Archive for 'Neighbohoods'

Downtown design

Posted 15 January 2009 | By | Categories: Downtown Management Corp., Downtown Redevelopment, Neighbohoods, Ordinances, Village Council, Village Hall | 1 Comment

New voluntary design guidelines will be available to downtown business owners and developers if the village council approves the Downtown Facade Improvement Plan January 20 as expected. The plan, which is the result of a strategic plan goal to create and maintain an “authentic downtown,” also would provide grants for facade improvements that conform to [...]

Feeling thankful

Posted 27 November 2008 | By | Categories: Community Events, District 58, District 99, Downtown Management Corp., From the Editor, Neighbohoods, Park District, People, Places and Things, Village Hall | 6 Comments

Editor’s note: Despite the fact that some in the community apparently view me as a nattering nabob of negativity (how’s that for a blast from the past?), I truly and deeply appreciate this town. Here are some Downers Grove blessings I’m counting today. Feel free to add your own to the list. And enjoy that [...]

Process and purpose

Posted 29 October 2008 | By | Categories: Neighbohoods, Plan Commission, Residential Redevelopment, Village Council, Zoning | 7 Comments

The village council grappled with the stickiest of wickets Tuesday night, entertaining nearly two and a half hours of comments for and against Fairview Village’s petition to re-zone Lynn Gremer Court on the west side of Fairview Avenue from R-3 single-family to R-5a townhouse use. A respected corporate neighbor, Fairview Village proposes building four eight-unit [...]

One-way street

Posted 28 October 2008 | By | Categories: Boards and Commissions, District 58, Neighbohoods, Public Safety, Traffic, Village Council | 1 Comment

Score one for the moms. Along with other Lester School PTA members and school and district administrators, they convinced the Transportation and Parking Commission that Lincoln Avenue should be designated a one-way street during school hours. Commission members voted unanimously Oct. 8 to recommend that the council designate the street as an eastbound one-way between [...]

Affordable home program kicks off

Posted 06 October 2008 | By | Categories: Affordable housing, Neighbohoods, Village Council, Village Hall | 38 Comments

The Illinois Housing Development Authority will hold a meeting for real estate brokers and lenders next Monday as the first step in the agency’s program to help first-time home buyers purchase local properties valued at up to $325,000. The Mortgage Credit Certicate program was made possible by the village council’s decision to cede $1.3 million [...]

Toward a new noise ordinance

Posted 25 July 2008 | By | Categories: Features, Neighbohoods, Residential Redevelopment | 12 Comments

When it comes to those Acadia on the Green residents who are disturbed by the Post Office’s inhuman clanging at all hours of the night, well, let’s just say I feel their pain. For the third summer in a row there’s major construction on our street and it’s loud, particularly at 7 a.m. when, if [...]