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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 5 (BUILDING) BY REPEALING THE EXISTING CHAPTER 8 (MOTELS, HOTELS, ROOMING HOUSES AND APARTMENTS) AND SUBSTITUTING A NEW CHAPTER 8 (RENTAL HOUSING) OF THE ORLAND PARK VILLAGE CODE
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WHEREAS, the Village of Orland Park is an Illinois Home Rule Community; and
WHEREAS, as such, the Village is authorized to exercise power and perform functions relating to its government and affairs and for the public health, safety and welfare of the Village residents and property owners; and
WHEREAS, as such, the Village has approximately 2,100 rental housing units and, in recent years, there has been a substantial increase in crime in rental housing reported to the Village Police Department as well as complaints to the Village Building Department property maintenance inspectors; and
WHEREAS, residential rental housing is currently an unregulated business in the Village; and
WHEREAS, this new Rental Housing Chapter of the Village Code is designed to maintain property values in the Village by ensuring all residential rental housing is safe and crime free by requiring minimum property maintenance standards and, further, to prevent blighted and deteriorated rental housing areas in the Village; and
WHEREAS, this new Rental Housing Chapter of the Village Code is designed to:
a) prevent overcrowding of residential rental housing units by prescribing maximum occupancy in such units;
b) decrease law enforcement and property maintenance complaints;
c) allow the Village Police Department to better educate property owners in choosing law-abiding tenants through the Chapter’s Crime Free Rental Housing Program.
d) reduce if not eliminate criminal activity from occurring on or about the residential rental housing units and property, thereby providing for the health, safety and welfare of the tenants, property owners and surrounding neighbors and properties.
NOW, THEREFORE, Be It Ordained by the President and Board of Trustees of the ...
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