876 ARTICLE 66B.

development of the municipality, including any areas outside of its bound-
aries which, in the Commission's judgment, bear relation to the planning
of such municipality. Such plan, with the accompanying maps, plats,
charts, and descriptive matter shall show the Commission's recommenda-
tions for the development of said territory, including, among other things,
the general location, character, and extent of streets, viaducts, subways,
bridges, waterways, water fronts, boulevards, parkways, playgrounds,
squares, public buildings, parks, aviation fields, and other public ways,
grounds and open spaces, the general location and extent of public utilities
and terminals, whether publicly or privately owned or operated, for water,
light, sanitation, transportation, communication, power, and other pur-
poses also the removal, relocation, widening, narrowing, vacating, aban-
donment, change of use or extension of any of the foregoing ways, grounds,
open spaces, buildings, property, utilities, or terminals; as well as a zon-
ing plan for the control of the height, area, bulk, location, and use of build-
ings and premises. As the work of making the whole master plan pro-
gresses, the 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 municipality 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. Nothing in this sub-title
shall be construed to give a Planning Commission any authority over the
construction, maintenance or operation of electric tower transmission lines
on rights of way now owned by electric light, power or transmission com-
panies in Baltimore County.

1933, ch. 599, sec. 7.

16. Purposes in View. In the preparation of such plan the Commis-
sion, shall make careful and comprehensive surveys and studies of present
conditions and future growth of the municipality and with due regard to
its relation to neighboring territory. The plan shall be made with the
general purpose of guiding and accomplishing a co-ordinated, adjusted,
and harmonious development of the municipality and its environs which
will, in accordance with present and future needs, best promote health,
safety, morals, order, convenience, prosperity, and general welfare, as well
as efficiency and economy in the process of development; including, among
other things, adequate provisions for traffic, the promotion of safety from
fire and other dangers, adequate provision for light and air, the promotion
of the healthful and convenient distribution of population, the promotion
of good civic design and arrangement, wise and efficient expenditure of
public funds, and the adequate provision of public utilities and other
public requirements.

1933, ch. 599, sec. 8.

17. Procedure of Commission. The Commission may adopt the plan
as a whole by a single, resolution or may by successive resolutions adopt
successive parts of the plan, said parts corresponding with major geo-