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TO: Mayor Richard C. Irvin
FROM: Planning Commission
DATE: May 18, 2017
SUBJECT:
Ordinance Approving Obvious Changes to Aurora's Comprehensive Plan for Specific Areas Located throughout the City of Aurora (City of Aurora - 17-00127 / KDWK-16.234-COMP - SB)
PURPOSE:
This Comprehensive Plan Revision is part of a process to continually revise the 1984 Comprehensive Plan to better reflect existing 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 thirty-seven areas throughout Aurora as described in the attached 1984 Aurora Comprehensive Plan Update Report to better reflect existing physical conditions within the community.
As part of this report, Staff has also reviewed other relevant factors that allow for changes to the Comprehensive Plan to be made. These factors include checking land parcels throughout Aurora for conflicts that might exist between the specific land use code, zoning code, and Comprehensive Plan designation. This analysis has allowed for Staff to determine areas for obvious Comprehensive Plan changes, but to also gain a more thorough understanding of the location and nature of these conflicts. Conflicts have also been identified where the boundaries of the Plan's designation must be re-drawn to more accurately match a parcel line or centerline. Finally, this review of Aurora's existing land use characteristics and designations has allowed Staff to propose a thorough series of obv...
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