CHAPTER 1224
Comprehensive Plan
1224.01   Preparation by Planning Commission.
1224.02   Adoption by Council.
1224.03   Legal status of Plan within City.
1224.04   Legal status of Plan within City School District.
1224.05   County Comprehensive Plan.
1224.06   Application to other comprehensive plans.
   CROSS REFERENCES
   Comprehensive Plan - see Penna. Mun. Plan. Code, Art. III
   Application to planned residential development - see P. & Z. Ch. 1260
1224.01 PREPARATION BY PLANNING COMMISSION.
   The Planning Commission shall maintain, amend, alter or change the Comprehensive Plan for the development of the City. The Comprehensive Plan consists of maps, charts and textual matter which shall indicate the recommendations of the Commission for the continuing development of the City. The Comprehensive Plan shall include, but need not be limited to, the following rated basic elements:
   (a)   A statement of objectives of the Municipality concerning its future development;
   (b)   A plan for land use, which may include the amount, intensity and character of land use proposed for residence, industry, business, agriculture, major traffic and transit facilities, public grounds, flood plains and other areas of special hazards and other similar uses;
   (c)   A plan for the movement of people and goods, which may include expressways, highways, local street systems, parking facilities, mass transit routes, terminals, airfields, port facilities, railroad facilities and other similar facilities or uses;
   (d)   A plan for community facilities and utilities, which may include public and private education, recreation, Municipal buildings, libraries, water supply, sewage disposal, refuse disposal, storm drainage, hospitals and other similar uses; and
   (e)   A map or statement indicating the relationship of the City and its proposed development to adjacent municipalities and areas.
   In preparing the Comprehensive Plan, the Commission shall make careful surveys and studies of existing conditions and prospects for future growth in the City.
(Ord. 3914. Passed 11-30-71.)
1224.02 ADOPTION BY COUNCIL.
   Council shall have the power to adopt and amend the Comprehensive Plan in whole or in part. Before adopting or amending the Comprehensive Plan or any part thereof, there shall be at least one public hearing pursuant to public notice. The adoption of the Comprehensive Plan or any part thereof, or any amendment thereto, shall be by resolution carried by the affirmative vote of not less than the majority of all the members of Council. The resolution shall refer to the maps, charts, textual matter and other matters intended to form the whole or part of the Plan, and the action shall be recorded on the adopted plan or part thereof.
(Ord. 3914. Passed 11-30-71.)
1224.03 LEGAL STATUS OF PLAN WITHIN CITY.
   (a)   Following the adoption of the Comprehensive Plan, or any part thereof, by Council, pursuant to public notice, any subsequent proposed action of Council shall be submitted to the Planning Commission for its recommendations when the proposed action relates to:
      (1)   The location, opening, vacation, extension, widening, narrowing or enlargement of any street, public ground, pierhead or watercourse;
      (2)   The location, erection, demolition, removal or sale of any public structure located within the Municipality; or
      (3)   The adoption, amendment or repeal of an Official Map, subdivision and land development ordinance, zoning ordinance or planned residential development ordinance.
   (b)   The recommendations of the Planning Commission, including a specific statement as to whether or not the proposed action is in accordance with the intent of the formally adopted Comprehensive Plan, shall be made in writing to Council within thirty days.
(Ord. 4398. Passed 9-10-86.)
1224.04 LEGAL STATUS OF PLAN WITHIN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
   Following the adoption of the Comprehensive Plan, or any part thereof, by Council, pursuant to public notice, any proposed action of the School District located within the City relating to the location, demolition, removal or sale of any School District structure or land shall be submitted to the Planning Commission for its recommendation at least thirty days prior to the execution of such proposed action by the School District.
(Ord. 4398. Passed 9-10-86.)
1224.05 COUNTY COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
   The City will give the Comprehensive Plan of the City to the County Planning Commission in exchange for the County Comprehensive Plan, so that the other may consider the objectives of each Plan and protect its Plan to the greatest extent possible.
(Ord. 3914. Passed 11-30-71.)
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