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Tuesday was the Long Range Financial Planning meeting (see Required reading for background, as well as category budget for DGreports extensive posts on past budgets).  Barnett and Beckman were unable to attend.  All the curve balls and budget sucker punches thrown by the state we’ve already discussed.  There was a general agreement among council members that the existing [...]

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 [...]

TCD3 had a final recommendation no participant saw coming.  Now it’s the council’s turn to ask some questions about Neighborhood Community Networks like: Huh? That seemed to be the big question last night when council came to accepting the TCD3 documents.  When the consultants Houseal & Lavigne announced at the conclusion of  TCD3 that the [...]

Budget passes 6-1. Everyone on council agreed this was a tough budget to do, and in the end all but  Commissioner William Waldack voted for it. Several council members echoed Bruce Beckman’s request for a “debriefing” so that the good and bad of this year’s marathon process could be reviewed and improvements wrought. Most council [...]

In theory, this is the second most important process and planning documentation a community employs to guide itself into the future, and directly feeds the most important planning document, the Comprehensive Plan, which has not been updated since the mid 60′s.  Clicking on the covers will take you to the reports.  Both are large and [...]

A packed house. This eighth budget meeting was the first of nine meetings that will actually lead to a real budget.  All of the programs that have had cuts proposed for them were lined up to be discussed.  Mayor Sandack took a straw vote to see where the big turnouts were for what issue, and [...]

Yes, and you better be paying attention, because this one deals mainly with revenue sources needed to make up for existing shortfalls. On Tuesday August 4 village staff laid out the next step in getting workable budgets.  Village Manager Dave Fieldman again led the Long Range Financial Planning meeting, and outlined a multi-year game plan [...]

On Saturday, September 26, 2009 from 8:00 a.m to 2:00 p.m. in Parking Lot H of the Belmont Road Train Station, the Park District and the village will host the second Recycling Extravaganza. Same as last year, this event is being held before Amnesty Day, when DG tosses a lot of trash that can be [...]

In January 2009, the Village Council adopted a Façade Improvement Program for Downtown Downers Grove. Up to $100,000 each year is designated from TIF funds for the program.  The program is a dollar for dollar matching  grant program and requires that a project complies with the Downtown Design Guidelines to receive funding from the Village.