coordinated county planning.
(2) Confer and cooperate with the federal, state, municipal, and other county and regional
authorities regarding matters pertaining to or affecting the...
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22-27-47
Section 22-27-47 Local plans required. (a) Each county and any municipality as described below
shall submit to the department, within one and one-half years of May 16, 1989, a plan for
the management of solid waste generated within its boundaries. A county's plan shall include
the municipal jurisdictions within its boundaries except that any municipality may choose
to submit its own solid waste management plan intended for implementation within its city
limits and thereby be excluded from its county plan. Cities which do not choose to exclude
themselves from their county's plan shall be responsible to share in the county's costs proportionately
on a per capita basis. The content of all plans shall be consistent with the requirements
of this article and every plan shall not become final until it has been officially adopted
and approved pursuant to the requirements of this article. In the event a county or city does
not submit a required plan or if said plan does not meet the minimum...
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45-2-261.01
Section 45-2-261.01 Appointment of members and personnel of the Baldwin County Planning and
Zoning Commission. The planning commission shall be composed of nine regular members, each
of whom shall be a qualified elector and an actual resident of the county. One and only one
regular member of the planning commission may be a qualified elector of the county who resides
in the corporate limits of a municipality in the county. All regular members shall be appointed
by the Baldwin County Commission for a term of four years. Upon the affirmative vote of a
majority of the qualified electors in a district election held pursuant to Section 45-2-261.07,
the membership of the planning commission shall be increased by appointment by the county
commission of a qualified elector from that district for a temporary one-time term of three
years. In the event of any vacancy on the planning commission, such vacancy shall be filled
by appointment of the Baldwin County Commission. The Baldwin County...
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45-2-180.01
Section 45-2-180.01 Regulation of billboards in unincorporated areas; enforcement; variances;
appeals. (a) This section shall apply only within the unincorporated areas of Baldwin County.
(b)(1) In the unincorporated areas of Baldwin County, the county commission may regulate and
shall have exclusive zoning authority to regulate billboards, including, but not limited to,
the size and location of any billboards. Within the planning jurisdiction of a municipality
that regulates billboards, the county commission shall regulate and shall have exclusive authority
to regulate billboards which regulation and enforcement shall be no less stringent than the
regulation of billboards by municipal ordinance within the corporate limits of the municipality.
The regulations shall be adopted by resolution or ordinance of the county commission at a
regularly scheduled meeting of the commission. Any resolution or ordinance adopted pursuant
to this section shall have standards as to distance between...
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11-19-19
Section 11-19-19 County board of adjustment. In availing itself of the powers conferred by
this chapter, the county commission shall provide for the appointment of a board of adjustment
and may provide that the said board of adjustment shall, in appropriate cases and subject
to appropriate conditions and safeguards, make special exceptions to the terms of the zoning
ordinance or regulations in harmony with its general purposes and interests and in accordance
with general or specific rules adopted pursuant to this chapter. The board of adjustment shall
consist of five members who shall be appointed from among the residents of the county by the
county commission to serve for a term of three years; provided, that in establishing the board
of adjustment, the county commission may designate the terms of the members first appointed
on such basis that the term of one member will expire each year thereafter. Such members shall
be removable for cause by the county commission upon written...
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11-52-10
Section 11-52-10 Adoption, etc., of master plan for physical development of municipality by
commission - Procedure for adoption, etc. The commission may adopt the plan as a whole by
a single resolution or may by successive resolutions adopt successive parts of the plan, said
parts corresponding with major geographical sections or divisions of the municipality or with
functional subdivisions of the subject matter of the plan and may adopt any amendment or extension
thereof or addition thereto. Before the adoption of the plan or any such part, amendment,
extension or addition, the commission shall hold at least one public hearing thereon, notice
of the time and place of which shall be given by one publication in a newspaper of general
circulation in the municipality and in the official gazette, if any, of the municipality;
provided, that the planning commission may dispense with such public hearing prior to the
approval or disapproval of a plan when the municipal governing body to whom...
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