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Planning commission recommendations prompt Burr Ridge trustees to direct staff to prepare text amendments for manufacturing districts
Summary
After months of review, the plan commission recommended tightening permitted uses in the RA, LI and GI manufacturing districts. Trustees voted to direct staff to prepare the formal text amendments for board consideration.
Trustees directed village staff to prepare text amendments to Sections 10 and 14 of Burr Ridge's zoning ordinance that would revise uses and definitions for the village's manufacturing districts (RA, LI and GI).
Janine, a village staff member, summarized the plan commission's months-long review and said commissioners consolidated, renamed and reclassified many uses. "For the uses, just generally speaking, they became more restrictive," Janine said. She told trustees the plan commission eliminated some multi-category school listings, added 11 new definitions and reclassified several uses from permitted to special uses.
Key changes the plan commission recommended include: removing a 30% manufacturing allowance in the RA district so office uses become outright permitted without a manufacturing component; moving manufacturing establishments in the LI district to a special-use framework; limiting storage/warehousing components of manufacturing to 40% of floor area; and adding distribution facilities as a special use in the GI district. The plan commission also added motor freight terminal, fumigant manufacturer and ethylene-oxide manufacturer to the prohibited or specially regulated lists.
Commissioner Brolin and other plan commission members attended the meeting, and trustees praised the commissioners for detailed public hearings held over months. Trustee concerns centered on how planned-unit-development (PUD) language and size/height standards would interact with the new use categories and whether additional gradations between RA, LI and GI were needed.
Trustees approved a motion directing staff to prepare the redlined ordinance language for final board consideration at a future meeting. The motion to "direct staff to prepare the text amendments for approval at the next meeting" passed by roll-call vote (6-0). Janine and plan commission members will return the formal ordinance language for the board's vote in a subsequent meeting.
