The commission shall carry out its responsibilities with respect to the official comprehensive plan according to the following:
A. After receiving a proposed comprehensive plan or an amendment to an existing comprehensive plan, the commission shall hold a public hearing to consider such plan or amendment.
1. Not less than fifteen (15) days prior to the public hearing, notice of the proposed hearing, setting forth the time and date and place shall be given by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the Village and the contiguous unincorporated area.
2. The hearing may be recessed to another date if not concluded; provided, notice of the time and place is publicly announced at the hearing at the time of such recess or notice is given by newspaper publication not less than five (5) days prior to the rescheduled hearing.
B. No testimony regarding the comprehensive plan or any amendments shall be taken, and no witnesses heard, except at a properly convened public hearing of the commission.
C. No comprehensive plan or amendment shall be adopted by the mayor and board of trustees that has not been submitted to the commission for review, public hearing and recommendation.
D. The 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 a constituent part of the comprehensive plan of the village.
E. The plan, by its very terms, may be made applicable to land situated within the corporate limits of the village and contiguous territory not more than one and one-half (11/2) miles beyond the corporate limits of the village.
F. The plan may designate land suitable for annexation to the village, along with recommended zoning classification for such land upon annexation.
G. The plan shall be the primary planning guide of the village, but shall not be construed to actually regulate or control the use of private property which is the function of the zoning ordinance and official maps.
H. The official comprehensive plan and any ordinances implementing it shall be on file with the village clerk and shall be available at all times during regular business hours for public inspection.
I. Within ninety (90) days after the conclusion of the public hearing held by the commission, the commission shall make its written recommendation to the mayor and board of trustees. If the commission fails to make such written recommendation within ninety (90) days, then the mayor and board of trustees may proceed to consider adoption of such comprehensive plan or portion of the comprehensive plan or an amendment to an existing comprehensive plan in the same manner as if the commission had made a written recommendation.
1. After consideration of the recommendation of the commission of a proposed amendment to the comprehensive plan, the mayor and board of trustees shall either adopt the comprehensive plan or amendment in whole or in part or reject the entire comprehensive plan or amendment.
2. If approved, the mayor and board of trustees of the village shall enact the ordinances necessary to give effect to the plan.
3. If, at the expiration of one hundred eighty (180) days after the recommendation of the commission to the mayor and board of trustees, the mayor and board of trustees have taken no formal action, the comprehensive plan or amendment may not be acted upon by the mayor and board of trustees without renewing the public notice and public hearing process.
J. The plan and its amendments, if approved and adopted, shall become effective upon the expiration of ten (10) days after the date of filing notice of such adoption with the Cook County recorder of deeds.
K. Copies of the plan, all ordinances implementing it, and the official map, shall be available to any interested party. (Ord. 6149, 8-5-2014)