The city council shall act as the planning commission for the city and it shall be its duty to make or cause to be made and recommend for adoption a comprehensive city plan as a whole or in parts for the future development and redevelopment of the city and its environs which shall include, but shall not be limited to, the following:
(1)
To make studies and project plans for the improvement of the city with a view of its development and extensions, and to recommend to the city council all matters for the development and advancement of the city facilities, layouts and appearance, and to perform the duties imposed upon the city planning commission by the statutes of the state.
(2)
To make or cause to be made the plans and maps of the whole or any portion of the city and of land outside the city limits located within the planning area of such city limits, and any other land outside the city which in the opinion of the city planning commission bears a relation to the planning of the city and to make or cause to be made such changes in additions and extensions of plans or maps within the city as it deems same advisable.
(3)
To act with and assist all other municipal and governmental agencies in formulating and executing proper plans for municipal development.
(4)
To plan and recommend the location, plan and extent of city streets, alleyways, parks, playgrounds, airports, automobile parking places, and other public grounds and public improvements, for the location and planning of public buildings, schools and other properties, and of public utilities, including bus terminals, railroad depots and terminals, whether publicly or privately owned, for water, lights, sanitation, sewage disposal, drainage, flood control, transportation, communication and shipping facilities, and for the removal, relocation, widening, extension, narrowing, vacation, abandonment or change of use of any of the foregoing public places, work, buildings, facilities or utilities.
(5)
To select and recommend routes of streets, avenues and boulevards and particularly to investigate and recommend the opening, widening, or abandonment of streets, boulevards and alleyways or the changing thereof to conform to the city’s system, present and future, all streets, avenues, boulevards, alleyways, and parks.
(6)
To investigate and consider the layout and plan of any new subdivision to the city or property situated within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the city as defined by statute and to approve all plans, plats or replats of additions within the city limits and the said extraterritorial jurisdiction.
(7)
To recommend to the city for adoption, rules and regulations governing plats and subdivisions of land within the corporate limits of the city or within the said extraterritorial jurisdiction to promote health, safety, moral and general welfare of the community, and the safe and orderly and healthful development of the community; such rules and regulations may be adopted by the city council only after a public hearing held thereon.
(8)
To recommend plans for improving, developing, expanding and beautifying the parks, lakes, and public buildings in or adjacent to the city [to] other agencies of the city in devising, establishing, locating, improving, selecting, expanding and maintaining the public parks, playgrounds and lakes for public recreation.
(9)
To recommend plans for the development of civic centers and to make investigations, consider and make recommendations concerning traffic regulations, routing and controlling and highway designations.
(10)
To review the city’s present building codes and recommend any changes that may be desirable.
(Ordinance 283 adopted 7/19/1965; 1989 Code, sec. 17.101)