157.06   REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISSION POWERS AND DUTIES.

Should the City Planning Board transfer or delegate its functions, powers, and duties to a Regional Planning Commission, as provided for in Subsection 157.04(g) of this Chapter, such Regional Planning Commission shall be clothed with the following municipal powers and duties which shall be operative within that portion of the Regional Planning commission's territory included within the corporate boundaries of the City:
(a) To make or cause to be made plans and maps of the whole or any portion of the City included within the Regional Planning Commission's territory, which plans and maps shall show the Regional Planning Commission's recommendations for the general location, character, extent, design, removal, relocation, widening or extension of streets, alleys, ways, street fixtures, viaducts, bridges, parks, parkways, boulevards, parking areas, playgrounds, monuments, memorials, public works and improvements; and to make such changes and enlargements in, and amendments and additions to, such plans and maps as are deemed advisable;
(b) to act and perform the functions and duties of a platting commission or a platting commissioner for those portions of the City included within the Regional Planning commission's territory, in the manner permitted in Ohio R.C. 713.03 and 735.17;
(c) To perform all the powers and duties permitted to be performed by a director of public service, as specified in Ohio R.C. 735.15, relating to the location of public buildings, Municipal and County, within those portions of the City included within the Regional Planning Commission's territory, and the plans and specifications thereof.
(d) To perform all the duties and functions required of a planning commission under Ohio R.C. 711.09, relating to major streets, thoroughfares, parks and subdivision within those portions of the City included within the Regional Planning Commission's territory;
(e) As pertaining to that portion of the City included within the Regional Planning Commission's territory, to do and perform all duties, functions and things authorized by municipal planning commissions to be done and performed under the provisions of Ohio R.C. 713.01 to 713.05, inclusive, as the same now provides or hereafter may be amended, save those acts, duties and functions herein excepted, reserved or prohibited, and save as such provisions may be in conflict with this chapter, or the Charter or other ordinances of the City; and,
(f) As pertaining to that portion of the city included within the Regional Planning commission's territory, to coordinate all its activities to the extent that the same are relevant or pertain to the duties, power and authority of the Board of Adjustment and the Board of Park Trustees of the city and the County Commissioners of Clark County, or any planning or zoning authority now or hereafter created or established by the County Commissioners.
The said Regional Planning Commission shall exercise the powers and duties transferred or delegated to it pursuant to this section and Subsection 157.04(g) so as to implement the municipal planning and platting policy objectives described in Section 157.07 of this Chapter.
(Ord. 02-350. Passed 9-3-02.)

157.07   MUNICIPAL PLANNING AND PLATTING POLICY OBJECTIVES.

With respect to planning and platting in the City, it is the policy of the City to:
(a) Protect the public health, safety morals [sic] and general welfare,
(b) Maintain and enhance property values in the Springfield community,
(c) Stabilize neighborhoods,
(d) Promote orderly development to optimize the quality of life for the City's residents, facilitate the creation and preservation of employment opportunities and enhance the economic prosperity of the Springfield community,
(e) Control population density to preserve the benefits of light and air to Springfield residents and to avert the deleterious effects of urban congestion,
(f) Encourage the development of affordable housing,
(g) Not unnecessarily burden the free and peaceful practice of religion in the Springfield community,
(h) Minimize adverse impacts on neighboring lands near the City's boundaries and to preserve the spirit of cooperation among political subdivisions participating in Cooperative Economic Development Agreements, Joint Economic Development Districts and similar inter-governmental cooperation arrangements involving the City,
(i) Conserve agricultural land most suitable for agricultural uses to preserve its economic, environmental and aesthetic benefits for the Springfield community,
(j) Focus growth and development in appropriate areas which balance environmental, economic and infrastructure considerations,
(k) Protect and conserve water, land and air resources and mitigate conflicting land uses that may harm environmental quality,
(l) Provide for and protect open space and park and recreational systems to ensure accessibility for all Springfield residents,
(m) Provide for the coordination of public thoroughfares and for effective and safe traffic flow and avoidance of traffic congestion in the Springfield community,
(o) Provide for and facilitate a multi-modal transportation system with sensitivity to land use relationships, and
(p) Provide space for adequate energy delivery infrastructure, communications infrastructure and public water, wastewater and drainage infrastructure and to promote development where such infrastructure has been provided for.
The Planning Board and Regional Planning Commissions provided for in this Chapter shall exercise their powers so as to implement the foregoing City policy concerning planning and platting matters.
(Ord. 02-350. Passed 9-3-02.)

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