CHAPTER 17
City Planning

17.01.—Authority to Adopt.

The city council shall have authority to continue in force the city plan
theretofore adopted by the town of Galax showing the streets, highways,
and parks heretofore laid out, adopted, and established. Such city plan
shall be final with respect to the location, length, and width of such
streets and highways, and the location and dimensions of such parks.
Such city plan is hereby declared to be established for the promotion of
the health, safety, and general welfare of the City.

17.02.—Powers et cetera.

The city planning commissioners shall continue in office for the
remainder of their terms and until their successors are appointed by the
eouncil. The city planning commission shall continue to exercise such
duties, powers, and functions as it now has under the existing ordinances,
or as may be delegated to or required of said commission by the council
by proper ordinances and resolutions. The city planning commission shall
be constituted, perform the duties and functions, and otherwise be con-
trolled by Chapter Eighty-eight of the Acts of the General Assembly of
Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-four (1934), and amendments thereto, ex-
cept in so far as said chapter and amendments thereto are in conflict with
this charter or the express ordinances of the City now in force or here-
after enacted.

17.03.—Further Powers.

The council may at any time, after a public hearing, amend the city
plan, by widening, relocating, or closing existing streets and highways,
and by altering any existing park or by laying out new streets and highways
and establishing new parks. Before amending the city plan, the council shall
refer the proposed amendment to the city planning commission for a report
thereon, and shall not act on such amendment until a report has been
received from said commission, unless a period of thirty (30) days has
elapsed after the date of reference to the commission. Any amendment
of the city plan, upon its adoption by the council, shall be final unless
changed as herein provided as to the location, length, and width of any
street and highway, and the location and dimensions of any park. Any
widening, relocating, closing, or laying out of streets and highways pro-
posed under the provisions of law other than those contained in this
article shall be deemed an amendment of the city plan, and shall be sub-
ject in all respects to the provisions of this chapter. The city planning
commission shall have such other authority and powers as may now or
hereafter be granted by the council of the City of Galax or to municipal
planning commissions by the general law.