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An Ordinance Establishing a Temporary Moratorium on the Review of Certain Development Applications for Properties within the PB Zoning District
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WHEREAS, the Village of Romeoville ("Village") has the authority to adopt ordinances pertaining to the public health, safety and welfare regulating private and public property; and
WHEREAS, the Village has for the past twenty five years has experienced extensive development of distribution facilities within property zoned and classified within the Village's PB Planned Business Zoning District; and
WHEREAS, Village staff has reviewed and analyzed the buildings developed within that time frame, and has determined that that such development has predominately consisted of large sized buildings in excess of 200,000 square feet in area; and
WHEREAS, in the absence of further refinement to the regulations governing development within the PB Planned Business Zoning District, the potential exists for the continuation of the development of buildings within the PB Planned Business Zoning District to be predominately larger buildings in excess of 200,000 square feet in area; and
WHEREAS, in an effort to facilitate the diversification of the economic and employment base of the Village's economy, as well as further investigation of the impacts of the impacts particular to the predominate development of buildings in excess of 200,000 square feet in area within the PB Planned Business Zoning District, and to allow for corresponding amendment of and refinement to the regulations of the PB Planned Business Zoning District, thereby promoting the health, safety, morals and welfare of the Village and its residents, the corporate authorities of the Village have determined that it is in the best interests of the Village and its residents to impose a moratorium on the receipt, review and processing of development applications and submittals for property within the PB Planned Business Zoning District which contemplate or perm...
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