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Sign Posting Requirements:

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Effective the November 9, 2006, meeting of the Will County Planning and Zoning Commission (PZC), cardboard/wooden stake public hearing signs provided by the Department will replaced by metal public hearing signs (see below).  Those zoning cases scheduled for the November 9, 2006, PZC and regularly scheduled meetings thereafter, and not previously heard or continued prior to that date, are required to meet posting requirements identified below. 

For all applications, the applicant is required to erect at least one (1) sign for every five hundred (500) linear feet of street frontage with a minimum of one (1) sign on each street abutting the property.  Failure to properly post the appropriate number of signs shall be grounds for deferral or denial of the application.  Signs shall be posted upon the subject property at least fifteen (15) days and not more than thirty (30) days prior to the public hearing. 

For all applications, except planned unit development applications and those applications for which the Zoning Administrator specifically requires alternative signage, the Department will provide the applicant the required number of signs.  It is the applicant’s responsibility to ensure that they are placed and maintained as required by the Zoning Ordinance.  

The signs are double-sided and should be posted perpendicular to the street frontage.  Signs may be obtained from the Department not more than thirty (30) days prior to the public hearing.  Please note that the signs are County property and you are required to submit with the application a $100 deposit check payable to the Will County Land Use Department for each sign (in addition to the application fee).  

The deposit check(s) will be returned to you when you return the signs to the Department within the required time, clean, and undamaged.  Failure to return signs in a clean and undamaged condition within the required time frame and lost/stolen signs are grounds for forfeiture of the deposit.  

The applicant is responsible for removing signs provided by the Department and returning them to the Department within five (5) days after the completion of the public hearing.  Completion of public hearing means that the PZC has made a decision or recommendation.  Signs must remain posted with a continuation. 

 

For planned unit development applications and those applications for which the Zoning Administrator specifically requires alternative signage, it is the applicant’s responsibility to prepare and post the number of signs required by the Zoning Ordinance with the required sign format and content (see attached).  It is the responsibility of the applicant to ensure that they are placed and maintained as required by the Zoning Ordinance.  These signs may be single-sided and face the street frontage.  All expenses incurred to post and remove alternative signage shall be the responsibility of the applicant.  Please note that there are sign companies that provide these services.

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