(A) It shall have full power and authority to make or cause to be made such surveys, studies, maps, plans or charts of the whole or any portion of the city or any land outside thereof, which in the opinion of the commission, bears relation to a Comprehensive Plan and shall bring to the attention of the Council and may publish its plans and recommendations.
(B) All plans, plats or re-plats of subdivisions or resubdivisions of land embraced in the city or adjacent thereto, laid out in lots or plats with the streets, alleys or other portions of the same intended to be dedicated to the public shall first be submitted to the Commission and the latter shall have 30 days within which to file its recommendations thereon.
(C) For the purpose of making a Comprehensive Plan for the physical development of the city, the Commission shall make careful and comprehensive studies of present conditions and future growth of the city and with due regard to its relation to neighboring territory. The plan shall be made with the general purpose of guiding and accomplishing a coordinated, adjusted and harmonious development of the city and its environs which will, in accordance with the present and future needs, best promote health, safety, morals, order, convenience, prosperity and general welfare, as well as efficiency and economy in the process of development.
(D) Before adopting a Comprehensive Plan as referred to in division (C) above, or any part of it, or any substantial amendment thereof, the Commission shall hold at least one public hearing thereon, notice of the time of which shall be given by one publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the city not less than ten, nor more than 20, days before the date of hearing. The adoption of the plan or any part of it, or any amendment thereof, shall be by resolution of the Commission carried by the affirmative vote of not less than two-thirds of the members of the Commission. After adoption of said plan by the Commission, an attested copy thereof shall be certified to the City Council and the Council or any modification or amendment may approve the same, and when said plan thereof shall receive the approval of the City Council, the said plan until subsequently modified or amended as hereinbefore authorized, shall constitute the official City Comprehensive Plan.
(E) When such Comprehensive Plan, as hereinbefore provided, has been adopted no substantial amendment or modification thereof shall be made without such proposed change first being referred to the Commission, for its recommendation. If the Commission disapproves the proposed change, it may be adopted by the Council only by the affirmative vote of at least three-fourths of all membership of the Council.
(Ord. D-047, passed 11-21-2017)