AUTHORITY: Palm Beach County Zoning Code, Ordinance No. 73-2, Section 402.1; as amended by Ordinance No. 91-19. Unified Land Development Code Section 4.3.

APPOINTING AUTHORITY: Board of County Commissioners (BCC)

COMPOSITION, QUALIFICATIONS, TERMS AND REMOVAL: This Commission shall be composed of seven (7) members: One member shall be appointed from each County Commission district. The BCC shall also appoint two alternate members, a first alternate and second alternate. The alternate members shall be appointed at-large by a majority vote of the BCC. The alternate members shall vote only in the absence of regular members. The first alternate member shall have priority to vote in the first regular member's absence. The term of office of each member of the Zoning Commission shall be three years. All members serving on the Advisory Board on the effective date of the ULDC shall complete their terms according to their prior appointments. When a person is appointed to fill out the term of a departing member, that person's term shall end at the time the departing member's term would have ended. Any vacancy occurring shall be filled by the governing body within thirty (30) days after the vacancy occurs.

MEETINGS: The Commission shall meet at regular intervals to be determined by it and at such other times as the chairman or Commission may determine. All meetings shall be open to the public. Meetings are held on the first Thursday of each month at the Jane Thompson Memorial Chambers, Governmental Center, 301 N. Olive Avenue, 6^th Floor, West Palm Beach, commencing at 9:00 a.m.

FUNCTIONS: To initiate, review, hear, consider and make recommendations to the Board of County Commissioners to approve, approve with conditions, or deny applications for development permits to amend the text of the ULDC; to initiate, review, hear, consider and make recommendations to the BCC to approve, approve with conditions, or deny applications for development permits to amend the Official Zoning Map of the ULDC; to review, hear, consider and make recommendations to the BCC to approve, approve with conditions, or deny applications for development permits for Preliminary Development Plans for a Residential Planned Unit Development (RPUD), Traditional Neighborhood Development District (TND), Neighborhood Center Planned Development District (NCPDD), Mixed Use Planned Development District (MXDD), Multiple Use Planned Development District (MUDD), Planned Industrial Park Development District (PIPDD), Mobile Home Park Planned Development District (MHPD), Recreational Vehicle Park Planned Development District (RVPD), and Solid Waste Disposal Planned Development District (SWPD); to review, hear, consider and make recommendations to the BCC to approve, approve with conditions, or deny applications for development permits for Class "A" Conditional uses; to review, hear, consider and approve, approve with conditions, or deny applications for development for Class "B" Conditional Uses; to make its special knowledge and expertise available upon written request and authorization of the BCC to any official, department, board, commission or agency of the County, State or federal governments; to make studies of the resources, possibilities and needs of the County and to report its findings and recommendations, with reference thereto, from time to time, to the BCC; and to recommend to the BCC additional or amended rules of procedure not inconsistent with the section to govern the Zoning Commission's proceedings.