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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 Counties Code is amended by changing Section
55-12014 as follows:
 
6    (55 ILCS 5/5-12014)  (from Ch. 34, par. 5-12014)
7    Sec. 5-12014. Amendment of regulations and districts.
8    (a) For purposes of this Section, the term "text amendment"
9means an amendment to the text of a zoning ordinance, which
10affects the whole county, and the term "map amendment" means an
11amendment to the map of a zoning ordinance, which affects an
12individual parcel or parcels of land.
13    (b) The regulations imposed and the districts created under
14the authority of this Division may be amended from time to time
15by ordinance or resolution, after the ordinance or resolution
16establishing same has gone into effect, but no such amendments
17shall be made without a hearing before the board of appeals. At
18least 15 days notice of the time and place of such hearing
19shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation
20published in such county. Hearings on text amendments shall be
21held in the court house of the county or other county building
22with more adequate facilities for such hearings. Hearings on
23map amendments shall be held in the township or road district

 

 

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1affected by the terms of such proposed amendment or in the
2court house, or other county building with more adequate
3facilities for such hearings, of the county in which the
4affected township or road district is located. Provided, that
5if the owner of any property affected by such proposed map
6amendment so requests in writing, such hearing shall be held in
7the township or road district affected by the terms of such
8proposed amendment. Except as provided in subsection (c), text
9amendments may be passed at a county board meeting by a simple
10majority of the elected county board members, unless written
11protests against the proposed text amendment are signed by 5%
12of the land owners of the county, in which case such amendment
13shall not be passed except by the favorable vote of 3/4 of all
14the members of the county board. Except as provided in
15subsection (c), map amendments may be passed at a county board
16meeting by a simple majority of the elected county board
17members, except that in case of written protest against any
18proposed map amendment that is either: (A) signed by the owner
19or owners of at least 20% of the land to be rezoned, or (B)
20signed by the owner or owners of land immediately touching, or
21immediately across a street, alley, or public right-of-way
22from, at least 20% of the perimeter of the land to be rezoned,
23or in cases where the land affected lies within 1 1/2 miles of
24the limits of a zoned municipality, or in the case of a
25proposed text amendment to the Zoning Ordinance, by resolution
26of the corporate authorities of the zoned municipality with

 

 

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1limits nearest adjacent, filed with the county clerk, such
2amendment shall not be passed except by the favorable vote of
33/4 of all the members of the county board, but in counties in
4which the county board consists of 3 members only a 2/3 vote is
5required. In such cases, a copy of the written protest shall be
6served by the protestor or protestors on the applicant for the
7proposed amendment and a copy upon the applicant's attorney, if
8any, by certified mail at the address of such applicant and
9attorney shown in the application for the proposed amendment.
10Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section, if a map
11amendment is proposed solely to correct an error made by the
12county as a result of a comprehensive rezoning by the county,
13the map amendments may be passed at a county board meeting by a
14simple majority of the elected board.
15    Any notice required by this Section need not include a
16metes and bounds legal description, provided that the notice
17includes: (i) the common street address or addresses and (ii)
18the property index number ("PIN") or numbers of all the parcels
19of real property contained in the area for which the variation
20is requested.
21    (c) If a township located within a county with a population
22of less than 600,000 has a plan commission and the plan
23commission objects to a text amendment or a map amendment
24affecting an unincorporated area of the township, then the
25township board of trustees may submit its written objections to
26the county board within 30 days after the hearing before the

 

 

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1board of appeals, in which case the county board may not adopt
2the text amendment or the map amendment affecting an
3unincorporated area of the township except by the favorable
4vote of at least three-fourths of all the members of the county
5board.
6(Source: P.A. 89-272, eff. 8-10-95.)
 
7    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
8becoming law.