(a) The Planning Commission shall consist of the mayor, one member of Council to be appointed by Council, and three electors of the City, not holding other municipal office or employment, to be appointed by the mayor and confirmed by Council. The members of the Commission shall receive no compensation. The terms of the members of the Commission appointed by the mayor shall be for six years, staggered so that every two years one member's term ends. A vacancy occurring during the term of any member of the Commission shall be filled for the unexpired term in the manner authorized by an original appointment.
(b) It shall be the function and duty of the Planning Commission to act as the platting commissioners of the City and as such shall have control of planning and shall provide regulations covering the platting of all lands within the City so as to secure the harmonious development and provide for coordination of streets with other streets and with the official municipal plan, and to provide for open spaces for traffic, utilities, access or firefighting apparatus, recreation, light and air and for the avoidance of congestion of population. The Commission shall make such regulations as it deems necessary as to the manner in which streets and other public ways shall be graded and improved, the manner in which and the extent to which water, sewer and other utility mains, piping or other facilities shall be installed, or establish any other conditions precedent to the approval of a proposed plat. The Commission shall make plans and maps of the whole or any portion of the City and any land outside the City which in the opinion of the Commission, bears a relation to the planning of the City, and to make changes in, additions to, and estimates of such plans of maps when it deems the same advisable. It shall have such powers as
may be conferred on it by ordinance of Council concerning the plan, design, location, removal, relocation and alteration of any public building or structure or those located on public streets or property; the location, relocation, widening, extension and vacation of streets, parkways, playgrounds and other public places; the zoning and rezoning of the City for any lawful purpose; the administration of the zoning code, and such other powers as may be conferred upon it by Council or the laws of Ohio.