A. As established by 65 Illinois Compiled Statutes 5/11-12-5, the general jurisdiction of the planning and zoning commission shall be as follows:
1. To prepare and recommend to the corporate authorities a comprehensive plan for the present and future development or redevelopment of the village 1 . Such plan may be adopted in whole or in separate geographical or functional parts, each of which, when adopted, shall be the official comprehensive plan, or part thereof, of the village. This plan may include reasonable requirements with reference to streets, alleys, public grounds, and other improvements hereinafter specified. The plan, as recommended by the planning and zoning commission and as thereafter adopted in the village, may be made applicable, by the terms thereof, to land situated within the corporate limits of the village and contiguous territory not more than one and one-half (11/2) miles beyond the corporate limits and not included in any municipality. Such plan may be implemented by ordinances:
a. Establishing reasonable standards of design for subdivisions and for resubdivisions of unimproved land and of areas subject to redevelopment in respect to public improvements as herein defined;
b. Establishing reasonable requirements governing the location, width, course, and surfacing of public streets and highways, alleys, ways for public service facilities, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, streetlights, parks, playgrounds, school grounds, size of lots to be used for residential purposes, stormwater drainage, water supply and distribution, sanitary sewers, and sewage collection and treatment; and
c. May designate land suitable for annexation to the village and the recommended zoning classification for such land upon annexation 2 .
2. To recommend changes, from time to time, in the official comprehensive plan.
3. To prepare and recommend to the corporate authorities, from time to time, plans for specific improvements in pursuance of the official comprehensive plan.
4. To give aid to the village officials charged with the direction of projects for improvements embraced within the official plan, to further the making of these projects, and generally, to promote the realization of the official comprehensive plan.
5. To exercise such other powers germane to the powers granted by this chapter as may be conferred by the corporate authorities.
6. For purposes of implementing ordinances regarding developer donations or impact fees, and specifically for expenditures thereof, "school grounds" is defined as including land or site improvements, which include school buildings or other infrastructure necessitated and specifically and uniquely attributed to the development or subdivision in question. This applies to all impact fees or developer donations paid into a school district or held in a separate account or escrow fund by any school district or the village for a school district.
B. In addition to those matters specified in subsection A of this section, the planning and zoning commission is herewith delegated additional authority:
1. To hear, consider and recommend to the president and board of trustees applications for amendments to the zoning ordinance.
2. To hear, consider and recommend to the president and board of trustees applications for the granting of special use permits.
3. To hear, consider and recommend to the president and board of trustees applications requesting the designation of planned unit developments.
4. To hear, consider and recommend to the president and board of trustees applications for variations from the requirements of the zoning code, subject to the standards set forth therein.
5. To hear, consider and recommend to the president and board of trustees appeals for review of any order, requirement, decision or determination made by the building and zoning official charged with the enforcement of the zoning ordinance of the village.
6. To review site plans for all development in zoning districts that are subject to such review pursuant to section 11-4-3 of this code and make recommendations to the president and board of trustees.
7. To recommend, subject to final consideration, evaluation and approval by the president and board of trustees, methods of cooperation with the municipal or regional planning commissions and other agencies or groups to further the local planning for the area. (Ord. 2014-48, 10-27-2014)
Notes
| 1 | 1. See section 1-12-1 of this code. |
| 2 | 2. See section 11-6-4 of this code. |