The plan commission shall have the following powers:
A. To prepare and recommend to the village council a comprehensive plan for the present and future development or redevelopment of the village. Such plan may be adopted in whole or in separate geographical or functional parts, each of which, when adopted, shall be the official comprehensive plan, or part thereof of the village 1 . The plan may include reasonable requirements with reference to streets, alleys, public grounds and other improvements hereinafter specified. The plan, as recommended by the plan commission and as thereafter adopted in the village, may be made applicable, by the terms thereof, to land situated in the corporate limits and contiguous territory not more than one and one-half (11/2) miles beyond the corporate limits and not included in any other municipality. Such plan may be implemented by ordinances that: (Ord. 6-91, 12-3-1991)
1. Establish reasonable standards of design for subdivisions and for resubdivisions of unimproved land and of areas subject to redevelopment in respect to public improvements. (Ord. 6-91, 12-3-1991; amd. 2003 Code)
2. Establish reasonable requirements governing the location, width, course, and surfacing of public streets and highways, alleys, ways for public service facilities, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, streetlights, parks, playgrounds, school grounds, size of lots to be used for residential purposes, storm water drainage, water supply and distribution, and sewage collection and treatment; and
3. Designate land suitable for annexation to the village and the recommended zoning classification for such land upon annexation.
B. To recommend changes, from time to time, in the official comprehensive plan.
C. To prepare and recommend to the village council, from time to time, plans for specific improvements in pursuance of the official comprehensive plan.
D. To give aid to the municipal officials charged with the direction of projects for improvements embraced within the official plan, to further the making of these projects, and generally, to promote the realization of the official comprehensive plan.
E. To prepare and recommend to the village council schemes for regulating or forbidding structures or activities which may hinder access to solar energy necessary for the proper functioning of solar energy systems.
F. To exercise such other powers germane to the powers granted herein as may be conferred by the village council. (Ord. 6-91, 12-3-1991)
Notes
| 1 | 1. See title 1, chapter 9 of this code. |