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Sec. 90-29. Conformity with master plan.

When the planning commission shall have adopted the master plan of the city or of one or more major sections of districts thereof, no new street, square, park or other public way, ground, or open space, or public building or structure, or public utility, whether publicly or privately owned, shall be constructed or authorized in the city or in the planned section and district until the location, character and extent thereof is submitted to and approved by the commission. In case of disapproval, the commission shall communicate its reasons to the council which shall have the power to overrule the disapproval by a recorded vote of not less than two-thirds of its membership. If the public way, ground, space, building, structure or utility is one the authorization or financing of which does not, under the law or charter provisions governing same, fall within the province of the council, the submission to the planning commission shall be by the board, commission or body having jurisdiction, and the planning commission's disapproval may be overruled by such board, commission or body by a vote not less than two-thirds of its membership. Failure of the planning commission to act within 60 days after the date of official submission to it shall be deemed approval unless action is taken by the public board or commission to extend the time not to exceed an additional sixty (60) days.

(Code 1973, § 2-55; Ord. No. 2714, § 1, 2-25-97)

State law reference(s)--Referral to commission required, A.C.A. § 14-56-412(F); commission may be overruled, A.C.A. § 14-56-412(F)(2).

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