There is hereby created a Plan Commission for the City of Hometown,
Illinois, which Commission shall consist of seven members to be appointed
by the Mayor with the advice and consent of the City Council, in the
same manner as other officers of the City are appointed and subject
to the provisions of this article and all articles relating to appointments
of officers of the City. With the advice and consent of the City Council,
and until this article is otherwise amended, the Mayor hereby appoints
the members of the Zoning Board of Appeals as members of the Plan
Commission, the terms to run concurrently therewith, and the Chairman
to be the same Chairman.
The Plan Commission shall have a Secretary and such other employees
as shall be deemed necessary for the use of this program. However,
no Secretary or employee shall be employed without the consent of
the City Council.
The compensation of the members of the Plan Commission, the
Secretary, the staff or the employees shall be fixed by the City Council
in the annual appropriation ordinance.
The Plan Commission shall have powers and duties as follows:
(A) To prepare and recommend to the corporate authorities a Comprehensive
Plan for the present and future development or redevelopment of the
City. Such plan may be adopted in whole or separate geographical or
functional parts, each of which, when adopted, shall be the official
Comprehensive Plan, or part thereof, of the City. This plan may include
reasonable requirements with reference to streets, alleys, public
grounds, and other improvements hereinafter specified. The plan, as
recommended by the Plan Commission and as thereafter adopted in any
municipality in this state, may be made applicable, by the terms thereof,
to land situated within the corporate limits and contiguous territory
not more than 1 1/2 miles beyond the corporate limits and not
included in any municipality. Such plan:
(1) May
be implemented by ordinance establishing reasonable standards of design
for subdivision and for resubdivision of unimproved land and of areas
subject to redevelopment in respect to public improvements as herein
defined;
(2) May
be implemented by ordinance establishing reasonable requirements governing
the location, width, course, and surfacing of public streets and highways,
alleys, ways for public service facilities, curbs, gutters, sidewalks,
streetlights, parks, playgrounds, school grounds, size of lots to
be used for residential purposes, stormwater drainage, water supply
and distribution, sanitary sewers, and sewage collection and treatment;
and
(3) May
designate land suitable for annexation to the municipality and the
recommended zoning classification for such land upon annexation.
(B) To recommend changes, from time to time, in the official Comprehensive
Plan.
(C) To prepare and recommend to the corporate authorities, from time
to time, plans for specific improvements in pursuance of the official
Comprehensive Plan.
(D) To give aid to the City officials charged with the direction of projects
for improvements embraced within the official plan, to further the
making of these projects, and, generally, to promote the realization
of the official Comprehensive Plan.
(E) To provide for development of a planning program; the preparation
of regulations, projects and programs pertinent to the development,
redevelopment and renewal of the City and such surrounding territory
over which the City exercises subdivision jurisdiction; and the preparation
and revision of the Official Map.
(F) To exercise such other powers as are germane to the powers granted
by the statutes of the State of Illinois to Plan Commissions.
(G) To initiate and review applications for projects to be financed in
whole or in part by state or federal grants. No application shall
be approved which is not consistent with the overall Comprehensive
Plan of the City.
A majority of the Plan Commission shall constitute a quorum,
but no final action shall be taken on any measure before it except
with the concurrence of a majority of the members. The Chairman shall
vote with the other members of the Commission.
The Plan Commission shall meet at such times as it may determine.
Special meetings may be called by the Mayor, the Chairman, or by any
two members of the Commission; provided, however, that such notice
must be in writing. If all the members are present at a special meeting,
written notice thereof shall be deemed waived. However, no meeting,
special or otherwise, shall be held without posting the notices and
notifying the news media, as required by statute.