A. Purpose: To assure the promotion of public health, safety, morals, convenants, order or the general welfare and for the sake of the efficiency and economy in the process of community development, the city-county planning board shall prepare a growth policy and shall serve in an advisory counsel to the city council. (1975 Code § 2.20.210; amd. 2008 Code)
B. Policies: The planning board may also propose policies for:
1. Subdivision plats;
2. The development of public ways, public places, public structures and public and private utilities;
3. The issuance of improvement location permits on platted and unplatted lands;
4. The laying out and development of public ways and services to platted and unplatted lands. (1975 Code § 2.20.220; amd. 2008 Code)
C. Information Made Available: Whenever the city-county planning board undertakes the preparation of a growth policy, the department and officials of the state, county, and city, and separate taxing units operating within lands under the jurisdiction of the planning board shall make available, upon request of the board, such information, documents and plans as have been prepared; or, upon the request of the board, shall provide such information as relates to the board's activity. (1975 Code § 2.20.230; amd. 2008 Code)
D. Contents: The city-county planning board shall prepare and propose a growth policy for its jurisdictional area, which growth policy may include any of the provisions included in Montana Code Annotated title 76, chapter 1, part 6. (1975 Code § 2.20.240; amd. 2008 Code)
E. Adoption: The growth policy as provided for in subsections A through D and subsection F of this section shall be adopted by the manner prescribed in Montana Code Annotated title 76, chapter 1, part 6. (1975 Code § 2.20.250; amd. 2008 Code)
F. Subdivision Conformance; Approval:
1. Where a growth policy has been approved, the governing body may, by ordinance, require subdivision plats to conform to the provisions of the growth policy. Certified copies of such ordinances shall be filed with the city or city finance officer and with the county clerk and recorder of the county.
2. Thereafter a plat involving lands within the jurisdictional area covered by the growth policy shall not be filed without first presenting it to the city-county planning board which shall make a report to the governing body advising as to compliance or noncompliance of the plat with the growth policy. The governing body shall have the final authority to approve the filing of such plat.
3. Nothing contained in this section shall be interpreted to limit the present powers of the governing body but shall be an additional requirement before any plat be filed of record or entitled to be recorded. (1975 Code § 2.20.260; amd. 2008 Code)