New Franklin Approval of Plan Required: Procedure ordinance (§ 400.100)
Chapter 400: City Plan and Planning Commission
A. Whenever the Commission adopts the plan for the City of New Franklin or any part thereof, no street, public way or other public facilities or public utility, whether publicly or privately owned and the location extent and character thereof having been included in the recommendations and proposals of the plan or portions thereof, shall be constructed or authorized in the said City until the location, extent and character thereof has been submitted to and approved by the Planning Commission.
B. In case of disapproval, the Commission shall communicate its reasons to the Board of Aldermen and such Board, by vote of not less than two-thirds (2/3) of its entire membership, may overrule the disapproval and, upon the overruling, the Board may proceed, except that if the public facility or utility is one the authorization of financing of which does not fall within the province of the Board, then the submission to the Planning Commission shall be by the Municipal Board having jurisdiction and the Planning Commission's disapproval may be overruled by the Board by a vote of not less than two-thirds (2/3) of its entire membership.
C. The acceptance, widening, removal, extension, relocation, vacation, abandonment, change of use, acquisition of land for sale or lease of any street or other public facility is subject to similar submission and approval and the failure to approve may be similarly overruled. The failure of the Commission to act within sixty (60) days after the date of official submission to it shall be deemed approval.
Official source: New Franklin City Code, page 4 of the city's PDF
Last checked October 30, 2026. The city's official copy controls; this page is a reading copy, not legal advice.