Bill Text: IL SB2716 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

Illinois Senate Bill 2716

Introduced

Bill Title: Amends the Zoning Division of the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that decisions by the corporate authorities of a municipality in regard to any petition or application for a special use, variance, rezoning, or other amendment to a zoning ordinance shall be subject to judicial review (rather than de novo judicial review as a legislative decision, regardless of whether the process in relation thereto is considered administrative for other purposes). Provides that principles of substantive and procedural process that apply in all states of the decision-making and review of zoning decisions includes protection against arbitrary or capricious action and protection against disregard of the decision-making body's own ordinances or regulations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-10 - Referred to Assignments [SB2716 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB2716-Introduced.html

103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB2716

Introduced 1/10/2024, by Sen. Laura Fine

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

65 ILCS 5/11-13-25

Amends the Zoning Division of the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that decisions by the corporate authorities of a municipality in regard to any petition or application for a special use, variance, rezoning, or other amendment to a zoning ordinance shall be subject to judicial review (rather than de novo judicial review as a legislative decision, regardless of whether the process in relation thereto is considered administrative for other purposes). Provides that principles of substantive and procedural process that apply in all states of the decision-making and review of zoning decisions includes protection against arbitrary or capricious action and protection against disregard of the decision-making body's own ordinances or regulations.

LRB103 34660 AWJ 64503 b

A BILL FOR

SB2716

LRB103 34660 AWJ 64503 b

1 AN ACT concerning local government.

2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,

3 represented in the General Assembly:

4 Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by

5 changing Section 11-13-25 as follows: