Plan commission recommends zoning text change to allow small civic, cultural and educational uses in Office & Research district

The Riverwoods Plan Commission voted to recommend that the Village Board adopt a zoning text amendment to allow civic, cultural, religious and educational uses in the Office and Research Compatible District when conducted on lots of less than one acre.

The proposed amendment, presented by the village attorney during a public hearing, would add “civic, cultural, religious, and educational uses” as allowed uses in the Office and Research Compatible District when they are conducted in a building occupying a lot of less than 1 acre. Lee Brown, planner with Tesco Associates, described the current preferred drafting approach as shifting toward the term “place of assembly” to avoid drawing legally…