§ 31.023 SURVEYS.

   In the preparation of such Master Plan, the Commission shall make careful and comprehensive surveys and studies of present conditions and future growth of the city with due regard to its relation to the neighboring territory.

(1979 Code, § 5.220) (Ord. 21, passed 6-1-1957)

§ 31.024 ADOPTION.

   (A)   The Commission may adopt the Master Plan as a whole by a single resolution or may, by successive resolutions, adopt successive parts of the Plan, said parts corresponding with large geographical sections or divisions of the city or with functional subdivisions of the subject matter of the Plan and may adopt any amendment or extension thereof or addition thereto.

(1979 Code, § 5.221)

   (B)   The adoption of the Plan, or any such part or amendment or extension or addition, shall be, by resolution of the Commission, carried by affirmative votes of not less than six members of the Commission.

(1979 Code, § 5.225)

   (C)   The resolution shall refer expressly to the maps and description and other matter intended by the Commission to form the whole or part of the Plan and the action taken shall be recorded on the map and Plan and descriptive matter by the identifying signature of the Chairperson and Secretary of the Commission.

(1979 Code, § 5.226)

(Ord. 21, passed 6-1-1957)

§ 31.025 PUBLICATION.

   The Commission shall publish such parts of the Master Plan as it may from time to time adopt.

(1979 Code, § 5.222) (Ord. 21, passed 6-1-1957)

§ 31.026 HEARING.

   (A)   Hearing of the Plan. Before the adoption of the Plan, or any such part, amendment, extension or addition, the Commission shall hold at least one public hearing thereon.

(1979 Code, § 5.223)

   (B)   Notice of hearing. Notice of the time and place of the hearing on the adoption of the Plan, or amendments thereto, shall be given in accordance with § 150.035.

(1979 Code, § 5.224)

(Ord. 21, passes 6-1-1957; Ord. 174, passed 2-3-2009)

§ 31.027 CERTIFICATION.

   An attested copy of the Plan, or part thereof, shall be certified to the Council and to the Register of Deeds of the Counties of St. Clair and Macomb.

(1979 Code, § 5.227) (Ord. 21, passed 6-1-1957)

§ 31.028 RESTRICTIONS OF PUBLIC WORKS.

   (A)   Whenever the Commission shall have adopted the Master Plan, or of one or more major sections or districts thereof, no street, alley, square, park or public building or structure or utility shall be sold, closed, abandoned, constructed or authorized in the city, or in such planned section and district, until the location, character and extent thereof shall have been submitted to, and approved by, the Commission.

(1979 Code, § 5.228)

   (B)   In case of disapproval by the Commission, the Commission shall communicate its reason to the Council, which shall have the power to overrule such disapproval by a recorded vote of not less than two-thirds of the entire membership of the Council; provided, however, that if the public street, alley, square, park or other public way, ground, space, building, structure or utility be one the authorization or financing of which does not, under the law or charter provisions governing the same, fall within the province of the Council, then submission shall be by the board or other commission or body having such jurisdiction and the Commission’s disapproval may be overruled by said board, or other commission or body, by a vote of not less than two-thirds of its membership.

(1979 Code, § 5.229)

(Ord. 21, passed 6-1-1957)

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