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| 1 | AN ACT concerning local government.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | changing Section 11-13-1 as follows:
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| 6 | (65 ILCS 5/11-13-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-13-1)
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| 7 | Sec. 11-13-1. To the end that adequate light, pure air, and | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | safety from
fire and other dangers may be secured, that the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | taxable value of land and
buildings throughout the municipality | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | may be conserved, that congestion in
the public streets may be | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | lessened or avoided, that the hazards to persons
and damage to | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | property resulting from the accumulation or runoff of storm
or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | flood waters may be lessened or avoided, and that the public | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | health,
safety, comfort, morals, and welfare may otherwise be | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | promoted, and to
insure and facilitate the preservation of | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | sites, areas, and structures of
historical, architectural and | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | aesthetic importance; the corporate
authorities in each | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | municipality have the following powers:
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| 19 | (1) to regulate and limit the height and bulk of | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | buildings hereafter to
be erected; | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | (2) to establish, regulate and limit, subject to the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | provisions
of Division 14 of this Article 11, the building | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | or set-back lines on or
along any street, traffic-way, | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | drive, parkway or storm or floodwater runoff
channel or | ||||||
| 2 | basin; | ||||||
| 3 | (3) to regulate and limit the intensity of the use of | ||||||
| 4 | lot
areas, and to regulate and determine the area of open | ||||||
| 5 | spaces, within and
surrounding such buildings; | ||||||
| 6 | (4) to classify, regulate and restrict the
location of | ||||||
| 7 | trades and industries and the location of buildings | ||||||
| 8 | designed
for specified industrial, business, residential, | ||||||
| 9 | and other uses; | ||||||
| 10 | (5) to
divide the entire municipality into districts of | ||||||
| 11 | such number, shape, area,
and of such different classes | ||||||
| 12 | (according to use of land and buildings,
height and bulk of | ||||||
| 13 | buildings, intensity of the use of lot area, area of
open | ||||||
| 14 | spaces, or other classification) as may be deemed best | ||||||
| 15 | suited to carry
out the purposes of this Division 13; | ||||||
| 16 | (6) to fix standards to which
buildings or structures | ||||||
| 17 | therein shall conform; | ||||||
| 18 | (7) to prohibit uses,
buildings, or structures | ||||||
| 19 | incompatible with the character of such districts; | ||||||
| 20 | (8) to prevent additions to and alteration or | ||||||
| 21 | remodeling of existing
buildings or structures in such a | ||||||
| 22 | way as to avoid the restrictions and
limitations lawfully | ||||||
| 23 | imposed under this Division 13; | ||||||
| 24 | (9) to classify,
to regulate and restrict the use of | ||||||
| 25 | property on the basis of family
relationship, which family | ||||||
| 26 | relationship may be defined as one or more
persons each | ||||||
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| 1 | related to the other by blood, marriage or adoption and
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| 2 | maintaining a common household; | ||||||
| 3 | (10) to regulate or forbid any structure
or activity | ||||||
| 4 | which may hinder access to solar energy necessary for the | ||||||
| 5 | proper
functioning of a solar energy system, as defined in | ||||||
| 6 | Section 1.2 of the
Comprehensive Solar Energy Act of 1977; | ||||||
| 7 | (11) to require the creation and preservation of | ||||||
| 8 | affordable housing, including the power to provide | ||||||
| 9 | increased density or other zoning incentives to developers | ||||||
| 10 | who are creating, establishing, or preserving affordable | ||||||
| 11 | housing; and | ||||||
| 12 | (12) to establish local standards solely for the review | ||||||
| 13 | of the exterior design of buildings and structures, | ||||||
| 14 | excluding utility facilities and outdoor off-premises | ||||||
| 15 | advertising signs, and designate a board or commission to | ||||||
| 16 | implement the review process; except that, other than | ||||||
| 17 | reasonable restrictions as to size, no home rule or | ||||||
| 18 | non-home rule municipality may prohibit the display of | ||||||
| 19 | outdoor political campaign signs on residential property | ||||||
| 20 | during any period of time, the regulation of these signs | ||||||
| 21 | being a power and function of the State and, therefor, this | ||||||
| 22 | item (12) is a denial and limitation of concurrent home | ||||||
| 23 | rule powers and functions under subsection (i) of Section 6 | ||||||
| 24 | of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution; and .
