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[1:07] Village, amount, prospect, planning and zoning commission meeting for Thursday, August 27th, 2026. I'll call the need in the order.
[1:14] Roll call please.
[1:17] Commissioner and SimSec. Commissioner, we are here.
[1:21] Commissioner Olson, Commissioner B.D.
[1:24] Here, Commissioner Rogers, Commissioner Fricano, Commissioner Costa, Chairman Donnelly.
[1:30] Here, so we have a warm, first item of business is approval of minutes from last meeting.
[1:34] May I have a motion?
[1:36] Senate, Senate, motion in a second, any discussion?
[1:43] Being done, we'll call.
[1:46] Commissioner and some second.
[1:48] Aye.
[1:48] Commissioner Reer.
[1:49] Commissioner Beady.
[1:51] abstain.
[1:52] Commissioner Fakano.
[1:54] Commissioner Krotset.
[1:56] Aye.
[1:57] Chairman Donnelly.
[1:58] So we approve all of the minutes from last meeting.
[2:00] First time in the business tonight is PZ-2226.
[2:06] This is Village Mile Prospect, text amendments for distribution centers,
[2:11] card-age, carrier, parcel distribution, and last mile delivery facilities.
[2:15] This is Village Board final.
[2:18] Yep.
[2:19] Thank you.
[2:20] I'll be presenting this evening.
[2:23] Jason Shawgrass, search and community development.
[2:26] So the Village Board directed staff as part of a recent zoning case
[2:30] to re-evaluate how the village treats or the zoning code treats distribution centers as a primary use.
[2:41] And this is in reaction to several complaints that the village has received regarding these types of facilities when they are located in close proximity to residential neighborhoods.
[2:53] And so, based on that direction, staff is before you this evening seeking a positive
[3:00] recommendation on a text amendment that would alter how these uses are treated.
[3:07] They are currently permitted uses allow by right in all I1 limited industrial zone properties.
[3:15] The proposed text amendment before you would still allow them to be located in those districts,
[3:21] But only after receiving village board approval as a conditional use requiring them to first receive a recommendation from the planning and zoning commission and then ultimately they would each individual user would have to be approved by the village board.
[3:39] And that is only for distribution centers where distribution, parcel distribution, last and all delivery, is their primary use.
[3:46] So, that is not to say that a warehouse company or a manufacturer who happens to make deliveries
[3:53] would need village board approval in order to do that.
[3:56] We are talking about the Amazon, you know, the Amazon's of the world, those large, last-mile
[4:02] distribution facilities with, you know, hundreds of employees making deliveries and, you
[4:09] know, operating on site, almost 24 hours a day, sometimes 24 hours a day as a
[4:16] I've seen or we've seen near the holiday season,
[4:20] which can be particularly impactful
[4:22] if located next to you single-family neighborhoods.
[4:25] So that is the basis for the tax amendments
[4:28] before you've this evening for your consideration.
[4:33] So we've created this new use category,
[4:36] which is distribution center cardage,
[4:38] career, parcel distribution, last mile delivery facility.
[4:42] You can see the definition of it there before you,
[4:44] which is basically,
[4:45] any facility where the receipt, transfer, sorting, routing, staging, consolidation, deconsolidation,
[4:51] redistribution, or dispatch, packages, parcels, goods, merchandise, or other materials for
[4:57] subsequent distribution or delivery constitutes a principle function of the premises.
[5:03] So the use includes facilities where goods are received by trucker, other commercial
[5:07] vehicle, and subsequently transferred, whether directly or following temporary storage to other
[5:13] vehicles for further distribution or delivery.
[5:19] So, functionally to make that happen, we also have to add it to the village's land use table.
[5:24] You'll see right now also on the bottom there, we have distribution facilities listed
[5:30] as a permitted use, that is to be struck from the village's code, and it be made part of
[5:37] its own stand-alone use category, and you'll see, instead of a P for permitted use,
[5:42] but have a C designation for conditionally use.
[5:46] So that is the designation that requires
[5:50] a village board approval.
[5:52] And the use would no longer be considered permitted
[5:54] in that I1-livenated industrial district.
[5:59] To go along with that, an evaluating our code,
[6:03] we also feel it necessary to modify the village's definition
[6:07] of a warehouse to be more complimentary
[6:09] towards our definition of distribution center.
[6:12] So, that is, you'll see the red line to be struck language, which was pretty broad, just
[6:19] at business that receives and stores goods of others for compensation to, instead, a building
[6:25] or portion thereof, principally used for the storage of goods, merchandise materials for such
[6:29] stores rather than the sorting constitutes the principal function of the facility.
[6:38] So with that, we believe that these text amendments are aligned with the religious standards
[6:44] for tax amendments, and we are recommending that the Planning and Zoning Commission adopt
[6:49] staff's findings as the findings of the Commission and recommend approval of this amendment
[6:54] to the Village Board. I'm happy to answer any questions that you have. Jason, we had a couple
[7:00] weeks, well, month or so ago, we had the facility on a wall for, and you put it into it. Thank you.
[7:07] Would that be affected by this? I don't, because they had like possible dual uses of that. They
[7:15] what it was going to be used for. So would this kind of even if this is denied that property
[7:21] currently based on the ordinance that was approved would be the only property in the village
[7:26] where if a district and if a distribution facility.
[7:30] Or is there, it would still be required to go through an approval process with the Board based on the ordinance that was put in place via the planned event development.
[7:39] What this does is, it basically creates an even playing field for all other I-1, limited industrial properties in the village.
[7:47] Jason, I have a question with the definition of a distribution facility, such as construction
[7:55] materials, lumberyard, plumbing supply house, electricians, Novak and Parker with appliances
[8:04] with those beings considered distribution of things.
[8:07] No, we have a separate use in the use table for contractors yards, which principally involves
[8:13] of storage about dormitoryials, and we also have supplemental regulations specifically for the outdoor
[8:19] storage of materials.
[8:22] The other question is, all the existing uses that are in the village that are these,
[8:28] how are they treated and updated?
[8:32] Yeah, so the shortest answer is there are more or less sort of grandfathered in and away.
[8:41] They're basically deemed existing not-conforming uses.
[8:45] They're allowed to continue.
[8:47] In future, based on if that use were to vacate the premises
[8:53] for a period of more than six months,
[8:57] that new user coming in, if it was a similar type of use even,
[9:00] would have to go through a conditionally use process.
[9:03] So, by and large village ordinances,
[9:05] when they are created and how they apply
[9:07] is to all businesses, everything that happens
[9:09] from today's day of business moving forward.
[9:12] So really, the goal is over time, new businesses,
[9:16] as they come in, would be evaluated as conditional uses.
[9:19] All existing businesses would be allowed to continue.
[9:23] I want more questions.
[9:24] Is there an exception for a small scale if it's an upstart
[9:28] company that is starting?
[9:30] Small scale.
[9:31] I think we, in us, I guess there's
[9:35] own out-and-out exemption for a small scale or anything of, like, less than a certain
[9:41] x amount of score footage, it really comes down to the principle use of the, or purpose of the
[9:49] facility.
[9:52] You know, I think what perhaps we could do, if it's something that's smaller scale, that's
[9:56] less intrusive, we would, we ask all sorts of questions when a business comes in and
[10:01] applies to tell us about their use.
[10:04] If something is only 5,000 square feet,
[10:06] it's much more manageable, because these uses
[10:09] are traditionally hundreds of thousands of square feet.
[10:13] That might be something that we could evaluate,
[10:16] because those uses are also going to have offices
[10:18] in other spaces where depending on exactly what it is,
[10:22] and I don't want to get too much in the hypotheticals.
[10:25] The shipping of goods manned up being
[10:28] deemed more accessory to whatever the primary office
[10:31] you might be because they're going to have some sort of intake that takes place.
[10:35] How many you said things existing now to her grandfathered in if they're not in compliance
[10:40] with what we're proposing now?
[10:42] How many of those kinds of facilities do we have right now and not prospect that would
[10:46] grandfather?
[10:47] When I see, when I hear about this things, I envision these giant Amazon things you see
[10:52] on the side of the freeway that are acres upon acres upon acres.
[10:55] I think we have anything like that in my project to think physically or so.
[10:58] But we do have several businesses that are even closer to 100,000 square feet versus those that are again acres on acres on size.
[11:06] We do have other users that are much smaller. We have a newer user on the south side of town that's 190,000 square feet.
[11:15] We have a user on the north side of town that's about 150,000 square feet.
[11:21] So, they come in all different shapes and sizes.
[11:23] I would guess to make that we have probably less than 10 of these in town, but the ones that we do have, we have received complaints about, and moving forward, we want to be a little more sensitive about, you know, how we evaluate that.
[11:39] If the distribution center handles hazardous materials of any kind, is that under a different category?
[11:46] Do we need to refer, you know, or make an exception in this text to, you know, refer to a different part of the code?
[11:53] I don't think there's any further amendments that would need to take place.
[11:56] Again, the distribution center itself is really more geared towards the distribution of parcels.
[12:02] If there was something with hazardous materials, it might be a different use all together.
[12:07] It might be a heavy manufacturing or a different type of use that's already in the existing
[12:12] land use table.
[12:14] Hazardous materials themselves are addressed via the villages I want limited industrial performance
[12:21] standards.
[12:23] So, the limited industrial zoning district has a list of performance standards as it applies
[12:29] to basically any sort of externality that could affect adjacent property.
[12:35] So hazardous materials, noise, vibration, emissions, all of those things are governed by those performance standards.
[12:43] So we do allow hazardous materials, you know, sort of as long as it's done in a way that meets all of our applicable codes.
[12:52] But just by having hazardous materials doesn't necessitate that it's a unique user should be treated differently.
[12:58] Good.
[13:04] Okay. Are you hearing justice case?
[13:08] And there's nobody here to address the case. I'll close the hearing.
[13:12] I'll make a motion to approve the action, the tax amendments,
[13:16] for the village staff report.
[13:19] Second, a motion, a second, any discussion?
[13:23] Being done, roll call.
[13:26] Commissioner SimSec, Commissioner Weir, Commissioner B. I, Commissioner for Conno, Commissioner
[13:35] Costa, Chairman Natalie.
[13:38] All right, so we have a passage of recommendation for the College Board.
[13:43] Very good. Second item of business tonight is PZ-2026. This is also a village of
[13:48] prospect. This is the Mount Prospect 2040 comprehensive plan. This is also a village board final.
[13:57] Yeah, if you're right.
[14:02] Alright, thank you all for listening to me tonight. It's going to take, I'm hoping to be about 20 minutes.
[14:09] Just going to go through the plan overall and then we'll have questions after that.
[14:15] So the general intent is the high level overview, I go saying.
[14:21] Just say like kind of off the top, like this is the culmination of like a year and a half
[14:26] of work.
[14:27] It's been a lot of effort put in by staff and people all around the village, so pretty excited
[14:34] tonight, so apologies for any generous or anything like that, looking forward to a good discussion
[14:40] about the future of the community, for the record, for the good of the order, we always start
[14:47] these kind of presentations off of what actually is a comprehensive plan. They are enabled by the
[14:56] state municipalities via chapter 6.
[15:00] 5, section 11, dash 12, dash 5, which basically states that communities have the option to update their comprehensive plan every 7 to 10 years.
[15:11] And it's a lot of legal ease for what kind of community does Mount Prospect want to be in 2040 or in the future.
[15:19] And how do we get there? It's basically what the entire document is all about.
[15:25] So, short history of planning, the village was of course incorporated in 1917, we did have a
[15:33] land use plan in 1943,
[15:37] I can't imagine what it would be like to do land use planning in the
[15:40] middle of World War II, must have been something special, something interesting, and then
[15:45] the first, what we would describe, resembling something more like a modern comprehensive plan
[15:49] first came about in 1965, they updated again in 1976.
[15:54] Then through the 80s and 90s, they did a lot of minor updates
[15:58] to it, they weren't doing these bigger efforts.
[16:01] Like we have been doing over the past year and a half.
[16:04] 2007, there was a big update and then in 2017,
[16:07] there was another major update.
[16:11] That 2017 plan emphasized downtown development, annexation,
[16:16] and growth, and the village largely meant those goals.
[16:19] Since then, we have, of course, encountered a lot of things in the world, a pandemic, housing prices have increased significantly, the office market has dramatically changed, and the 2017 or 2014 plan seeks to build on the 2017 plan while tackling those issues.
[16:38] And just again, setting the stage, the plan is, and what it is not, it is an advisory framework.
