(a) Public improvements and public land.
(1) Whenever the Planning Commission has adopted a Major Street Plan, no street, bridge or other public way and no public utility, whether publicly or privately owned, shall be constructed or be authorized to be constructed in the city or planned portion thereof, and no real property shall be acquired for street purposes by the city until and unless the location and extent thereof shall have been submitted to and approved by the Commission.
(2) The widening, narrowing, relocation, vacation or change in the use of any street or other public way or ground or the sale of any public real property which has been acquired for street purposes or located within the mapped street lines shall be subject to the same submission and approval.
(3) In case of disapproval, the Commission shall communicate its reasons therefor to Council and to the head of the department which has control of the construction of the proposed improvement. Council, by a vote of not less than two-thirds of its members and of such department head, together may overrule such disapproval. Upon such overruling, Council shall have power to proceed. The failure of the Commission to act within 30 days after the date of official submission to it shall be deemed approval, unless a longer period be granted by Council or other submitting public agency.
(b) Subdivision of land. Whenever the Planning Commission has adopted a Major Street Plan and Council has adopted Subdivision Regulations, then no plat of a subdivision of land within the city shall be recorded until it has been approved by the Commission. The Commission may require the dedication of the rights-of-way for any street within the subdivision and the widening of present streets at the width shown on the Major Street Plan.
(c) Preparation of neighborhood street plans and mapped street plats. Whenever the Planning Commission has adopted a Major Street Plan, the Commission shall have the power to make studies and prepare neighborhood street plans and mapped street plats.
(d) Control of access. If the county, city or state has established regulations controlling the location, use, number, width, grade, relation to other intersections, or any other design features of private driveway connections to major or secondary streets in order to minimize the marginal interference with the free flow of traffic and to protect the developments along such streets, approval shall be required for driveways connecting to the streets, as may be designated on the Major Street Plan.
(Ord. 1962-16, passed 2-19-1962)