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| 25 | (13) to regulate any organization, business, or | ||||||
| 26 | housing development that has the potential to increase | ||||||
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| 1 | overnight population of the municipality by more than 2% on | ||||||
| 2 | any night; for purposes of this item (13), "population" | ||||||
| 3 | means those persons residing in the municipality or those | ||||||
| 4 | working in the municipality. | ||||||
| 5 | The powers enumerated may be exercised within the corporate | ||||||
| 6 | limits or
within contiguous territory not more than one and | ||||||
| 7 | one-half miles beyond the
corporate limits and not included | ||||||
| 8 | within any municipality. However, if any
municipality adopts a | ||||||
| 9 | plan pursuant to Division 12 of Article 11 which
plan includes | ||||||
| 10 | in its provisions a provision that the plan applies to such
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| 11 | contiguous territory not more than one and one-half miles | ||||||
| 12 | beyond the
corporate limits and not included in any | ||||||
| 13 | municipality, then no other
municipality shall adopt a plan | ||||||
| 14 | that shall apply to any territory included
within the territory | ||||||
| 15 | provided in the plan first so adopted by another
municipality. | ||||||
| 16 | No municipality shall exercise any power set forth in this
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| 17 | Division 13 outside the corporate limits thereof, if the county | ||||||
| 18 | in which
such municipality is situated has adopted "An Act in | ||||||
| 19 | relation to county
zoning", approved June 12, 1935, as amended.
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| 20 | Nothing in this Section prevents a municipality of more than | ||||||
| 21 | 112,000
population located in a county of less than 185,000 | ||||||
| 22 | population that has adopted
a zoning ordinance and the county | ||||||
| 23 | that adopted the zoning ordinance from
entering into an | ||||||
| 24 | intergovernmental agreement that allows the municipality to
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| 25 | exercise its zoning powers beyond its territorial limits; | ||||||
| 26 | provided, however,
that the intergovernmental agreement must | ||||||
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| 1 | be limited to the territory within
the municipality's planning | ||||||
| 2 | jurisdiction as defined by law or any existing
boundary | ||||||
| 3 | agreement. The county and the municipality must amend their
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| 4 | individual zoning maps in the same manner as other zoning | ||||||
| 5 | changes are
incorporated into revised zoning maps.
No such | ||||||
| 6 | intergovernmental agreement may authorize a municipality to | ||||||
| 7 | exercise
its zoning powers, other than powers that a county may | ||||||
| 8 | exercise under
Section 5-12001 of the Counties Code, with | ||||||
| 9 | respect to land used for
agricultural purposes. This amendatory | ||||||
| 10 | Act of the 92nd General Assembly is
declarative of existing | ||||||
| 11 | law.
No municipality may exercise any
power set forth in this | ||||||
| 12 | Division 13 outside the corporate limits of the
municipality | ||||||
| 13 | with respect to a facility of a telecommunications carrier | ||||||
| 14 | defined
in Section 5-12001.1 of the Counties Code. | ||||||
| 15 | Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, | ||||||
| 16 | 30 days prior to the issuance of any permits for a new | ||||||
| 17 | telecommunications facility within 1.5 miles of a | ||||||
| 18 | municipality, the telecommunications carrier constructing the | ||||||
| 19 | facility shall provide written notice of its intent to | ||||||
| 20 | construct the facility. The notice shall include, but not be | ||||||
| 21 | limited to, the following information: (i) the name, address, | ||||||
| 22 | and telephone number of the company responsible for the | ||||||
| 23 | construction of the facility, (ii) the address and telephone | ||||||
| 24 | number of the governmental entity that is to issue the building | ||||||
| 25 | permit for the telecommunications facility, (iii) a site plan | ||||||
| 26 | and site map of sufficient specificity to indicate both the | ||||||
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| 1 | location of the parcel where the telecommunications facility is | ||||||
| 2 | to be constructed and the location of all the | ||||||
| 3 | telecommunications facilities within that parcel, and (iv) the | ||||||
| 4 | property index number and common address of the parcel where | ||||||
| 5 | the telecommunications facility is to be located. The notice | ||||||
