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 Collinsville
 Code of Ordinances
 Title 17. ZONING
 Section 17.900. HISTORIC PRESERVATION

  § 17.900.040. Powers and duties.  

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  • Pursuant to 65 ILCS 5/1 1-48.2-3, the Commission shall have the following administrative powers and duties, subject to the prior approval of the City Council to incur expenses:

    1.

    To conduct ongoing surveys and research to identify historically and architecturally significant properties, structures and areas, significant because of their association with particular persons, events, historical periods, architectural style, or such other criteria of historical or architectural significance;

    2.

    To investigate, nominate and/or recommend to the City Council the adoption of ordinances designating properties or structures having special historic, community, or architectural value as "landmarks";

    3.

    To investigate, nominate and/or recommend to the City Council the adoption of ordinances designating properties or structures having special historic, community, or architectural value as "historic preservation overlay districts";

    4.

    To keep a register of all properties and structures that have been designated as landmarks or historic preservation overlay districts, including all information required for each designation;

    5.

    To recommend an appropriate system of markers and make recommendations for the design and implementation of specific markings of the streets and routes leading from one landmark or historic preservation overlay district to another;

    6.

    To advise owners of landmarks and property or structures within historic preservation overlay districts on physical and financial aspects of preservation, renovation, rehabilitation, and reuse, and on procedures for inclusion on the State or National Register of Historic Places;

    7.

    To inform and educate the citizens of Collinsville concerning the historic and architectural heritage of the City by publishing appropriate maps, newsletters, brochures, and pamphlets, and by holding programs and seminars;

    8.

    To hold public hearings and to review applications for construction, alteration, removal, or demolition affecting proposed or designated landmarks or structures or historic preservation overlay districts and make recommendations to the Zoning Administrator and Building Inspector whether to issue or deny Certificates of Appropriateness for such actions. Applicants shall be required to submit plans, drawings, elevations, specifications, and other information as may be necessary to make decisions;

    9.

    To review applications for construction, alteration, removal or demolition of designated landmark sites or building or objects of special historical, community or aesthetic interest or value, and make recommendations to the Zoning Administrator and Building Inspector which will be administered as part of the building permit procedures;

    10.

    To review petitions for rezoning, special use permits and variances that affect designated landmark sites and provide input at hearings with respect thereto;

    11.

    To administer on behalf of the City any property interests of the City with respect to designated landmark sites, including interest conveyed to the City under 765 ILCS 120/1(b) and 120/2, upon separate designation for each site from the City Council;

    12.

    To seek advice and aid from City staff personnel according to rules established by the City Manager or the City Council;

    13.

    Members may testify before any board or commission on matters within the Commission's power and authority;

    14.

    To review the City's Zoning Code and make suggestions to the City Council relating to matters within the Commission's power and authority.

(Zoning Ord. 2009, § 17.900.040)