[CC 1977 §26-43; Ord. No. 637 §4, 9-23-1964]
The Planning and Zoning Commission shall make and adopt a comprehensive
plan for the physical development of the City.
[CC 1977 §26-44; Ord. No. 637 §4, 9-23-1964]
The City plan, with the accompanying maps, plats, charts and
descriptive and explanatory matter, shall show the Planning and Zoning
Commission's recommendations for the physical development and uses
of land within the City and may include, among other things, the general
location, character and extent of streets and other public ways, grounds,
places and spaces, the general location and extent of public utilities
and terminals, whether publicly or privately owned, the acceptance,
widening, removal, extension, relocation, narrowing, vacation, abandonment
or change of use of any of the foregoing and the general character,
extent and layout of the replanning of blighted districts and slum
areas. The Commission shall also prepare a zoning plan for the regulation
of the height, area, bulk, location and use of private, non-profit
and public structures and premises and of population density.
[CC 1977 §26-45; Ord. No. 637 §5, 9-23-1964]
The City plan shall be made with the purpose of guiding and
accomplishing a coordinated development of the City which will, in
accordance with existing and future needs, best promote the general
welfare, as well as efficiency and economy in the process of development.
[CC 1977 §26-46; Ord. No. 637 §5, 9-23-1964]
In the preparation of the City plan, the Planning and Zoning
Commission shall make careful and comprehensive surveys and studies
of the existing conditions and probable future growth of the City.
[CC 1977 §26-47; Ord. No. 637 §6, 9-23-1964]
The Planning and Zoning Commission may adopt the City plan as
a whole by a single resolution or, as the work of making the whole
City plan progresses, may from time to time adopt a part or parts
thereof, any part to correspond generally with one (1) or more of
the functional subdivisions of the subject matter of the plan.
[CC 1977 §26-48; Ord. No. 637 §6, 9-23-1964]
Before the adoption, amendment or extension of the City plan
or portion thereof, the Planning and Zoning Commission shall hold
at least one (1) public hearing thereon. Fifteen (15) days' notice
of the time and place of such hearing shall be published in at least
one (1) newspaper having a general circulation within the City. The
hearing may be adjourned from time to time.
[CC 1977 §26-49; Ord. No. 637 §6, 9-23-1964]
The adoption of the City plan shall require a majority vote
of the full membership of the Planning and Zoning Commission.
[CC 1977 §26-50; Ord. No. 637 §6, 9-23-1964]
The resolution adopting the City plan shall refer expressly
to the maps, descriptive matter and other matters intended by the
Planning and Zoning Commission to form the whole or part of the plan
and the action taken shall be recorded on the adopted plan or part
thereof by the identifying signature of the Secretary of the Commission
and filed in the office of the Commission, identified properly by
file number. A copy of the plan or part thereof shall be certified
to the Board of Aldermen and the City Clerk and a copy shall be recorded
in the office of the County Recorder of Deeds.
[CC 1977 §26-51; Ord. No. 637 §8, 9-23-1964]
A.
Whenever
the Planning and Zoning Commission adopts the plan of the City or
any department thereof, no street or other public facilities or no
public utility, whether publicly or privately owned and the location,
extent and character thereof having been included in the recommendations
and proposals of the plan or portions thereof, shall be constructed
or authorized in the City until the location, extent and character
thereof has been submitted to and approved by the Planning and Zoning
Commission.
B.
In
case of disapproval, the Planning and Zoning Commission shall communicate
its reasons to the Board of Aldermen. The Board, by a vote of not
less than two-thirds (2/3) of its entire membership, may overrule
the disapproval and, upon the overruling, the Board of Aldermen or
the appropriate Board or officer may proceed, except that if the public
facility or utility is one the authorization or financing of which
does not fall within the province of the Board of Aldermen, then the
submission to the Planning and Zoning Commission shall be the Board
having jurisdiction and the Planning and Zoning Commission's disapproval
may be overruled by that Board by a vote of not less than two-thirds
(2/3) of its entire membership.
C.
The
acceptance, widening, removal, extension, relocation, narrowing, vacation,
abandonment, change of use, acquisition of land for, sale or lease
of any street or other public facility is subject to similar submission
and approval and failure to approve may be similarly overruled. The
failure of the Planning and Zoning Commission to act within sixty
(60) days after the date of official submission to it shall be deemed
approval.
[CC 1977 §26-52; Ord. No. 637 §15, 9-23-1964]
A.
Upon
adoption of a major street plan and subdivision regulations, the City
shall not accept, lay out, open, improve, grade, pave or light any
street, lay or authorize the laying of water mains, sewers, connections
or other utilities in any street within the City unless the street
has received the legal status of a public street prior to the adoption
of a City plan or unless the street corresponds in its location and
lines with a street shown on a subdivision plat approved by the Board
of Aldermen or the Planning and Zoning Commission or on a street plan
made by and adopted by the Commission.
B.
The
Board of Aldermen may locate and construct or may accept any other
street if the ordinance or other measure for the location and construction
or for the acceptance is first submitted to the Planning and Zoning
Commission for its approval and approved by the Commission or, if
disapproved by the Commission, is passed by the affirmative vote of
not less than two-thirds (2/3) of the entire membership of the Board
of Aldermen.
[CC 1977 §26-53; Ord. No. 637 §16, 9-23-1964]
After the adoption of a major street plan, no building permit
shall be issued for and no building shall be erected on any lot within
the territorial jurisdiction of the Planning and Zoning Commission
unless the street giving access to the lot upon which the building
is proposed to be placed conforms to the requirements above described.
[CC 1977 §26-55; Ord. No. 637 §17, 9-23-1964]
When a plan for proposed major streets or other public improvements
has been adopted, the Board of Aldermen may prohibit any new building
being located within the proposed site or right-of-way when the centerline
of the proposed street or the limits of the proposed sites have been
carefully determined and are accurately delineated on maps approved
by the Planning and Zoning Commission and adopted by the Board of
Aldermen.
