The Plan Commission shall have the following powers and duties:
(A) (1) To prepare and recommend to the Council a comprehensive plan of public improvements, looking to the present and future development and growth of the city. Such a plan, after its adoption by the Council, will be known as the Official Plan of the City.
(2) The Plan shall include reasonable requirements in reference to streets, alleys, and public grounds within the corporate limits and in contiguous territory outside of and distant not more than 1½ miles from such limits, and not included in any municipality, such requirements to be effective whenever such lands shall be subdivided after the adoption of the Plan.
(B) To prepare and recommend to the Council from time to time such changes in the plan as may be deemed necessary by the Council or by the Plan Commission.
(C) To prepare and recommend to the Council from time to time, plans and recommendations for specific improvements in pursuance of the Official Plan.
(D) To give aid to the officials of the city, charged with the direction of projects for improvements embraced within the Official Plan, to further the making of such improvements, and generally to promote the realization of the Official Plan.
(E) To arrange and conduct any form of publicity relative to its activities for the general purpose of public understanding.
(F) To exercise such other powers germane to the powers granted by this subchapter as may be conferred by the Council.
(1963 Code, § 2-3-5)