The village was one step closer to having a billboard on the west side of Concordia Cemetery when the Planning and Zoning Commission approved it March 16 and recommended the village council do the same. But an error at that meeting requires the commission to re-vote on the billboard at its next meeting on April 20.
Approving the billboard entailed three things: a conditional use permit because the village code only approves billboards in industrial districts, and the cemetery is zoned residentially; a map amendment to reflect the change; and a plat of subdivision, so a small portion of the cemetery is rezoned and not all of it.
Steve Glinke, head of the village’s building department, said the plat of subdivision doesn’t require an official vote and is more of a formality. But the commission needed to vote separately on conditional use and the map amendment, rather than voting on them together like they did on March 16…