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You like your neighborhood.  Maybe some things about your neighborhood you don’t like so much. Zoning probably has something to do with that.  Not everything, of course; the people make a big difference.  But the underlying zoning determines much of what you see:  dwelling units per acre, building line setbacks, building heights, etc. So why [...]

I’ve added the link to the Downers Grove Comprehensive Plan Project to the right sidebar, but you may want to bookmark it as well. As for the choice of homepage images, Prince Pond — scene of  many a playground expedition, skating outing, fishing contest and Christmas card photo op — is one of my personal [...]

Editor’s note: This post has been updated in order to clarify the series of events leading up to the mayor’s call for a possible rules change. Saying he believes “very strongly” in a one-week waiting period before voting on certain Consent Agenda items, Commissioner William Waldack requested at Tuesday’s village council meeting that four items [...]

The first meeting of the Comprehensive Plan Ad-Hoc Committee is tonight, February 10, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. at Fire Station 2, 5420 Main St.  Agenda is here. The Comprehensive Plan Project website has been established to keep residents informed about the process and provide a means to give feedback. Source for this notice is the [...]

During a discussion of the Comprehensive Planning Ad Hoc Committee at the Feb. 2 village council meeting, Commissioner Sean Durkin called for a rule that would deter committee members from blogging. “I would like to see, through council action or staff, that any member who is on the commission refrain from any sort of blogging [...]

Thoman here.  My name got tossed in the hopper for the Comprehensive Plan Ad Hoc Committee, and no one objected tonight, so it looks like I’ll be pretty wrapped up in that for the next several months.  An updated Comprehensive Plan is a big deal, and I’m all in on this effort. So the bad [...]

“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” — Albert Einstein Comprehensive Plans are supposed to be good for up to 10 years, in some cases even 20.  They’re not supposed to be static documents, instead being updated at regular intervals.  Our [...]