It shall be the function and duty of the Planning Board to make and to perfect from time to time, so far as funds appropriated by the Board of Aldermen for such purpose will permit, a master plan for the development of the city, including any areas outside of its boundaries, which, in the Planning Board's judgment, bear relation to the planning of the city. Such master plan, with the accompanying necessary map, plats, charts, and descriptive matter, may be designed with the intention of showing as fully as is possible and practical, the Planning Board's recommendations for the desirable development of the territory, legally and logically within the scope of its planning jurisdiction. It shall include on that basis the general location, character, and extent of streets, tunnels, bridges, boulevards, parkways, roadways in streets and parks, playgrounds, squares, parks, aviation fields, and other public ways, places, grounds and open spaces, sites for public buildings, and other public property. It shall also include the routes of railroads, buses, and other forms of public transportation and the general location and extent of public utilities and terminals whether publicly or privately owned or operated, for water, light, heat, sanitation, transportation, communication, power, and other purposes; also the acceptance, removal, relocation, widening, narrowing, vacating, abandonment, change of use of or extension of any of the foregoing ways, grounds, places, open spaces, buildings, properties, utilities, or terminals and other planning features; as well as a zoning plan for the control of the height, area, bulk, location, and use of privately-owned and public structures, buildings, and premises, and of population density. Provision shall also be made for the general location, character, layout, and extent of community centers and neighborhood units and the general character, extent, and layout of the replanning of blighted districts and slum areas.
('71 Code, § 19-10) (Ord. passed 5-18-54)
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For similar statutory provisions, see R.S.A 674:1
For similar statutory provisions, see R.S.A 674:1