Before final action may be taken by any city or department thereof on the location, construction or design of any public building, statue, memorial park, parkway, boulevard, street, alley, playground, public ground, or bridge, or the change in the location or grade of any street or alley, the question shall be submitted to the Planning Commission for investigation and report. County and school district may be exempted from the payment of a fee to obtain any license or permit required by a zoning, building, or similar ordinance of the City of Weatherford.

All plans, plats, or replats of land laid out in lots or blocks, and the streets, alleys or other portions of the same, intended to be dedicated to public or private use, within the corporate limits of the City, shall first be submitted to the Planning Commission for its approval or rejection. Before said plans, plats, or replats shall be entitled to be recorded in the office of the County Clerk, they shall be approved by the Weatherford City Commission. It shall be unlawful to receive or record any such plan, plat, or replat in any public office unless the same shall bear thereon, by endorsement or otherwise, the approval of the City Commission. The disapproval of any such plan, plat, or replat by the City Commission shall be deemed a refusal of the proposed dedication shown thereon.

The Planning Commission may exercise jurisdiction over subdivision of land and adopt regulations governing the subdivision of land within its jurisdiction. Any such regulations, before they become effective, shall be approved by the City Commission and shall be published as provided by law for the publication of ordinances. Such regulations may include provisions as to the extent to which streets and other ways shall be graded and improved and to which water, sewer, and other utility mains, piping, or other facilities shall be installed as a condition precedent to the approval of the plat. The regulations may provide for a tentative approval plat before such installation. Any such tentative approval shall be revocable for failure to comply with commitments upon which the tentative approval was based and shall not be entered on the plat. In lieu of the completion of any improvements or utilities prior to the final approval of the plat, the Planning Commission may accept an adequate bond with surety, satisfactory to the Commission, to secure for the City the actual construction and installation of the improvements or utilities at a time and according to specifications fixed by or in accordance with the regulations of the Commission, and further conditioned that the developer will pay for all material and labor relating to the construction of the improvements. The City may enforce said bond by all appropriate legal and equitable remedies. Nothing in this section shall be construed as granting to the City or Planning Commission the power to direct any public utility to extend its services to any particular area.

The City of Weatherford, which contains large areas of rural land not served by water and sewer facilities by the City, shall authorize the use of private roadways in either platted or unplatted areas and shall issue building permits to property owners whose property is abutting upon the private roadways but do not comply with standards as provided for dedicated streets, subject to the following conditions: