(A) Creation. In order that adequate provisions be made for the preparation and implementation of the comprehensive plan for the village, and for the guidance, direction and control of growth, development or redevelopment within the village, a Planning and Zoning Board is hereby created.
(Prior Code, § 2-1101)
(B) Membership.
(1) The Village Planning and Zoning Board shall consist of seven members, all of whom shall be residents of the village.
(2) Four members of the Planning and Zoning Board shall constitute a quorum, and no meeting or public hearing shall be conducted by the Board without a quorum being present. In the event of a meeting being cancelled due to lack of a quorum, or for any other reason, the cancelled meeting shall be rescheduled and held within seven calendar days of the originally cancelled meeting.
(3) The concurring vote of four members of the Planning and Zoning Board shall be necessary to reverse an order, requirement, decision or determination of an administrative official, or to decide in favor of the applicant, any matter upon which it is required to pass.
(Prior Code, § 2-1102)
(C) Appointment and term of office.
(1) Members of the Planning and Zoning Board shall be individually appointed and assigned to a specific term of office by the President of the Board, with the advice and consent of the Board of Trustees.
(2) The initial terms of office shall be as follows:
(a) One members for one year;
(b) Three members for two years; and
(c) Three members for three years.
(3) At the end of each appointed term, the successor to each member shall be appointed for a term of three years.
(4) One of the members so appointed shall be named as Chairperson by the President of the Board of Trustees, with the advice and consent of the Board of Trustees, and empowered with the authority to call meetings and public hearings, preside over such meetings and hearings, compel the attendance of witnesses, issue subpoenas and administer oaths. In the absence of the Chairperson, the member present with the longest term of office shall serve as Acting Chairperson and be empowered with all the authority of the Chairperson.
(5) Any member of the Planning and Zoning Board desiring to resign his or her appointment before said term has expired shall notify the President of the Board of Trustees in writing.
(a) Resignations so received shall be effective upon the date it is received by the President unless another date is specifically provided for.
(b) The President, with the advice and consent of the Board of Trustees, shall, at the earliest possible time, appoint a successor for the unexpired term of the member.
(6) The President, with the advice and consent of the Board of Trustees, may remove any member of the Planning and Zoning Board for cause.
(7) The President, with the advice and consent of the Board of Trustees, shall, at the earliest possible time, appoint a successor for the unexpired term of the member so removed.
(Prior Code, § 2-1103)
(D) Compensation. The members of the Planning and Zoning Board shall receive a salary or compensation such as is provided by the President and the Board of Trustees.
(Prior Code, § 2-1104)
(E) Procedure.
(1) Immediately upon its creation, the members of the Planning and Zoning Board shall meet, organize, elect a Recording Secretary and adopt rules and regulations of organization and procedure consistent with village ordinances and state laws. Thereafter, the Planning and Zoning Board may change or alter any such rules or regulations.
(2) The Planning and Zoning Board shall keep written records of its proceedings, which shall be open at all times to public inspection.
(Prior Code, § 2-1105)
(F) Powers and duties. The Planning and Zoning Board shall have the following powers and duties:
(1) To prepare and recommend to the Village Board of Trustees the comprehensive plan for present and future development or redevelopment within the village.
(a) 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 part thereof, of the village.
(b) Such plan shall be advisory, except as to such part thereof as has been implemented by ordinances duly enacted by the Village Board of Trustees.
(c) All requirements for public hearings, filing or notice of adoption with the County Recorder of Deeds and filing of the plan and ordinances with the Municipal Clerk shall be complied with as provided by law.
(d) To provide for the health, safety, comfort and convenience of the habitants of the village, such plan or plans shall establish reasonable standards of design for subdivisions and for resubdivisions of unimproved land and of the areas subject to redevelopment in respect to public
improvements, as herein defined, and shall establish reasonable requirements governing the location, width, course and surfacing or public streets and highways, alleys, ways for public service facilities, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, street lights, 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. The requirements specified herein shall become regulatory only when adopted by ordinance.
