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Resolution on Zoning Case #3779 relating to general text amendments to the Lake County Unified Development Ordinance. Your Department of Planning, Building and Development has recommended that these amendments be adopted; on the motion to adopt the proposed text changes attached as Exhibit A, your Zoning Board of Appeals vote is 6 “Ayes” and 0 “Nays”; the Planning, Building and Zoning Committee recommends by a vote of 7 “Ayes” and 0 “Nays” the amendments attached as Exhibit A, as amended by Exhibit B, be adopted.
Staff Summary
• Following an initial Planning, Building and Zoning Committee review, the County Board directed the Zoning Board of Appeals on August 11, 2009 to conduct a public hearing on a series of proposed Amendments to the Unified Development Ordinance (UDO).
• A majority of the proposed amendments are “Housekeeping” amendments that either clarify or introduce minor changes to the current UDO provisions. “Substantive” amendments include the introduction of the R-4A Zoning District, introduction of landscaping-related Best Management Practices and Low Impact Development, and limited retail sales events for Wholesale Nursery Operations.
• At the conclusion of the public hearing on September 24, the ZBA recommended approval of the Amendments per the attached “Exhibit A”.
• The Planning, Building and Zoning Committee approved a resolution recommending adoption of the proposed amendments pursuant to conducted a final review of the proposed text amendments on September 29; the Committee’s recommended modifications to “Exhibit A” are attached herewith as “Exhibit B”.
• On October 6, 2009 the PB&Z Committee approved a resolution recommending adoption of the proposed amendments.
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WHEREAS, on August 11, 2009, this County Board adopted a Resolution directing the Zoning Board of Appeals to conduct a public hearing to consider certain amendments to the text of the Lake County Unified Development Ordinance; and
WHEREAS, the Zoning Board of Appeals has conducted and concluded said hearing; and
WHEREAS, your Department of Planning, Building and Development has reviewed the proposed amendments and recommends that the text of the Lake County Unified Development Ordinance be amended in accordance with Exhibit A attached hereto; and
WHEREAS, after reviewing the recommendations presented at said hearing, the Lake County Zoning Board of Appeals has submitted its Report thereon to the County Board and its report attached hereto recommends by a vote of 6 - 0 that the text of the Lake County Unified Development Ordinance be amended in accordance with Exhibit A attached hereto; and
WHEREAS, Your Planning, Building and Zoning Committee has duly considered the aforementioned recommendations and recommends that the text of the Lake County Unified Development Ordinance be amended in accordance with Exhibit A, as amended by Exhibit B, attached hereto.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Lake County Board that the amendments contained in Exhibit A, as amended by Exhibit B, attached hereto and hereby made a part of this Resolution be, and are hereby adopted and made a part of the Lake County Unified Development Ordinance; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Clerk of the County Board shall keep a record of this action.
DATED AT WAUKEGAN, LAKE COUNTY, ILLINOIS, this 13th day of October, 2009.