A planning commission consisting of seven members is established for this city. One of the members of the commission shall be a member of, and selected by, the city council; the remaining members of the commission shall be appointed by duly adopted resolution of the city council and must have resided in the city not less than one year prior to their appointments. The member of the commission selected from the city council shall serve until the thirty-first day of January of the year following the year in which the city council member was appointed and until a successor qualifies and is seated, or until he/she ceases to be a member of the city council, whichever first occurs. Terms of office for each of the other members of the commission hereafter appointed shall be four years; except that, terms of up to three appointees may be of a lesser duration as the city council may deem necessary and appropriate so that commissioners’ terms are staggered. Following amendment of the composition or duties of the commission as specified in this chapter, the council may elect to treat the commission as a reconstituted body and appoint new commission members to occupy some or all of the seats on the reconstituted commission. Subject to and without limiting or otherwise affecting the authority of the city council to establish and reconstitute subordinate bodies in accordance with Article VIII, Section 55 of the City Charter, this section, and other applicable law, any individual appointed member may be removed by a vote of five members of the council. Such five-vote requirement for removal of individual members does not apply when the city council has amended the composition or duties of the planning commission and elects to treat the commission as a reconstituted body and appoint new commission members in accordance with this section. (Ord. 2344 NCS §1, 2009; Ord. 1678 NCS §1, 1987; Ord. 1035 NCS §1 (part), 1972; Ord. 977 NCS §1; Ord. 636 NCS §1; Ord. 338 NCS §1; prior code §2.38.)