§ 46-7. General powers and duties.

(a)

The planning commission for the city shall make and adopt a master plan for the physical development of the city.

(b)

Such plan with the accompanying maps, plats, charts, and descriptive matter shall show a commission's recommendations for the development of the municipality, including among other things, the general location, character, and extent of railroads, highways, streets, viaducts, subways, buses, streetcars, and other transportation routes, bridges, waterways, lakes, waterfronts, boulevards, parkways, playgrounds, squares, parks, aviation fields, and other public ways, grounds, and open spaces; the general location of public buildings, schools, and other public properties; the general character, extent and layout of public housing and of the replanning blighted districts and slum areas; the general location and extent of public utilities and terminals, whether publicly or privately owned or operated, for water, light, sanitation, communication, power, transportation, and other purposes; and the removal, relocation, widening, narrowing, vacating, abandonment, change of use or extension of any of the foregoing ways, grounds, open spaces, buildings, property, utilities, or terminals. As the work of making the whole master plan progresses, a commission may, from time to time, adopt and publish a part or parts thereof, any such part to cover one or more major sections or divisions of the city, as the case may be, or one or more of the aforesaid or other functional matters to be included in the plan. The commission may, from time to time, amend, extend, or add to the plan.

(c)

The planning commission for the city, upon authority given by the city council, shall also serve as the municipal zoning commission, and when acting as such, shall hold separate meetings with separate minutes and records.

(Ord. No. 171, § 1(VII), 3-11-1997)