The City Planning Commission shall prepare proposed zoning ordinances, which may embody regulations and maps, and amendments thereto, and submit such proposed zoning ordinances and amendments thereto to the Mayor for transmission to the Council.

ANNOTATION

Sources: New York City Charter, 1938, Section 200; Model City Charter (1941) Section 127.

Purposes: 1. The zoning laws of a city should be related to its physical development planning. This relationship is to be achieved by having the City Planning Commission prepare proposed zoning ordinances, which as a matter of practice may embody regulations and maps. However, the enactment of proposed zoning ordinances into law is a function of the Council.

2. For the relationship of zoning legislation and recommendations of the City Planning Commission, see Sections 2-307 and 4-604.