Chapter 10 - Boards and Commissions
Division 3 - Plan Commission
SEC. 10.3-1 CREATION. There is hereby re-established the Plan Commission heretofore appointed and its members for their respective terms and with their respective duties.
SEC. 10.3-2 COMPOSITION. The Planning Commission shall consist of seven (7) members who shall be residents of the Town of Normal. All members shall have the power to vote. (Revised 5/6/74)
SEC. 10.3-3 TERMS. Members shall be appointed for a period of four (4) years, with terms of two members expiring April 1st of each year, except for the year in which only one member's term expires. Vacancies shall be filled by appointment for unexpired terms and shall be made in the same manner as original appointments. All members of the Commission shall serve without compensation. All members of the Commission holding office at the time of the adoption of this Ordinance shall continue to hold office until the expiration of their present respective terms. (Revised 4/1/74)
SEC. 10.3-4 REPORTS. Said Commission annually shall elect its chairman, vice-chairman and such other officers as may in its judgment be necessary from among its own membership, except that a secretary may be appointed who need not be a member of the Commission.
Said Commission shall adopt and later change or alter rules or regulations of the organization and procedure consistent with the Ordinances of the Town of Normal and the laws of the State of Illinois. The Commission shall keep written records of its proceedings, which records shall at all times be open to public inspection. The Commission shall also file an Annual Report with the Mayor and Town Council in the month of March in each year, commencing with 1969, setting forth its transactions and recommendations and shall also give such other reports at interim periods as the said Commission deems advisable for the benefit of the Mayor and Town Council.
SEC. 10.3-5 DUTIES. The Commission shall have the following powers and duties:
- To prepare and recommend to the Council of the Town of Normal
a comprehensive plan of public improvements, looking to the
present and future development and growth of said Town. Such
a plan, after its adoption by the Town Council, shall be known
as the Official Plan of the Town of Normal.
Such Plan shall include reasonable requirements with reference to streets, alleys and public grounds in unsubdivided lands situated within the corporate limits or in contiguous territory not more than one and one-half miles beyond the corporate limits and not included in any other municipality; these requirements shall be effective whenever this unsubdivided land is subdivided after the adoption of the Official Plan.
- To prepare and recommend to the Town Council of the Town
of Normal, from time to time, such changes, additions or deletions
in the Plan, or any part thereof, as may be deemed necessary
by either the Town Council or by the Plan Commission.
- To prepare and recommend to the Town Council from time to
time, plans and/or recommendations for specific improvements
in pursuance of such Official Plan of said Town.
- To give aid to the municipal 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 Plan.
- To arrange and conduct some form of publicity relative to
its activities for the general purpose of public understanding.
To establish a liaison committee with the Plan Commission and
to cooperate with all municipal and regional planning commissions
or agencies or groups to further the local planning program
and to insure harmonious and integrated planning for the area.
- To make recommendations to the Board of Trustees concerning
revisions in ordinances pertaining to subdivision revisions,
zoning and building codes and other ordinances which in any
way affect or pertain to planning or the general Town Plan as
heretofore adopted.
- To review all proposed plats, after required notice to all
interested parties, for new subdivisions or resubdivisions of
land within the corporate limits or within a one and one-half
mile radius of the corporate limits, and make recommendations
thereon to the Board of Trustees or Town Council of said Town
of Normal.
- To exercise such other powers germane to the powers granted by statute to said duly adopted Plan Commission as herein established by the Town of Normal according to the Laws of the State of Illinois.
SEC. 10.3-6 MAPS AND PLATS. No map or plat of any subdivision presented for record affecting land within the corporate limits of the Town of Normal or in contiguous territory outside of and not more distant than one and one-half miles from the limits of the Town and not included in any other municipality shall be entitled to record or shall be valid unless the subdivision thereon shall provide for streets and public grounds in conformity with any requirement applicable thereto of such Official Plan, unless specifically waived at the discretion of the Town Council.
SEC. 10.3-7 MEETINGS. All meetings of the Plan Commission shall be held at the call of the Chairman and at such times as the Plan Commission may determine. (Amended 11/5/73)(Amended 4/20/87)