Planning & Zoning Board Presentation January 16, 2013

1. Planning & Zoning Board Presentation January 16, 2013

2. TECHNICAL REVIEW OVERVIEW • Purpose of Tonight’s meeting… • Outline issues with current Ordinance • Present approaches for revisions • Set drafting direction • Hear your concerns

3. ORGANIZATION TECHNIQUES • Consistent organization techniques… • Compartmentalization • Illustrations • Matrices • Consistent voice • Full set of definitions: • terms and uses • The goal… • User-friendly • Easy to administer • Logical locations for amendments

4. USE STRUCTURE • Generic use approach… • Specific use lists eliminated • Greater flexibility to review and permit uses • New uses (potentially) allowed without text amendment • Rules… • Use specifically listed is not part of generic use category • Use interpreted as a generic use not allowed under another • Definitions for every use

5. USE STRUCTURE • Mitigating use impacts… • Create use standards for certain uses • Tailor uses (permitted and condition) to district form and function: ex. - office parks with commercial uses • Specific attention paid to certain uses: Alcohol-related uses Auto repair and sales Car wash Child care Drive-through facilities Landscape business Outdoor dining Outdoor sales and storage Pawn shops/cash-for-gold Personal wireless service facility Pet day care Salvage yard Spa/massage therapist Tattoo parlor

6. USE STRUCTURE • Address temporary uses… • Comprehensive set of controls • Address outdoor activity: sales, entertainment • Address new uses: Farmer’s markets, farmstands • Permissions on location, timeframe, impact management

7. DISTRICT REVISIONS • Major district approaches… • Eliminate FAR – sliding-scale side yard • Add maximum impervious surface % to residential districts • Design standards for higher intensity uses

8. DISTRICT REVISIONS • Major district approaches… • Revise commercial districts to reflect form and function • Create one set of bulk and yard regulations • Simplify transition yard requirements • Eliminate the C/B-2A Overlay District • Potentially eliminate the C/S-2 District • Create new districts for 6 Flags and Gurnee Mills • Simplify special use approval in C/S-3, C/B-2-EGG • Rename all commercial districts

9. DISTRICT REVISIONS • Rename all commercial districts

10. SITE DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS • Clarify all measurement methodologies… • Standards and diagrams for all measurements: building height, grade, lot width, etc. • Rules for all lots… • Standards of general applicability: corner visibility, etc.

11. ACCESSORY USES & STRUCTURES • Address all accessory structures and uses… • Comprehensive set of controls • Size, location, height • Amateur (HAM) Radio Equipment (roof- and ground-mounted) • Arbor • Boathouse • Carports • Coldframes & Hoop Houses • Compost Piles • Decks • Dog Houses/Dog Runs • Exterior Lighting • Fences • Garages • Gazebos • Home Occupations • Mechanical Equipment • Ornamental Lighting, Lamp Posts, & Lawn Furniture & Decorations • Outdoor Sales • Outdoor Storage and Display, including seasonal displays (when accessory to commercial and industrial uses) • Outdoor Fireplaces • Parking Pads • Pergola • Personal Recreational Game Courts • Playground & Recreational Equipment • Refuse and Recycling Containers • Retaining Walls • Satellite Dish Antennas • Sheds & Greenhouses • Solar Panels • Swimming Pools/Hot Tubs • Trellis • Vehicle Charging Stations • Water Features & Man-Made Ponds • Wind Turbines

12. ACCESSORY USES & STRUCTURES • Address all accessory structures and uses… • Select updates to existing standards • Permissions by land use category (residential, commercial, etc.) • Distinguish “accessory” versus “ancillary” • Select “sustainable” accessory uses/structures: chicken coops, apiaries, rain barrels, etc.

13. PERMITTED ENCROACHMENTS • Regulate attached accessory structures and architectural features… • Table of permitted encroachments into required yards • Allows for architectural flexibility • Encourages good design

14. OFF-STREET PARKING • Parking lot and structure design standards… • Location of off-street spaces, including remote lots and valet parking • Parking lot design (curbing, marking, etc.) and minimum parking space dimension • Permissions for compact parking spaces • Required number of off-street spaces per use • Required stacking spaces for drive-through facilities, including design • Required bike parking for larger uses • Location and design of off-street loading

15. OFF-STREET PARKING Shared Parking • Allow by-right • Clear calculation • Reductions based on actual usage of site • Creates flexibilities for multi-tenant sites

16. SITE LANDSCAPE Landscape requirements… • Design/sustainability • Parking lot interior and perimeter • Buffer yards • On-lot landscape • Screening • Review of Woodland Ord. • Need to balance… • Existing site conditions • Reasonable requirements • Maximization of landscape benefits

17. UPDATE PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT • Streamline the PUD process… • Final PUD plat approval: eliminate Village Board review • Clear timeframes for each step • Concept plan rarely used – eliminate • Create new pre-application process with zoning staff for all applications • If retained, simpler application requirements and eliminate public hearing • Update standards for approval

18. UPDATE PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT • Define the PUD process… • Define public benefits and amenities • Remove special setback standards • Create thresholds and process for administrative, minor and major changes

19. CLARIFY ADMINISTRATION • Reorganize administrative provisions… • Three sections: • Ordinance administrators • Application procedures • Zoning application process • Parallel structure: • Purpose • Applicability • Authority • Procedure and timelines • Findings/approval standards

20. CLARIFY ADMINISTRATION • Additional procedures… • Completeness review for submitted applications • Optional pre-application review with the Zoning Administrator • Clear approval standards for all applications

21. CLARIFY ADMINISTRATION • Variations… • Remove limitations on variation applications • Create an administrative variation process, approved by Zoning Administrator with special notice provisions • Lot width • Setbacks: 10% or 2 feet • 10% of off-street parking • Bike parking requirements • Special Uses… • Define types and process of administrative, minor and major changes to approved special uses

22. CLARIFY ADMINISTRATION • Administrative Site Plan Review (SPR)… • New process to review new development • Three key components: • What requires SPR? • Residential subdivison, townhouse, multi-family, non-residential • What are the standards for review? • Site design, landscape and screening, circulation and parking, drainage • Who conducts the review? • Site Plan Review Committee comprised of key staff; link to other zoning approvals

23. ORDINANCE ORGANIZATION Article 1: Title, Purpose and Intent Article 2: Definitions Article 3: Zoning Districts Article 4: Residential Districts Article 5: Commercial Districts Article 6: Industrial Districts Article 7: Special Purpose and Overlay Districts Article 8: Uses Article 9: Planned Unit Development Article 10: Site Development Standards Article 11: Off-Street Parking and Loading Article 12: Landscape Article 13: Ordinance Administrators Article 14: Zoning Application Procedures Article 15: Zoning Application Approval Processes Article 16: Nonconformities Article 17: Enforcement

24. THANK YOU!! QUESTIONS? COMMENTS?