[16:45] The future land you skyd, which has been subject to much conversation, does not regulate anything.
[16:50] It's not a zoning map.
[16:52] It's more of a decision-making tool, as development projects come along.
[16:56] We use this document as a reference point.
[16:59] So 2030, some developer has an idea for something somewhere in the village.
[17:03] We'll take a look at this map and see how it lines up.
[17:07] Any changes to the zoning code would still be applicable to a public process for legal changes.
[17:13] you know rezoning hearings, PCC review, Village Board approval, all that kind of stuff.
[17:20] It doesn't obligate us to any specific projects or anything like that.
[17:26] And for our process specifically, like I said, we kicked this off at the beginning, middle, you know, May of 2025,
[17:34] with Village Board direction we got a resolution passed, which was nice.
[17:38] We, over the course of that time, did existing conditions in Fintory, a community engagement report,
[17:44] and synthesized it into this plan for a lot of last year where we were focused on issues and opportunities.
[17:50] A lot of community engagement went to lots of events.
[17:53] It's envisioning workshops.
[17:55] And then we spent a few months writing and working in our offices.
[17:58] And we've been coming out with these documents where the past summer.
[18:05] So, just to cover the engagement, you've probably seen this slide by now.
[18:09] It's been a few different presentations, but over the course of a lot of meetings, which
[18:15] I'll cover in a second, we had what we believe is more than 1,200 points of engagement.
[18:21] It's even larger now that it's been a few months of working on this sort of adoption process.
[18:26] We had, we tell it up when we believe we had about 665 in-person conversations before we
[18:31] we started writing the plan.
[18:33] We had a large survey that we sent out to the community.
[18:36] We got a really great response.
[18:37] We beat the 2017 plan by about 100 responses.
[18:40] That's pretty excited about that.
[18:43] And we have this project website,
[18:45] which has gotten lots and lots of it.
[18:47] It was 2.1 when I originally made this slide by,
[18:49] I think it's closer to 3,000 now.
[18:53] We had several, like I mentioned,
[18:56] about 10 different engagement station meetings,
[18:59] where we went to different village events and the notion is to meet people where they are.
[19:04] We went to the mental health matters event last year.
[19:07] We went to the village board meeting and had an engagement station in the hallway.
[19:10] There was an aging amount of prospect event, resource fair,
[19:13] the renter street fest, block party, community connection center.
[19:17] There was a school event at John Jay School on the south side.
[19:20] There was a celebration of cultures event we attended.
[19:23] We had three visioning workshops, one in the north side, one in the south side and one in the village hall.
[19:27] and we also had a high school event which was very fun.
[19:33] And so there's a whole engagement report which summarizes in pretty good detail.
[19:37] Everything we found but these are just a few things I wanted to identify to sort of set the stage for everything we're going to talk about,
[19:45] which is most importantly, 91% of people are satisfied with living here.
[19:49] There's, I've been doing comprehensive planning for seven or eight years now,
[19:53] and there's a lot of communities out there that have a lot of problems.
[19:56] the comprehensive planning seeks to address and not prospects pretty stable and doing pretty well
[20:02] so this plan kind of reflects that. More people would like to have walkability in the community.
[20:08] There was a pretty large margin of people that supported that. A lot of support for green space
[20:14] and the we're going to get into land use in housing soon about 50% of people in the surveys
[20:20] that they support policies to improve housing and sustainability. So I think that's fairly reflective
[20:25] about how a lot of people are on the community feel about some of these sort of housing issues,
[20:30] missing middle housing issues, some people are very passionate and wonder-action and vice-versus.
[20:35] So we, you'll see how the plan kind of, we attempted to thread a needle between those two ends of the spectrum.
[20:43] But before we get to that, the most important thing in any conference, the plan is the vision statement.
[20:49] Everything kind of starts from there. We build all the goals and policies and everything in pursuit
[20:55] of this vision that we came up with.
[20:57] It's meant to be very aspirational if you need it.
[21:01] To she, you could wipe a tear.
[21:02] It's supposed to be fairly, really beautifully written.
[21:06] But I'll read it for you here.
[21:08] I know it's a paragraph, but just bear with me
[21:09] to think it's worth reading.
[21:11] In 2040, Mount Frostrich will continue to embody
[21:14] the very best to community living
[21:15] as a forward-thinking family-centered village
[21:18] that sets the standard for quality of life
[21:20] in the region.
[21:21] We love beautiful neighborhoods,
[21:23] finance, vibrant commercial districts, and abundant parks and cultural spaces.
[21:27] The village will be well connected by safe streets, trails, and transit, where residents of
[21:31] every age can access parks, services, housing choices, and community spaces that support
[21:37] healthy active lives.
[21:39] We will pursue sustainable and resilient practices that balance economic opportunity with
[21:43] environmental stewardship, ensuring long-term viability for both public and private
[21:48] investment.
[21:49] Community facilities will be inclusive, active hubs that bring people together and
[21:53] to support daily life across all ages.
[21:55] Our economy will cultivate modern commercial areas
[21:58] in a strong local identity that attracts unique businesses
[22:01] and positions the village as a regional destination.
[22:04] Together, these elements will define Mount Prospect
[22:06] as a competitive business friendly community,
[22:09] a place where people of all ages can live for work and thrive.
[22:16] So how do we actually get there?
[22:18] We have broken the plan down into about six chapters
[22:21] with goals spread out across each of them.
[22:27] This is...
[22:30] From leadership in the community, it's just kind of as a happy accident, committed 40 goals for 2040, but pretty happy with that.
[22:40] And you can see how the chapter breakdown has several goals in each one, and if you've been flipping through the document, you'll see how the goals are basically from the body of the plan.
[22:51] So, the first chapter is land use.
[22:53] This is pretty much the heart of the plan.
[22:56] Mount Prospect is essentially built out.
[22:59] There's very little vacant land left.
[23:01] So growth in this plan doesn't mean expansion.
[23:04] In the way that it might, in some other communities,
[23:06] instead it means targeted reinvestment on specific sites and corridors,
[23:11] while protecting the neighborhoods that make up the majority of the village.
[23:15] Here's kind of the bullet summary.
[23:18] the plane goes into greater detail on each of these, but I'll just kind of go through the overall takeaways.
[23:26] The vast majority of the map are single family neighborhoods.
