County Planning Commission As Metropolitan County Planning Commission; Duties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 125.104a

Sec. 4a.

(1) The county planning commission may be designated by the board of supervisors as the metropolitan county planning commission. Any commission so organized shall perform metropolitan and regional planning, whenever necessary or desirable. The commission may engage in comprehensive planning, including but not limited to the following, to the extent directly related to urban needs:

(a) Preparation, as a guide for long-range development, of general physical plans with respect to the pattern and intensity of land use and the provision of public facilities, together with long-range fiscal plans for such development.

(b) Programming of capital improvements based on a determination of relative urgency, together with definitive financing plans for the improvements to be constructed in the earlier years of the program.

(c) Coordination of all related plans of the departments or subdivisions of the government concerned.

(d) Intergovernmental coordination of all related planned activities among the state and local governmental agencies concerned.

(2) In addition to the powers conferred by other provisions of this act, the commission may apply for, receive and accept grants from any governmental agency, or from the federal government, and agree to and comply with such terms and conditions as may be necessary, convenient or desirable. The commission may do any and all things necessary or desirable to secure the financial aid or cooperation of the federal government in carrying out the functions of the commission, when approved by a 2/3 vote of the board of supervisors.