| 6 | shall not contain any material that appears to be an | ||||||
| 7 | advertisement for the telecommunications carrier or any | ||||||
| 8 | services provided by the telecommunications carrier. The | ||||||
| 9 | notice shall be provided in person, by overnight private | ||||||
| 10 | courier, or by certified mail to all owners of property within | ||||||
| 11 | 250 feet of the parcel in which the telecommunications carrier | ||||||
| 12 | has a leasehold or ownership interest. For the purposes of this | ||||||
| 13 | notice requirement, "owners" means those persons or entities | ||||||
| 14 | identified from the authentic tax records of the county in | ||||||
| 15 | which the telecommunications facility is to be located. If, | ||||||
| 16 | after a bona fide effort by the telecommunications carrier to | ||||||
| 17 | determine the owner and his or her address, the owner of the | ||||||
| 18 | property on whom the notice must be served cannot be found at | ||||||
| 19 | the owner's last known address, or if the mailed notice is | ||||||
| 20 | returned because the owner cannot be found at the last known | ||||||
| 21 | address, the notice requirement of this paragraph is deemed | ||||||
| 22 | satisfied. For the purposes of this paragraph, "facility" means | ||||||
| 23 | that term as it is defined in Section 5-12001.1 of the Counties | ||||||
| 24 | Code. | ||||||
| 25 | If a municipality adopts a
zoning plan covering an area | ||||||
| 26 | outside its corporate limits, the plan adopted
shall be | ||||||
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| 1 | reasonable with respect to the area outside the corporate | ||||||
| 2 | limits
so that future development will not be hindered or | ||||||
| 3 | impaired; it is
reasonable for a municipality to regulate or | ||||||
| 4 | prohibit the extraction of
sand, gravel, or limestone even when | ||||||
| 5 | those activities are related to an
agricultural purpose. If all | ||||||
| 6 | or any part of the area outside the corporate
limits of a | ||||||
| 7 | municipality which has been zoned in accordance with the
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| 8 | provisions of this Division 13 is annexed to another | ||||||
| 9 | municipality or
municipalities, the annexing unit shall | ||||||
| 10 | thereafter exercise all zoning
powers and regulations over the | ||||||
| 11 | annexed area.
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| 12 | In all ordinances passed under the authority of this | ||||||
| 13 | Division 13, due
allowance shall be made for existing | ||||||
| 14 | conditions, the conservation of
property values, the direction | ||||||
| 15 | of building development to the best
advantage of the entire | ||||||
| 16 | municipality and the uses to which the property is
devoted at | ||||||
| 17 | the time of the enactment of such an ordinance. The powers
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| 18 | conferred by this Division 13 shall not be exercised so as to | ||||||
| 19 | deprive the
owner of any existing property of its use or | ||||||
| 20 | maintenance for the purpose to
which it is then lawfully | ||||||
| 21 | devoted, but provisions may be made for the
gradual elimination | ||||||
| 22 | of uses, buildings and structures which are
incompatible with | ||||||
| 23 | the character of the districts in which they are made or
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| 24 | located, including, without being limited thereto, provisions | ||||||
| 25 | (a) for the
elimination of such uses of unimproved lands or lot | ||||||
| 26 | areas when the existing
rights of the persons in possession | ||||||
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| 1 | thereof are terminated or when the uses
to which they are | ||||||
| 2 | devoted are discontinued; (b) for the elimination of uses
to | ||||||
| 3 | which such buildings and structures are devoted, if they are | ||||||
| 4 | adaptable
for permitted uses; and (c) for the elimination of | ||||||
| 5 | such buildings and
structures when they are destroyed or | ||||||
| 6 | damaged in major part, or when they
have reached the age fixed | ||||||
| 7 | by the corporate authorities of the municipality
as the normal | ||||||
| 8 | useful life of such buildings or structures.
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| 9 | This amendatory Act of 1971 does not apply to any | ||||||
| 10 | municipality which is
a home rule unit, except as provided in | ||||||
| 11 | item (12).
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| 12 | (Source: P.A. 96-904, eff. 1-1-11; 97-496, eff. 8-22-11.)
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| 13 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 14 | becoming law.
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