Woodridge City Zoning Code

CHAPTER 1

TITLE AND PURPOSE

9-1-1: TITLE:

This Title shall be known, cited, and referred to as the “Village of Woodridge Zoning Ordinance (2024),” as may be amended from time to time.

Within this Title, it is from time to time referred to generally as “Code”, “Ordinance” or “this Title.” (Ord. 2024-6, 3-7-2024)

9-1-2: PURPOSE AND INTENT:

This Title is adopted pursuant to the Village’s home rule powers and Division 13 of the Illinois Municipal Code, 65 ILCS 5/11-13-1 et seq., as the same may be amended from time to time, and includes the full scope of authority therein for the purpose of improving and protecting the public health, safety, comfort, convenience, and general welfare of the people. The fulfillment of this purpose is to be accomplished by pursuing the following objectives:

A. To lessen congestion on the public streets.

B. To avoid undue concentration of population.

C. To prevent the overcrowding of land, thereby insuring proper living and working conditions and preventing the development of blight and slums.

D. To establish adequate standards for the provision of light, air, and open spaces.

E. To facilitate the provision of adequate public services such as transportation, water, sewerage, open space, and parks.

F. To zone all properties with a view to conserving the value of buildings and encouraging the most appropriate use of land throughout the Village.

G. To protect all areas alike from harmful encroachment by incompatible uses and to insure that land allocated to a class of uses shall not be usurped by inappropriate uses within the parameters of the standards and requirements of this Chapter.

H. To avoid the inappropriate development of lands and provide for adequate drainage, curbing or erosion, and reduction of flood damage.

I. To fix reasonable standards to which buildings, structures, and land shall conform.

J. To prevent such additions to, and alterations or remodeling of, existing buildings or structures as would not comply with the restrictions and limitations imposed herein.

K. To foster a more rational pattern of relationship between residential, business, and manufacturing uses for the mutual benefit of all.

L. To isolate or control the location of unavoidable nuisance-producing uses.

M. To establish local standards for the review of exterior design of buildings and structures.

N. To define the powers and duties of the administrative and enforcement officers and bodies.

O. To prescribe penalties for any violation of the provisions of this Code, or of any subsequent amendments hereto.

The standards and requirements contained in this Title and the district mapping reflected on the Village of Woodridge Zoning Map are intended to implement all elements of the Village of Woodridge Comprehensive Land Use Plan, including the land use component, and other plans that may be adopted from time to time that establish the planning policies of the Village. (Ord. 2024-6, 3-7-2024)

9-1-3: INTERPRETATION:

In their interpretation and application, the provisions of this Title will be held to be the minimum requirements for the promotion of the public health, safety, comfort, convenience, and general welfare. Where the conditions imposed by any provision of this Title, upon the use of buildings, structures, or land, or upon the bulk of buildings or structures, are either more restrictive or less restrictive than comparable conditions imposed by any other provision of this Title or of any other law, ordinance, resolution, rule, or regulation of any kind, the regulations which are more restrictive or which impose higher standards or requirements will govern. (Ord. 2024-6, 3-7-2024)

9-1-4: PRIVATE AGREEMENTS:

This Title is not intended to abrogate any easement, covenant, or any other private agreement; provided, that where the regulations of this Title are more restrictive or impose higher standards or requirements than such easements, covenants, or other private agreements, the requirements of this Title will govern. (Ord. 2024-6, 3-7-2024)

9-1-5: PROVISIONS SEPARABLE:

The provisions of this Title are separable as follows:

A. If any court of competent jurisdiction shall adjudge any provision of this Title, or any amendment to this Title, to be invalid, that judgment will not affect any other provisions of this Title not specifically included in that judgment.

B. If any court of competent jurisdiction adjudges as invalid the application of any provision of this Title, or any amendments to this Title, to a particular building, structure, use, or parcel of land, that judgment will not affect the application of the provision to any other building, structure, or parcel of land not specifically included in that judgment. (Ord. 2024-6, 3-7-2024)

9-1-6: APPLICATION OF REGULATIONS:

All buildings or structures erected after the Effective Date of this Title, all uses of buildings, structures, or land established after the Effective Date of this Title, and all structural alteration or relocation of existing buildings or structures occurring after the Effective Date of this Title will be subject to all regulations of this Title, or any amendment to this Title, which are applicable to the zoning districts in which the buildings, structures, or parcels of land are be located. (Ord. 2024-6, 3-7-2024)

