The Commission shall have the power and it shall be its duty to:
(A) Make studies and project plans for the improvement of the city with a view for future development and extension, and recommend to the City Council all matters for the development and improvement of the city’s facilities, and shall pass upon the application for plats requested under Tex. Local Government Code Ch. 212;
(B) Make plans and maps of the whole or any part or portion of the city and of 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 extensions of such plans or maps when it deems the changes, additions and extensions advisable;
(C) Confer with and advise private property owners pertaining to location and erection of private structures with the view of having them conform to the overall city plan, and advise the Building Inspectors and Department of Public Works in the performance of their duties;
(D) Advise all other city and governmental agencies, and particularly the City Council, in formulating and executing proper plans of the city’s development and growth;
(E) Evaluate and recommend the locations, scope, character and standards for streets, roads, alleyways, viaducts, bridges, subways, parkways, airports, automobile parking places, utilities, public buildings, schools, parks, playgrounds, railroads, water, lights, sanitation, sewerage, sewage disposal, drainage, flood control, transportation terminals, communication, marketing and shipping facilities, power and other facilities; and for the removal, relocation, widening, extension, narrowing, vacating, abandoning or changing of use of any of such public places, facilities and utilities;
(F) Select and recommend to the City Council routes of streets, avenues and boulevards, including the opening, widening and abandoning of the same or of any alley, or their changing to conform with the city’s system, present and future, with reference to traffic, land use and public facilities;
(G) Evaluate and make recommendations to the City Council upon the layout or platting of any new subdivision of the city, or of property situated within one-half mile of the city limits, and to approve, approve conditionally or disapprove modification of all plans, plats or replats of additions within the city limits or within one-half mile of the city;
(H) Recommend to the City Council plans for clearance of slums and blighted areas, the prevention of the spread of blight and dilapidation and improvement of housing conditions;
(I) Make any recommendations concerning current and future zoning plans; and
(J) Recommend to the City Council passage of such ordinances or ordinance amendments as may be necessary to carry out the Commission’s program.
(2012 Code, § 2-248)