The commission is hereby vested with the following jurisdiction and authority and it shall be its duty:
A. To hold public hearings on requests for amendments to chapter 14 of this code and forward its findings and recommendations on such requests to the mayor and board of trustees of the Village.
B. To hear and decide appeals from any zoning determination made by the director of community development in the administration or enforcement of chapter 14 of this code.
C. To hear and decide or forward recommendations as is appropriate for variations, conditional uses and/or relief from the regulations and restrictions contained in chapter 14 of this code.
D. To hear and decide or make recommendations on such other matters as may be committed to the jurisdiction of the commission by other ordinances of the Village or at the direction of the mayor and board of trustees of the Village.
E. To hear and decide all requests for variations and appeals pursuant to chapter 7 of this code.
F. To hear and forward recommendations on all requests for exceptions to chapter 16 of this code.
G. To prepare, amend and recommend to the mayor and board of trustees of the Village an official comprehensive plan ("the plan") for the present and future development or redevelopment of the Village. The official comprehensive plan and its amendments shall be accomplished in accordance with section 5.505 of this article.
H. To recommend changes, from time to time, in the official comprehensive plan after review and public hearing.
I. To give aid to the municipal officials charged with the direction of projects for improvements embraced within the plan, and to generally promote the realization of the plan.
J. To review and recommend the denial or the approval of plats of subdivision.
1. No map or plat of any subdivision or resubdivision presented for recording, affecting land within the corporate limits of the Village, or contiguous territory outside of, but not more distant than one and one-half (11/2) miles from such limits of the Village, shall be entitled to be recorded or shall be valid unless the subdivision shall meet the subdivision regulations as set forth in the Village's development code and otherwise conform to any requirements shown in the official comprehensive plan of the Village.
2. The procedures for review of such maps or plats of subdivision shall be as established within the subdivision regulations of the Village which are a constituent part of the development code.
K. With respect to the Village's community development block grant funds:
1. Conduct public hearings where required by law;
2. Review requests for funding from nonvillage agencies and make recommendations with respect to such requests.
L. To make recommendations to the mayor and village board with respect to the Village's development, review and planning processes.
M. To recommend regulations, projects and programs pertinent to the development, redevelopment and renewal of the Village and such surrounding territory over which the Village exercises subdivision jurisdiction.
N. To exercise such other powers as may be conferred by the corporate authorities. (Ord. 6149, 8-5-2014; amd. Ord. 6286, 12-6-2016)