The Commission shall actively participate in the planning and zoning for the city; shall review all subdivision applications, preliminary plats and final plats, and make recommendations on the same to the City Council; shall study all requests for zoning changes within the city and make recommendations to the council for any zoning changes or boundary changes in zoning; shall review all applications for variances or conditional uses and make recommendations to the City Council for such variances or conditional use permits; shall maintain current studies of the Comprehensive Plan, Zoning Ordinance and Subdivision Ordinance of the city, as well as the city impact area, and make recommendations concerning changes in the same as they may be needed; and shall exercise such other duties and functions as may be delegated by the council to the Commission by ordinance or otherwise. (Ord. 1996-5, 10-10-1996)