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The Council shall, by ordinance, designate the director of a department, or some other administrative officer of the City, as Platting Commissioner. The Platting Commissioner shall provide regulations governing the platting of all lands so as to require all streets and alleys to be of proper width, and to be coterminous with adjoining streets and alleys, and otherwise to conform with regulations prescribed by the City Planning Commission. Such regulations may also require that sewers and other public improvements shall be of such nature as to conform to the plan of the City and be adequate to the future needs of the City and of the newly platted territory. Whenever the Council shall deem it expedient to plat any portion of territory within the City limits, in which the necessary or convenient streets or alleys have not already been accepted by the City so as to become public streets, or when any person plats any land within the corporate limits, or within three miles thereof, the Platting Commissioner shall, if such plats are in accordance with the rules as prescribed by him, endorse his written approval thereon. No plat subdividing lands within the corporate limits, or within three miles thereof, shall be entitled to record in the Recorder’s office of the County without such written approval so endorsed thereon.
(Effective November 9, 1931)
No streets or alleys, except those laid down on such plat and bearing the approval of the Platting Commissioner, as hereinbefore provided, shall subsequently in any way be accepted as public streets, or alleys, by the City, nor shall any public funds be expended in the repair or improvement of streets and alleys subsequently laid out and not on such plat. This restriction shall not apply to a street or alley laid out by the City, nor to streets, alleys, or public grounds laid out on a plat by or with the approval of the Platting Commissioner.
(Effective November 9, 1931)
The Council shall provide for the care, supervision, control and improvement of public highways, streets, avenues, alleys, sidewalks, public grounds, bridges, aqueducts, and viaducts, within the City, and shall cause them to be kept open, in repair and free from nuisance.
(Effective November 9, 1931)
No street or alley dedicated to public use by the proprietor of ground in the City shall be deemed a public street or alley, or under the care or control of the Council, unless the dedication be accepted and confirmed by ordinance passed for such purpose, or unless the provisions hereof relating to subdivisions shall have been complied with.
(Effective November 9, 1931)
The Council in vacating any street, or part of street, or changing the name of any street may include in one ordinance the change of name or the vacation or narrowing of more than one street, avenue, or alley, but before vacating any street or part thereof, or narrowing any street, the Council shall first pass a resolution declaring its intention so to do. The Director of Finance shall cause notice of such resolution to be served in the manner that service of summons is required to be made in civil actions upon all persons whose property abuts upon the portion of the street affected by the proposed vacation or narrowing, and by publication once in one newspaper of general circulation in the City as to all the persons who cannot be personally served. Said notice shall state the time and place at which objections can be heard before the Board of Revision of Assessments. Upon the report by the Board of Revision of Assessments, approving the proposed vacation or narrowing, the Council may by ordinance declare such vacation or narrowing, and such order of the Council vacating or narrowing a street or alley which has been dedicated to public use by the proprietor, shall, to the extent to which it is vacated or narrowed, operate as a revocation of the acceptance thereof by the Council, but the right of way and easement therein of any lot owner shall not be impaired thereby.
(Effective November 9, 1931)