[HISTORY: Adopted by the President and Board of Trustees
of the Village of Granville as indicated in article histories. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Zoning and land development — See Ch. 285.
[Adopted 6-15-1965 by Ord. No. 168]
In order that adequate provisions be made for the preparation
of a comprehensive Village plan for the guidance, direction and control
of the growth and development or redevelopment of the Village of Granville,
Putnam County, Illinois, and contiguous territory not more than 1 1/2
miles beyond the corporate limits and not included in any municipality,
a Plan Commission is hereby created on authority of the Illinois Municipal
Code (65 ILCS Act 5).
The Plan Commission shall consist of five members, citizens
of the Village, appointed by the President of the Board of Trustees,
on the basis of their particular fitness for the duty on the Plan
Commission and subject to the approval of the Village Board.
Members shall serve for a period of one year. Vacancies shall
be filled by appointments for unexpired terms only. All members of
the Commission shall serve without compensation, except that, if the
Village Board deems it advisable, they may receive compensation as
may be from time to time approved by the Board and provided for in
the appropriation ordinance.
Immediately following their appointment, the members of the
Plan Commission shall meet, organize, elect such officers as they
may deem necessary, and adopt and later change or alter rules and
regulations of organization and procedure consistent with Village
ordinances and state laws. The Commission shall keep written records
of its proceedings, which shall be open at all times to public inspection.
The Commission shall also file an annual report with the President
and Village Board setting forth its transactions and recommendations.
The Plan Commission shall have the following powers and duties:
A.
To prepare and recommend to the Village Board a Comprehensive Plan
for the present and future development or redevelopment of the Village
and contiguous unincorporated territory not more than 1 1/2 miles
beyond the corporate limits of the Village and not included in any
other municipality. The 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 Village of Granville.
The plan shall be advisory except as to the part thereof as has been
implemented by ordinance duly enacted by the Village Board. All requirements
for public hearing, filing of notice of adoption with the County Recorder
of Deeds and filing of the plan and ordinances with the Village Clerk
shall be complied with as provided for by law. To provide for the
health, safety, comfort and convenience of the inhabitants of the
Village, and contiguous territory, such plan or plans shall establish
reasonable standards of design for subdivisions and for resubdivisions
of unimproved land and of areas subject to redevelopment in respect
to public improvements as herein defined and shall establish 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, sanitary sewers, and sewage collection and treatment. The
requirements specified herein shall become regulatory only when adopted
by ordinance.
B.
To designate lands suitable for annexation to the municipality and
the recommended zoning classification for the land upon annexation.
C.
To recommend to the Village Board, from time to time, changes in
the Comprehensive Plan, or any part thereof, as may be deemed necessary.
D.
To prepare and recommend to the Village Board, from time to time,
plans and/or recommendations for specific improvements in pursuance
of the official Comprehensive Plan.
E.
To give aid to the officials of the Village charged with the direction
of projects for improvements embraced within the official plan, or
parts thereof, to further the making of the improvements and generally
to promote the realization of the official Comprehensive Plan.
F.
To arrange and conduct any form of publicity relative to its activities
for the general purpose of public understanding.
G.
To cooperate with municipal or regional planning commissions and
other agencies or groups to further the local planning program and
to assure harmonious and integrated planning for the area.
H.
To exercise such other powers germane to the powers granted under
authority of the Illinois Municipal Code (65 ILCS Act 5), as amended,
as may be conferred by the Village Board.
At any time before or after the formal adoption of the official
Comprehensive Plan by the Village Board, an Official Map may be designated
by ordinance. The map may consist of the whole area included within
the official Comprehensive Plan, or one or more separate geographical
or functional parts, and may include all or any part of the contiguous
unincorporated area within 1 1/2 miles from the corporate limits
of the Village. All requirements for public hearing, filing of notice
of adoption with the County Recorder of Deeds, and filing of the plan
and ordinances, including the Official Map, with the Village Clerk
shall be complied with as provided for by law. No map or plat of any
subdivision or resubdivision presented for record affecting land within
the corporate limits of the Village or within contiguous territory
which is not more than 1 1/2 miles beyond the corporate limits
shall be entitled to record or shall be valid unless the subdivision
shown thereon provides for standards of design, and standards governing
streets, alleys, public ways, ways for public service facilities,
streetlights, public grounds, size of lots to be used for residential
purposes, stormwater and floodwater run-off channels and basins, water
supply and distribution, sanitary sewers, and sewage collection and
treatment in conformity with the applicable requirements of the ordinances,
including the Official Map.
The Village Clerk shall furnish the Plan Commission, for its
consideration, a copy of all ordinances, plans and data relative to
public improvements of any nature. The Plan Commission may report
in relation thereto if it deems a report necessary or advisable, for
the consideration of the Village Board.
The Commission may, at the discretion of the Village Board,
employ a paid secretary or staff, or both, whose salaries, wages,
and other necessary expenses shall be provided for by the Village
Board from the public funds. If the Plan Commission shall deem it
advisable to secure technical advice or services, it may be done upon
authority from the Village Board and appropriations by the Village
Board.
