(A) To prepare and recommend to the Mayor and City Council a comprehensive plan for the present and future development or redevelopment of the city. The 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 city. This 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 shall be applicable, to land situated within the corporate limits and contiguous territory not more than one and one-half miles beyond the corporate limits. The plan may be implemented by ordinances:
(1) Establishing reasonable standards of design for subdivisions and for re-subdivisions of unimproved lands and of areas subject to redevelopment in respect to public improvements as herein defined;
(2) Establishing reasonable requirements governing the location, width, course and surfacing of public streets and highways, alleys, ways for public service facilities, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, street lights, parks, playgrounds, school grounds, size of lots to be used for residential purposes, stormwater drainage, water supply and distribution, sanitary sewers and sewage collection and treatment; and
(3) May designate land suitable for annexation to the city and the recommended zoning classification for land upon annexation.
(B) To recommend changes, from time to time, in the official comprehensive plan;
(C) To prepare and recommend to the Mayor and City Council, from time to time, plans for specific improvements in pursuance of the official comprehensive plan;
(D) To give aid to the city 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 review all plans for subdivision or re-subdivision of land within the corporate limits of the city or in contiguous territory outside of and distant not more than one and one-half miles therefrom, and to make recommendations regarding the same to the City Council;
(F) To conduct public hearings regarding amendments of the zoning regulations of the city, changes in zoning classification as to specific parcels of land, special uses and planned developments, and to make recommendations regarding the same to the City Council;
(G) To exercise other powers and duties germane to the powers and duties granted herein as may be conferred by the City Council; and
(H) To make recommendations to the City Council concerning classification of commercial or industrial uses not specifically listed in the zoning regulations as to the appropriate districts therefore, based on the general character of the use and its comparability with other uses specifically permitted in the district.
(1980 Code, § 11.503)