1. A city development board is created. The economic development authority shall provide office space and staff assistance, and shall budget funds to cover expenses of the board and committees. The board consists of five members appointed by the governor subject to confirmation by the senate. The appointments must be for four-year staggered terms beginning and ending as provided by section 69.19, or to fill an unexpired term in case of a vacancy. Members are eligible for reappointment.
2. The board shall be composed of the following members:
a. One member appointed from a city with a population of more than forty-five thousand, according to the most recent certified federal census. \n Tue Dec 09 22:13:46 2025 Iowa Code 2026, Chapter 368 (31, 1) 7 CITY DEVELOPMENT, §368.11\n\n b. One member appointed from a city with a population of forty-five thousand or less, according to the most recent certified federal census.
c. One member appointed from a county with a population of more than fifty thousand, according to the most recent certified federal census.
d. One member appointed from a county with a population of fifty thousand or less, according to the most recent certified federal census.
e. One member appointed to represent the general public.
3. Each member is entitled to receive from the state actual and necessary expenses in performance of board duties and may also be eligible to receive compensation as provided in section 7E.6. [C75, 77, 79, 81, §368.9] 86 Acts, ch 1245, §847; 91 Acts, ch 250, §5; 2010 Acts, ch 1038, §1 – 3; 2011 Acts, ch 118, §85, 89 Referred to in §15.108, 368.1, 368.10, 384.38 Confirmation, see §2.32 \n
Notes of Decisions
City of Mason City v. Zerble, 93 N.W.2d 94 (Iowa 1958).
· cites it 14× “Section 368.9 is the important one with which we are here concerned.”
City of Waukee v. City Dev. Bd., 590 N.W.2d 712 (Iowa 1999).
· cites it 4× “See Iowa Code §§ 368.9 , 368.7(3). An “urbanized area” means any area of land within two miles of the boundaries of a city.”
City of Asbury v. Iowa City Dev. Bd., 723 N.W.2d 188 (Iowa 2006).
· cites it 2× “2d 820, 821 (Iowa 2001) (citing Iowa Code § 368.9 (1997)). 2 . All references to the Iowa Code are to the 2003 Supplement unless otherwise indicated.”
Dunn v. City Dev. Bd. of Iowa, 623 N.W.2d 820 (Iowa 2001).
· cites it 4× “See Iowa Code section 368.9 (1997). At the same time petitioners were preparing to file their motion to dismiss, the city realized the legal description was defective, and on August 5, 1998, the city filed a motion to amend the petition.”
City of Waukee v. City Dev. Bd., 514 N.W.2d 83 (Iowa 1994).
· cites it 2× “5(368); Iowa Code Section 368.9. If the legislature intended to suspend the CDB’s authority to act until the appointment of two new members, it could have clearly stated so.”
Budde v. City Dev. Bd., 276 N.W.2d 846 (Iowa 1979).
“Respondent City Development Board is a three-member body created by § 368.9. Respondent City Development Committee is composed of the Board and local representatives appointed as provided in § 368.”
Citizens of Rising Sun v. Rising Sun City Dev. Comm., 528 N.W.2d 597 (Iowa 1995).
· cites it 4× “In 1992, Citizens of Rising Sun (Rising Sun) submitted a petition to the City Development Board, see Iowa Code section 368.9, to incorporate the territory known as Rising Sun into a city.”
Deer Creek Homeowners Ass'n v. City Dev. Bd., 556 N.W.2d 155 (Iowa Ct. App. 1996).
· cites it 2× “250, § 5 (codified at Iowa Code § 368.9 (1) (1995)). On July 10, 1991, the committee approved the Deer Creek annexation without expansion of the board.”
Marek v. Johnson (Iowa Ct. App. 2020).
· cites it 4× “If a majority of voters “approve the discontinuance,” the city clerk must notify the Board, a five-member body “established in section 368.9.” Id. §§ 368.1(3) (defining “board” as “the city development board established in section 368.”
City Of Asbury, Iowa Vs. The Iowa City Dev. Bd. (Iowa 2006).
· cites it 2× “2d 820, 821 (Iowa 2001) (citing Iowa Code § 368.9 (1997)). 3 This is because the annexation of the Bahl and Callahan properties alone would have created “islands” of unincorporated land, which is prohibited by statute.”
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