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MO Rev Stat § 89.300 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning|Section 89.300 - Definitions.

Effective - 28 Aug 1963   89.300. Definitions. — For the purpose of sections 89.300 to 89.480 the following terms mean or include:  (1) "Council", the chief legislative body of the municipality;  (2) "Streets", any public ways;  (3) "Subdivision", the division of a parcel of land into two or more lots, or other divisions of land; it includes resubdivision and, when appropriate to the context, relates to the process of subdividing or to the land or territory subdivided. ­­-------- (L. 1963 p. 146 § 1)
MO Rev Stat § 89.310 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning|Section 89.310 - Municipality may adopt city plan and appoint commission.

Effective - 28 Aug 1963   89.310. Municipality may adopt city plan and appoint commission. — Any municipality in this state may make, adopt, amend, and carry out a city plan and appoint a planning commission with the powers and duties herein set forth. ­­-------- (L. 1963 p. 146 § 2)
MO Rev Stat § 89.320 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning|Section 89.320 - Planning commission — membership — terms — vacancy — removal.

Effective - 28 Aug 1999   89.320. Planning commission — membership — terms — vacancy — removal. — The planning commission of any municipality shall consist of not more than fifteen nor less than seven members, including:  (1) The mayor, if the mayor chooses to be a member;  (2) A member of the council selected by the council, if the council chooses to have a member serve on the commission; and  (3) Not more than fifteen nor less than five citizens appointed by the mayor and approved by the council. All citizen members of the commission shall serve without compensation. The term of each of the citizen members shall be for four years, except that the terms of the citizen members first appointed shall be for varying periods so that succeeding terms will be staggered. Any vacancy in a membership shall be filled for the unexpired term by appointment as aforesaid. The council may remove any citizen member for cause stated in writing and after public hearing. ­­-------- (L. 1963 p. 146 § 3, A.L. 1997 H.B. 831, A.L. 1999 H.B. 853)
MO Rev Stat § 89.330 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning|Section 89.330 - Commission officers, rules, records, employees, expenditures — zoning commission to constitute planning commission.

Effective - 28 Aug 1963   89.330. Commission officers, rules, records, employees, expenditures — zoning commission to constitute planning commission. — 1. The commission shall elect its chairman and secretary from among the citizen members. The term of chairman and secretary shall be for one year with eligibility for reelection. The commission shall hold regular meetings and special meetings as they provided by rule, and shall adopt rules for the transaction of business and keep a record of its proceedings. These records shall be public records. The commission shall appoint the employees and staff necessary for its work, and may contract with city planners and other professional persons for the services that it requires. The expenditures of the commission, exclusive of grants and gifts, shall be within the amounts appropriated for the purpose by council.  2. Where a zoning or planning commission exists on October 13, 1963, it shall constitute the city planning commission for the purposes of sections 89.300 to 89.480 in lieu of the commission provided for herein with the same officers, membership procedures, powers and terms of office as theretofore existing, unless the council otherwise provides; except in a charter city where the provisions of the charter shall govern. ­­-------- (L. 1963 p. 146 § 4)
MO Rev Stat § 89.340 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning|Section 89.340 - City plan, contents — zoning plan.

Effective - 28 Aug 1963   89.340. City plan, contents — zoning plan. — The commission shall make and adopt a city plan for the physical development of the municipality. The city plan, with the accompanying maps, plats, charts and descriptive and explanatory matter, shall show the commission's recommendations for the physical development and uses of land, and* may include, among other things, the general location, character and extent of streets and other public ways, grounds, places and spaces; the general location and extent of public utilities and terminals, whether publicly or privately owned, the acceptance, widening, removal, extension, relocation, narrowing, vacation, abandonment or change of use of any of the foregoing; the general character, extent and layout of the replanning of blighted districts and slum areas. The commission may also prepare a zoning plan for the regulation of the height, area, bulk, location and use of private, nonprofit and public structures and premises, and of population density, but the adoption, enforcement and administration of the zoning plan shall conform to the provisions of sections 89.010 to 89.250. ­­-------- (L. 1963 p. 146 § 5)  *Word "and" does not appear in original rolls.
MO Rev Stat § 89.350 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning|Section 89.350 - Plan, prepared how — purposes.

