(A) Employing staff; expenses.
(1) The Planning Commission, subject to approval of the City Council, shall have the power and authority to employ planners, engineers, attorneys, clerks and other help deemed necessary within the limits of the appropriation fixed by the City Council.
(2) The salary and compensation of such employees shall be fixed by the City Council and shall be paid out of the City Treasury as are other officers and employees. Necessary expenses incurred by the Commission shall be paid from the City Treasury as are other legal expenses of the city.
(Prior Code, § 12-104)
(B) Powers and duties enumerated.
(1) The Planning Commission shall have the power to prepare and recommend to the City Council for adoption a Comprehensive Plan for the physical development of the city.
(2) In the preparation of the Comprehensive Plan, the Planning Commission may, from time to time, prepare and recommend to the City Council for adoption a part or parts thereof, which parts shall cover one or more major geographical divisions of the city or one or more major elements of the Comprehensive Plan. The Planning Commission may, from time to time, recommend extending, amending or changing any portion of the Comprehensive Plan.
(3) In conducting its work, the Planning Commission may consider and investigate any subject matter tending to the development and betterment of the city and may make recommendations as it deems advisable concerning the adoption thereof to the City Council.
(4) The Planning Commission may make or cause to be made surveys, studies, maps and plans in the conduct of its activities.
(5) Before final action is taken by the City Council on the location or design of any public building, statue, memorial, park, boulevard, street, alley, playground, public grounds, bridge or change in any location of any street or alley, such question shall be submitted to the Planning Commission for investigation and report.
(Prior Code, § 12-105)