97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
HB1714

 

Introduced , by Rep. Jim Durkin

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
65 ILCS 5/11-12-5  from Ch. 24, par. 11-12-5

    Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the powers of a plan commission.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning local government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
5changing 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 and planning
8department authorized by this division 12 has the following
9powers and whenever in this division 12 the term plan
10commission is used such term shall be deemed to include the
11term planning department:
12    (1) To prepare and recommend to the corporate authorities a
13comprehensive plan for the present and future development or
14redevelopment of the municipality. Such plan may be adopted in
15whole or in separate geographical or functional parts, each of
16which, when adopted, shall be the official comprehensive plan,
17or part thereof, of that municipality. This plan may include
18reasonable requirements with reference to streets, alleys,
19public grounds, and other improvements hereinafter specified.
20The plan, as recommended by the plan commission and as
21thereafter adopted in any municipality in this state, may be
22made applicable, by the terms thereof, to land situated within
23the corporate limits and contiguous territory not more than one

 

 

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1and one-half miles beyond the corporate limits and not included
2in any municipality. Such plan may be implemented by ordinances
3(a) establishing reasonable standards of design for
4subdivisions and for resubdivisions of unimproved land and of
5areas subject to redevelopment in respect to public
6improvements as herein defined; (b) establishing reasonable
7requirements governing the location, width, course, and
8surfacing of public streets and highways, alleys, ways for
9public service facilities, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, street
10lights, parks, playgrounds, school grounds, size of lots to be
11used for residential purposes, storm water drainage, water
12supply and distribution, sanitary sewers, and sewage
13collection and treatment; and (c) may designate land suitable
14for annexation to the municipality and the recommended zoning
15classification for such land upon annexation.
16    (2) To recommend changes, from time to time, in the
17official comprehensive plan.
18    (3) To prepare and recommend to the corporate authorities,
19from time to time, plans for specific improvements in pursuance
20of the official comprehensive plan.
21    (4) To give aid to the municipal officials charged with the
22direction of projects for improvements embraced within the
23official plan, to further the making of these projects, and,
24generally, to promote the realization of the official
25comprehensive plan.
26    (5) To prepare and recommend to the corporate authorities

 

 

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1schemes for regulating or forbidding structures or activities
2which may hinder access to solar energy necessary for the
3proper functioning of solar energy systems, as defined in
4Section 1.2 of The Comprehensive Solar Energy Act of 1977, or
5to recommend changes in such schemes.
6    (6) To exercise such other powers germane to the powers
7granted by this article as may be conferred by the corporate
8authorities.
9    (7) For purposes of implementing ordinances regarding
10developer donations or impact fees, and specifically for
11expenditures thereof, "school grounds" is defined as including
12land or site improvements, which include school buildings or
13other infrastructure necessitated and specifically and
14uniquely attributed to the development or subdivision in
15question. This amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly
16applies to all impact fees or developer donations paid into a
17school district or held in a separate account or escrow fund by
18any school district or municipality for a school district.
19(Source: P.A. 93-330, eff. 7-24-03.)