[23:32] Keeps basically the current land use approach.
[23:34] We have lots of lovely neighborhoods that we'd like to maintain.
[23:37] There are no proposed changes to CPACs, massing lock coverage or anything like that.
[23:42] And goal one of the plan is protect neighborhood character while focusing development and key areas.
[23:47] But that being said, there are a few modest policy approaches that the plan articulates.
[23:52] First, continually adding incremental housing variety, as makes sense.
[23:56] So things like town hubs and duplexes, people bring up from time to time.
[24:02] And the like are only encouraged for zoning consideration in specific locations.
[24:06] So close to our metro stations, along our major corridors like Rand Golf and Elmerhurst and in downtown,
[24:13] not spread across established neighborhoods and not through uniform
[24:16] up zoning. More of a strategic approach. If a vacant parcel pops up near
[24:21] downtown and a developer comes along with an idea to develop it into two flats
[24:26] or something like that so they could sell it to some potential residents that would
[24:30] like to take advantage of the downtown amenities. Then we would consider that and
[24:35] go through a zoning process to determine whether or not that makes the most sense
[24:39] the time. If it's near downtown, it's probably more likely to be approved than if it's safe
[24:46] further into some of our residential neighborhoods that have a much more refined character
[24:50] of single family homes.
[24:54] Next we have Randhurst, a long-term
[24:56] the plan supports making it even more dynamic destination, dining, entertainment, maybe more
[25:02] walkable infrastructure like classes and housing if the ownership was interested in that,
[25:07] We want to do with the ownership beliefs. We'll make it successful.
[25:11] So there is talk about making it, you know, adding residential or something like that.
[25:15] Some other lifestyle centers in the region have added apartments to kind of make it more of a neighborhood.
[25:22] We're open to that. The plan is open to that.
[25:25] But at the end of the day, we want the center to be successful.
[25:28] And that's what the plan supports, so whether and not that includes residential is to be determined the plan is okay with it either way.
[25:36] Next door of all being office and industrial areas, the office sector was probably the hardest hit by COVID.
[25:42] So the plan tries to articulate a general future for these areas and the plan, the Kensington Business Center,
[25:48] moved short and even more and more to use business space for tech logistics and other professional tenants,
[25:54] as well as less traditional uses like entertainment, of course the ice shrink has popped up there.
[25:59] More of the diversity of uses in that area would make sense in the plan.
[26:03] South Mount Prospect stays in to Australia at its core, but tiger targets higher wage employers and supports
[26:10] elective mixed use conversion at the edges, especially along the corridors like Elmhurst.
[26:17] And then next, we have Siberia's and opportunity sites, oh yeah, here's the opportunity sites.
[26:26] So next thing we did to try to, you know, the complaint is very high level and we wanted to drill
[26:32] down further. So our steering committee recommended we pursue some opportunity sites. So we
[26:38] were able to identify 51 sites, specific parcels in the village, that could make sense
[26:43] for redevelopment in the coming 10 or so years. They are properties which are vacant under
[26:50] utilized or non-conforming with current zoning, often due to annexation history, representing
[26:55] your term potential for new development, whether it's housing, commercial, industrial, it depends
[27:01] on the area.
[27:03] Please note that no single family homes have been identified as opportunity sites.
[27:10] Fake insights are kind of the lowest hanging fruit.
[27:13] They represent low friction opportunities to improve the community.
[27:18] There's several occupied sites that are generally identified with longer term improvement
[27:23] in mind, their development is a force-objection market conditions, and we'll like they take
[27:29] longer, but they are potential areas where we could potentially potentially do something.
[27:40] And then, oh, and the last set is there's several parcels that were originally developed
[27:44] in unincorporated Cook County before they were annexed into the village, and so they represent
[27:51] a non-conforming zoning parcel and so is we'd like to improve a lot of these areas with
[27:57] our zoning standards and try to improve them. There's some fixer upper areas around
[28:03] Mount Prospect that were originally developed outside of the municipality and now we're in
[28:08] the municipality and we see that as an opportunity to develop them to develop them.
[28:14] And then the last part of the land use section is we identified sub areas. This is also a recommendation
[28:18] Universityary Committee.
[28:20] Basically, this is sort of set in the ball on the T for the next project.
[28:27] We identified three areas that could use more planning work in the future.
[28:33] These are just some general boundaries that we've proposed that could be subject to
[28:39] changing the future, but we just wanted to kind of get the ball rolling on an
[28:43] For them, he planned a downtown Mount Prospect plan and a south Mount Prospect plan.
[28:48] There was a south Mount Prospect plan, I think, less than five years ago, so that would
[28:52] probably be at the bottom of the list of to-do's.
[28:56] But pursuing planning efforts in downtown, which had a- it's the last plan that was completed
[29:03] in 2013.
[29:05] Obviously, it was pretty successful.
[29:06] There's been a lot of development in downtown since then, but it would be useful to
[29:10] an updated plan is more projects come along.
[29:14] Likewise for the Rand Road corridor for Randhurst for the Kensington Business Center
[29:18] would be valuable.
[29:20] We believe to have a more detailed planning document that goes beyond just the comprehensive plan,
[29:25] which says, you know, make this area a nicer or different in some way,
[29:30] and actually drill down on like a parcel by parcel basis of creating a plan of how to improve the area.
[29:38] So we have housing in neighborhoods, we aren't going to go into detail on each goal,
[29:43] I guess I said, but I'll talk about the general ideas, first community residential is
[29:49] one central part of the plan and covers the majority of them.
[30:00] 50s to the 80s, the plans approach is basically maintenance focused with improvements were applicable
[30:07] in the public realm, sidewalks, curves, trees, lighting, all that stuff that we currently do
[30:14] that public work spends a lot of time thinking about continuing to make incremental improvements
[30:19] in those areas. And multi-family areas, which is the brown on the map, existing multi-family
[30:26] stock is outside downtown. There's garden apartments, larger complexes, the
[30:32] plan leads on a code enforcement, capital improvements, and partnering with
[30:37] regional agencies to make sure that those areas and those multifamily
[30:43] buildings are well maintained and good places for people to live as an
[30:47] important part of our duty as a municipality. Downtown mixed use, so downtown is
[30:55] This, you know, the great is already probably the most walkable part of the village, continuing
[31:00] to make it more walkable through continuing to maintain the apartment buildings we've added
[31:07] over the years, finding opportunities to add more density and places that make sense.
