NATCHEZ — The City of Natchez may soon be looking for three residents to serve on the planning and preservation commissions.

City Planner Frankie Legaux said Natchez Planning Commissioners Linda Futrell and Karen Stubbs have resigned their positions.

The city, Legaux said, will soon advertise for applications to fill those spots.

Stubbs’ position on the commission was called into question recently by Ward 1 Alderwoman Joyce Arceneaux-Mathis at a Natchez Board of Aldermen meeting.

Stubbs was serving after she was reappointed to the commission in 2011, shortly after she relocated to Concordia Parish.

Before she moved, Stubbs said she consulted with former City Planner Bob Nix, who told her she did not have to resign because she moved. Nix’s interpretation of the ordinance, Stubbs said, was that she could still legally serve and not live in Natchez.

Legaux said city ordinance stipulates that all planning and preservation commissions be residents of Natchez and registered voters.

Stubbs said she resigned her position because she did not want to jeopardize decisions made by the planning commission.

“The last thing I would ever want to do is call into doubt our votes,” she said.

Stubbs had served on the commission since 1992.

Legaux said she is awaiting confirmation from a preservation commissioner who may be moving out of state. If that commissioner moves, the city will then fill that position, too.

The planning and preservation commission help oversee development and administration of the city’s comprehensive plan, historic preservation, zoning, subdivision review and interagency development plans review.

Planning and preservation commissioners serve six-year terms.

Anyone interested in applying to be a planning or preservation commissioner should send a resume to City Hall at 124 S. Pearl St., Natchez, MS, 39120.

The applications will be reviewed by the mayor and Natchez Board of Aldermen, who will them make the appointments.