Planning and Zoning Commission Member

Planning and Zoning Board Vacancy

The Planning and Zoning Commission is now accepting applications for a member to fill a term that will expire April 2023. This is an appointed opportunity.

Please complete the board application to be considered.
(Do not use the online employment application.)

From City of West Fargo Ordinance 4-01 :

Creation

Pursuant to Chapter 40-48 of the North Dakota Century Code and all previously existing ordinances of the City of West Fargo, there shall be a body known as the Planning Commission of the City of West Fargo. The creation of said commission is hereby confirmed and ratified.

Members appointed

The Planning Commission shall consist of eight (8) members, who shall be appointed as hereinafter provided. In addition to the appointed members, the President of the Board of City Commissioners, the City Engineer and the City Attorney shall act as ex-officio members of said Planning Commission.

Term of office

The ex-officio members of the Planning Commission shall serve during and for their respective terms for which they are elected or appointed, the President of the Board of City Commissioners shall appoint five (5) members of the Planning Commission, which appointments shall be confirmed as hereinafter provided, The members appointed by the President of the Board of City Commissioners shall be a resident of the City of West Fargo. The terms of the members of the Planning Commission appointed by the President of the Board of City Commissioners shall be as provided by the laws of the State of North Dakota. The Board of County Commissioners of Cass County shall appoint three members of the Planning Commission, who shall reside outside of the corporate limits of the City of West Fargo, Cass County, North Dakota, but who shall reside within four miles of the corporate limits of the City of West Fargo, Cass County, North Dakota, in any direction, and if such persons are available and will serve on the Planning Commission, they should reside within the area within which the City exercises its extraterritorial zoning jurisdiction. Of the members of the commission appointed by the Board of County Commissioners of Cass County, North Dakota, the first member appointed shall hold office for five (5) years, the second member appointed shall hold office for three (3) years, and thereafter, the members shall be appointed for terms of five (5) years.

Confirmation of appointments by City Commission

The President of the Board of City Commissioners shall submit to the Board of City Commissioners at the next regular meeting after making such appointments, the names of the persons appointed and the length of their term. The Board of City Commissioners shall, by a majority vote, confirm or reject such appointments. If such appointments are rejected, the President of the Board of City Commissioners shall make other appointments, which appointments shall be approved or rejected in like manner.

Powers and compensation

The Planning Commission shall have such powers and shall perform such duties as may now or hereinafter be provided by law including the power under the authority of Section 40-48-18 of the North Dakota Century Code to extend the application of the City's subdivision regulations to all land located within the corporate limits of the City and all land located within the extraterritorial authority of the City as set forth in Section 4-0107.

Zoning Commission

The Planning Commission shall also serve as the Zoning Commission of the City to hold hearings, make reports and recommendations as to the boundaries of the various original districts and appropriate regulations to be enforced therein, and for changes in or supplements thereto. The Zoning Commission shall have such powers and shall perform such duties as may now or hereafter be provided by law including but not limited to the exercise of territorial authority of zoning regulations extending to all land located within the corporate limits of the City and all land located within the extraterritorial authority of the City as set forth in Section 4-0107.

Extraterritorial planning and zoning authority

The City of West Fargo pursuant to the authority set out in Sections 40-48-18 and 40-47-01.1 of the North Dakota Century Code, does hereby extend its planning and zoning regulation authority to those extraterritorial areas set forth on the map entitled “The official zoning map of the City of West Fargo,” dated March 16, 2015. The boundaries of the extraterritorial planning and zoning authority of the City of West Fargo, North Dakota, shall not automatically change as a result of annexation of new land into the City, or by amendments to state law which would permit the City to extend its extraterritorial jurisdiction a greater distance from its city limits. The City may, in its discretion, extend the extraterritorial planning and zoning authority of the City of West Fargo and the planning commission by amending the Official Map to take in additional territory that, pursuant to state law, may come under the planning and zoning authority of the City.