A municipality is a planning authority and may, by ordinance: A. establish a planning commission; B. delegate to the planning commission: (1) the power, authority, jurisdiction and duty to enforce and carry out the provisions of law relating to planning, platting and zoning; and (2) other power, authority, jurisdiction and duty incidental and necessary to […]
A. The planning commission may adopt: (1) the master plan by a single resolution; or (2) part of the master plan as work progresses on the master plan; provided the part corresponds with one of the functional subdivisions of the subject matter of the plan. Before adoption of the master plan or any part thereof, […]
A. After a master plan or any part thereof has been approved and within the area of the master plan or any part thereof so approved, the approval of the planning commission is necessary to construct, authorize, accept, widen, narrow, remove, extend, relocate, vacate, abandon, acquire or change the use of any: (1) park, street […]
Every plat approved by the planning authority is an amendment, addition or a detail of the master plan or any part thereof adopted by the planning commission. History: 1953 Comp., § 14-18-12, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300. ANNOTATIONS Conditioning approval of master plan upon dedication of easement. — Where a village approved nine subdivisions […]
A. A planning commission shall consist of not less than five members who shall be appointed by the mayor with the consent of the governing body of the municipality. Administrative officials of the municipality may be appointed as ex-officio, nonvoting members of the planning commission. B. On the first planning commission a majority of the […]
A planning commission shall: A. elect one of its members chairman for a one-year term; B. create and fill other offices; C. hold at least one regular meeting each month; D. adopt rules for the transaction of business; and E. keep a public record of its transactions, findings, resolutions and determinations. History: 1953 Comp., § […]
A. A planning commission shall have such powers as are necessary to: (1) fulfill and perform its functions; (2) promote municipal planning; and (3) carry out the purposes of Sections 3-19-1 through 3-19-12 NMSA 1978. B. A planning commission may: (1) make reports and recommendations for the planning and development of the municipality to: (a) […]
A. Each municipality shall have planning and platting jurisdiction within its municipal boundary. Except as provided in Subsection B of this section, the planning and platting jurisdiction of a municipality: (1) having a population of twenty-five thousand or more persons includes all territory within five miles of its boundary and not within the boundary of […]
A. The planning authority of a municipality shall adopt regulations governing the subdivision of land within the planning and platting jurisdiction of the municipality. The subdivision regulations shall be approved by the governing body before they become effective. The subdivision regulations may provide for: (1) the harmonious development of the municipality and its environs; (2) […]
A. A planning commission which has adopted a master plan or a major street plan may: (1) survey for the exact location of the lines of new, extended, widened or narrowed streets within the municipality or its planning and platting jurisdiction; and (2) certify to the governing body of the municipality a plat of the […]
Any person in interest dissatisfied with an order or determination of the planning commission, after review of the order or determination by the governing body of the municipality, may commence an appeal in the district court pursuant to the provisions of Section 39-3-1.1 NMSA 1978. History: 1953 Comp., § 14-18-8, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. […]
A. The planning commission shall prepare and adopt a master plan for the physical development of the municipality and the area within the planning and platting jurisdiction of the municipality which in the planning commission’s judgment bears a relationship to the planning of the municipality. The planning commission may amend, extend or add to the […]
