The powers and duties of the Planning Board are the following:
(A) To confer with and advise private property owners pertaining to location and erection of private structures with the view of having same conform to the over-all city plan, and to advise with the building inspectors and Department of Public Works in the performance of their duties.
(B) To aid and assist the Board of Commissioners in the preparation of budgets and determination of sources of funds, and in the procuring of financial and other assistance for the city from the state and federal governments and their agencies for each and all of the purposes herein enumerated.
(C) To act with and assist all other municipal and governmental agencies, and particularly the Board of Commissioners, in formulating and executing proper plans of municipal development and growth.
(D) To plan and recommend the location, plan, and extent of city alleyways, viaducts, bridges, subways, airports, automobile parking places, and other public grounds and public improvements; for the location of public buildings, schools, and other public properties; and of public utilities, including bus terminals, railroads, railroad depots, and terminals, whether publicly or privately owned; for water, lights, sanitation, sewerage, sewage disposal, drainage, flood control, transportation, communication, marketing, and shipping facilities, power, and other purposes; and for the removal, relocation, widening, extension, narrowing, vacation, abandonment, or change of use of any of the foregoing public places, facilities, or utilities.
(E) To select and recommend to the Board of Commissioners routes of streets, avenues, and boulevards, including the opening, widening, and abandoning of the same, or of any alley, or the changing thereof to conform with the city's system, present and future, with reference to traffic.
(F) To investigate, consider, and report to the Board of Commissioners upon the layout or platting of any new subdivision of the city or of property situated within five miles of the city limits, and to recommend the approval of all plans, plats, or replats of additions within the city limits or within five miles of the same, or of the rejection of either.
(G) To suggest, to the Board of Commissioners, plans for clearing the city of slums and blighted areas.
(H) To make any recommendation that seems expedient and in consonance with future zoning plans or laws, and with reference to the use of the present zoning of the city.
(I) The Planning Board shall, from time to time, recommend to the Board of Commissioners passage of such ordinances as may be necessary to carry out its program.
(Ord. 246, passed 9-6-60)