(2) To administer and enforce provisions of Ch. 154 of this code of ordinances, by assuming responsibility for the following specific duties:
(a) To hear and review applications for special use permits and report its findings and recommendations to the Board of Trustees;
(b) To hear and decide appeals from any order, requirement, decision or determination made by the Zoning Administrator or other administrative officer under this section;
(c) To hear and review applications for variation from the requirements of this section and report its findings and recommendations to the Board of Trustees;
(d) To hear and review applications for amendments to the text of this section and report its findings and recommendations to the Board of Trustees;
(e) To hear and review applications for amendments to the official zoning map and report its findings and recommendations to the Board of Trustees;
(f) To conduct, in accordance with law, meetings and public hearings at the call of the Chairperson or at such other times as the Planning and Zoning Board may determine;
(g) To compel, by action of the Chairperson, the attendance of witnesses at such meetings and hearings, to allow the testimony of such witnesses or any other person or their designated agent or attorney, and to administer oaths to those who so testify;
(3) To review and make necessary recommendations to the Board of Trustees for the approval or denial of plans for the exterior design of certain structures and review and recommendation for the approval or denial of applications for variations for sign permits, and related duties, specifically:
(a) To prepare and recommend to the Village Board of Trustees regulations for the design and installation of all signs within the village;
(b) To review applications for variation to the sign regulations and make recommendations to the Board of Trustees for approval or denial of same, in accord with the limitations set forth in § 154.212(B)(5) of this code of ordinances;
(c) To prepare and recommend to the Village Board of Trustees regulations for the exterior design of all structures withing the Highway Business, Planned Business, Industrial and Multi-Family Zoning Districts within the village, including the building materials used thereon; and
(d) To review all construction documents submitted for building permits for all structures within the aforementioned zoning districts for compliance with exterior building design regulations, and make the necessary recommendations to the Board of Trustees for the approval or denial of same.
(4) To designate land suitable for annexation to the municipality and the recommend zoning classification for such land upon annexation;
(5) To recommend to the Village Board of Trustees, from time to time, such changes in the comprehensive plan, or any part thereof, as may be deemed necessary;
(6) To recommend to the Village Board of Trustees, from time to time, plans and/or recommendations for specific improvements in pursuance of the official comprehensive plans;
(7) To give aid to the officials of the village, charged with the direction of the projects for improvements embraced within the official plan, or parts thereof, to further the making of such improvements and generally to promote the realization of the official comprehensive plan;
(8) To arrange and conduct any form of publicly relative to its activities for the general purpose of public understanding; and
(9) To cooperate with municipal or regional planning commissions and other agencies or groups to further the local planning program and to assure harmonious and integrated planning for the area.
(Prior Code, § 2-1106)
(G) Land subdivision or resubdivision and the official map.
(1) At any time or time, before or after the formal adoption of the official comprehensive plan by the corporate authorities, an official map may be designated by ordinance, which map may consist of the whole area included within the official comprehensive plan, or one or more separate geographical or functional parts, and may include all or any part of the contiguous unincorporated area within one and one-half miles from the corporate limits of the village.
(2) The requirements for public hearing, filing of notice of adoption with the County Recorder of Deeds, and filing of said plan and ordinances, including the official map, with the Municipal Clerk shall be complied with as provided for by law.
(3) No map or plat of any subdivision or resubdivision presented for the record affecting land within the corporate limits of the village within contiguous territory which is not more than one and one-half miles beyond the corporate limits shall be entitled to record or shall be valid unless the
subdivision shown thereon provides for standards of design, and standards governing streets, alleys, public ways, ways for public service facilities, street lights, public grounds, size of lots to be used for residential purposes, storm and flood water runoff channels and basins, water supply and distribution, sanitary sewers and sewage collection and treatment in conformity with the applicable requirements of the ordinances, including the official map.
(Prior Code, § 2-1107)
(H) Improvements. The Village Clerk shall furnish the Planning and Zoning Board for its consideration a copy of all ordinances, plans and data relative to public improvements of any nature. The Planning and Zoning Board may report in relation thereto if it deems a report necessary or advisable, for the consideration of the Village Board of Trustees.
(Prior Code, § 2-1108)
(I) Expenditures. If the Planning and Zoning Board shall deem it advisable to secure technical advice or services, it may do so upon authorization from the Village Board of Trustees and an appropriation by the Village Board of Trustees therefor.
(Ord. 1386, passed 11-1-2004; Ord. 1554, passed 8-3-2009; Ord. 1583, passed 6-21-2010)
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see 65 ILCS 5/11-13-3