(A) The County Plan Commission be designated as the Municipal Plan Commission for the town and the citizens thereof; further, that save for specific exceptions hereinafter stated, all zoning and planning related ordinances, and all procedures, programs and policies heretofore or hereafter adopted, and now or hereafter placed in force and effect by the County Plan Commission, or by the Board of Commissioners of the County, as the legislative body of the county, to include a comprehensive plan and ordinance therefor, and a zoning ordinance, be, and the same hereby are, made binding upon the town, the citizens thereof, and all real estate situated therein.
(B) The legislative function of dividing the town into districts of such kind, character, number, shape and area, as contemplated by I.C. 36-7-4-601, be retained and carried out by the Town Council, consistent with the rules, regulations and ordinances otherwise adopted by or for the County Plan Commission, County Board of Zoning Appeals, and staffs therefor; further, that all such districts or designations heretofore adopted by the Town Council be, and the same are, hereby continued in full force and effect until amended or repealed by action of the Town Council taken under authority of the Advisory Planning Law of the state.
(C) The Town Council reserves the right, ability and authority to establish and promulgate rules, regulations and/or standards for the platting and/or subdividing of real estate partly or wholly within the corporate limits of the town, to include rules, regulations and/or standards pertaining to streets, curbs, water, sewer and other utility and municipal services; that said rules, regulations and/or standards, upon promulgation, shall be forwarded to the County Plan Commission for incorporation with other rules, regulations and/or standards as to plats and subdivisions established by or enforced by said Commission; that no plat and/or subdivision of real estate situate partly or wholly within the corporate limits of the town shall be effective until the same has been approved by the Town Council after public hearing(s) before the County Plan Commission, as by law provided.
(Ord. 186, passed 9-2-1980)