Full Text of HB5619 98th General Assembly
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning local government.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 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 authorities a
| 13 | | comprehensive plan for the present and future development or | 14 | | redevelopment
of the municipality. Such plan may be adopted in | 15 | | whole or in separate
geographical or functional parts, each of | 16 | | which, when adopted, shall be the
official comprehensive plan, | 17 | | or part thereof, of that municipality. This
plan may include | 18 | | reasonable requirements with reference to streets, alleys,
| 19 | | public grounds, and other improvements hereinafter specified. | 20 | | The plan, as
recommended by the plan commission and as | 21 | | thereafter adopted in any
municipality in this state, may be | 22 | | made applicable, by the terms thereof,
to land situated within | 23 | | the corporate limits and contiguous territory not
more than one |
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| 1 | | and one-half miles beyond the corporate limits and not
included | 2 | | in any municipality. Such plan may be implemented by ordinances
| 3 | | (a) establishing reasonable standards of design for | 4 | | subdivisions and for
resubdivisions of unimproved land and of | 5 | | areas subject to redevelopment in
respect to public | 6 | | improvements as herein defined; (b) establishing
reasonable | 7 | | requirements governing the location, width, course, and
| 8 | | surfacing of public streets and highways, alleys, ways for | 9 | | public service
facilities, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, street | 10 | | lights, parks, playgrounds,
school grounds, size of lots to be | 11 | | used for residential purposes, storm
water drainage, water | 12 | | supply and distribution, sanitary sewers, and sewage
| 13 | | collection and treatment; and (c) may designate land suitable | 14 | | for
annexation to the municipality and the recommended zoning | 15 | | classification
for such land upon annexation.
| 16 | | (2) To recommend changes, from time to time, in the | 17 | | official
comprehensive plan.
| 18 | | (3) To prepare and recommend to the corporate authorities, | 19 | | from time to
time, plans for specific improvements in pursuance | 20 | | of the official
comprehensive plan.
| 21 | | (4) To give aid to the municipal officials charged with the | 22 | | direction of
projects for improvements embraced within the | 23 | | official plan, to further the
making of these projects, and, | 24 | | generally, to promote the realization of the
official | 25 | | comprehensive plan.
| 26 | | (5) To prepare and recommend to the corporate authorities |
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| 1 | | schemes for
regulating or forbidding structures or activities | 2 | | which may hinder access
to solar energy necessary for the | 3 | | proper functioning of solar energy systems,
as defined in | 4 | | Section 1.2 of The Comprehensive Solar Energy Act of 1977,
or | 5 | | to recommend changes in such schemes.
| 6 | | (6) To exercise such other powers germane to the powers | 7 | | granted by this
article as may be conferred by the corporate | 8 | | authorities.
| 9 | | (7) For purposes of implementing ordinances regarding | 10 | | developer
donations
or
impact fees,
and specifically for | 11 | | expenditures thereof,
"school grounds" is defined as including | 12 | | land or site
improvements,
which include
school buildings or | 13 | | other infrastructure , including technological infrastructure, | 14 | | necessitated and specifically and
uniquely attributed to the
| 15 | | development or subdivision in question. This amendatory Act of | 16 | | the 93rd
General Assembly applies to all impact fees or | 17 | | developer donations paid into a
school district or held in a | 18 | | separate account or escrow fund by any school
district
or | 19 | | municipality for a school district.
| 20 | | (Source: P.A. 93-330, eff. 7-24-03.)
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