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It shall be the function and duty of the Planning Commission to prepare and adopt a comprehensive city plan for the physical development of the city, including proposed public buildings, street arrangements and improvements, public utility services, parks, playgrounds and other similar developments, the use of property, the density of population and other matters relating to the physical development of the city. The plan may be prepared in sections, each of which shall relate to a major subject of the plan, as outlined in the Commission’s program of work.
(Ord. 26, passed 4-11-1961)
(A) Before adopting the city plan or any section of it or any substantial amendment thereof, the Commission shall hold at least one public hearing thereon, notice of the time and place of which shall be given by publication in a newspaper of general circulation at least ten days before the day of the hearing. The adoption of the city plan or of any section or amendment thereof shall be by resolution of the Commission, approved by the affirmative votes of not less than two-thirds of its total membership. The Commission may from time to time amend or add to the city plan or section thereof as herein provided for the adoption of the original plan whenever changed conditions or further studies by the Commission indicate that the amendment or addition is necessary.
(B) An attested copy of the plan or of any section, amendment or addition to the city plan adopted by the Planning Commission shall be certified to the City Council.
(Ord. 26, passed 4-11-1961)
(A) Upon the adoption of the city plan or any section thereof, it shall be the duty of the Planning Commission to recommend to the City Council reasonable and practicable means for putting into effect the plan or section thereof in order that the same will serve as a pattern and guide for the orderly physical development of the city and as a basis for the efficient expenditure of the funds thereof relating to the subjects of the city plan.
(B) These means shall consist of a zoning plan, the control of subdivision plats, a plan of future streets, coordination of the normal public improvements of the city, a long-term program of capital expenditures and any other matters as will accomplish the purposes of this section.
(Ord. 26, passed 4-11-1961)
The Planning Commission, upon its own motion may and upon instructions by the City Council, shall prepare a proposed zoning plan for the city. Before recommending the plan to the City Council, the Planning Commission shall hold at least one public hearing thereon after a notice similar to that required by § 150.06. The same procedure shall apply for the preparation of any plan of proposed rights-of-way for future streets or highways, or the future widening of existing streets or highways, or for the reservation of lands for other public purposes.
(Ord. 26, passed 4-11-1961)
(A) The Planning Commission may, and upon instruction by the City Council shall, prepare an official map of the platted and unplatted portions of the city and adjoining territory, or portions thereof, indicating upon the map the proposed future extension or widening of streets of the city within the existing platted and developed territory or across the unplatted territory.
(B) After the map has been prepared and a hearing on it has been held as provided in § 150.08, it shall be submitted to the Council, which shall thereupon consider the map and may adopt it or any part of it with any amendments as it deems advisable. Before the adoption by the Council, a public hearing shall be held upon the proposal at least ten days after a notice thereof has been published in a newspaper published in the city. After the map has been adopted by the Council and filed, with the Register of Deeds, whenever any existing street or highway is widened or improved, or any new street is opened, or lands for other public purpose are acquired by action of the city, it shall not be required in these proceedings to pay for any building or structure placed without a permit or in violation of conditions of a permit after the filing of a map within the limits of the mapped street, or outside of any building line that may have been established upon the existing street, or within any area, thus reserved for public purposes.
(Ord. 26, passed 4-11-1961)
(A) Every proposed plat of land within the city or within two miles of the limits of the city and not within a town which itself requires the approval of plats, shall be submitted to the City Council before being filed and no plat of land shall be filed unless and until the same shall first have been approved by the City Council.
(B) The Planning Commission, within 40 days after any plat has been referred to it by the City Council, shall act on the same and shall make its recommendations with respect thereto. These recommendations may consist of:
(1) Recommendation that the City Council approve the plat;
(2) Recommendation that the City Council disapprove the plat, in which case the recommendation shall include a statement of the specific reasons for the recommendation; or
(3) Recommendation that the City Council approve the plat after specified changes or revisions are made therein, which recommendations may include the condition that a revised plat, containing the changes or revisions, to submitted to the Planning Commission, in which case the revised plat shall be so submitted to the Planning Commission for its further consideration and recommendations before action thereon by the City Council.
(Ord. 26, passed 4-11-1961) Penalty, see § 150.99
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