(A) An official comprehensive plan, or any amendment thereto, proposed by the City Council shall be effective in this city and contiguous area herein prescribed only after its formal adoption by the City Council. This plan shall be constructed to regulate or control the use of private property in any way, except as to such part thereof as has been implemented by ordinances duly enacted by the corporate authorities. At any time or times, before or after the adoption of the official comprehensive plan, the Mayor and City Council may designate by ordinance an official map in accordance with the provisions of § 11-12-6 of the Illinois Municipal Code. Upon submission of a comprehensive plan by the City Council, or a proposed amendment to an existing comprehensive plan, the Mayor and City Council shall schedule a public hearing thereon before the City Council. Not less than 15 days' notice of the proposed hearing, and the time and place thereof, shall be given by the publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the city. The City Administrator shall have the duties of preparing and causing to be published such notice of hearing. The hearing shall be informal, but all persons desiring to be heard in support of or opposition to the comprehensive plan or amendment shall be afforded such opportunity and may submit their statements, orally, in writing or both. The hearing may be recessed to another date if not concluded, if notice of the time and place thereof is publicly announced at the hearing or is given by newspaper publication not less that five days prior to the recessed hearing.
(B) Within 90 days after the conclusion of the hearing, the Mayor and City Council, after consideration of that information as shall have been derived from the hearing, shall either adopt the comprehensive plan or amendment in whole or in part or reject the entire comprehensive plan or amendment. If adopted, the Mayor or City Council shall enact the ordinance including a map or maps as hereinbefore provided. A comprehensive plan or amendment shall not become effective until the expiration of ten days after the date of filing notice of the adoption of such comprehensive plan or amendment with the County Recorder of Deeds.
(Ord. 567, passed 10-15-90)