Effective - 28 Aug 1963   89.350. Plan, prepared how — purposes. — In the preparation of the city plan, the commission shall make careful and comprehensive surveys and studies of the existing conditions and probable future growth of the municipality. The plan shall be made with the general purpose of guiding and accomplishing a coordinated development of the municipality which will, in accordance with existing and future needs, best promote the general welfare, as well as efficiency and economy in the process of development. ­­-------- (L. 1963 p. 146 § 6)
MO Rev Stat § 89.360 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning|Section 89.360 - Adoption of plan, procedure.

Effective - 28 Aug 1991   89.360. Adoption of plan, procedure. — The commission may adopt the plan as a whole by a single resolution, or, as the work of making the whole city plan progresses, may from time to time adopt a part or parts thereof, any part to correspond generally with one or more of the functional subdivisions of the subject matter of the plan. Before the adoption, amendment or extension of the plan or portion thereof the commission shall hold at least one public hearing thereon. Fifteen days' notice of the time and place of such hearing shall be published in at least one newspaper having general circulation within the municipality. The hearing may be adjourned from time to time. The adoption of the plan requires a majority vote of the full membership of the planning commission. The resolution shall refer expressly to the maps, descriptive matter and other matters intended by the commission to form the whole or part of the plan and the action taken shall be recorded on the adopted plan or part thereof by the identifying signature of the secretary of the commission and filed in the office of the commission, identified properly by file number, and a copy of the plan or part thereof shall be certified to the council and the municipal clerk, and a copy shall be available in the office of the county recorder of deeds and shall be available at the municipal clerk's office for public inspection during normal office hours. ­­-------- (L. 1963 p. 146 § 7, A.L. 1991 H.B. 487)
MO Rev Stat § 89.370 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning|Section 89.370 - Powers of commission — recommendations.

Effective - 28 Aug 1963   89.370. Powers of commission — recommendations. — The commission may make reports and recommendations relating to the plan and development of the municipality to public officials and agencies, public utility companies, civic, educational, professional and other organizations and citizens. It may recommend to the executive or legislative officials of the municipality programs for public improvements and the financing thereof. All public officials shall, upon request, furnish to the commission, within a reasonable time, all available information it requires for its work. The commission, its members and employees, in the performance of its functions, may enter upon any land to make examinations and surveys. In general, the commission shall have the power necessary to enable it to perform its functions and promote municipal planning. ­­-------- (L. 1963 p. 146 § 8)
MO Rev Stat § 89.380 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning|Section 89.380 - Planning commission to approve improvements — commission disapproval, overruled, how.

Effective - 28 Aug 1963   89.380. Planning commission to approve improvements — commission disapproval, overruled, how. — Whenever the commission adopts the plan of the municipality or any part thereof, no street or other public facilities, or no public utility, whether publicly or privately owned, and, the location, extent and character thereof having been included in the recommendations and proposals of the plan or portions thereof, shall be constructed or authorized in the municipality until the location, extent and character thereof has been submitted to and approved by the planning commission. In case of disapproval the commission shall communicate its reasons to the council, and the council, by vote of not less than two-thirds of its entire membership, may overrule the disapproval and, upon the overruling, the council or the appropriate board or officer may proceed, except that if the public facility or utility is one the authorization or financing of which does not fall within the province of the council, then the submission to the planning commission shall be by the board having jurisdiction, and the planning commission's disapproval may be overruled by that board by a vote of not less than two-thirds of its entire membership. The acceptance, widening, removal, extension, relocation, narrowing, vacation, abandonment, change of use, acquisition of land for, sale or lease of any street or other public facility is subject to similar submission and approval, and the failure to approve may be similarly overruled. The failure of the commission to act within sixty days after the date of official submission to it shall be deemed approval. ­­-------- (L. 1963 p. 146 § 9)  (2005) Section covers all boards acquiring property and buildings in certain cities, including school boards. Board of Education v. City of Springfield, 174 S.W.3d 653 (Mo.App.S.D.).
MO Rev Stat § 89.390 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning|Section 89.390 - Functions of commission.

Effective - 28 Aug 1963   89.390. Functions of commission. — The commission shall have and perform all of the functions of the zoning commission provided for in sections 89.010 to 89.250. ­­-------- (L. 1963 p. 146 § 10)
MO Rev Stat § 89.400 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning|Section 89.400 - Commission to make recommendations to council on plats, when — conflict with zoning provisions of another political subdivision, which to prevail.

