(A) Official Zoning Map. In accordance with 65 ILCS 5/11-13-19, the Village Board shall cause to be published no later than March 31 of each year a zoning map clearly showing the existing zoning, divisions, restrictions, regulations and classifications of the Village for the preceding calendar year.
(B) Zoning Map Maintenance. The Zoning Administrator is responsible for directing revisions to the Village’s geographic information system and the official zoning map to reflect zoning map amendments after the effective date of zoning map amendments. No unauthorized person shall alter or modify the Village’s geographic information system or official zoning map. The Zoning Administrator may authorize printed copies of the official zoning map to be produced and maintain digital or printed copies of superseded versions of the official zoning map for historical reference.
(C) Zoning district boundary lines must be described by legal description or by a map that accompanies the ordinance establishing the district or amending the district boundaries. When a legal description is used, the zoning district boundary is deemed to extend to the centerline of abutting streets. When a map is used, district boundary lines must be established by dimensions, property lines, recorded lot lines, or the centerline of abutting streets, alleys, or railroad rights-of-way, as those features were of record at the time of adoption.
(D) Zoning Map Interpretations. Where any uncertainty exists about a zoning boundary, the legal description governs. When there is no legal description of the zoning district boundary, the Zoning Administrator is authorized to make an interpretation of the zoning map using the following rules of interpretation or refer the matter to the Planning and Zoning Commission, in which case they must also use the following rules of interpretation:
1. A boundary shown on the zoning map as approximately following lot lines or section lines will be construed as following those lot lines or section lines.
2. A boundary shown on the zoning map as approximately following a street, alley or railroad line will be construed as following the centerline of the street, alley or railroad right-of-way.
3. A boundary shown on the zoning map as approximately following the boundary of a municipality will be construed as following that boundary.
4. A boundary shown on the zoning map as approximately following the shoreline or centerline of a river, stream, lake or other water body will be construed as following the actual shoreline or centerline of that water body. If, subsequent to the establishment of the boundary, the shoreline or centerline of the watercourse moves as a result of natural processes (flooding, erosion, sedimentation, etc.), the boundary will be construed as moving with the shoreline or centerline of the water body.
5. A boundary shown on the zoning map as approximately parallel to, or as an apparent extension of, a feature described above will be construed as being actually parallel to, or an extension of, the feature.
(E) Split-zoned lots. The zoning map shall not be amended to classify a single lot into two or more base zoning districts.
1. The split zoning of any newly created lot (into more than one base zoning district classification) is prohibited.
2. When an existing lot is classified in two or more base zoning classifications prior to the effective date of this ordinance, the more restrictive provisions of the subject zoning districts, including but not limited to, use, parking, signs, setbacks, height and other lot and building regulations, shall be applied to the entire lot.
(F) Zoning of Public Ways and Rights-of-way. All streets, alleys, public ways and railroad rights-of-way, if not otherwise specifically designated, will be deemed to be in the same zoning district as the property in the most restrictive classification immediately abutting the street, alley, public way or railroad rights-of-way. If the centerline of a street, alley, public way or railroad right-of-way serves as a zoning district boundary, the zoning of such areas, unless otherwise specifically designated, will be deemed to be the same as that of the abutting property up to the centerline.
1. Whenever any street, alley or other public way is vacated by official action of the Village Board, the zoning district adjoining each side of such street, alley or public way is automatically extended to the centerline of such a vacation (or to the reversionary owner should such reversionary rights be different than the centerline of the right-of-way).
(G) Zoning of Annexed Land. When land is annexed or otherwise brought into the zoning jurisdiction of the Village, it is automatically classified in the R-1 zoning district. (Ord. 2021-4931, 11-15-2021)