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(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
No change shall be made in the zoning plan, future street and public lands plan, or regulations governing the platting of land after the plans or regulations have been adopted by the City Council, until the proposed change has been referred to the Planning Commission for report thereon and an attested copy of the report has been filed with the Council; and no ordinance or resolution establishing any of the plans or specifications shall be adopted by the City Council until the ordinance or resolution has been referred to the Planning Commission for a report thereon and an attested copy of the report has been filed with the Council. Failure of the Planning Commission so to report within 40 days or a longer period as may be designated by the Council after the reference shall be deemed to be approval of the proposed change.
(Ord. 26, passed 4-11-1961)
Each officer, department, board or commission of or in the city whose functions include recommending, preparing plans for or constructing public works shall, at least three months before the end of each fiscal year, submit to the Planning Commission a list of the proposed public works recommended by the officer, department, board or commission for planning, initiation or constructing during the ensuing fiscal years. The Planning Commission shall request from the local school district a similar list of its proposed public works. The Planning Commission shall list and classify all proposed public works and shall prepare a coordinated program of proposed public works for the ensuing fiscal year. The program shall be recommended by the Commission to the Council and to any other officers, departments, boards or public bodies as have jurisdiction over the recommending, planning or constructing of the public works. A copy of the recommended program of public works shall be included in the annual report of the Planning Commission provided for in § 150.03.
(Ord. 26, passed 4-11-1961)
(A) Any person violating any provision of this chapter, for which no other penalty is provided, shall be subject to the penalty provisions of § 10.99.
(B) Any person who violates § 150.10 or who sells land or offers land for sale or contracts for the sale of land by reference to or by other use of any plat before the plat has been approved by the Planning Commission and the City Council in accordance with the provisions of § 150.10 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than $100 or by imprisonment for not more than 90 days. Before acting on the plat, the City Council shall submit the same to the Planning Commission for its recommendations.
(Ord. 26, passed 4-11-1961)