Palos Park officials preview broad zoning code rewrite, set several local limits and process steps

Sep 9, 2025

Officials reviewed a draft rewrite of Palos Park's zoning code covering legacy-lot definitions, accessory-structure limits, beehive placement, parking rules, WGA mapping and tiny-home standards; several procedural votes were taken and the draft will move to the Plan Commission for a public hearing.

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Speaker 3 (planner/consultant) opened an informal joint meeting to walk village representatives through a draft rewrite of the zoning code and said the next step is a public-hearing draft before the Plan Commission and then Village Council. "Once this document's okay, we would be heading into creating a public hearing draft which would go before the plan commission for recommendation, and then approval by the code to council," Speaker 3 said.

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