THEODORE E. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 1219

utilities and terminals, whether publicly or privately owned or
operated, for water, light, sanitation, transportation, communi-
cation, power, and other purposes; also 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, 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 County or one or more of the aforesaid or other func-
tional matters to be included in the plan. The Commission may
from time to time amend, extend, or add to the plan.

230E. In the preparation of such plan the Commission shall
make careful and comprehensive surveys and studies of present
conditions and future growth of the County and with due re-
gard 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
County 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 econ-
omy 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 arrange-
ment, wise and efficient expenditure of public funds, and the
adequate provision of public utilities and other public require-
ments.

230F. The Commission may adopt the plan as a whole by a
single resolution or may by successive resolutions adopt suc-
cessive parts of the plan, said parts corresponding with major
geographical sections or divisions of the County or with func-
tional subdivisions of the subject matter of the plan, and may
adopt any amendment 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
circulation in the County. 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 four members of the Commission. The resolu-
tion 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