Rep. Daniel Didech
Filed: 4/7/2025
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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 22 | ||||||
| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 22 by replacing | ||||||
| 3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following: | ||||||
| 4 | "Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by | ||||||
| 5 | changing Section 11-12-5 as follows: | ||||||
| 6 | (65 ILCS 5/11-12-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-12-5) | ||||||
| 7 | Sec. 11-12-5. Every plan commission and planning | ||||||
| 8 | department authorized by this Division 12 has the following | ||||||
| 9 | powers and whenever in this Division 12 the term plan | ||||||
| 10 | commission is used such term shall be deemed to include the | ||||||
| 11 | term planning department: | ||||||
| 12 | (1) To prepare and recommend to the corporate | ||||||
| 13 | authorities a comprehensive plan for the present and | ||||||
| 14 | future development or redevelopment of the municipality. | ||||||
| 15 | Such plan may be adopted in whole or in separate | ||||||
| 16 | geographical or functional parts, each of which, when | ||||||
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| 1 | adopted, shall be the official comprehensive plan, or part | ||||||
| 2 | thereof, of that municipality. This plan may include | ||||||
| 3 | reasonable requirements with reference to streets, alleys, | ||||||
| 4 | public grounds, and other improvements hereinafter | ||||||
| 5 | specified. The plan, as recommended by the plan commission | ||||||
| 6 | and as thereafter adopted in any municipality in this | ||||||
| 7 | state, may be made applicable, by the terms thereof, to | ||||||
| 8 | land situated within the corporate limits and contiguous | ||||||
| 9 | territory not more than one and one-half miles beyond the | ||||||
| 10 | corporate limits and not included in any municipality. | ||||||
| 11 | Such plan may be implemented by ordinances (a) | ||||||
| 12 | establishing reasonable standards of design for | ||||||
| 13 | subdivisions and for resubdivisions of unimproved land and | ||||||
| 14 | of areas subject to redevelopment in respect to public | ||||||
| 15 | improvements as herein defined; (b) establishing | ||||||
| 16 | reasonable requirements governing the location, width, | ||||||
| 17 | course, and surfacing of public streets and highways, | ||||||
| 18 | alleys, ways for public service facilities, curbs, | ||||||
| 19 | gutters, sidewalks, street lights, parks, playgrounds, | ||||||
| 20 | school grounds, size of lots to be used for residential | ||||||
| 21 | purposes, storm water drainage, water supply and | ||||||
| 22 | distribution, sanitary sewers, and sewage collection and | ||||||
| 23 | treatment; and (c) may designate land suitable for | ||||||
| 24 | annexation to the municipality and the recommended zoning | ||||||
| 25 | classification for such land upon annexation. | ||||||
| 26 | (2) To recommend changes, from time to time, in the | ||||||
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| 1 | official comprehensive plan. | ||||||
| 2 | (3) To prepare and recommend to the corporate | ||||||
| 3 | authorities, from time to time, plans for specific | ||||||
| 4 | improvements in pursuance of the official comprehensive | ||||||
| 5 | plan. | ||||||
| 6 | (4) To give aid to the municipal officials charged | ||||||
| 7 | with the direction of projects for improvements embraced | ||||||
| 8 | within the official plan, to further the making of these | ||||||
| 9 | projects, and, generally, to promote the realization of | ||||||
| 10 | the official comprehensive plan. | ||||||
| 11 | (5) To prepare and recommend to the corporate | ||||||
| 12 | authorities schemes for regulating or forbidding | ||||||
| 13 | structures or activities which may hinder access to solar | ||||||
| 14 | energy necessary for the proper functioning of solar | ||||||
| 15 | energy systems, as defined in Section 1.2 of the | ||||||
| 16 | Comprehensive Solar Energy Act of 1977, or to recommend | ||||||
| 17 | changes in such schemes. | ||||||
| 18 | (6) To exercise such other powers germane to the | ||||||
| 19 | powers granted by this Article as may be conferred by the | ||||||
| 20 | corporate authorities. | ||||||
| 21 | For purposes of implementing ordinances regarding | ||||||
| 22 | developer donations or impact fees, and specifically for | ||||||
| 23 | expenditures thereof, "school grounds" is defined as including | ||||||
| 24 | land or site improvements, which include school buildings or | ||||||
| 25 | other infrastructure, including technological infrastructure, | ||||||
| 26 | necessitated and specifically and uniquely attributed to the | ||||||
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| 1 | development or subdivision in question. Developer donations | ||||||
| 2 | and impact fees contemplated in implementing ordinances may | ||||||
| 3 | include amounts to pay for the costs of constructing a new | ||||||
| 4 | school building if the necessity of the new school building is | ||||||
| 5 | specifically and uniquely attributed to the development or | ||||||
| 6 | subdivision and the affected school district certifies the | ||||||
| 7 | necessity and costs. This amendatory Act of the 93rd General | ||||||
| 8 | Assembly applies to all impact fees or developer donations | ||||||
| 9 | paid into a school district or held in a separate account or | ||||||
| 10 | escrow fund by any school district or municipality for a | ||||||
| 11 | school district. | ||||||
| 12 | (Source: P.A. 98-741, eff. 1-1-15; 99-78, eff. 7-20-15.)". | ||||||