15.17.020 Plan Preparation.
(1) The Planning Commission shall make and recommend to the Municipal Council a proposed general plan for the area within the City. The plan may include areas outside the boundaries of the City.
(2) The general plan, with the accompanying maps, plats, charts, and descriptive and explanatory matter, shall show the Planning Commission’s recommendations for the development of the territory covered by the plan, and may include, among other things:
(a) a land use element that:
(i) designates the proposed general distribution and location and extent of uses of land for housing, business, industry, agriculture, recreation, education, public buildings and grounds, open space, and other categories of public and private uses of land as appropriate; and
(ii) may include a statement of the standards of population density and building intensity recommended for the various land use categories covered by the plan;
(b) a transportation and circulation element consisting of the general location and extent of existing and proposed freeways, arterial and collector streets, mass transit, and any other modes of transportation that are appropriate, all correlated with the land use element of the plan;
(c) an environmental element that addresses:
(i) the protection, conservation, development, and use of natural resources, including the quality of air, forests, soils, rivers and other waters, harbors, fisheries, wildlife, minerals, and other natural resources; and
(ii) the reclamation of land, flood control, prevention and control of the pollution of streams and other waters, regulation of the use of land on hillsides, stream channels and other environmentally sensitive areas, the prevention, control, and correction of the erosion of soils, protection of watersheds and wetlands, and the mapping of known geologic hazards;
(d) a public services and facilities element showing general plans for sewage, waste disposal, drainage, local utilities, rights-of-way, easements, and facilities for them, police and fire protection, and other public services;
(e) a rehabilitation, redevelopment, and conservation element consisting of plans and programs for:
(i) historic preservation; and
(ii) the elimination of blight and for redevelopment, including housing sites, business and industrial sites, and public building sites;
(f) an economic element composed of appropriate studies and an economic development plan that may include review of municipal revenue and expenditures, revenue sources, identification of base and residentiary industry, primary and secondary market areas, employment, and retail sales activity;
(g) recommendations for implementing the plan, including the use of City policy governing zoning, subdivision, capital improvement plans, and other appropriate actions; and
(h) any other elements that the municipality considers appropriate.