3-19-9. Master plan; purposes.
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A. The planning commission shall prepare and adopt a master plan for the physical development of the municipality and the area within the planning and platting jurisdiction of the municipality which in the planning commission's judgment bears a relationship to the planning of the municipality. The planning commission may amend, extend or add to the plan or carry any part or subject matter into greater detail. In preparing the master plan, the planning commission shall make careful and comprehensive surveys and studies of existing conditions and probable future growth of the municipality and its environs.
The plan shall be made with the general purpose of guiding and accomplishing a coordinated, adjusted and harmonious development of the municipality which will, in accordance with existing and future needs, best promote health, safety, morals, order, convenience, prosperity or the general welfare as well as efficiency and economy in the process of development.
B. Among other things, the master plan with accompanying maps, plats and charts; descriptive and explanatory matter; and recommendations of the planning commission for the physical development of the municipality, and for its planning jurisdiction, may include:
(1)the general location, character and extent of streets, bridges, viaducts and parkways; parks and playgrounds, floodways, waterways and waterfront development, airports and other ways, grounds, places and spaces;
(2)the general location of public schools, public buildings and other public property;
(3)the general location and extent of public utilities and terminals, whether publicly or privately owned;
(4)the general location, character, layout and extent of community centers and neighborhood units and the replanning of blighted districts and slum areas; and
(5)the acceptance, widening, removal, extension, relocation, narrowing, vacation, abandonment or change of use of any of the foregoing public ways, grounds, places, spaces, buildings, properties, utilities or terminals.
C. Copies of the master plan shall be available at the office of the municipal clerk and may be purchased at a reasonable price.
History: 1953 Comp., § 14-18-9, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300; 1970, ch. 52, § 1.