[Ord. No. 3121, 4-18-2016]
The Planning and Zoning Commission shall make and adopt a plan
for the physical development of the City. 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, 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; the general character, extent
and layout of the replanning of blighted districts and slum areas.
[Ord. No. 3121, 4-18-2016]
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.
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.
[Ord. No. 3121, 4-18-2016]
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. Before
the adoption, amendment or extension of the 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
general circulation within the City. The hearing may be adjourned
from time to time. The adoption of the plan requires a majority vote
of the full membership of the Planning and Zoning Commission. The
resolution shall refer expressly to the maps, descriptive matter and
other matters intended by the Commission to form the whole or part
of the City 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, and a copy of the plan or part thereof shall
be certified to the City Council and the City Clerk, and a copy shall
be available in the office of the County Recorder of Deeds and shall
be available at the Municipal Clerk's office for public inspection
during normal business hours.