General powers and duties

A. (1) A parish planning commission shall make and adopt a master plan for the physical development of the unincorporated territory of a parish. (2) A municipal planning commission shall make and adopt a master plan for the physical development of the municipality. B. (1) Any such plan shall provide a general description or depiction of existing roads, streets, highways, and publicly controlled corridors, along with a general description or depiction of other public property within the jurisdiction that is subject to the authority of the commission. (2) Any such plan, with the accompanying maps, plats, charts, and descriptive matter may include a commission's recommendations for the development of the parish or municipality, as the case may be, including, among other things, the general location, character, and extent of railroads, highways, streets, viaducts, subways, bus, street car and other transportation routes, bridges, waterways, lakes, water fronts, boulevards, parkways, playgrounds, squares, parks, aviation fields, and other public ways, grounds, and open spaces; the general location of public buildings, schools, and other public property; the general character, extent and layout of public housing and of the replanning of blighted districts and slum areas; the general location and extent of public utilities and terminals, whether publicly or privately owned or operated, for water, light, sanitation, communication, power, transportation, and other purposes; and the removal, relocation, widening, narrowing, vacating, abandonment, change of use, or extension of any of the foregoing ways, grounds, open spaces, buildings, property, utilities, or terminals. C. As the work of making the whole master plan progresses, a commission may from time to time adopt and publish a part or parts thereof, any such part to cover one or more major sections or divisions of the parish or municipality, as the case may be, or one or more of the aforesaid or other functional matters to be included in the plan. A commission may from time to time amend, extend, or add to the plan. D. Where a municipal planning commission has been established under the authority of this Subpart, it shall also serve as a municipal zoning commission, and when acting as such, it shall hold separate meetings with separate minutes and records. Acts 2004, No. 859, §1, eff. July 12, 2004. NOTE: See Acts 2004, No. 859, §2, relative to applicability of Act.