AUTHORITY: Unified Land Development Code Section 4.1.

COMPOSITION: The Board of County Commissioners is appointed on a district basis through elections.

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 to be held on the fourth Thursday of each month at the Jane Thompson Memorial Chambers, Governmental Center, 301 North Olive Avenue, 6th floor, West Palm Beach, commencing at 9:30 a.m.

FUNCTIONS: To initiate, hear, consider and approve with conditions, or deny applications to amend the text of the Comprehensive Plan; for Site Specific (Future Land Use Map) amendments to the Future Land Use Map of the Comprehensive Plan; for Transfer of Development Rights and Voluntary Density Bound Programs; for development permits to amend the text of this Code; for development permits to amend the Official Zoning Map of this Code; for development permits for Preliminary Development Plans for a Residential Planned Unit Development (RPUD), Traditional Neighborhood Development District (TND), Neighborhood Center Planned Development (NCPD), Mixed Use Planned Development (MXPD), Multiple Use Planned Development District (MUPD), Planned Industrial Park Development District (PIPD), Mobile Home Park Planned Development District (MHPD), Recreational Vehicle Park Planned Development District (RVPD), and Solid Waste Disposal Planned Development District (SWPD); for development permits for Class "A" Conditional Uses; to hear and consider appeals from and affirm or reverse decisions of the Zoning Commission on applications for development permits for Class "B" Conditional Uses; to designate and appoint hearing officers to make decisions as the Board may deem appropriate; to establish fees for the review of applications for development permits, and appropriate funds to defray the costs of administering this Code; to act to ensure compliance with development orders or permits as approved and issued; to hear and consider administrative inquiries; to take such other action not delegated to the Land Use Advisory Board, the Zoning Commission, the Development Review Committee, the Board of Adjustment, the Traffic Performance Standards Appeals Board, the Environmental Control Board, the Environmental Ordinance Appeals Board, the Development Review Appeals Board, the Impact Fee Review Committee, the Impact Fee Appeals Board, the Environmental Appeals Board, the Code Enforcement Board, the Groundwater and Natural Resources Protection Board, the Hearing Officer, or the heads or other officials of County Departments, as the Board of County Commissioners may deem desirable and necessary to implement the provisions of the Comprehensive Plan and this Code; and to appoint other advisory boards that are determined necessary to assist in the implementation of this Code or the Comprehensive Plan.