A. Whenever the city council shall have adopted the comprehensive plan of the city or any part thereof, no street, park or other public way, ground, place, space; no public building or structure; no public utility, whether publicly or privately owned, if covered by the comprehensive plan or any adopted part thereof, shall be constructed or authorized in the city or within its subdivision jurisdiction as defined in Section 2.32.160 until and unless the location and extent thereof shall have been submitted to and approved by the planning commission.
B. In case of disapproval, the planning commission shall communicate its reasons to the city council, and the city council, by vote of not less than two-thirds of its entire membership, shall have the power to overrule such disapproval and, upon such overruling, the city council or the appropriate board or officer shall have the power to proceed.
C. If the public way, ground, place, space, building, structure or utility is one the authorization or financing of which does not, under the law or Charter provisions governing such, fall within the province of the city council or other body or official of the city, the submission to the planning commission shall be by the board or official having such jurisdiction, and the planning commission’s disapproval may be overruled by such board by a vote of not less than two-thirds of its entire membership or by such official.
D. The acceptance, widening, removal, extension, relocation, narrowing, vacation, abandonment, change of use, acquisition of land for any street or other public way, ground, place, property or structure shall be subject to similar submission and approval, and the failure to approve may be similarly overruled.
E. The failure of the planning commission to act within sixty-five (65) days from and after the date of official submission to it shall be deemed approval, unless a longer period be granted by the city council or other submitting official. (Ord. 556 (part), 2002)