(A) There is hereby created a Board of Appeals to have and exercise the power to:
(1) Hear and decide appeals from any order, requirement, decision or determination made by the Zoning Administration in the enforcement of this subchapter;
(2) Hear and decide any special exception to the terms of this subchapter upon which the Board may be required to pass under such regulations; and
(3) Hear and decide special variances under § 91.077(G).
(B) The Board of Appeals shall consist of seven members, being those persons appointed and acting as members of the Zoning Board of Appeals, their respective terms being coterminous with their terms on the Zoning Board of Appeals. The City Manager or his or her designee shall act as secretary of the Board.
(C) The Board shall adopt rules for its governance, procedure and other authorized matters, consistent with and in harmony with the provisions of this subchapter. Meetings of the Board shall be held at the call of the chairperson and at other times as the Board may determine. The chairperson, or in his or her absence the vice-chairperson, may administer oaths or affirmations and issue subpoenas to compel the attendance of witnesses. All hearings of the Board shall be public. The Board shall keep minutes of its proceedings, showing the vote of each member upon each question, or, if absent or failing to vote, indicating that fact, and shall keep records of its examinations and other official actions, all of which shall immediately be filed in the office of the Board and shall be a public record. The office of the City Manager shall be the office of the Board of Appeals.
(D) The Board of Appeals shall make written findings of fact and conclusions of law giving the facts upon which it acted, and its legal conclusions from those facts in reversing, or affirming or modifying any order, requirement, decision or determination which comes before it under the provisions of this subchapter.
(E) All questions and matters presented to the Board of Appeals for their determination shall be decided by the vote of a majority of the members of the Board.
(1990 Code, § 5-124) (Ord. 67-924, passed 9-18-1967; Ord. 79-661, passed 2-19-1979)
Statutory reference:
Board of Appeals, see ILCS Ch. 620, Act 25, §§ 27 and 28