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Planning commission approves first substantive Unified Development Ordinance edits since adoption
Summary
The commission voted Aug. 14 to recommend several substantive amendments to the city's Unified Development Ordinance, adopting clarifications to uses, permitting processes, parking and landscape rules, and a new revocation process; the motion carried unanimously with a minor wording amendment to clarify multi‑unit building entrance orientation.
The Waukegan Planning and Zoning Commission on Aug. 14 voted to recommend a package of substantive amendments to the city's Unified Development Ordinance (UDO), a set of changes staff said are intended to fix practical issues that emerged after a year of implementation.
The amendments cover multiple topics: clearer use definitions and a few new use categories (including a ‘‘fleet management facility’’), relocation of minimum lot‑size language into the use table, procedural adjustments for variances and appeals, an exemption for existing parking lots from some new landscaping requirements, a new formal process to revoke conditional‑use permits, naming clarifications for residential district labels (R‑1/R‑2 as limited residential), and several definition and process clarifications. Staff also added an exemption to allow community solar projects under state programs to function without requiring on‑site use of the generated power.
Why it matters: the UDO consolidated the city’s zoning, sign, subdivision, tree/landscape and design guidelines into a single code. After a year of real‑world use, planning staff…
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