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TO: Mayor Robert J. O’Connor
FROM: Steve Broadwell
DATE: December 8, 2016
SUBJECT:
Ordinance Approving Obvious Changes to Aurora’s Comprehensive Plan for 13 Areas located throughout the City of Aurora (16-01145 / KDWK16.059-COMP - SB)
PURPOSE:
This Comprehensive Plan Revision is part of a process to continually revise the 1984 Comprehensive Plan to better reflect existing physical conditions within Aurora, Illinois.
BACKGROUND:
The Comprehensive Plan was adopted in order to establish a general development plan for the City of Aurora. This framework was to accomplish four things: guide development, improve quality of life, reflect the desired goals of the community in the City's actions and decisions, and form a more cohesive community based on these three goals. Staff believes that the proposed changes to the Comprehensive Plan will allow these goals to be achieved over time.
DISCUSSION:
Staff has reviewed the Comprehensive Plan and is proposing obvious changes be made to thirteen areas throughout Aurora as described in the attached 1984 Aurora Comprehensive Plan Update Report to better reflect existing physical conditions within the community.
RECOMMENDATIONS:
The Planning Commission recommended APPROVAL of the Ordinance Approving Obvious Changes to Aurora’s Comprehensive Plan for 13 Areas Located throughout the City of Aurora.
ATTACHMENTS:
Exhibit "A" 1984 Aurora Comprehensive Plan Update Report
cc: Alderman Saville, Chairman
Alderman Donnell
Alderman Irvin
Alderman Hart-Burns, Alternate
CITY OF AURORA, ILLINOIS
ORDINANCE NO. _________
DATE OF PASSAGE ________________
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An Ordinance Approving Obvious Changes to Aurora’s Comprehensive Plan for 13 Areas Located throughout the City of Aurora
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WHEREAS, the City of Aurora has a population of more than 25,000 persons and is, therefore, a home rule unit under subsection (a) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution of 1970; and
WHEREAS, subject to said Section, a home rule unit may exercise any power and perform any function pertaining to its government and affairs for the protection of the public health, safety, morals, and welfare; and
WHEREAS, on April 3, 1984, the Aurora City Council adopted the current Comprehensive Plan which established a general development plan for the City of Aurora and its environs, and is embodied in Ordinance No. O84-5279; and
WHEREAS, an Interim Land Use and Circulation Plan map amending the Comprehensive Plan from time to time was approved by the City Council by Ordinance Number O90-011 on February 6, 1990; and
WHEREAS, said Interim Plan was last changed as per Ordinance Number O2015-034 on July 14, 2015; and
WHEREAS, on December 7, 2016, the Planning Commission recommended approval of the proposed revisions for the property located and that the proposed revisions be reflected on the Aurora’s Comprehensive Plan as presented at said meeting; and
WHEREAS, on December 15, 2016, the Planning and Development Committee of the Aurora City Council reviewed said Comprehensive Plan Revision and the before mentioned recommendations and recommended that the proposed revisions be incorporated into the official Comprehensive Plan for the City of Aurora; and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Aurora, Illinois, that it does hereby approved the proposed revisions and authorize said revisions to be incorporated into the Aurora’s Comprehensive Plan as detailed and present on Exhibit "A" 1984 Aurora Comprehensive Plan Update Report attached hereto and incorporated herein.