(A) The purpose of this zoning chapter of the village and the intent of the Village Council in its adoption is to provide planning standards, procedures, regulations and controls for the use of the land in the village, and for the design, use, bulk, location and spacing of buildings and other structures, in order to most effectively, to the fullest extent permissible under the village’s powers of home rule, promote and ensure the public health, safety, morals, convenience and general welfare.
(B) The Village Council has determined that the following regulations shall be adopted to replace the zoning ordinance of the village, originally adopted in 1999, for the following purposes:
(1) To facilitate economic and adequate provision of transportation, communication, water supply, drainage, sanitation, education, recreation and other public services;
(2) To preserve and strengthen the reasonable balance of commercial activities within the village, so long as they are consistent with the village’s residential, pedestrian and rural character;
(3) To regulate the location of buildings and intensity of uses in relation to the street design so as to cause the least interference with, and be damaged least by, traffic movements, and hence result in lessened street congestion and improved public safety;
(4) To protect the character and values of the institutional, residential, business and public uses and to assure their orderly and beneficial development;
(5) To minimize conflicts between different land uses by requiring adequate landscaping, yards and buffers in appropriate locations;
(6) To protect and preserve the cultural resources of the village;
(7) To prevent damage to environmentally sensitive areas and to protect existing natural resources;
(8) To provide methods to implement the village’s home rule authority to regulate the use of land within its municipal boundaries;
(9) To control and to regulate the growth of the village, concentrating development in areas where adequate sewage facilities, roads and schools can be provided, and limiting development in areas where these facilities are not, cannot or should not be provided;
(10) To protect landowners from adverse impacts of adjoining developments;
(11) To conserve the natural environment and historic resources, maintain a compatible scale within an area, and minimize traffic congestion and enhance the streetscape and pedestrian environment; and
(12) To achieve an efficient use of the land without major disruption of the natural environment and to direct development to sites with adequate services and amenities.
(C) (1) It is the goal of this chapter that both the burdens and the benefits which it implies be rationally and fairly distributed among the citizens and property owners of the village.
(2) The regulations contained in this chapter are based on thorough analysis of the consequences of the regulations imposed by the previous village zoning ordinance and the costs and benefits, to all affected parties, included in the regulations imposed by this chapter.
(3) Districts are few in number, and each has a clearly different purpose. Distinctions between districts are significant. They are sized to be adequate to handle the village’s long-term needs and shall be regularly updated as time passes.
(Ord. 1999-03, passed 3- -1999; Ord. 2013-04, passed 2-4-2013)