[31:14] One 11 busiest, of course, on the map here is a downtown development area, finding appropriate
[31:21] in fill and parcels like that is a goal of the plan to create a more life continually making
[31:27] an even more lifestyle type destination for the center of the village corridor commercial this
[31:35] might seem like an odd one yes so corridor commercial it might seem like odd an odd one to
[31:47] include in the housing and neighborhood section but residential uses are increasingly being proposed
[31:52] in auto-oriented commercial areas.
[31:56] I think the best example is the Duncan mixed use building,
[32:00] down on Elmhurst and Algonquin.
[32:02] They have apartments above their sort of strip-maltide development.
[32:07] We expect that they soon be more proposals like that in the coming years,
[32:11] especially with housing demands so high.
[32:14] So looking at ways to make those areas work more effectively
[32:21] what and having the chance to accommodate presidential uses like in the outlots of some of the
[32:27] shopping centers, for example, could be something that gets proposed in the next few years
[32:30] and something that might be worth considering.
[32:36] Finally, we have an incorporated evaluation on here. There's two small, unincorporated pockets.
[32:41] The map shows them in the purple hashing where the village would evaluate annexation in a case-by-case basis.
[32:48] This is a larger conversation that the plan does not answer, but, you know, recommends continuing to evaluate this and make a decision in the coming years.
[33:01] And actually have commercial and industrial.
[33:04] In downtown, again, we have a policy of continuing enhancement.
[33:08] Downtown has momentum already with completed mixed use projects and residential growth.
[33:13] the playing calls for sustained investment in those in ground floor retail restaurants, public
[33:19] realm improvements, just always finding ways to update any kind of infrastructure we have,
[33:26] so it's the best in the brightest and in-fill development on remaining underutilized parcels.
[33:33] In the commercial retail areas of Southbound Prospect,
[33:41] along Elang Elmhurst Golf and Elgonquin,
[33:43] the planning calls for supporting existing businesses and improving site conditions in the short
[33:47] term, supporting selective mixed-use redevelopment and strategic areas in the long term around
[33:53] the edges, along Rand Road and in Randhurst Village the planning calls for continuous stabilization
[34:01] and working proactively with Randhurst ownership toward improving the center with dining
[34:06] entertainment, all that kind of stuff in the neighborhood centers in central and North
[34:13] Mount Prospect, the plans for the continuing improvement of the small scale neighborhood
[34:18] commercial areas.
[34:19] You can see there are these circular intersections and nodes in different parts of the village
[34:29] where a more neighborhood focus to retail commercial may be a residential, it would have to
[34:36] the right project would potentially make sense.
[34:42] In the industrial areas, especially
[34:45] south-mount prospect, an all-in-west central road,
[34:48] the plant focus on retaining existing employers,
[34:51] and attracting more high-wage users.
[34:55] In the KVC, more transition into mixed business area,
[35:00] like we were talking about earlier.
[35:04] So for transportation and mobility,
[35:06] First big proposal is to adopt a daily quarter design guidelines, several corridors in Mount
[35:16] Prospect, like Omherinous Main, Central Busty Golf, O'Gong, Condemster Oaks, and Rand Wolf
[35:20] Euclid.
[35:22] They're governed by design standards that could potentially be improved.
[35:28] Updated specific guidelines for each corridor, perhaps full of our treatments, landscaping,
[35:34] traffic calming in residential areas, promoting positive landscaping and pedestrian access where
[35:43] it makes sense.
[35:47] Improved bike network routes, that's shown on this map here, based on the
[35:52] completed arterial bike network study. From I believe it's last year, 18 quarters are identified
[35:58] for side paths, shared abuse paths and on-street facilities, so basically carrying them when
[36:02] from that effort. There are several gaps in the sidewalk. Now work, we have a pretty built-out
[36:10] sidewalk network, but there's a few areas kind of generally identified in the purple circles
[36:17] there, where there's a lack of sidewalks, and it would be a best practice to add more sidewalks.
[36:24] I was talking to someone that lives in one of those areas and they love their sort of rural character.
[36:30] So, this is not to say that that one person's block needs to change is just as a general philosophy that we support sidewalks in the village.
[36:40] And that's articulate in the conference of plan if a sidewalk were to be proposed in that gentleman's neighborhood then it would go through a typical public review process and the conclusion maybe that a sidewalk is not the best thing to have there.
[36:54] But as a general policy, it's still something that, you know, the plane supports.
[37:04] Then we have Metro Station, Access Intermediates, the Plan Trees, the Metro Station,
[37:07] is the village's most valuable transit asset, calls for investing in bike parking, updated
[37:12] wayfinding, lighting, pedestrian connections, and advocacy with Metro for better off-peak
[37:19] and weekend trains running.
[37:20] And ask you a question about the bike trails before we get too far, is that there's any.
[37:30] Plan to connect the north section with the south section. It looks like there's no connection.
[37:37] So we proposed a few ideas on those lines, and public works basically told us to go with the archirol bike route.
[37:45] Now work in the planning process that they went through for that. I think for a lot of people.
[37:51] So there's this existing bike route right here. You can see it in the brown.
[37:57] A lot of people use the neighborhood streets to get north and south, even though they don't
[38:02] have like a dedicated European style lane.
[38:05] They are still pretty bikeable with low traffic and everything.
[38:09] And so the general belief has been we don't need that type of full scale bike path going north and south.
[38:20] Let's see.
[38:21] One interesting thing in our we interviewed some transit agency representatives pace in their revision plan.
[38:32] They would like to introduce a pulse corridor along golf road that connects Mount Prospect to other municipalities in the sort of northern golf road corridor.
[38:44] That would include, like, 15 to 30 minute bus arrival times, which for pace is pretty frequent.
[38:52] And the plan generally supports that designation if they wanted to invest in, you know, great, stronger bus stops and things like that.
[38:59] That's something that would be considered in the future.
[39:05] Oh, and then we have everyone's favorite intersection.
[39:08] The Rand Kensington Elmhurst intersection.
[39:12] There's already a grant to improve that and so the plan basically supports that.
[39:18] And then there was the transit study that was finished last year, which includes micro transit,
[39:24] connecting people to, you know, first mile last mile type things, which the, which I think is being worked on at the moment with Village staff.
