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Palatine Council advances broad zoning text amendments on hotels, lot coverage and fences
Summary
Palatine staff presented proposed amendments to Appendix A of the village zoning code — including new definitions for religious institutions, limits on hotel/extended-stay durations, unified lot-coverage rules, and revised fence and corner-lot setback standards — and the council’s committee recommended placing the ordinance on the consent calendar.
Palatine Village Council planning staff presented a package of text amendments to Appendix A of the Palatine Code of Ordinances that would revise multiple zoning definitions, set limits on hotel and extended-stay lodging, align lot-coverage rules across residential districts, and change how fences and corner-lot setbacks are measured.
The proposed changes would add a definition for “religious institution” where the code currently references only “church,” delete obsolete definitions such as boarding houses and lodging rooms, and update hotel definitions so a typical hotel/motel stay would be limited to 30 consecutive days. Staff said a newly defined “extended-stay hotel” —…
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