Municipal Planning Commission; Public Works; Powers Of Council; Failure To Act; Program - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 125.39

Sec. 9.

Whenever the commission shall have adopted the master plan of the municipality or of 1 or more major sections or districts thereof no street, square, park, or other public way, ground, or open space, or public building or structure, shall be constructed or authorized in the municipality or in such planned section and district until the location, character, and extent thereof shall have been submitted to and approved by the commission: Provided, That in case of disapproval the commission shall communicate its reasons to council, which shall have the power to overrule such disapproval by a recorded vote of not less than 2/3 of its entire membership: Provided, however, That if the public way, ground, space, building, structure, or utility be one the authorization or financing of which does not under the law or charter provisions governing same, fall within the province of the municipal council, then the submission to the planning commission shall be by the board, commission, or body having such jurisdiction, and the planning commission's disapproval may be overruled by said board, commission, or body by a vote of not less than 2/3 of its membership. The failure of the commission to act within 60 days from and after the date of official submission to the commission shall be deemed approval. For the purpose of furthering the desirable future development of the municipality under the master plan the city planning commission, after the commission shall have adopted a master plan, shall prepare coordinated and comprehensive programs of public structures and improvements. The commission shall annually prepare such a program for the ensuing 6 years, which program shall show those public structures and improvements, in the general order of their priority, which in the commission's judgment will be needed or desirable and can be undertaken within the 6-year period. The above comprehensive coordinated programs shall be based upon the requirements of the community for all types of public improvements, and, to that end, each agency or department of such municipality concerned with such improvements shall upon request furnish the commission with lists, plans and estimates of time and cost of public structures and improvements within the purview of such department.