[39:38] Community facilities.
[39:40] So, this is, you know, the most direct controlled area of the planning process, directly controlled by the village and other taxing bodies, it's this building, it's the public work facility, it's the parks maintained by the park district, it's our schools, it's all of these public facilities that end up being the centers of our community.
[40:05] And every comprehensive plan, basically the most basic objective we have in here is maintain
[40:09] these buildings.
[40:10] It's the kind of thing that gets put in here, it's something that the village is always
[40:15] working on and something we will continue to do, I'm sure, and the plan supports that.
[40:31] Let's see, you're talking about,
[40:41] oh, down here?
[40:42] That's the reason that there are reference in the blue square designation, Lincoln, and
[40:48] is because they had those recent referendum projects approved, this is the edge of reinvestments
[40:54] and the plan is just recognizing and supportive of those reinvestments.
[40:59] Yep.
[41:04] I think probably the most interesting part of this chapter is the new Village Resource Center.
[41:12] There's the Community Connection Center which has been in South Mount Prospect for many years now,
[41:17] which is a co-located facility that has operated with the
[41:21] a public library where residents can come and get resources and meet and relax and do things
[41:28] like that.
[41:28] And so this is kind of taking that concept to the next level.
[41:32] The village purchased this building on Algonquin and the process of converting it into a larger community
[41:42] center down there.
[41:45] Yeah, it's right here.
[41:52] yes, the little orange icon there.
[41:58] One thing that I thought was interesting a lot of
[42:00] during our planning process here we there was a lot of talk of like more spaces for teens
[42:04] and kids to hang out seems like there's kind of a gap there in society today and so for
[42:12] families living in South Monroe Prospect this is a great opportunity to add like a third space
[42:16] the place where you know they can go and work on homework or play video games or relax or
[42:23] something along those lines I think could come out of this community resource center and we're
[42:28] interested to see how that plays out. Is there any outdoor space connected to that?
[42:37] You know, I don't know. I think it is they work through it. They'll probably come up with
[42:41] drawing something like that. I imagine there'll be something.
[42:50] And then the last chapter before
[42:51] implementation is parks and environment. First goal of parks is similar to community facilities.
[42:57] is just maintenance.
[42:59] Park system already serves most residents pretty well.
[43:03] Most people live within a quarter mile or so of a park,
[43:07] and the first priority is proactive maintenance of those,
[43:11] by continually supporting upgrades to amenities,
[43:13] improving ADA accessibility and keeping facilities functional as they age.
[43:18] The park districts obviously run these facilities,
[43:24] and as a village we our role is basically to support that if there's opportunities to partner with them on something and an improvement
[43:31] it could be considered in the future but we've shared this document with leadership of the park district and they were all supportive of it
[43:40] One of the more interesting ideas was we talked about creek improvements
[43:45] So we have a, we have a Weller Creek and McDonald Creek and Higgins Creek.
[43:58] There are some parks along Weller Creek.
[44:00] We want to, the plan for poses, not just having them be drainage corridors but also having
[44:07] them be actual amenities that connect the parks together is a long term project over the
[44:11] next 5 to 10 years building a more interconnected park system.
[44:15] That makes a lot of sense at Waller Creek as well as McDonald's Creek on the north side.
[44:20] The one in the south side, Higgins Creek goes through a large industrial area, so that would be more of, you know, improved as a drainage corridor, public works access to put this on here.
[44:31] Then we have, like Jason mentioned, the lines from El Park improvements are also shown on here.
[44:37] It's basically just continually supporting those.
[44:41] And then we have, we identified a few areas, so if you see this, our Park Access map, we did a buffer analysis of all the parks in the village, and you can see how most of the community.
[45:00] The committee does quite well, but there are areas that are less served than others. And we basically took those and identified the areas where it might make sense to invest in another park in the coming decades.
[45:13] So if a parcel opens up, if somebody wants to sell their house to the park district and build a park, if it could be any number of situations to add a new community space in one of those areas, it could be a thing that makes sense.
[45:30] Uh, further distance. Yeah, so if you're, I think like a, you know, a half mile is like supposed to be about a 10-minute walk.
[45:38] Um, and a quarter miles, five-minute walk. So most people are within a walking distance-ish, but a lot of people are not walking to the parks in the neighborhood.
[45:48] And so just adding more facilities, more saturation is a long-term goal of the village.
[45:54] in the plane.
[45:58] And then we get to implementation. So having said all of that, we broke down the
[46:03] plan into 153 actions, which is all detailed in the back of the report here. They are broken
[46:14] down into short-term priorities, which is 1 to 4 years, long-term priorities, which is 5 plus
[46:20] that should say 5 plus. And then ongoing is things that we is staff or is a village do
[46:29] on a day-to-day basis, which a lot of these kinds of proposals are ongoing for proposals
[46:36] things that we support as time goes on. So you'll see the implementation in the matrix isn't
[46:42] the back is very detailed. It's broken down into a few different sections. We have one,
[46:51] there's a different color for every chapter. You can kind of see that on here. Yellow represents
[46:58] commercial industrial transportation's purple. There's the legend as at the top of every page.
[47:06] And then in the short-term actions, for example, we have identified sub-area plane candidates,
[47:12] which is something I talked about earlier, that goes with goal 1 policy 8A in the plan, so you
[47:19] can kind of flip back and forth. The action is identify so very plain candidates. It's in
[47:25] the land use chapter. The most likely lead would be community development staff, and then the partners
[47:32] would be potentially board members and the PZ Commission you guys. So if we do a plain process in
[47:40] future, we would loop you in on that. And it's the same kind of approach for all the other
[47:46] policies in the plan.
[47:51] So we'll have questions in comments now. And then we're ideally working
[47:57] towards a village board meeting in September. So with that, do you guys have any questions?
[48:02] I have fun.
[48:04] I'm glad to.
[48:05] I'm comfortable.
[48:06] I want to.
[48:06] It's my easy one.
[48:07] Correct.
[48:08] If you could go to page 15, please.
[48:11] Of the plan?
[48:12] Yes.
[48:15] I just wanted to talk a little bit about
[48:18] streetscape, universal design,
[48:21] and those nodes of commercial activities,
[48:24] just as a principle.
[48:29] Because of the computer switch, I don't have the plan on this computer.
[48:33] I'm sorry, when you say page 15, do you mean the planned document itself?
