Zoning, building permits and septic rules in Village of Virgil, Illinois

Village of Virgil’s own rules

• Local zoningPresent (with conditions)

  Land inside Virgil village limits. Virgil village adopts and administers its own zoning chapter (Chapter 12 - Zoning of the Village Code, with a zoning officer and zoning permits).

  • Use and dimensional rules apply by zoning district; the chapter names A, E1, E2, R1, R2 and R3 residential and agricultural districts plus business and industrial districts.
  • The code was read from a village-hosted PDF with a revision stamp of March 15, 2023; 2024 amendments to Table B (permitted uses) appear in village agendas but were not opened.

  “chapter 12-zoning 285 subchapter 1-title 285 § 1201. short title 285”

• Minimum lot sizeDistrict specific (with conditions)

  Any new lot or parcel created inside Virgil village limits; the minimum is set by the district in which the lot lies.

  • Section 1229 defers the numeric minimum to Table A (lot area by district). Table A is garbled in the PDF text and its numeric values were not extracted; numbers are unknown in this record.
  • Section 1230(a) requires any principal use with accessory uses to sit on a lot with the area shown in Table A, exclusive of alleys, streets or other rights of way.

  “every lot or parcel of land created subsequent to the effective date of this chapter shall conform to the lot size requirement of the district within which it is located.”

• SetbacksDistrict specific (with conditions)

  Principal buildings on lots inside Virgil village limits, by district (main single-family district R1 and agricultural district A are covered by Table A).

  • Front, rear, side and street-side yards are set in Table A by district; the side-yard rule is in Section 1230(e) and is subject to the exceptions in Section 1230(n).
  • Table A numbers were not legible in the extracted PDF text, so no numeric setback is recorded here.

  “(e) side yard. each lot must have a side yard extending along each side lot line, the total width of which in no less than shown in table a”

• Lot coverageDistrict specific (with conditions)

  Principal and accessory buildings on lots inside Virgil village limits, by district.

  • Total lot coverage for principal plus accessory buildings is set in Table A by district; Section 1230(k) separately caps accessory-building coverage as a percent of lot area in Table A.
  • Table A numbers were not legible in the extracted PDF text, so no numeric coverage is recorded here.

  “(h) lot coverage. the total ground area of any principal building plus all accessory buildings may not exceed the percent of total area of a lot shown in table a.”

• Building heightDistrict specific (with conditions)

  Principal buildings inside Virgil village limits, by district.

  • Section 1230(j) caps principal building height in feet and in stories by Table A; Section 1230(l) sets a separate cap for accessory buildings.
  • Table A numbers were not legible in the extracted PDF text, so no numeric height is recorded here.

  “(j) height of principal use. no principal building or other structure may exceed the height in feet, nor the height in stories shown in table a.”

• Manufactured homesProhibited

  Mobile homes on land in the A (agricultural) district of Virgil village

  • Applies to the A district only; the same ban for the E1 district is a separate claim.

  “the following uses are prohibited in the a district: (a) mobile homes.”

  One more reviewed finding on this topic

  • Prohibited — Mobile homes on land in the E1 (estate) district of Virgil village

    “(e) parking within any public or private right-of-way. (f) mobile homes.”

• Permit feesPublished

  Zoning permit and related fees for land inside Virgil village limits

  • The zoning fee schedule (Section 400) is listed in the code; its dollar amounts were not read.

  “chapter 4 - fees 106 subchapter 1-zoning 106 § 400. zoning fee schedule 106”

• Permit processPartial

  Zoning permit process inside Virgil village limits

  • The code provides a zoning permit under Section 1207 administered by the zoning officer (Section 1206). The step-by-step procedure and the building-permit route were not read.

  “subchapter 4-administration and enforcement 304 § 1205. generally 304 § 1206. zoning officer 304 § 1207. zoning permit 305”

Rules another office applies inside Village of Virgil

Village of Virgil does not set these itself; the county, a health district or the state does, and they apply to every address inside its limits.

• Mandatory utility hookupConditional

  New home septic-permit applicants in Kane County; the page does not name Virgil village, so whether it applies inside Virgil village limits is not confirmed. Virgil's own code text read has no sewer-connection rule.

  • Connection depends on whether public sewer is available; a hardship must be documented with the septic permit application.

  “unless access to public sewer requires more than a 4-inch pipe or creates an undue hardship, you will need to connect to public sewer.”

Still unanswered

We looked and could not find an official answer yet. Silence is not permission; ask Village of Virgil or Kane County directly.

• Building permit — Building permit for new construction inside Virgil village limits
• Owner-builder exemption — Owner-builder construction of a home inside Virgil village limits
• Building code adopted — Building code in force for construction inside Virgil village limits
• Inspections — Building inspections for construction inside Virgil village limits
• Certificate of occupancy — Certificate of occupancy for a new home inside Virgil village limits

Each answer was extracted from an official source and independently re-checked against that source by a second reviewer. That is an evidence check, not legal advice. Rules change; confirm with the authority before you buy or build.