Section 16.08.070 General plan.

A. It shall be the function and duty of the Planning Commission, after holding public hearings of at least fourteen (14) days notice to a newspaper of general circulation, posted on the City's web site and mailed to the affected entities, to make and adopt and certify to the City Council a general plan for the physical development of the City, including any areas outside of its boundaries which, in the Commission's judgement, bear relation to the planning of the City. Where the plan involves territory outside the boundaries of the City, action shall be taken with the concurrence of the county or other municipal legislative body concerned. The general plan, with the accompanying maps, charts and descriptive and explanatory matter, shall show the Commission's recommendations for the physical development and may include, among other things:

a. Designates the proposed general distribution and location and extent of uses of land for housing, business, industry, agriculture, recreation, education, public buildings and grounds, open space, and other categories of public and private uses of land as appropriate; and

2. A transportation and circulation element consisting of the general location and extent of existing and proposed freeways, arterial and collector streets, mass transit and any other modes of transportation that are appropriate, all correlated with the land use element of the plan;

a. The protection, conservation, development and use of natural resources, including the quality of air, forests, soils, rivers and other waters, harbors, fisheries, wildlife, minerals, and other natural resources, and

b. The reclamation of land, flood control, prevention and control of the pollution of streams and other waters, regulation of the use of land on hillsides, stream channels and other environmentally sensitive areas, the prevention, control and correction of the erosion of soils, protection of watersheds and wetlands and the mapping of known geologic hazards;

4. A public services and facilities element showing general plans for sewage, waste disposal drainage, local utilities, rights-of-way, easements and facilities for them, police and fire protection, and other public services;

6. An economic element composed of appropriate studies and an economic development plan that may include review of Vernal City's revenue and expenditures, revenue sources, identification of base and residentiary industry, primary and secondary market areas, employment and retail sales activity;

7. Recommendations for implementing the plan, including the use of land use ordinances, subdivision ordinances, capital improvement plans, and other appropriate actions; and

B. The Planning Commission, after holding a public hearing after at least fourteen (14) days notice in a newspaper of general circulation and posted on the City's web site and mailed to the affected entities, may from time to time recommend to the City Council an amendment, extension or addition to the plan or in carrying any part of subject matter into greater detail. (PZSC § 03-03-007)