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There’s been some pretty interesting redevelopment going on lately.  Oakwood Builders finished up a modestly sized but strikingly beautiful home on the near northeast side, and two housing redevelopments are progressing that are very appealing, very forward thinking. By now maybe everyone’s seen this one on Maple? Originally it was fairly straight up farm house style. (Folk [...]

Village staff presented council with a resolution to authorize a railroad crossing improvement at Maple Avenue.  This project involves two components:

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 [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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, [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]