“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 village [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Development'
Comp Plan moves forward
January 13th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Comprehensive Planning
Signs
January 13th, 2010 · 12 Comments · Economic Development, Ordinances, community development
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 [...]
Tags: Development·planning
Tax time troubles
November 6th, 2009 · 16 Comments · Economic Development, Taxes, community development
On October 20, DuPage County put together its annual Delinquent Tax List. This is a list of property owners who have yet to pay their 2008 property tax bills. As you might guess, this year the list of delinquent properties is significantly larger than in prosperous years. A couple notables have felt the bite.
Tags: Development·property taxes
Dolling up Dali’s
October 27th, 2009 · 8 Comments · Downtown Redevelopment, community development
The owner and the operator of Dali’s Cafe, located at 5128 – 5130 Main Street, have applied for a Façade Improvement Grant for $26,000 The plan is to make improvements and repairs to the fronts of both buildings, which together house the popular breakfast/lunch eatery.
The plan, details of which are located here, include:
Replacing aged windows [...]
Tags: Development·downtown·planning
ATI sans LME
October 23rd, 2009 · 21 Comments · Downtown Redevelopment, Economic Development, Local Business, Village Council, community development
Everybody missed it?
Pick a local business; any one — about 80 folks involved with them protested the approval of ATI taking 10,000 square feet of prime retail space at reduced rental rates any one of them would gladly pay. Many of those local businesses are owned by people who live here. They bank here, [...]
Tags: Development·downtown·Economic Development·planning·Village Council
The Lemon Tree is on track
September 15th, 2009 · 11 Comments · Downtown Redevelopment, Economic Development, community development
Editor’s note: Tim Canning of the Lemon Tree posted this note this morning.
Hi friends-
The Lemon Tree is coming! Thank you all for your comments. The project slowed down due to business terms with the lease and binding contract deals with Michael’s. I can assure you that all business issues have been sorted out.
Bill White — [...]
Seeing the forest for the trees
August 27th, 2009 · 22 Comments · Development, Environment, Environmental Concerns, Neighbohoods, Taxes, community development
Between January 2007 and now, the village has taken down 899 trees. Let’s call it 900. This doesn’t count trees taken down on private property (the village has no way to track that), trees on park district land, or school district land. The village planted 1,127 trees in that same time frame. More trees going [...]
Tags: comprehensive plan·Development·property values·Stormwater·trees
Cost of land use
June 29th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Affordable housing, Development, Downtown Redevelopment, Economic Development, Residential Redevelopment, Strategic Planning
Champaign’s $96,000 study identifies tax surplus generating development.
A buddy downstate emailed me this study, noting one other blogger already has written about it. His point; there’s a temptation to simply do what generates surplus income for the municipality.
Tags: budget·Development·homes·revenues·Taxes
Lemon Tree looks to be sweet
June 9th, 2009 · 14 Comments · Development, Downtown Management Corp., Downtown Redevelopment, Economic Development
Staff comes up with another targeted Redevelopment Agreement Tuesday for a downtown grocer. By creating a separate entity, The Lemon Tree, Inc., both the village and Michael’s Fresh Market get what they want.
Tags: Development·Downtoen redevelopment·downtown dining·Downtown Management Corp.·Economic Development·Economic Development Corp.·grocer·Michael's Fresh Market·RDA
Pushback on county housing plan
June 6th, 2009 · 11 Comments · Affordable housing, Development, Residential Redevelopment, Stormwater, Zoning
DuPage County has been seeking the ability to do whatever it wants to when it comes to developing real estate, under the cover of “affordable workforce housing” and “by right” use.
Despite opposition from every community that is aware of it, the county continues to push this potential program towards their goal.
Tags: Affordable housing·Development·DuPage County·redevelopment·residential development·unincorporated·workforce housing·Zoning
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