§ 20-32. Public works; approval by planning commission and city council.

(a)

Whenever the planning commission shall have adopted the master plan of the city or of one (1) or more major sections or districts thereof, no street, square, park or other public way, ground or open space, or public building or structure, shall be constructed or authorized in the city or in such planned section and district until the location, character and extent thereof shall have been submitted to and approved by the planning commission. In case of disapproval the planning commission shall communicate its reasons to the city council, which shall have the power to overrule 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 or financing of which does not under the law or charter provisions governing same, fall within the province of the city council, the submission to the planning commission shall be by the board, commission or body having such jurisdiction and the planning commission's disapproval may be overruled by the board, commission or body by a vote of not less than two-thirds of its membership. The failure of the planning commission to act within sixty (60) days from and after the date of official submission to the planning commission shall be deemed approval. For the purpose of furthering the desirable future development of the city under the master plan, the planning commission, after it shall have adopted a master plan, shall prepare coordinated and comprehensive programs of public structures and improvements. The planning commission shall annually prepare such a program for the ensuing six (6) years, which program shall show those public structures and improvements, in the general order of their priority, which in the planning commission's judgment will be needed or desirable and can be undertaken with the six-year period.

(b)

The above comprehensive coordinated programs shall be based upon the requirements of the community for all types of public improvements, and, to that end, each agency or department of such municipality concerned with such improvements shall upon request, furnish the planning commission with lists, plans and estimates of time and cost of public structures and improvements within the purview of such department.

(Code 1977, § 5.505)

State law reference

Similar provisions, MCL 125.39, MSA 5.2999.