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8.04 F � CHAPTER 8 PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTSX AND SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS Section 8.01. THE 1CITYS PLAN. The present Village zoning plan shall be the plan for future physical development of the City. Such plan may be altered from time `to time. = To alter such a plan, the City Council shall hold a public hearing and notice published fourteen (14) days prior to hearing with notices sent to affected property owners. It may include provisions ''for zoning, for the platting and development of new areas, for the planning and location of public works of art, public buildings, ' parks, playgrounds, bridges, transportation . , fines, and other, public facilities, and for. laying out,. grading T improving of streets and public places as well as for all other matters which may seem essential to such a plan. ;J Sec ion 8`.02. ENFORCEMENT OF CITY PLAN. The Council shall have all necessary power, acting through the City Manager, to enforce complete adherence by all persons to the plan adopted as provided above, and to adopt and enforce a comprehensive zoning ordinance. The Council-shall have power to pass ordinances to regulate the use of private property, the height of buildings, and the proportion of the area of any lot which may be built upon and to establish building -lines. Such power shall be exercised to promote public health, safety, morals, welfare and convenience. Section 8.03. PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS AND SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS. The City shall have the power to make any and every type of public improvement not forbidden -by the laws of the State and to levy W . special assessments to pay for all such improvements as are of a . local character. The amounts assessed tp benefited property to pay -for such local improvements may equal the cost of the improvements, including all costs and expenses connected therewith, with interest, until paid, but shall not exceed the benefits to- the property. Section 8.04. LOCAL IMPROVEMENT REGULATIONS. After this Charter takes effect, all local improvements shall continue for the time being to be made under the laws and ordinances applicable thereto. The City Council may prepare and adopt a comprehensive ordinance, prescribing the procedure which shall determine all matters pertaining to the making of local improvements thereafter, and such ordinance shall supplant all 10/05/89 t: