(A) The Glendale Planning and Historic Preservation Commission (GPHPC) shall have power to make plans and maps of the whole or any portion of the village, and of any land outside the municipality, which, in the opinion of the GPHPC, bears relation to the planning of the municipality, and may make changes in the plans or maps when it deems the changes advisable. The maps or plans shall show the GPHPC's recommendations for new streets, alleys, ways, viaducts, bridges, subways, parkways, parks, playgrounds, or any other public grounds or public improvements, and the removal, relocation, widening, or extension of the public works then existing.
(B) With a view to the systematic planning of the village the GPHPC may make recommendations to the Mayor, Council, and department heads concerning the location of streets, transportation, and communication facilities, public buildings, and grounds. The GPHPC may have the power to control, preserve, and care for historical landmarks, to control in the manner provided by ordinance the design and location of works of art and public monuments, which are or may become the property of the municipality, the removal, relocation, and alteration of any works belonging to the municipality, and the design of bridges, viaducts, street fixtures, and other public structures and appurtenances.
(C) Whenever the GPHPC shall have made a plan of the municipality, or any portion thereof, no public building, street, boulevard, parkway, park, playground, public ground, canal, bridge, viaduct, tunnel utility (whether publicly or privately owned), or part thereof, shall be constructed or authorized to be constructed in the municipality or the planned portion of the municipality until and unless the location thereof shall be approved by the GPHPC. In case of disapproval, the GPHPC shall communicate its reasons for disapproval to Council and the department head of the department which has control of the construction of the proposed improvement or utility.
(D) Council, by a vote of not less than two-thirds of its members shall have the power to overrule the disapproval. The narrowing, ornamentation, vacation, or change in the use of streets and other public ways, grounds, and places shall be subject to similar approval, and disapproval may be similarly overruled.
(E) The GPHPC may make recommendation to any public authorities or to any corporations or individuals in the municipality or the territory contiguous thereto, concerning the location of any buildings, structures or works to be erected or constructed by them.
('56 Code, § 18-1) (Ord. 2001-40, passed 4-1-02)
Statutory reference:
Powers and duties of Planning Commission, see R.C. § 713.02