Effective - 28 Aug 2007   89.400. Commission to make recommendations to council on plats, when — conflict with zoning provisions of another political subdivision, which to prevail. — 1. When the planning commission of any municipality adopts a city plan which includes at least a major street plan or progresses in its city planning to the making and adoption of a major street plan, and files a certified copy of the major street plan in the office of the county recorder of the county in which the municipality is located, no plat of a subdivision of land lying within the municipality shall be filed or recorded until it has been submitted to and a report and recommendation thereon made by the commission to the city council and the council has approved the plat as provided by law.  2. (1) As used in this subsection, "transect-based zoning" means a zoning classification system that prescriptively arranges uses, elements, and environments according to a geographic cross-section that range across a continuum from rural to urban, with the range of environments providing the basis for organizing the components of the constructed world, including buildings, lots, land use, street, and all other physical elements of the human habitat, with the objective of creating sustainable communities and emphasizing bicycle lanes, street connectivity, and sidewalks, and permitting high-density and mixed use development in urban areas.  (2) In the event that any city, town, or village adopts a zoning or subdivision ordinance based on transect-based zoning, and such transect-based zoning provisions conflict with the zoning provisions adopted by code or ordinance of another political subdivision with jurisdiction in such city, town, or village, the transect-based zoning provisions governing street configuration requirements, including number and locations of parking spaces, street, drive lane, and cul-de-sac lengths and widths, turning radii, and improvements within the right-of-way, shall prevail over any other conflicting or more restrictive zoning provisions adopted by code or ordinance of the other political subdivision. ­­-------- (L. 1963 p. 146 § 11, A.L. 2007 H.B. 205 merged with H.B. 795 merged with S.B. 22 merged with S.B. 81)
MO Rev Stat § 89.420 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning|Section 89.420 - Commission to approve plats, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1963   89.420. Commission to approve plats, when. — Within sixty days after the submission of a plat to the commission, the commission shall approve or disapprove the plat; otherwise the plat is deemed approved by the commission, except that the commission, with the consent of the applicant for the approval, may extend the sixty-day period. The ground of disapproval of any plat by the commission shall be made a matter of record. ­­-------- (L. 1963 p. 146 § 13)
MO Rev Stat § 89.430 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning|Section 89.430 - Commission approval of plats — effects.

Effective - 28 Aug 1963   89.430. Commission approval of plats — effects. — The approval of a plat by the commission does not constitute or effect an acceptance by the municipality or public of the dedication to public use of any street or other ground shown upon the plat. ­­-------- (L. 1963 p. 146 § 14)
MO Rev Stat § 89.440 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning|Section 89.440 - Approval of plats required for recording.

Effective - 28 Aug 1963   89.440. Approval of plats required for recording. — No county recorder shall receive for filing or recording any subdivision plat required to be approved by a city council or municipal planning commission unless the plat has endorsed upon it the approval of the city council under the hand of the clerk and the seal of the city, or by the secretary of the planning commission. ­­-------- (L. 1963 p. 146 § 15)
MO Rev Stat § 89.450 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning|Section 89.450 - Use of unapproved plat in sale of land — penalty — vacation or injunction of transfer.

Effective - 28 Aug 2005   89.450. Use of unapproved plat in sale of land — penalty — vacation or injunction of transfer. — No owner, or agent of the owner, of any land located within the platting jurisdiction of any municipality, knowingly or with intent to defraud, may transfer, sell, agree to sell, or negotiate to sell that land by reference to or by other use of a plat of any purported subdivision of the land before the plat has been approved by the council or planning commission and recorded in the office of the appropriate county recorder unless the owner or agent shall disclose in writing that such plat has not been approved by such council or planning commission and the sale is contingent upon the approval of such plat by such council or planning commission. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay to the municipality a penalty not to exceed three hundred dollars for each lot transferred or sold or agreed or negotiated to be sold; and the description by metes and bounds in the instrument of transfer or other document used in the process of selling or transferring shall not exempt the transaction from this penalty. A municipality may enjoin or vacate the transfer or sale or agreement by legal action, and may recover the penalty in such action. ­­-------- (L. 1963 p. 146 § 16, A.L. 2005 S.B. 210)
MO Rev Stat § 89.460 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning|Section 89.460 - Public improvements, how approved after adoption of major street plan.

