Rarely do our village officials and the public get a free educational opportunity like the one this Thursday evening. That’s when zoning experts from the Illinois Chapter of the American Planning Association will conduct a two-hour training for village officials and the public on how to conduct zoning hearings and properly arrive at decisions.
Two independent professional city planners will train attendees on how findings of fact in zoning-and-development hearings are properly determined and how to arrive at decisions in accord with due process.
Attendees will get the scoop on how to evaluate whether an applicant has met zoning standards, basic zoning principles (they’re not what’s depicted on TV), and the roles of commissioners and staff.
The Illinois Chapter of the American Planning Association has conducted over 150 of these highly–valued training sessions for towns throughout the state.
Anyone can attend in person this Thursday, July 31, at 7 p.m. in the first floor River Forest Village Hall Community Room, 400 Park Ave., online (https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88284719344), or by phone (312–626–6799, meeting ID: 882 8471 9344).
Daniel Lauber, AICP
River Forest
