[CC 1985 § 25-10; 1977 Code; Ord. No. 505 § 5, 10-1-1990]
A.
The City of St. James, Missouri, is hereby
authorized to make, adopt, amend and carry out a City Plan for the
physical development of this municipality.
B.
Preparation And Adoption Of City Plan.
1.
The Commission shall make and adopt
a City Plan for the physical development of the municipality. The
City Plan, with the accompanying maps, plats, charts and descriptive
and explanatory matter, shall show the Commission's recommendations
for the physical development and uses of land 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;
the general character, extent and layout of the replanning of blighted
districts and slum areas.
2.
In the preparation of the City Plan,
the Commission shall make careful and comprehensive surveys and studies
of the existing conditions and probable future growth of the municipality.
The Plan shall be made with the general purpose of guiding and accomplishing
a coordinated development of the municipality 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.
C.
The Commission may make reports and recommendations
relating to the Plan and development of the municipality to public
officials and agencies, public utility companies, civic, educational,
professional and other organizations and citizens. It may recommend
to the executive or legislative officials of the municipality programs
for public improvements and the financing thereof. All public officials
shall, upon request, furnish to the Commission, within a reasonable
time, all available information it requires for its work. The Commission,
its members and employees, in the performance of its functions, may
enter upon any land to make examinations and surveys. In general,
the Commission shall have the power necessary to enable it to perform
its functions and promote municipal planning.
[CC 1985 § 25-11; 1977 Code]
A.
The Planning and Zoning Commission shall
recommend and the City Council may by ordinance adopt regulations
governing the subdivision of land within its jurisdiction.
1.
The regulations, in addition to the
requirements provided by law for the approval of plats, may provide
requirements for the coordinated development of the City; for the
coordination of streets within subdivisions with other existing or
planned streets or with other features of the City Plan or Official
Map of the City; for adequate open spaces for traffic, recreation,
light and air; and for a distribution of population and traffic.
2.
The regulations may include requirements
as to the extent and the manner in which the streets of the subdivision
or any designated portions thereto shall be graded and improved, as
well as including requirements as to the extent and manner of the
installation of all utility facilities, and compliance with all of
these requirements is a condition precedent to the approval of the
plat.
3.
Before the adoption of its subdivision
regulations or any amendment thereof, a duly advertised public hearing
thereon shall be held by the City Council.
