City Planning Documents
The following plans serve as a guide for elected officials, municipal staff, community residents, business owners, and potential investors, allowing them to make informed administrative and implementation choices in community development decisions affecting land use, transportation, infrastructure, and capital improvements throughout the City.
Vacant Property Ordinance 2020 -
School Travel Plans
The school travel plans below serve as a roadmap for analyzing the social and physical barriers to walking and bicycling to school in Berwyn and for providing recommendations to make walking and bicycling to school the safe, healthy, and convenient choice.
Transportation
The plans below comprise improvements to the physical infrastructure, policies, and programs that make it safer and more convenient for people to walk, bike, and use transit in Berwyn.
Berwyn Active Transportation Plan
The Pamphlet is an educational tri-fold, available for Berwyn cyclists, which features a system map and cycling tips.
Berwyn Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Study
The TOD Study will be the reference for community leaders to achieve the vision of its residents, property owners, business owners, and friends of the Metra/BNSF Railway Corridor over the next 20 years.
Berwyn Corridors
The Cermak Corridor Study - (Microsoft PowerPoint - The Cermak Corridor Study final may108 (windows.net))
The Corridor Study serves as a guide for the community and its leaders in long term decision making along Cermak Road.
Roosevelt Road Corridor Study - (Final-1st half.pdf (windows.net))
A joint study between Oak Park and Berwyn that establishes cooperative municipal goals, recommends objectives, outlines specific actions, and identifies some of the funding sources available to improve the Roosevelt Road corridor.
Roosevelt Road Form Based Code - (RooseveltFormBasedCode.pdf (windows.net))
The Form Based Code is a zoning overlay adopted across three municipalities, Berwyn, Cicero and Oak Park, along Roosevelt Road to promote walkability while recognizing that is a heavily traveled thoroughfare.
Housing
Homes for a Changing Region - (HOMES_for_a_Chaging_Region.pdf (windows.net))
Berwyn’s portion of the housing policy report created for the West Cook County Housing Collaborative, which consists of Bellwood, Berwyn, Forest Park, Maywood and Oak Park.