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(A) As background for its comprehensive plans and any ordinances it may prepare, the Planning Board may gather maps and aerial photographs of manmade and natural physical features of the area, statistics on past trends and present conditions with respect to population, property values, the economic base of the community, land use, and such other information as is important or likely to be important in determining the amount, direction, and kind of development to be expected in the area and its various parts.
(B) In addition, the Planning Board may make, cause to be made, or obtain special studies on the location, condition and adequacy of specific facilities, which may include but are not limited to studies of housing; commercial and industrial facilities, parks, playgrounds, and recreational facilities, public and private utilities, and traffic, transportation and parking facilities.
(C) All officials of the village shall, upon request, furnish to the Planning Board such available records or information as it may require to its work. The Board or its agents may, in the performance of its official duties, enter upon lands and make examination or surveys and maintain necessary monuments thereon.
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(A) The comprehensive plans, with the accompanying maps, plats, charts and descriptive matter, shall be and show the Planning Board's recommendations to the Village Council for the development of the area, including, among other things, the general location, character and extent of streets, bridges, boulevards, parkways, playgrounds, squares, parks, aviation fields, and other public ways, grounds and open spaces; the general location and extent of public utilities and terminals, whether publicly or privately owned or operated, for water, power, gas, sanitation, transportation, communication, and other purposes; and the removal relocation, widening, narrowing, vacating, abandonment, change of use, or extension of any of the foregoing ways, buildings, grounds, open spaces, properties, utilities or terminals.
(B) The comprehensive plans and any ordinances or other measures to effectuate the plans shall be made with the general purpose of guiding and accomplishing a coordinated, adjusted, and harmonious development of the village and its environs which will, in accordance with present and future needs, best promote health, safety, morals, and the general welfare, as well as efficiency and economy in the process of development, including, among other things, adequate provision for traffic, the promotion of safety from fire and other dangers, adequate provision for light and air, the promotion of the healthful and convenient distribution of population, the promotion of good civic design and arrangement, the wise and efficient expenditure of public funds, and the adequate provision of public utilities, services and other public requirements.
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The Planning Board may initiate, from time to time, proposals for a zoning ordinance and map based upon its studies and plans. In addition it shall review and make recommendations to the Village Council concerning all proposed amendments to the zoning ordinance and map after a zoning ordinance has been adopted.
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