§ 9-3. The master plan.

The master plan for the physical development of the city, with the accompanying maps, plats, charts, descriptive and explanatory matter, shall show the commission's recommendations for the development of city territory, and may include, among other things, (a) the general location, character, and extent of streets, bridges, parks, waterways, and other public ways, grounds and spaces; (b) the general location of public buildings and other public property; (c) the general location and extent of public utilities, whether publicly or privately owned; (d) the removal, relocation, widening, extension, narrowing, vacation, abandonment or change of use of such existing or future public ways, grounds, spaces, buildings, property or utilities; (e) the general extent and location of public housing projects and slum-clearance projects.

(a)

Adoption of master plan. The commission may adopt the master plan as a whole by single resolution, or may by successive resolutions adopt successive parts of the plan, said parts corresponding to major geographical sections of the city or to functional divisions of the subject matter of the plan, and may adopt any amendment or extension thereof or addition thereto. The adoption of the plan, or of any part, amendment, extension or addition, shall be by resolution carried by the affirmative votes of not less than a majority of the commission, but before the adoption of the plan or any such part or any modification, extension or addition, the commission shall hold at least one public hearing on the proposed action. An attested copy of the plan or part thereof shall be certified to the council.

(b)

Legal effect of master plan. No street, park, or other public way, ground or space, no public building or structure and no public utility whether publicly or privately owned, shall be constructed or authorized in the city, nor shall any real property be acquired by the city, until and unless the location and extent thereof shall have been submitted to and approved by the commission; provided that, in case of disapproval, the commission shall communicate its reasons to the council, which shall have the power by 2/3 vote to overrule such disapproval, and, upon such overruling, the council or the appropriate office, department or agency shall have power to proceed. The widening, narrowing, relocation, vacation or change in the use of any street or other public way or ground or the sale of any public building or real property shall be subject to similar submission and approval, and failure to approve may be similarly overruled by the council. The failure of the commission to act within thirty (30) days after the date of official submission to the commission shall be deemed approval, unless a longer period be granted by the council or the submitting official.