ZONING AND PLANNING 2641

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-
graphical sections or divisions of the municipality or with functional sub-
divisions of the subject matter of the plan, and may adopt any amend-
ment or extension thereof or addition thereto. Before the adoption of the
plan or any such part, amendment, extension, or addition the Commission
shall hold at least one public hearing thereon, notice of the time and place
of which shall be given by one publication in a newspaper of general cir-
culation in the municipality. The adoption of the plan or of any such
part or amendment or extension or addition shall be by resolution of the
Commission carried by the affirmative votes of not less than three members
of the Commission. The resolution shall refer expressly to the maps
and descriptive and other matter intended by the Commission to form the
whole or part of the plan, and the action taken shall be recorded on the map
and plan and descriptive matter by the identifying signature of the chair-
man and/or secretary of the Commission. An attested copy of the plan
or part thereof shall be certified to council and to the county recorder.

1933, ch. 599, sec. 9.

18. (Legal Status of Official Plan.) Whenever the Commission shall
have adopted the master plan of the municipality or of one or more major
sections or districts thereof no street, square, park or other public way,
ground, or open space, or public building or structure, or public utility,
whether publicly or privately owned, shall be constructed or authorized in
the municipality or in such planned section and district until the location,
character, and extent thereof shall have been submitted to and approved
by the Commission; provided, that in case of disapproval the Commission
shall communicate its reason to council, which shall have the power to over-
rule such disapproval by a recorded vote of not less than two-thirds of
its entire membership; provided, however, that if the public way, ground,
space, building, structure or utility be one the authorization of financing
of which does not, under the law or charter provisions governing same, fall