The Planning Commission may adopt a plan as a whole by a single resolution or may by successive resolutions adopt successive parts of the plan, said parts corresponding with major geographic sections or divisions of the municipality or with functional subdivisions of the subject matter of the plan, and may adopt any amendment or extension thereof or addition thereto. Before the adoption of the plan or any such part, amendment, extension or addition the Planning Commission shall hold at least one public hearing thereon, notice of the time and place of which shall be given by one publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the City and in the official gazette, if any, of the City. The adoption of the plan or of any such part or amendment or extension or addition shall be by resolution of the Planning Commission carried by the affirmative votes of not less than six members of the Planning Commission. The resolution shall refer expressly to the maps and descriptive and other matter intended by the Planning Commission to form the whole or part of the plan, and the action taken shall be recorded on the map and plan and descriptive matter by the identifying signature of the Chairman and the Secretary of the Planning Commission. An attested copy of the plan or part thereof shall be certified to the City Council and to the County Register of Deeds.
(Ord. 277, passed 2-14-1939)