Planning Commission

PRIMARY DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

  1. To consider zone change requests of property owners in the City and within the City’s extraterritorial jurisdiction and make recommendations to the City Council for final approval
  2. To determine upon and make recommendations to the City Council of a City plan;
  3. To make studies and project plans for the improvement of the City with a view to its future development and extensions;
  4. To act with other municipal and governmental agencies in formulating and executing common plans of development;
  5. To select and recommend routes for streets and boulevards, and particularly to investigate and recommend the opening, widening or abandoning of streets, or the changing thereof to conform with a system of boulevards, parks and parkways;
  6. To consider and report upon the layout or platting of new subdivisions of the City or of territory adjacent to or near the City;
  7. To locate and to recommend plans for a civic center;
  8. To recommend plans for improving and beautifying the parkways and streams and to cooperate with the City Council in its devising and selection of public parks, parkways, playgrounds and other places for public recreation;
  9. To suggest plans for zoning the City; and
  10. Generally to give consideration to, and to file recommendations with the City Council for the development and advancement of the City’s physical layout and appearance.