05-18 Enact Secs. 131.01 & 131.02 and Amend 107.11 to Reflect Adoption of 3rd Amended Charter

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(a) Council shall provide for the care, supervision, control and improvement of public highways, streets, avenues, alleys, sidewalks, public grounds, bridg- es, aqueducts and viaducts within the City. The Director of Public Works shall have supervision of these matters in accordance with Section 123.03. (b) When it deems it necessary, Council may cause any street, alley or public highway to be opened, straightened altered, diverted, narrowed or widened. No street or alley dedicated to public use by the proprietor of ground in the City shall be deemed a public street or alley, or under the care or control of Council unless the dedication is accepted and confirmed by an ordinance passed for such purpose. (c) Council, when vacating any street or part of street or changing the name of anystreet, may include in one ordinance the change of name or the vacation or narrowing of more than one street, avenue, or alley, but before vacating any street or part thereof, or narrowing any street Council shall first adopt a resolution declaring its intention so to do. The Clerk of Council shall cause notice of such declaration to be served in the manner that the service of summons is required to be made upon all persons whose property abuts up- on the part of the street affected by the proposed vacation or narrowing, and by publication on the official website of the City. That notice shall state the time and place when objections can be heard before the Board of Revision of Assessments. Upon the report of the Board of Revision of Assessments approving the proposed vacation or narrowing Council may by ordinance declare such vacation or narrowing, and such order of Council vacating or narrowing a street or alley which has been dedicated to public use by the proprietor shall, to the extent to which it is vacated or narrowed, operate as a revocation of the acceptance thereof by Council, but the right of way and easement therein of any lot owner shall not be impaired thereby. Section 2. New Section 131.02, Board of Revision of Assessments, shall be enacted to read as follows: 131.02 BOARD OF REVISION OF ASSESSMENTS. The Board of Revision of Assessments shall consist of the Mayor, Director of Law, the Director of Finance, the Director of Public Works and the President of Council. The Mayor shall be the president of the board and the Director of Fi- nance shall be the secretary thereof. The board shall meet at such times and place as is provided by its rules and shall hear all matters coming before it un- der the authority of the Charter and Code. Section 3. Section 107.11, Notice of Public Hearing, currently reading as follows: 107.11 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING (a) Planning Commission. (1) Notice of public hearings before the Planning Commission regarding zoning shall be given in the manner provided by the Zoning Code. (2) Notice of public hearings before the Planning Commission regarding the adoption of a general plan or portions thereof or amendments thereto, as provided in Article X1I, Section 3 of the Second Amended City Charter