All applications filed pursuant to this chapter shall be filed with the office of the zoning enforcement administrator. All applications filed pursuant to this chapter shall be on forms supplied by the village or approved by the zoning enforcement administrator and shall be filed in duplicate. All applications involving real property shall be accompanied by a plat, drawn to scale showing the actual dimensions of the lot to be built or enlarged upon, the size and location of all existing and proposed structures, clearly dimensioned with relationship to each other as well as to property boundaries and such other information as may be deemed necessary by the zoning enforcement administrator for the enforcement of this chapter.

(Code 1964, § 30-10.01(A))

An application requiring a hearing must be complete to be processed. One copy of the legal notice required of and intended for publication by the applicant shall be presented to the zoning enforcement administrator for review prior to being published. To be considered complete, all forms required by the village as well as any fee as may be required for filing must be submitted not less than ten working days prior to the publication of the legal notice. An application so filed will be scheduled for a hearing on the first available date, on a first-come, first-scheduled, space available basis of the body authorized to hear the matter.

(Code 1964, § 30-10.01(B))

An application that does not require a public hearing, and other than a request for interpretation or appeal, shall be filed, in proper form and number and containing all required information, at least 25 working days prior to the time when action on the application is requested. Any requirements relating to an interpretation or appeal shall be stipulated in the subsections governing such specific actions, and herein contained in this division. An application so filed will be processed on a first-filed, first-processed, space available basis.

(Code 1964, § 30-10.01(C))

Whenever supplemental data in connection with a previously filed application is required by the village or offered by the applicant, it shall be submitted in proper form and number at least ten working days prior to the date on which it is to be considered at a hearing, continued hearing or meeting, or as may be acted upon in connection with such application. In the case of hearings or meetings involving interpretation or appeal, the filing of such materials at a later day may, at the respective discretion of the village manager or the hearing body, result in delay in the scheduled date of hearing or review.

(Code 1964, § 30-10.01(D))

All hearings conducted by the planning and zoning commission, as required under the hearing requirements of this chapter shall be accomplished in full conformance with this division.

(Code 1964, § 30-10.02; Ord. No. 2013-69, § 30, 12-16-2013)

All hearings and their resultant deliberations shall be open to the public.

(Code 1964, § 30-10.02(A))

It is the petitioner's responsibility to prepare, present to the zoning enforcement administrator for preliminary review for content and form, have published at his expense, and no later than the time of hearing, provide the hearing body with a valid publisher's certificate of publication. Public notice shall be by publication in a newspaper published in the village, or if no newspaper having general circulation is published in the village, at least once no less than 15 days nor more than 30 days in advance of the hearing date. The legal notice shall contain, as a minimum, the following information:

(1)

The time, date and location of the public hearing;

(2)

A legal description of the property; or

(3)

The county issued property tax identification number; and the common address of the property;

(3)

The specific prayer of the case to be heard; and

(4)

Any additional information as may be required by the zoning enforcement administrator.

(Code 1964, § 30-10.02(B); Ord. No. 2017-9, § 4.J., 1-9-2017)

Within 30 days following the public hearing, including any continuation of such hearing, the body holding such hearing shall, after open and complete deliberations, forward, in writing, its recommendation and any conditions to the village board. Property requested solely for a change in its zoning district classification, other than under the terms of a planned development, may not have conditions placed upon the recommendation.

(Code 1964, § 30-10.02(C))