[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of Lake City 6-11-1953
by Ord. No. 89. Amendments noted where applicable.]
A Department of Borough Planning, which shall be in charge of a Borough
Planning Commission, is hereby created in the Borough of Lake City, Pennsylvania.
The said Borough Planning Commission shall consist of five persons to
be appointed by the Council as follows: One member of said Commission shall
be appointed for one year, one member for two years, one member for three
years and two members for four years, and, annually thereafter, a member or
members of said Commission shall be appointed for a term of four years. An
appointment to fill a vacancy shall be only for the unexpired portion of the
term. All members of the said Commission shall reside within the borough.
They may make and alter rules and regulations for their own organization and
procedure, consistent with the ordinances of the borough and the laws of the
commonwealth. They shall serve without compensation and make annually to the
Council a report of their transactions. They may employ engineers and other
persons, whose salaries and wages and other necessary expenses of the Commission,
where approved by Council, shall be provided for through proper appropriation
by Council. They may contract for professional planning services, the costs
and expenses of which, when approved by Council, shall be provided for through
proper appropriation by Council.
The Secretary of Council shall, upon introduction, furnish to the Borough
Planning Commission for its consideration a copy of all proposed ordinances
and all amendments thereto relating to the location of any public building
of the borough and to the location, extensions, widening, narrowing, enlargement,
ornamentation and parking of any street, boulevard, parkway, park, playground
or other public ground, and to the relocation, vacation, curtailment, changes
of use or any other alteration of the Borough Plan with relation to any of
the same, and to the location of any bridge, tunnel and subway or any surface,
underground or elevated railway. The said Commission shall have the power
to disapprove any of the said ordinances, bills or amendments, which disapproval,
however, must be communicated to Council in writing within 10 days from the
introduction of said ordinances, but such disapproval shall not operate as
a veto.
The Borough Planning Commission may make or cause to be made and lay
before Council, and, at its discretion, cause to be published, maps of the
borough or any portion thereof, including territory extending three miles
beyond the borough limits, showing the streets and highways and other natural
artificial features and also locations proposed by it for any new public buildings,
civic center, street, parkway, park, playground or any other public ground
or public improvement, or any widening, extension or relocation of the same,
or any change in the Borough Plan by it deemed advisable; and it may make
recommendations to Council, from time to time, concerning any such matters
and things aforesaid, for action by Council thereon, and, in so doing, have
regard for the present conditions and future needs and growth of the borough,
and the distribution and relative location of all the principal and other
streets and railways, waterways and all other means of public travel and business
communications, as well as the distribution and relative location of all public
buildings, public grounds and open spaces devoted to public use.
The Borough Planning Commission may make recommendations to any public
authorities or any corporations or individuals in said borough with reference
to the location of any buildings, structures or works to be erected or constructed
by them.
All plans, plots or replots of lands laid out in building lots, and
the streets or other portions of the same intended to be dedicated to public
use or for the use of purchasers or owners of lots fronting thereon or adjacent
thereto, and located within the borough limits, shall be submitted to the
Borough Planning Commission and approved by it before they shall be recorded.
And it shall be unlawful to receive or record such plan in any public office
unless the same shall bear thereon, by endorsement or otherwise, the approval
of the Borough Planning Commission. The disapproval of any such plan by the
Borough Planning Commission shall be deemed a refusal of the proposed dedication
shown thereon. The approval by the Commission shall be deemed an acceptance
of the proposed dedication, but shall not impose any duty upon the borough
concerning the maintenance or improvement of any such dedicated parts until
the proper authorities of the borough shall have made actual appropriations
of the same by entry, use or improvement. No sewer, water or gas main or pipes
or other improvement shall be voted or made, within the area under the jurisdiction
of said Commission, for the use of any such purchasers or owners, nor shall
any permit for connection with or other use of any such improvement existing,
or for any other reason made, be given to any such purchasers or owners, until
such plan is so approved.