[48:37] Yeah, I love his slideshow.
[48:38] Oh, at this slide show.
[48:40] Sorry.
[48:42] That's okay.
[48:44] I'll tell you, because this sort of heart attack to Kensington and Wolf and that development
[48:50] that was on that corner, self was corner, everything, every time I see a corner
[48:58] or a node in a community, I feel as if it's announcing a place of Mount Prospect and should
[49:06] be treated to a different caliber than the rest.
[49:11] So again, sort of focusing on Kensington and Wolves, and I appreciate sort of identifying
[49:18] these commercial nodes that sort of announce some, you know, a better intention for that space
[49:26] for people to stop and see what's going on.
[49:29] So is there a way of implementing the zoning to address that?
[49:35] Or how is that going to be implemented?
[49:37] So a lot of the zoning for these types of commercial uses
[49:41] in this area are already in place.
[49:43] And we just have to massage developments.
[49:47] They come around to be more attractive or welcoming
[49:52] or, you know, what you're describing,
[49:57] it's possible that some areas would require a zone
[50:00] change. I don't know. I'm just speaking generally here. If that's the case, then we would
[50:05] have to go through a public process and we could add any kinds of conditions that we needed
[50:10] for prospective developer. Then I do realize that some of these rows are state, not no
[50:17] But are there any streetscape standards that could, again, announce that you're entering a different space in a different place?
[50:28] I see other wealthier communities that have state roads that have planted mediums and trees.
[50:35] like golf road, I thought was a missed opportunity, ran road, I thought was a missed opportunity
[50:42] with painted out minions instead of tree to mediums, and thinking about making, we're
[50:49] heading towards making these roads more universally accessible to pedestrians bikes and cars.
[50:57] But is there any thoughts on sort of pushing more of that presence that you're entering into a
[51:05] And yeah, that is identified in the transportation
[51:09] chapter as coming up with updated streetscape design guidelines
[51:14] for our major corridors.
[51:16] So for example, central road, it could
[51:18] be considered to find a boulevardize it at street trees
[51:25] and more crosswalks.
[51:26] And find ways to slow traffic there.
[51:28] I know a lot of residents get frustrated
[51:29] about the speed of traffic on central.
[51:31] It could potentially be a plan, an idea to do something like that.
[51:38] So the plan does support that in the abstract in general.
[51:44] And I think if these sub-area plans are taking on in the coming years,
[51:50] it would be a chance to get really drilled down on the specifics of the design.
[51:54] Does Mount Prospect have a planned target for growth?
[52:02] As I'm looking at this plan from ability, is it in fact sure the one that's in Prospect
[52:08] heights the transition that's also touching Mount Prospect?
[52:12] So are there any joint meetings with Prospect heights of developing that as a transit zone
[52:21] and identifying a space like that.
[52:24] We've had some residents reach out to us asking about that kind of thing.
[52:28] But so far it's been...
[52:30] More consideration. Jason, do you have any prospectites?
[52:35] Yeah, I know we've had no meetings with prospectites. The train station itself is wholly located in prospectites.
[52:43] The portions of the village adjacent to it are, you know, single-family home residential neighborhoods.
[52:49] The closest area that, you know, would be a little more commercial in nature.
[52:54] would be south, down, down Euclid,
[52:58] or I'm sorry, down we'll throw it out as you get to Euclid,
[53:01] which does have commercial development.
[53:05] You know, there's generally speaking some commercial and park
[53:09] uses there.
[53:12] You know, that's where what the trail's park is.
[53:16] So, you know, maybe there's opportunities there.
[53:19] I believe the Future Lane East map would designate
[53:22] area as neighbor and commercial, which does allow for, at least at a small scale, the introduction
[53:28] of residential, as part of a mixed use development. But again, on very small sort of neighborhood
[53:34] scale. So, but the future of any second designation does allow that flexibility. And then
[53:42] the other thing I would say is the state recently passed the People of a Parking Act, which basically
[53:47] It does away with all parking requirements for properties within a half mile of those transportation
[53:54] hubs.
[53:56] So, you know, any new commercial project in prospect heights that would be mixed use would not
[54:00] be subject to that.
[54:02] Obviously, you know, if they happen to be something in that prospect that was close to the
[54:05] trade station as well, it would also not be subject to that.
[54:08] So, the other way of identifying is swimming down the size of the units and it's great that
[54:14] They're putting some relief on parking because usually it's a car, a bed room, and
[54:22] a lot of times we don't have that many cars that live in the downtown area.
[54:28] But the scale of the spaces that have been built, I think maybe some have been built to
[54:34] smaller apartment sizes to encourage more affordable housing in the center area, has
[54:40] that's been incorporated in that?
[54:42] No, there's no, so this document, again,
[54:46] is really much more high-level than that.
[54:49] That document, what you're talking about,
[54:51] where you're actually changing codified code language,
[54:55] would be a future zoning tax amendment,
[54:57] versus the villages comprehensive plan
[55:00] is much more high-level.
[55:01] It sets more of the long range vision for the community
[55:04] and calls for several supplemental plans
[55:07] to be developed, where perhaps they could call for things like that, as part of a future
[55:16] sub-area plan, or future zoning code tax amendments, but the comprehensive plane itself
[55:21] is not a codified document, it's not altered code, it's more of a high-level policy document
[55:30] that sets the vision for the village.
[55:31] So just a general goal for growth, is there a goal that the villages looking at for growth in the community are they planning to maintain the current population?
[55:44] So I mean, you know, there's not like an outright plan for growth or a goal to continue growing.
[55:53] really, you know, at a fundamental level, the village is more or less land-locked.
[55:58] There's only two very minor, the small areas that would even be potential opportunities for annexation, the Charlie touched on.
[56:07] So really, and everything else that you'd be talking about as far as growing or expanding the population,
[56:13] that would all come through redevelopment of existing properties.
[56:16] We did identify 51 potential opportunity sites in the village for potential redevelopment that we believe that the current use is not the highest in best use of that property.
[56:28] But again, those are all private property that are all privately held.
[56:33] So, you know, they may be redeveloped at some point over the next decade, they may not be.
[56:38] You know, it's really unknown at this point.
[56:40] Now, the plan does cover the fact that we can't go out,
[56:43] the only way we're going to get is go up.
