RS 140.14 - Legal status of plan
After adoption of the master plan or any part thereof, then and thenceforth no street, park, or any public way, ground, place, or space, no public building or structure, school or school site, or no public utility, whether publicly or privately owned, shall be constructed or authorized in the area of the adopted plan until and unless the location and extent thereof shall have been submitted to and approved by the planning commission; provided that in the case of disapproval, the commission shall communicate its reasons to the City Council or Police Jury, as appropriate, and the City Council or Police Jury, by a vote of not less than two-thirds of its entire membership shall have the power to overrule such disapproval and, upon such overruling, the City Council, Police Jury, or the appropriate board or officer shall have the power to proceed; provided, however, that if the public way, ground, place, space, building, structure, school or school site, or utility be one the authorization or financing of which does not, under the law or charter provisions governing the same, fall within the province of the City Council or Police Jury or other body or official of the City of Shreveport or of Caddo Parish, then the submission to the planning commission shall be by the board or official having such jurisdiction, and the planning commission's disapproval may be overruled by such board by a vote of not less than two-thirds of its entire membership or by said official. The acceptance, widening, removal, extension, relocation, narrowing, vacation, abandonment, change of use, acquisition of land for, or sale or lease of any street or other public way, ground, place, property, or structure shall be subject to similar submission and approval, and the failure to approve may be similarly overruled. The secretary of the commission or his deputy shall issue a receipt showing the date, time, and sufficient description to identify any document submitted to it for approval. The failure of the commission to act within sixty (60) days from the date of official filing shall be deemed approval, unless a longer period be granted by the City Council, Police Jury, or other submitting agency or official, provided that the acceptance, widening, removal, extension, relocation, narrowing, vacation, abandonment, change of use, acquisition of land for, or sale or lease of any street, or other public way, ground, place, property, or structure by the Police Jury of Caddo Parish or by the City Council of the City of Shreveport, as the case may be, need not be submitted for approval by the commission unless in conflict with said master plan.
NOTE: §140.14 as amended by Acts 2020, No. 294, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.
RS 140.14 - Subdivision; regulations
A. In exercising the powers granted to it by this Subpart, the commission shall recommend regulations governing the subdivision of land within the metropolitan planning area. Such regulations may provide for the harmonious development of the metropolitan planning area; for the coordination of streets within subdivisions with other existing or planned streets or with other features of the master plan or official map of the metropolitan planning area; for adequate open spaces for traffic, recreation, light and air; and for the distribution of population and traffic which will tend to create conditions favorable to health, safety, convenience, or prosperity.
B. Such regulations may include requirements as to the extent to which and the manner in which streets shall be graded and improved and water, sewer and other utility mains, piping, connections, or other facilities shall be installed as a condition precedent to the approval of the plat. The regulations or practice of the commission may provide for the tentative approval of the plat previous to such improvement and installation; but any such tentative approval shall not be entered on the plat. Such regulations may provide that, in lieu of the completion of such work and installations previous to the final approval of a plat, the commission may accept a bond, in an amount and with surety and conditions satisfactory to it, providing for the securing to the municipality, the actual construction and installation of such improvements and utilities within a period specified by the commission and expressed in the bond; and the city council is hereby granted the power to enforce such bonds by all appropriate legal and equitable remedies. Such regulations may provide, in lieu of the completion of such work and installations previous to the final approval of a plat, for an assessment or other method whereby the municipality is put in an assured position to do such work and make such installations at the cost of the owners of the property within the subdivision.
C. Before recommending its subdivision regulations or any amendments thereto, the commission shall hold a public hearing thereon, at least ten days notice of the time and place of which shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality; certified copies of these regulations to be filed with the city council and the clerk of court of Caddo Parish. The commission shall then present its recommendation for subdivision regulations to the city council.
Acts 1962, No. 52, §14; Acts 2020, No. 294, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.