[Amended 6-5-1978 by FMC-115; 7-7-2014 by Ord. No. 2014-1783]
There is hereby created a Plan Commission for the Village of
Flossmoor, Illinois, which Commission shall consist of seven members
to be appointed by the Mayor by and with the advice and consent of
the Board of Trustees, in the same manner as other officers of the
Village are appointed and subject to the provisions of all ordinances
relating to appointment of officers of the Village; provided, however,
that the Chairman of the Zoning Board of Appeals shall be appointed
as a member of said Plan Commission to serve during the period of
appointment and service. The successors to all members now serving
and those herein provided to be now appointed, and thereafter all
members of the Plan Commission, other than the Chairman of the Zoning
Board of Appeals, shall be appointed for terms of three years each,
except in the event of a vacancy as noted below. At the expiration
of their terms all members of the Commission shall continue to serve
until their successors are appointed and qualified. One of the members
so appointed shall be named as Chairman at the time of his appointment.
Vacancies for the unexpired term of any member whose place shall become
vacant shall be filled by appointment of the Mayor and Board of Trustees
for the unexpired term in the same manner as original appointments
are made.
Said Plan Commission shall have power and duties as follows:
A. To prepare and recommend to the Mayor and Board of Trustees a Comprehensive
Plan of public improvements, looking to the present and future development
of the Village, which said Plan, after its adoption by the Mayor and
Board of Trustees, shall be known as the "Official Plan of the Village
of Flossmoor." The Official Plan shall be comprised of the Village's
Comprehensive Plan, Zoning Ordinance and Subdivision Ordinance as
well as subarea and/or neighborhood plans that may from time to time
be recommended by the Plan Commission and approved by the Village
Board. Said Commission may thereafter from time to time recommend
any changes of such "Official Plan."
(1) Such plan will include:
(a)
Reasonable standards of design for subdivisions and for resubdivisions
of unimproved land and of areas subject to redevelopment;
(b)
Reasonable requirements governing the location, width, course
and surfacing for public streets, alleys and ways for public service
facilities, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, streetlights, parks, playgrounds,
school grounds and other public grounds, size of lots to be used for
residential purposes, stormwater drainage, water supply and distribution,
sanitary sewers and sewage collection and treatment;
(c)
Land suitable for annexation to the Village and recommended
zoning classification for such land upon annexation, applicable in
unsubdivided lands within the corporate limits, and in contiguous
territory outside of and distance not more than 1 1/2 miles from
the limits of the Village and not included in any city, village or
unincorporated town.
(2) Such requirements to be effective whenever such lands shall be subdivided
after the adoption of such plan. Such plan may be recommended and
adopted in whole or in functional or geographical parts, or both,
and each of such geographical or functional parts when adopted shall
be the Official Plan, or part thereof, of the Village.
B. To prepare and recommend to the Mayor and Board of Trustees from
time to time plans for specific improvements in pursuance of such
Official Plan.
C. To give aid to the Mayor and Board of Trustees, and the Board of
Local Improvements, in the development and completion of projects
embraced within the Official Plan, to further the making of such improvements,
and generally to promote the realization of the Official Plan.
D. To exercise such other powers as are germane to the powers granted
by the statutes of the State of Illinois to plan commissions.
No map or plat of any subdivision or resubdivision presented
for approval of the Mayor and Board of Trustees, affecting land within
the corporate limits of said Village, shall be approved unless the
subdivision shown thereon shall be in conformance with the Village's
Comprehensive Plan, Zoning Ordinance, Subdivision Ordinance and Stormwater
Management Code.
A majority of the Plan Commission shall constitute a quorum.
The Chairman shall vote with the other members of the Commission.
[Amended 7-7-2014 by Ord.
No. 2014-1783; 11-7-2022 by Ord. No. FMC 2022-7]
The Plan Commission shall meet on the third Thursday of each
month. Failure to attend three regularly scheduled meetings in a calendar
year, unless the meeting has been cancelled, shall result in removal.
The Village Manager has the discretion to excuse a commissioner's
absence. The Village Manager shall be notified in writing of a commissioner's
inability to attend a meeting seven days prior to the scheduled meeting.
If a commissioner misses a meeting due to an emergency, he/she must
notify the Village Manager within 48 hours of the missed meeting to
have the absence excused. Special meetings may be called by the Mayor,
the Chairperson, or by any two members of the Commission; provided,
however, that such notice shall be as provided by the Open Meetings
Act.