RS 140.10 - Master plan
It shall be the function and duty of the commission to make and recommend to the City Council and the Police Jury a master plan for the physical development of the municipality, including any areas outside of its boundaries which, in the commission's judgment, bear relation to the planning of the municipality. The master plan, consisting of maps, plats, charts, and descriptive and explanatory matter, shall show the commission's recommendations for such physical development, and may include, among other things, the general location, character and extent of streets, bridges, viaducts, parks, parkways, waterway and waterfront developments, playgrounds, airports, and other public ways, grounds, places and spaces; the general location of public buildings, schools and school sites, and other public property; the general location and extent of public utilities and terminals, whether publicly or privately owned, for water, power, heat, light, sanitation, transportation, communication, and other purposes; the acceptance, widening, removal, extensions, re-location, narrowing, vacation, abandonment, or change of use of any of the foregoing public ways, grounds, places, spaces, buildings, properties, utilities, or terminals; a zoning plan for the regulation of the height, area, bulk, location, and use of private and public structures and premises, and of population density; the general location, character, layout, the extent of the neighborhood units and communities or groups of neighborhood units, of neighborhood and community centers; and of the general character, extent, and layout of the replanning of blighted districts and slum areas. The commission may from time to time recommend amendments to extend or add to the plan.
NOTE: §140.10 as amended by Acts 2020, No. 294, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.
RS 140.10 - Adoption of master plan
The commission may recommend the adoption of the master plan as a whole, or, as the work of making the whole master plan progresses, may from time to time recommend a part or parts thereof, any such part to correspond generally with one or more of the functional subdivisions of the subject matter of the plan. The adoption of the plan or any part, amendment, or addition, shall be by resolution carried by the affirmative votes of a majority of the city council. The resolution shall refer expressly to the maps, descriptive matter, and other matters intended by the commission to form the whole or part of the plan, and the action taken shall be recorded on the adopted plan or part thereof by the identifying signature of the secretary of the city council, and a copy of the plan or part thereof shall be certified to the city council and the clerk of court of Caddo Parish, who shall record such plan or part thereof on the conveyance records of Caddo Parish. The plan or part thereof shall take effect after the date it shall have been adopted by the city council.
Acts 1962, No. 52, §10; Acts 2020, No. 294, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.