A. Preparation And Adoption:
1. If no required Master Plan exists, the City Council shall prepare and adopt a comprehensive long-term general plan for the physical development of the City which, in the Council's judgment, bears relation to the planning thereof.
2. The plan shall be known as the Master Plan and shall be so prepared that all or portions thereof may be adopted as provided in this Chapter and in NRS 278.010 or 278.630, inclusive, as a basis for the development of the City for such reasonable period of time next ensuing after the adoption thereof as may practically be covered thereby.
B. Subject Matter:
1. The Master Plan, with the accompanying charts, drawings, diagrams, schedules and reports, shall include such of the following subject matter or portions thereof as are appropriate to the City and as may be made the basis for the physical development thereof:
a. Community Design: Standards and principles governing the subdivision of land and suggestive patterns for community design and development.
b. Conservation Plan: For the conservation, development and utilization of natural resources, including water and its hydraulic force, underground water, water supply, forest, soils, rivers and other waters, harbors, fisheries, wildlife, minerals and other natural resources. The Plan shall also cover the reclamation of land and waters, flood control, prevention and control of the pollution of streams and other waters, regulation of the use of land in stream channels and other areas required for the accomplishment of the Conservation Plan, prevention, control and correction of the erosion of soils through proper clearing, grading and landscaping, beaches and shores and protection of watersheds. The Plan shall also indicate the maximum tolerable air pollution level.
c. Economic Plan: Showing recommended schedules for the allocation and expenditure of public funds in order to provide for the economical and timely execution of the various components of the Plan.
d. Housing: Survey of housing conditions and needs and plans and procedure for improvement of housing standards and for the provision of adequate housing.
e. Long Use Plan: An inventory and classification of natural land types and of existing land cover and uses and comprehensive plans for the most desirable utilization of land.
f. Population Plan: An estimate of the total population which the natural resources of the City, County or region will support on a continuing basis without unreasonable impairment.
g. Public Buildings: Showing locations and arrangement of civic centers and all other public buildings, including the architecture thereof and the landscape treatment of the grounds thereof.
h. Public Services And Facilities: Showing general plans for sewage, drainage and utilities and right-of-way easements and facilities therefor.
i. Recreation Plan: Showing a comprehensive system of recreation areas, including natural reservations, parks, parkways, reserved riverbank strips, beaches, playgrounds and other recreation areas, including, when practicable, the locations and proposed development thereof.
j. Seismic Safety Plan: Consisting of an identification and appraisal of seismic hazards such as susceptibility to surface ruptures from faulting, to ground shaking or to ground failures.
k. Solid Waste Disposal Plan: Showing general plans for disposal of solid waste.
l. Street And Highway Plans: Showing the general locations and widths of a comprehensive system of major traffic thoroughfares and other trafficways and of streets and the recommended treatment thereof, building line setbacks and a system of street naming or numbering and house numbering, with recommendations concerning proposed changes.
m. Transit Plan: Showing a proposed system of transit lines, including rapid transit, streetcar, motorcoach and trolley coach lines and other related facilities.
n. Transportation Plan: Showing a comprehensive transportation system, including location of rights of way, terminals, viaducts and grade separation. The Plan may also include port, harbor, aviation and related facilities.
2. The City Council may prepare and adopt, as part of the Master Plan, other additional plans and reports dealing with such other subjects as may, in its judgment, relate to the physical development of the City and nothing contained in this Chapter or in NRS 278.101 to 278.630, inclusive, shall be deemed to prohibit the preparation and adoption of any such subject as a part of the Master Plan.
C. Coordination Of Plan: The City Council may prepare and adopt all or any part of the Master Plan or any subject thereof for all or any part of the City; but master regional plans shall be coordinated with similar plans of adjoining regions, and master County and City plans within each region shall be coordinated so as to fit properly into the Master Plan for the region.
D. School Sites: The City Council shall, during the formulation of plans for community design and public buildings, notify the Board of Trustees of the Elko County School District of the preparation of such plans to the end that adequate and properly located school sites may be provided for.
E. Promotion Of Public Interest In Master Plan; Powers:
1. The Council shall endeavor to promote public interest in and understanding of the Master Plan or official plans and regulations relating thereto. As a means of furthering the purpose of a Master Plan, the Commission shall annually make recommendations to the governing body for the implementation of the Plan.
2. The Council also shall consult and advise with public officials and agencies, public utility companies, civic, educational, professional and other organizations and with citizens generally with relation to the carrying out of such plans.
3. The Council and its members, officers and employees, in the performance of their functions, may enter upon any land and make examinations and surveys and place and maintain necessary monuments and marks thereon.
4. In general, the Council shall have such power as may be necessary to enable it to fulfill the functions and carry out the provisions of this Chapter and of NRS 278.010 to 278.630, inclusive.
F. Form Of Plan:
1. The Master Plan shall be a map, together with such charts, drawings, diagrams, schedules, reports, ordinances or other printed or published material or any one or a combination of any of the foregoing, as may be considered essential to the purpose of NRS 278.010 to 278.630, inclusive.
2. The adoption of the Master Plan, or of any amendments, extensions or additions thereof, shall be by the Council in the manner required by NRS 278.220.
3. No plan or map, hereafter, shall have indicated thereon that it is a part of the Master Plan until it shall have been adopted as part of the Master Plan by the Council as herein provided.
G. Executing The Master Plan: Whenever the City Council shall have adopted a Master Plan or any part thereof for the City, or for any major section or district thereof, the City Council shall determine upon reasonable and practical means for putting into effect the Master Plan or part thereof, in order that the same will serve as a pattern and guide for that kind of orderly physical growth and development of the City which will cause the least amount of natural resource impairment and will conform to the adopted population plan, where required, and as basis for the efficient expenditure of funds thereof relating to the subjects of the Master Plan. The City Council may adopt and use such procedures as may be necessary for this purpose.
H. Application Of Plan To Property Acquisition And Abandonment And Construction Of Public Buildings: Whenever the City Council shall have adopted a Master Plan, or one or more subject matters thereof, no street, square, park or other public way, ground or open space shall be acquired by dedication or otherwise, except by bequest, and no street or public way shall be closed or abandoned and no public building or structure shall be constructed or authorized in the area for which the Master Plan or one or more subject matter thereof shall have been adopted by the City Council until the location, character and extent thereof shall have been submitted to and shall have been approved by the Council. (Ord. 94-14, 1-3-1995)