[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village
of Westville as Ch. 4 of the 2015 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
A Plan Commission is hereby created under authority of 65 ILCS
5/11-12-4 through 5/11-12-12.
The Plan Commission shall consist of seven members; said members
to be residents of the Village, appointed by the Mayor and the Village
Board, on the basis of their particular fitness for their duty on
the Plan Commission and subject to the approval of the Village Board.
The members shall serve for a period of five years. Vacancies
shall be filled by appointment for the unexpired term only. All members
of the Commission shall serve without compensation; except that if
the Board deems it advisable, they may receive such compensation as
provided by the Village Board by appropriation.
The Plan Commission shall elect such officers as it may deem
necessary and adopt rules and regulations of organization and procedure
consistent with the Village Code and state law. The Commission shall
keep written records of its proceedings. It shall be open at all times
for and to the inspection of the public, and the Commission shall
file an annual report with the Mayor and Village Board, setting forth
its transactions and recommendations.
The Plan Commission shall have the following powers and duties:
A.
To prepare and recommend to the Village Board a Comprehensive Plan
for the present and future development or redevelopment of the Village
and contiguous unincorporated territory not more than 1 1/2 miles
beyond the corporate limits of the Village and not included in any
other municipality.
(1)
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 Village. Such plan shall
be advisory, except as to such part thereof as has been implemented
by ordinances duly enacted by the Village Board.
(2)
All requirements for public hearing, filing of notice of adoption
with the County Recorder of Deeds, and filing of the plan and ordinances
with the Village Clerk shall be complied with as provided for by law.
To provide for the health, safety, comfort, and convenience of the
inhabitants of the Village and contiguous territory, such plan or
plans shall establish 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
and shall establish 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, stormwater drainage, water supply and distribution, sanitary
sewers, and sewage collection and treatment. The requirements specified
herein shall become regulatory only when adopted by law.
B.
To designate land suitable for annexation to the Village and the
recommended zoning classification for such land upon annexation.
C.
To recommend to the Village Board, from time to time, such changes
in the Comprehensive Plan or any part thereof as may be deemed necessary.
D.
To prepare and recommend to the Village Board, from time to time,
plans and/or recommendations for specific improvements in pursuance
of the official Comprehensive Plan.
E.
To give aid to the officials of the Village charged with the direction
of 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.
F.
To arrange and conduct any form of publicity relative to its activities
for the general purpose of public understanding.
G.
To cooperate with municipal or regional plan commissions and other
agencies or groups to further the local plan program and to assure
harmonious and integrated planning for the area, subject to approval
of the Village Board.
H.
To exercise such other powers germane to the powers granted under
authority of an act of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois,
as may be conferred by the Village Board.
At any time or times before or after the formal adoption of
the official Comprehensive Plan by the corporate authorities, an Official
Map may be designated by ordinance, which may consist of the whole
area included within the official Comprehensive Plan or one or more
geographical or functional parts and may include all or any part of
the contiguous unincorporated area within 1 1/2 miles from the
corporate limits of the Village. All requirements for public hearing,
filing notice of adoption with the County Recorder of Deeds and filing
of the plan and ordinances, including the Official Map, with the Clerk
shall be complied with as provided for by law. No map or plat of any
subdivision or resubdivision presented for record affecting land within
the corporate limits of the Village or within contiguous territory
which is not more than 1 1/2 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,
streetlights, public grounds, size of lots to be used for residential
purposes, and distribution, sanitary sewers, and sewage collection
and treatment in conformity with the applicable requirements of the
Code, including the Official Map. (See 65 ILCS 5/11-12-12.)
The Village Clerk shall furnish the Plan Commission, for its
consideration, a copy of all ordinances, plans and data relative to
public improvements of any nature. The Plan Commission may report
in relation thereto, if it deems a report necessary or advisable,
for the consideration of the Village Board.
The Commission shall recommend the boundaries of districts for
land use and shall recommend regulations to the corporate authorities
for the following:
A.
To regulate and limit the height and bulk of buildings hereafter
to be erected.
B.
To establish, regulate and limit the building or setback lines on
or along the street, traffic way, drive, parkway, or stormwater or
floodwater runoff channel or basin.
C.
To regulate and limit the intensity of the use of lot areas and to
regulate and determine the area of open spaces, within and surrounding
such buildings.
D.
To classify, regulate and restrict the location of trades and industries
and the location of buildings designed for specified industrial, business,
residential, and other uses.
E.
To divide the entire municipality into districts of such number,
shape, area, and of such different classes (according to use of land
and buildings, height, and bulk of buildings, intensity of the use
of lot area, area of open spaces, or other classification) as may
be deemed best suited to carry out the purpose of this section.
F.
To fix standards to which buildings or structures therein shall conform.
G.
To prohibit uses, buildings, or structures incompatible with the
character of such districts.
H.
To prevent additions to and alteration or remodeling of existing
buildings or structures in such a way as to avoid the restrictions
and limitations lawfully imposed under this section.
Expenditures of the Commission shall be at the discretion of
the Village Board; and if the Commission shall deem it advisable to
secure technical advice or services, it shall be done upon authority
of the Village Board and appropriations by the Village Board therefor.
(See 65 ILCS 5/11-12.)
