The Historic Preservation Commission shall have the following powers and duties:
(A) To adopt its own procedural regulations;
(B) To periodically conduct a survey to identify historically and architecturally significant properties, structures, and areas;
(C) To investigate and recommend to the Village Board the adoption of ordinances designating properties or structures having special historic, community, or architectural value as “landmarks;”
(D) To investigate and recommend to the Village Board the adoption of ordinances designating areas as having special historic, community, or architectural value as “historic districts;”
(E) To keep a register of all properties and structures that have been designated as landmarks or historic districts, including all information required for each designation;
(F) To determine an appropriate system of markers and make recommendations for the design and implementation of specific markings of the streets and routes leading from one landmark or historic district to another;
(G) To advise owners of landmarks and property or structures within historic districts on physical and financial aspects of preservation, renovation, rehabilitation, and reuse, and on procedures for inclusion on the State or National Register of Historic Places;
(H) To inform and educate the citizens of the village concerning the historic and architectural heritage of the village by publishing and holding programs and seminars;
(I) To hold public meetings and public hearings, as the case may be, to review applications for construction, alteration, relocation, or demolition effecting proposed or designated landmarks or structures or historic districts and issue or deny certificates of appropriateness for such actions;
(J) To develop specific guidelines for the alteration, demolition, construction, or removal of landmarks or property and structures within historic districts;
(K) To review proposed zoning amendments, applications for special use permits or variances that affect proposed or designated landmarks and historic districts. Such review shall be made prior to the date of the hearing by the Planning Commission or the Zoning Board of Appeals to the extent reasonably practical;
(L) To administer on behalf of the village any property of full or partial interest in real property, including a conservation right as that term is used in the Illinois Compiled Statutes, which the village may have or accept as a gift or otherwise, upon designation and acceptance by the Village Board;
(M) To accept and administer on behalf of the village upon designation and acceptance by the Village Board, such gifts, grants and money as may be appropriate for the purpose of this chapter;
(N) To call upon available village staff members, as well as other experts, for technical advice provided no unbudgeted expenses are incurred;
(O) To testify before all boards and commissions, including the Planning Commission and the Zoning Board of Appeals, on any matter affecting historically and architecturally significant property or landmarks; and
(P) To periodically review the zoning chapter and to recommend to the Planning Commission and the Village Board any amendments appropriate for the protection and continued use of landmarks or property and structures within historic districts.
(Ord. 1454, passed 4-18-94; Am. Ord. 1455, passed 5-2-94; Am. Ord. 3261, passed 9-21-20)