The planning commission shall have the following powers:
A. To prepare and recommend to the corporate authorities a comprehensive plan for the present and future development or redevelopment of the municipality. Such plan may be adopted in whole or in separate geographical or functional parts, each of which, when adopted, shall be the official comprehensive plan, or part thereof, of the municipality. This plan may include reasonable requirements with reference to streets, alleys, public grounds, and other improvements hereinafter specified. The plan, as recommended by the planning commission and as thereafter adopted in any municipality in this state, may be made applicable by the terms thereof to land situated within the corporate limits and contiguous territory not more than one and one-half (11/2) miles beyond the corporate limits and not included in any municipality. Such plan may be implemented by ordinances:
1. Establishing reasonable standards of design for subdivisions and for resubdivisions of unimproved land and of areas subject to redevelopment in respect to public improvements as herein defined;
2. Establishing reasonable requirements governing the location, width, course and surfacing of public streets and highways, alleys, ways for public service facilities, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, streetlights, parks, playgrounds, school grounds, size of lots to be used for residential purposes, storm water drainage, water supply and distribution, sanitary sewers, and sewage collection and treatment; and
3. May designate land suitable for annexation to the municipality and the recommended zoning classification for such land upon annexation.
B. To recommend changes, from time to time, in the official comprehensive plan.
C. To prepare and recommend to the corporate authorities from time to time, plans for specific improvements in pursuance of the official comprehensive plan.
D. To give aid to the municipal officials charged with the direction of projects for improvements embraced within the official plan, to further the making of these projects, and generally to promote the realization of the official comprehensive plan.
E. To review plats of subdivision, development plans and specifications and other material that may be presented to the village by an owner of land or a potential developer and to make recommendations to the village pertaining to same. Commensurate therewith the commission may prescribe certain application and information forms, for any interested party desiring to appear before them, and in addition charge a fee not to exceed one hundred twenty five dollars ($125.00) to cover administrative costs. Such fee shall be payable to the village clerk. The secretary of the commission is to maintain a separate file for each matter brought before it and number them consecutively. These files shall be available for public inspection.
F. To exercise such other powers germane to the powers granted by this chapter as may be conferred by the corporate authorities. (Ord. 684, 1-14-1974)
G. To hear appeals in connection with the declaration of a vacant building. The planning commission is hereby vested with the jurisdiction and authority to hear and decide any properly filed appeal(s) taken in connection with a declaration of a vacant building made by the building and zoning inspector. The planning commission shall:
1. Give all proper deference to the spirit and intent embodied in the language of the ordinance and to the reasonable interpretations of that language by those charged with the administration of this code.
2. Decide the appeal on the basis of facts presented by the owner and the building and zoning inspector.
3. Render a written decision on the appeal within a reasonable time, but in no event more than sixty (60) days after the receipt of said appeal, and shall provide the village clerk with a written copy of said decision.
4. All decisions, after hearing of the planning commission shall, in all instances, be final administrative determinations and shall be subject to judicial review only in accordance with applicable Illinois and federal statutes. (Ord. 2010-O-003, 1-11-2010)