The Planning Commission shall have the following powers and duties:
(A) To prepare and recommend to the City Council a comprehensive plan for the present and future development or redevelopment of the city. Such 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 Planning Commission and as thereafter adopted by the city, may be made applicable, by the terms thereof, to land situated within the corporate limits and contiguous territory not more than one and one- half miles beyond the corporate limits, and not included in any other municipality. Such plan may be implemented by ordinances:
(1) Establishing reasonable standards of design for subdivisions and for resubdivisions of unimproved land 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, storm water 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 such land upon annexation.
(B) To recommend changes, from time to time, in the official comprehensive plan.
(C) To prepare and recommend to the 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 prepare and recommend to the City Council schemes for regulating or forbidding structures or activities which may hinder access to solar energy necessary for the proper functioning of solar energy systems, as defined in Section 1.2 of The Comprehensive Solar Energy Act of the State of Illinois as set forth in ILCS Ch. 30, Act 725, § 1.2 and any amendment thereto, or to recommended changes in such schemes.
(F) To exercise such other powers germane to the powers granted by this article and as otherwise conferred by the City Council and the State of Illinois.
(1993 Code, § 5-1-5) (Ord. 750, passed 9-1-1987)