ITEM 00-04017 on tonight’s first reading was modifications to the sign ordinance. The Sign Ordinance Committee, using the Ogden Avenue master plan as one of many resources to help craft a new sign ordinance, gave council an amended sign ordinance that council approved in May 2005. The goal was reducing the visual clutter and make [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Ordinances'
Signs
January 13th, 2010 · 12 Comments · community development, Economic Development, Ordinances
Tags: Development·planning
Dog, horse or pony?
August 3rd, 2009 · 17 Comments · Ordinances, People, Places and Things, Public Safety, Village Hall
We returned home from a day trip Friday to a voice mail informing us that a family member was in police custody. After nearly two years of house arrest, our wayward young adult recently had begun slipping out in the morning. This time a neighbor caught her trespassing and alerted the authorities. She was picked [...]
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Will Ch.4 step on 1st and 14th?
July 26th, 2009 · 7 Comments · Ordinances, Village Council, Village Hall
The village workshop meeting this week has one oddity. Active d proposes an entirely new “Chapter Four, Temporary Use and Public Gathering Provisions.” in the Village Municipal Code. Staff has done good work cleaning up and clearing up old code in the past. The first half of Chapter Four is more of the same; simplifying, [...]
Tags: bill of rights·first amendment·freedom of speech·municipal code·Village Council
Downtown design
January 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Downtown Management Corp., Downtown Redevelopment, Neighbohoods, Ordinances, Village Council, Village Hall
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 [...]
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PO to DG: What commitment?
July 25th, 2008 · 43 Comments · Downtown Redevelopment, In the News, Ordinances, Village Hall
Less than three weeks after a U.S. Postal Service official said delivery processing operations would be relocated from the Post Office at 920 Curtiss St., he retracted that commitment in an e-mail to village staff. No explanation was offered for the about-face, said community relations director Doug Kozlowski. In a July 8 meeting with village [...]
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On tonight’s docket
April 22nd, 2008 · 19 Comments · Affordable housing, Downtown Redevelopment, Ordinances, Plan Commission, Stormwater, Village Council
Council-watchers will be interested to see how commissioners respond to the Ad Hoc Committee on Housing’s final report at tonight’s workshop session. Of particular interest is whether the council will accept the report as the final word that there is no looming shortage of affordable housing in Downers Grove — or whether there will be [...]
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I’d drink to that
March 20th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Ordinances, Village Council
While village council members debated the merits of an ethics amendment to the liquor ordinance Tuesday, some observers perhaps wondered why the subject made it to the dais at all. After all, don’t we already have “probably the most sweeping ethics ordinance in the country†as Commissioner Martin Tully observed? And aren’t donations from liquor [...]
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Council to trees: Hang tight
February 27th, 2008 · 8 Comments · Ordinances, Village Council
The Downers Grove Village Council decided to defer further discussion about a private tree ordinance until the summer, when strategic planning sessions and a Citizens’ Summit will take place. Commissioners expressed concern that the subject is complicated and will require community buy-in to be successfully addressed. As you may recall, the council has considered protections [...]
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More on those massage parlors
February 7th, 2008 · 29 Comments · Ordinances
Massage parlors have come under fire from readers of this blog, but they’ve been a permitted use in Downers Grove for years. How long? Even the village attorney isn’t sure. But unlike some towns, Downers Grove at least licenses the businesses — which makes the spas one of the few enterprises that must jump through [...]
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