9-1-7: PREVIOUSLY APPROVED PLANS:

Where a building permit for a building or structure has been issued in accordance with law prior to the Effective Date of this Title, or any amendment to this Title, and provided that construction was begun before the Effective Date of this Title, or any amendment to this Title, and completion is accomplished within eighteen (18) months after the Effective Date of these regulations, or any amendment to this Title, that building or structure may be completed in accordance with the approved plans on the basis of which the building permit has been issued, and further, may, upon completion, be occupied for the use for which originally designated, subject to the provisions of Chapter 9, Nonconformities Regulations, of this Title. (Ord. 2024-6, 3-7-2024)

9-1-8: ZONING DISTRICT CLASSIFICATIONS:

For the purpose of this Title, the Village is hereby divided and classified into the following zoning districts:

Residential Districts
R-1	Single Dwelling Unit District
R-2	Single Dwelling Unit District
R-3	Single Dwelling Unit District
A-1	Attached Dwelling Unit District
A-2	Attached Dwelling Unit District
Business Districts
B-1	Neighborhood Commercial District
B-2	Community Shopping District
B-3	Highway and Service Business District
RBC	Regional Business Center District
Industrial Districts
ORI	Office, Research, and Light Industrial
M-1	Manufacturing District

(Ord. 2024-6, 3-7-2024)

9-1-9: ZONING MAP:

A. The land and the zoning district classification in this Title will be as shown on the map designated as the "Village of Woodridge Zoning Map," dated and signed by the Village Clerk upon adoption. This zoning map and all notations, dimensions, references and symbols shown thereon pertaining to the districts will be a part of this Title as if fully described in this Subsection 9-1-9 A. and will be filed as part of this Title by the Community Development Director. The zoning map will be available for public inspection in the Community Development Department and any later alterations of this map adopted by amendment as provided in Chapter 6 of this Title will all be similarly dated, filed and made available for public reference.

B. The following rules apply with respect to the boundaries of the various zoning districts as shown on the Village of Woodridge Zoning Map:

1. District boundary lines are the centerlines of highways, streets, alleys, easements, railroad rights-of-way, toll roads, expressways, rivers and other bodies of water, or section, division of section, tract and lot lines; or such lines extended, unless otherwise indicated.

2. Boundaries indicated as approximately following the centerlines of highways, streets, alleys, easements, toll roads or expressways shall be construed to follow such centerlines.

3. Boundaries indicated as approximately following platted lot lines will be construed as following such lot lines.

4. Boundaries indicated as approximately following Village limits will be construed as following Village limits.

5. Boundaries indicated as following railroad lines will be construed to be the established centerline of the right-of-way or if no centerline is established, the boundary will be interpreted to be midway between the right-of-way lines.

6. Boundaries indicated as approximately following the centerlines of rivers or other bodies of water shall be construed to follow such centerlines, and in the event of change in the centerline, will be construed as moving with the centerline; the centerline will be interpreted as being midway between the shorelines.

7. Boundaries indicated as parallel to or extensions of features indicated in Subsections B.1 through B.6 of this Section will be so construed.

8. Whenever any street, alley or other public right-of-way is vacated by official action of the Village Board or whenever such area is franchised for building purposes, the zoning district line adjoining each side of such street, alley or other public right-of-way will be automatically extended to the centerline of such vacated street, alley or public right-of-way and all area so involved will then and going forward be subject to all regulations of the extended districts.

9. Boundaries indicated as dividing a lot or tract will be construed as being located as shown on the Village of Woodridge Zoning Map.

10. Distances not specifically indicated on the Village of Woodridge Zoning Map will be determined by the scale of the map. (Ord. 2024-6, 3-7-2024)

9-1-10: ZONING OF ANNEXED LAND:

A party seeking to annex property into the Village will request a zoning classification for the property upon filing an application to annex into the Village’s municipal boundaries. The requested zoning classification will be reviewed by the Village for consistency with the Village of Woodridge Comprehensive Land Use Plan, or any other relevant plan document, as well as the character of zoning in the area surrounding and abutting the subject property. The requested zoning classification will be reviewed by the Plan Commission and the Board of Trustees in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 6 of this Chapter. A property that is annexed without requesting a zoning classification will be zoned R-1, Single-Family Residence District. (Ord. 2024-6, 3-7-2024)

9-1-11: EFFECTIVE DATE:

This Chapter becomes effective on March 7, 2024, except as otherwise expressly stated. (Ord. 2024-6, 3-7-2024)