Sec. 2-175. - Same—Preparation.

(a)

The comprehensive planning process shall be undertaken in accordance with G.L. 1956, § 45-22.2-1 et seq. After a comprehensive study is made by the planning board, it shall prepare a comprehensive plan with accompanying maps, plats, charts and descriptive explanatory matter showing the board's recommendations for physical development of the general location, character and extent of streets, bridges, viaducts, parks, parkways, waterway and waterfront developments, playgrounds and other public ways, grounds, public places or areas, the general location of public buildings and other public property, the general location and extent of public utilities and terminals, whether publicly or privately owned, for water, light, power, heat, sanitation, transportation, communication and other purposes and the acceptance, widening, removal, extension, relocation, narrowing, vacation, abandonment or change of use of any of the foregoing public ways, grounds, places, areas, buildings, properties, utilities or terminals.

(b)

The comprehensive plan may be prepared by the board for recommendation to the mayor and city council in accordance with G.L. 1956, § 45-22.2-1, either as a whole plan or in parts from time to time, which shall correspond generally with one or more of the functional subdivisions of the subject matter of the comprehensive plan.

(c)

The board may, from time to time, recommend additional amendments, extensions, deletions or additions to the comprehensive plan.

(d)

The preparation of the plan or any part, amendment or addition thereof shall be approved by a vote of the majority members of the board. Such vote shall refer expressly to the maps, descriptive matter and other matters intended by the board to form the whole or part or parts of the plan. The vote shall be recorded on the prepared plan, part or parts thereof by the identifying signature of the secretary of the board, and the plan, part or parts thereof shall be submitted to the city council for approval or rejection or to be returned to the planning board for further study and revision.

(e)

In the study for the preparation of the comprehensive plan, part or parts thereof, the planning board may recommend to the mayor and city council for approval the letting out of contracts for professional services and consultants which the board deems necessary. The engagement of professional services and consultants shall be within the limits of the amounts appropriated for those services by the city council in its annual budget.

(Rev. Ords. 1987, § 2-175; Ch. 742, § I, 8-20-19)