§ 36-7-4-503 — Comprehensive plan; additional contents

Indiana § 36-7-4-503

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Title 36: LOCAL GOVERNMENT
• Art. 7: PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
• Ch. 4: Local Planning and Zoning

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A comprehensive plan may, in addition to
the elements required by section 502 of this chapter, include the
following:
(1) Surveys and studies of current conditions and probable future
growth within the jurisdiction and adjoining jurisdictions.
(2) Maps, plats, charts, and descriptive material presenting basic
information, locations, extent, and character of any of the
following:
(A) History, population, and physical site conditions.
(B) Land use, including the height, area, bulk, location, and use
of private and public structures and premises.
(C) Population densities.
(D) Community centers and neighborhood units.
(E) Areas needing redevelopment and conservation.
(F) Public ways, including bridges, viaducts, subways,
parkways, and other public places.
(G) Sewers, sanitation, and drainage, including handling,
treatment, and disposal of excess drainage waters, sewage,
garbage, refuse, and other wastes.
(H) Air, land, and water pollution.
(I) Flood control and irrigation.
(J) Public and private utilities, such as water, light, heat,
communication, and other services.
(K) Transportation, including rail, bus, truck, air and water
transport, and their terminal facilities.
(L) Local mass transit, including taxicabs, buses, and street,
elevated, or underground railways.
(M) Parks and recreation, including parks, playgrounds,
reservations, forests, wildlife refuges, and other public places
of a recreational nature.
(N) Public buildings and institutions, including governmental
administration and service buildings, hospitals, infirmaries,
clinics, penal and correctional institutions, and other civic and
social service buildings.
(O) Education, including location and extent of schools and
postsecondary educational institutions.
(P) Land utilization, including agriculture, forests, and other
uses.
(Q) Conservation of energy, water, soil, and agricultural and
mineral resources.
(R) Any other factors that are a part of the physical, economic,
or social situation within the jurisdiction.
(3) Reports, maps, charts, and recommendations setting forth
plans and policies for the development, redevelopment,
improvement, extension, and revision of the subjects and physical
situations (set out in subdivision (2) of this section) of the
jurisdiction so as to substantially accomplish the purposes of this
chapter.
(4) A short and long range development program of public works
projects for the purpose of stabilizing industry and employment
and for the purpose of eliminating unplanned, unsightly, untimely,
and extravagant projects.
(5) A short and long range capital improvements program of
governmental expenditures so that the development policies
established in the comprehensive plan can be carried out and kept
up-to-date for all separate taxing districts within the jurisdiction
to assure efficient and economic use of public funds.
(6) A short and long range plan for the location, general design,
and assignment of priority for construction of thoroughfares in the
jurisdiction for the purpose of providing a system of major public
ways that allows effective vehicular movement, encourages
effective use of land, and makes economic use of public funds.
[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citations:
18-7-4-503; 18-7-4-37; 18-7-5-37.]
As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.23. Amended by Acts
1981, P.L.310, SEC.28; P.L.335-1985, SEC.5; P.L.220-1986, SEC.9;
P.L.185-2005, SEC.6; P.L.2-2007, SEC.386.