The Planning Commission shall have the following powers and duties:
(A) (1) To prepare and recommend to the City Commission a comprehensive plan of public improvements, looking to the present and future development and growth of the city. Such a plan, after its adoption by the City Commission, will be known as the “City Master Plan.”
(2) The Master Plan shall include reasonable requirements in reference to streets, alleys, and public grounds within the corporate limits and the contiguous territory outside of and distant not more than one and one-half miles from the city limits.
(B) To prepare and recommend to the City Commission, from time to time, any changes in the Master Plan or any part thereof as may be deemed necessary by the City Commission or by the Planning Commission;
(C) 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 the improvements, and generally to promote the realization of the official Master Plan;
(D) To arrange and conduct any form of publicity relative to its activities for the general purpose of public understanding;
(E) To cooperate with municipal, county, or regional planning commissions and other agencies or groups to further the local planning program, and to assure harmonious and integrated planning for the area;
(F) To ensure the orderly administration of the subdivision regulations in Chapter 152; and
(G) To exercise any other powers germane to the powers granted by statute.
(1993 Code, § 31.70)
Editor’s note:
Duties of the Planning Commission, pertaining to the administration of the zoning regulations, are described in Chapter 153.