Burr Ridge City Zoning Code

II PURPOSE

AND INTENT

PURPOSE. This Ordinance is adopted for the purpose of:
1. Promoting and protecting the public health, safety, comfort, morals, convenience, and general welfare;
2. Securing adequate natural light, pure air, and safety from fire and other dangers;
3. Conserving the taxable value of land and buildings; and
4. Enhancing aesthetic values generally throughout the Village of Burr Ridge.
INTENT. To those ends this Ordinance is intended to accomplish certain standards and objectives by:
1. Dividing the entire Village of Burr Ridge into districts and restricting and regulating therein the location, construction, reconstruction, alteration, and use of buildings, structures, and land, whether of residential, business, manufacturing, or other specified uses;
2. Avoiding or lessening congestion in the public streets;
3. Preventing the overcrowding of land through regulating and limiting the height and bulk of buildings hereafter erected as related to land area;
4. Establishing, regulating, and limiting the building or setback lines on or along streets, alleys, or property lines;
5. Regulating and limiting the intensity of the use of lot areas, and regulating and determining the area of open spaces within and surrounding such buildings;
6. Establishing standards to which buildings or structures therein shall conform;
7. Prohibiting uses, buildings, or structures incompatible with the character of the residence, business, or manufacturing districts;
8. Preventing additions to, and alterations or remodeling of, existing buildings or structures in such a way as to avoid the restrictions and limitations hereunder imposed;
9. Providing for the gradual elimination of those uses, buildings and structures which are incompatible with the character of the districts in which they are located, including, without being limited thereto:
  1. Elimination of such uses of unimproved lands or lots when the existing rights of the persons in possession thereof are terminated, or when the uses to which they are devoted are discontinued;
  2. Elimination of uses to which such buildings and structures are devoted, if they are adoptable for permitted uses; and
  3. Elimination of such buildings and structures when they are destroyed or damaged in major part, or when they have reached the age fixed herein as the normal useful life of such buildings or structures;
10. Defining and limited the powers and duties of the administrative officers and bodies as hereinafter provided; and
11. Prescribing penalties for the violation of the provisions of this Ordinance, or of any amendment thereto.

Burr Ridge City Zoning Code

II PURPOSE

AND INTENT

PURPOSE. This Ordinance is adopted for the purpose of:
1. Promoting and protecting the public health, safety, comfort, morals, convenience, and general welfare;
2. Securing adequate natural light, pure air, and safety from fire and other dangers;
3. Conserving the taxable value of land and buildings; and
4. Enhancing aesthetic values generally throughout the Village of Burr Ridge.
INTENT. To those ends this Ordinance is intended to accomplish certain standards and objectives by:
1. Dividing the entire Village of Burr Ridge into districts and restricting and regulating therein the location, construction, reconstruction, alteration, and use of buildings, structures, and land, whether of residential, business, manufacturing, or other specified uses;
2. Avoiding or lessening congestion in the public streets;
3. Preventing the overcrowding of land through regulating and limiting the height and bulk of buildings hereafter erected as related to land area;
4. Establishing, regulating, and limiting the building or setback lines on or along streets, alleys, or property lines;
5. Regulating and limiting the intensity of the use of lot areas, and regulating and determining the area of open spaces within and surrounding such buildings;
6. Establishing standards to which buildings or structures therein shall conform;
7. Prohibiting uses, buildings, or structures incompatible with the character of the residence, business, or manufacturing districts;
8. Preventing additions to, and alterations or remodeling of, existing buildings or structures in such a way as to avoid the restrictions and limitations hereunder imposed;
9. Providing for the gradual elimination of those uses, buildings and structures which are incompatible with the character of the districts in which they are located, including, without being limited thereto:
  1. Elimination of such uses of unimproved lands or lots when the existing rights of the persons in possession thereof are terminated, or when the uses to which they are devoted are discontinued;
  2. Elimination of uses to which such buildings and structures are devoted, if they are adoptable for permitted uses; and
  3. Elimination of such buildings and structures when they are destroyed or damaged in major part, or when they have reached the age fixed herein as the normal useful life of such buildings or structures;
10. Defining and limited the powers and duties of the administrative officers and bodies as hereinafter provided; and
11. Prescribing penalties for the violation of the provisions of this Ordinance, or of any amendment thereto.

Burr Ridge City Zoning Code

II PURPOSE

AND INTENT

PURPOSE. This Ordinance is adopted for the purpose of:
1. Promoting and protecting the public health, safety, comfort, morals, convenience, and general welfare;
2. Securing adequate natural light, pure air, and safety from fire and other dangers;
3. Conserving the taxable value of land and buildings; and
4. Enhancing aesthetic values generally throughout the Village of Burr Ridge.
INTENT. To those ends this Ordinance is intended to accomplish certain standards and objectives by:
1. Dividing the entire Village of Burr Ridge into districts and restricting and regulating therein the location, construction, reconstruction, alteration, and use of buildings, structures, and land, whether of residential, business, manufacturing, or other specified uses;
2. Avoiding or lessening congestion in the public streets;
3. Preventing the overcrowding of land through regulating and limiting the height and bulk of buildings hereafter erected as related to land area;
4. Establishing, regulating, and limiting the building or setback lines on or along streets, alleys, or property lines;
5. Regulating and limiting the intensity of the use of lot areas, and regulating and determining the area of open spaces within and surrounding such buildings;
6. Establishing standards to which buildings or structures therein shall conform;
7. Prohibiting uses, buildings, or structures incompatible with the character of the residence, business, or manufacturing districts;
8. Preventing additions to, and alterations or remodeling of, existing buildings or structures in such a way as to avoid the restrictions and limitations hereunder imposed;
9. Providing for the gradual elimination of those uses, buildings and structures which are incompatible with the character of the districts in which they are located, including, without being limited thereto:
  1. Elimination of such uses of unimproved lands or lots when the existing rights of the persons in possession thereof are terminated, or when the uses to which they are devoted are discontinued;
  2. Elimination of uses to which such buildings and structures are devoted, if they are adoptable for permitted uses; and
  3. Elimination of such buildings and structures when they are destroyed or damaged in major part, or when they have reached the age fixed herein as the normal useful life of such buildings or structures;
10. Defining and limited the powers and duties of the administrative officers and bodies as hereinafter provided; and
11. Prescribing penalties for the violation of the provisions of this Ordinance, or of any amendment thereto.