1954                                    MUNICIPAL CHARTERS

paragraph to be known as Paragraph 21A, which shall be headed "Plan-
ning, Zoning and Subdivision Control" and which shall read as follows:

21A (a) The Council shall have the power to provide for planning,
zoning and subdivision control within the Town as hereinafter provided.

(b)    The Council shall have the power to appoint by resolution a
planning commission, which shall have the duties hereinafter prescribed
and such other duties as may be assigned to it from time to time by the
Council by resolution or ordinance. Said Commission shall consist of five
members or such greater number as the Council may determine from time
to time by resolution. The Commission may, but need not, include among
its membership one or more members of the Council. The term of each
member of the Commission shall be four years, unless some different term
shall be fixed by the Council in the resolution of appointment. After the
expiration of the terms of present members of the Commission, Commis-
sion members shall be appointed in such manner that the terms of no
more than 60% of the members shall expire in any one calendar year.
Any member of the Commission may be removed by the Council at any time
without cause. Any vacancy in the membership of the Commission shall be
filled by the Council. The members of the Commission shall receive such
compensation as shall be determined by the Council from time to time by
resolution.

(c)    The Commission shall elect its chairman from amongst the
appointed members and create and fill such other of its offices as it may
determine. The term of chairman shall be one year, with eligibility for
re-election. The commission shall hold at least one regular meeting each
month. It shall adopt rules for transaction of business and shall keep a
record of its resolutions, transactions, findings, and determinations,
which record shall be a public record.

(d)    It shall be the function and duty of the Commission to make and
adopt a master plan for the physical development of the Town, including
any areas outside of its boundaries which, in the Commission's judgment,
bear relation to the planning of the Town. Such plan, with the accom-
panying maps, plats, charts and descriptive matter shall show the Com-
mission's recommendations for the development of said territory, includ-
ing, among other things, the general location, character, and extent of
streets, viaducts, subways, bridges, waterways, waterfronts, boulevards,
parkways, playgrounds, squares, public buildings, parks, aviation fields,
and other public ways, grounds and open spaces, the general location and
extent of public utilities and terminals, whether publicly or privately
owned or operated, for water, light, sanitation, transportation, commu-
nication, power and other purposes, also the removal, relocation, widening,
narrowing, vacating, abandonment, change of use or extension of any of
the foregoing ways, grounds, open spaces, buildings, property, util