Effective - 28 Aug 1963   89.460. Public improvements, how approved after adoption of major street plan. — Upon adoption of a major street plan and subdivision regulations, the municipality shall not accept, lay out, open, improve, grade, pave or light any street, lay or authorize the laying of water mains, sewers, connections or other utilities in any street within the municipality unless the street has received the legal status of a public street prior to the adoption of a city plan; or unless the street corresponds in its location and lines with a street shown on a subdivision plat approved by the council or planning commission or on a street plan made by and adopted by the commission. The council may locate and construct or may accept any other street if the ordinance or other measure for the location and construction or for the acceptance is first submitted to the commission for its approval and approved by the commission or, if disapproved by the commission, is passed by the affirmative vote of not less than two-thirds of the entire membership of the council. ­­-------- (L. 1963 p. 146 § 17)
MO Rev Stat § 89.470 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning|Section 89.470 - No building permitted on streets not conforming to major street plan.

Effective - 28 Aug 1963   89.470. No building permitted on streets not conforming to major street plan. — After the adoption of a major street plan, no building permit shall be issued for and no building shall be erected on any lot within the territorial jurisdiction of the commission unless the street giving access to the lot upon which the building is proposed to be placed conforms to the requirements of section 89.460. ­­-------- (L. 1963 p. 146 § 18)
MO Rev Stat § 89.480 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning|Section 89.480 - Establishment of building lines — board of adjustment.

Effective - 28 Aug 1963   89.480. Establishment of building lines — board of adjustment. — Whenever a plan for major streets has been adopted, the council, upon recommendation of the planning commission, is authorized and empowered to establish, regulate and limit and amend, by ordinance, building or setback lines on major streets, and to prohibit any new building being located within building or setback lines. When a plan for proposed major streets or other public improvements has been adopted, the council is authorized to prohibit any new building being located within the proposed site or right-of-way when the center line of the proposed street or the limits of the proposed sites have been carefully determined and are accurately delineated on maps approved by the planning commission and adopted by the council. The council shall provide for the method by which this section shall be administered and enforced and may provide for a board of adjustment with powers to modify or vary the regulations, in specific cases, in order that unwarranted hardship, which constitutes an unreasonable deprivation of use as distinguished from the mere grant of a privilege, may be avoided. If there is a board of zoning adjustment on October 13, 1963, that board shall be appointed to serve as the board of adjustment for the building line regulations. If there is no board of zoning adjustment, the personnel, length of terms, method of appointment and organization of the board of adjustment for the building line regulations shall be the same as now provided for municipal boards of zoning adjustment. The regulations of this section shall not be adopted, changed or amended until a public hearing has been held thereon as provided in section 89.360. ­­-------- (L. 1963 p. 146 § 19)
MO Rev Stat § 89.490 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning|Section 89.490 - Violation — penalty.

Effective - 28 Aug 1963   89.490. Violation — penalty. — Any person violating the provisions of sections 89.300 to 89.490 is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or by confinement in the county jail for not more than one year, or by both such fine and confinement. ­­-------- (L. 1963 p. 146 § 21)
MO Rev Stat § 89.491 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning|Section 89.491 - Violation of county planning, zoning and recreation order or ordinance, civil action authorized — venue, jurisdiction — costs.

Effective - 28 Aug 1993   89.491. Violation of county planning, zoning and recreation order or ordinance, civil action authorized — venue, jurisdiction — costs. — 1. Any person or neighborhood organization as defined in section 32.105 aggrieved by a violation described in this subsection may commence a civil action on his own behalf against any person who is alleged to be in violation of the provisions of chapter 64 or this chapter, or in violation of any standard, regulation, or ordinance which has been adopted by any county or city pursuant to chapter 64 or this chapter.  2. Venue for such actions allowed by subsection 1 of this section shall be in the circuit court in the circuit in which the violation is alleged to have occurred.  3. The appropriate circuit court, as established in subsection 2 of this section, shall have jurisdiction to enforce the standard, regulation or ordinance alleged to have been violated, to order such action as may be necessary to correct the violation, and to impose any civil penalty provided for the violation.  4. The appropriate circuit court, in issuing any final order in any action brought pursuant to this section, shall award costs of litigation, including reasonable attorney's fees, to the prevailing party. ­­-------- (L. 1993 S.B. 376)