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recommendations shall be transmitted to the City Administrator, or appointed designee, for keeping and distribution. (1997 Code, § 210.16) Commission members shall be encouraged to avail themselves of training courses offered by the city, the state, and other government and public training agencies and the Council shall budget for the reimbursement of expenses incurred in training each year. (1997 Code, § 210,17) COMPREHENSIVE (A) Plan. The Planning Commission shall have the powers and duties given city planning agencies generally by law. The Commission shall also exercise the duties conferred upon it by this code. It shall be the purpose of the Planning Commission to prepare and adopt a Comprehensive Plan for the physical development of the city, including proposed public buildings, street arrangements and improvements, efficient design of major thoroughfares for moving of traffic, parking facilities, public utilities services, parks and playgrounds, a general land use plan, and other matters relating to the physical development of the city. The plan may be prepared in sections, each of which shall relate to the Comprehensive Plan program. After the Commission has prepared and adopted the Comprehensive Plan, it shall periodically, but at least every 5 years, review the Comprehensive Plaza and any ordinances or program implementing the plan. (B) Means of executing plan. Upon the adoption of a Comprehensive Plan or any section, it shall be the concern of the Planning Commission to recommend to the Council reasonable and practicable means for putting into effect the plan or section in order that the same will serve as a pattern and guide for the orderly physical development of the city and as a basis for judging the timely disbursements of funds to implement the objective. Means of effectuating the plan shall, among other things, consist of a zoning ordinance, subdivision regulations, capital improvement programming and technical review, and recommendations of matters referred to the Planning Commission by the Council. (C) Zoning ordinance. The Planning Commission shall review all proposed amendments to the zoning ordinance, take part in public hearings, and make recommendations to the Council as may be prescribed by the zoning ordinance. (D) Conditional use permits. (1) The Planning Commission may make recommendations on all requests for a conditional use permit under the terms of the zoning ordinance. (2) The Commission shall report its recommendations to the Council for action.