[56:46] And the way one thing was in the plan was to do the commercial
[56:49] first four residential bugs on the strip poles
[56:52] as a way to increase the number of units within the village.
[56:57] But there's a lot of resistance to tearing down
[57:00] single family homes and building up.
[57:03] So there's a very limited amount that we're going to be able to increase
[57:07] and health, we aren't the goal for it.
[57:10] It's just, we have an opportunity.
[57:11] I know one of the things that I was mentioned was having
[57:17] housing stock, whichever way it might be, kind of,
[57:20] minimums, town homes, single family homes,
[57:22] or whatever, that would be better suited for more.
[57:25] And more accessible to entry level home buyers, which is,
[57:29] like we're talking about maybe going up rather than out,
[57:32] because we can't go out.
[57:33] I mean, is that incorporated into this a little bit
[57:35] in terms of the vision, do we have any kind of physical
[57:37] So, thoughts of where those kind of, I don't know, improvements growth, what I'm going to
[57:44] call it, would take place, I know we were here when this plan was kind of, had the community
[57:51] the whole, and there were some people who kind of upset about, well I don't want this next
[57:54] to my single family home or whatever, how do we, how do we, what I would say is the best
[57:59] do identify areas where perhaps, you know, there may be, it may be appropriate to add additional
[58:07] residential density, is to really do two things, which is, you sort of evaluate the, the
[58:14] opportunity sites map and the 51 sites that are identified as opportunity sites, and then you
[58:19] look at, of those opportunity sites, what is their future land use designation and does that
[58:29] is it downtown mixed use residential or obviously that's going to be much more dense in nature
[58:34] or potentially, you know, could be, you know, because everything has to still go through
[58:40] a village process to formally review and improve those projects.
[58:44] But theoretically staff and the village board would be more open to more dense projects
[58:48] on properties with the downtown mixed use future land use guide designation or the neighborhood
[58:54] center or the corridor mixed use commercial, you know, land use designations and instead of,
[59:00] you know, just the neighborhood sort of family designation.
[59:05] Do you see parcels big enough to be able to do that and those kind of those targeted
[59:10] 50 or whatever it is?
[59:12] They're a place there.
[59:14] Yes.
[59:14] I know the focus lately has been on 111 busseys since the villages purchase of that property
[59:18] last year and it obviously being within the property
[59:23] the prospect and main tip district, what I would say is that while that is perhaps the most visible
[59:31] marquee property there's left to be developed there are still some great opportunities for development projects
[59:38] in downtown my prospect and really across my prospect. And I think sort of symbolic of that is this last
[59:48] year's approval of the redevelopment of 301 LaSalle that makes use projects that added.
[1:00:00] 60 apartments above 1st floor, commercial 10,000 square feet of commercial on Elmer's road, just north of Elmer's, and Elgonquin, at Elmer's, Elgonquin, the year before that, you also had the Dunkin mixed building, which is now, you know, just this week going for final approvals on its apartments occupancy inspections. So there are opportunities across Mount Prospect, not across Mount Prospect, not just downtown. So yes, we believe that there's plenty of opportunity for that.
[1:00:35] Anyone else have a question?
[1:00:38] No.
[1:00:40] Thank you.
[1:00:41] Just have a few comments.
[1:00:44] So I'm going to talk to you after we close,
[1:00:47] or you want the comments before we close.
[1:00:50] Does it really matter?
[1:00:52] Okay.
[1:00:53] Are you here to address the case?
[1:00:55] Are you here to address the case?
[1:00:58] Yes.
[1:00:59] I think it's the best.
[1:01:06] So we're just talking about all the developmental opportunities that have been identified
[1:01:12] but from different meetings, it seems the residents really want green spaces somewhere.
[1:01:20] From this plan, I don't see any type of like we might identify this areas of green space.
[1:01:29] They're almost like the residential areas, they're almost there, so it's kind of wondering
[1:01:36] like, are you guys going to vote a plan for future green spaces?
[1:01:41] I know that you don't have to pay taxes, so that's sort of a little more of a complicated
[1:01:48] answer.
[1:01:50] So, as you know, the village by and large does not own operate or maintain park space in the
[1:01:59] partnership with our local park districts. You know, as opportunities arise, we have partnered
[1:02:06] on projects before, we're partnering right now with the Mount Prospect Park District on improvements
[1:02:13] to both the Red Plus and Lions Memorial Park. You know, that is, I think, more of a budgetary
[1:02:20] question for them in a lot of ways, but it is something that we would be very supportive of,
[1:02:25] in creation of additional green space.
[1:02:27] The popular one was a village project, okay?
[1:02:30] I'm sorry.
[1:02:31] The pocket park across the street?
[1:02:32] Yeah, yeah.
[1:02:33] We do have various limited examples of village on parks.
[1:02:37] Everyone in all sea main bussy park across the street,
[1:02:40] mailing park, right next to cap in areas.
[1:02:42] There are a couple of examples with buy and large.
[1:02:44] That is not an area of business that we sort of delve into.
[1:02:49] But this map that's on the screen does show
[1:02:52] that we would be supportive of the creation
[1:02:54] parks in those areas. If it does not go so far as to identify individual parcels where
[1:03:01] that may be or could take place, because as you said, a lot of those are just in single
[1:03:06] family homes. So, you know, what are the circumstances where a park could be created?
[1:03:12] Those would have to be pretty unique circumstances.
[1:03:14] I'm in the middle of one of the circles, so I'll tell you there. You get to care
[1:03:18] I don't think I can get home to create a park, I mean.
[1:03:22] All of those are, that's what you have to do.
[1:03:25] I mean, I tell you my story, but I mean, I'm sure, I'm looking down this one, and I think it's true with every one of them is, we don't have to open land to do this, that that we won't be able to sometime in the future look at that.
[1:03:39] And then you are right, I mean, when I go to a park, I drive because I don't have a park within quarter mile in my house, so I tend to drive to the park.
[1:03:49] Yeah, I mean, so it would probably come in the form.
[1:03:52] If I had to guess someone's house goes for sale and a governmental body decides to pursue
[1:03:58] a purchase at that in order to save all of it into a park space, it wouldn't be like we're
[1:04:02] going to go to your house and put a notice on your door and say, it's going to be a park next
[1:04:05] week.
[1:04:07] Yeah, I'm just going by.
[1:04:09] It seems almost universal that the residents want some type of more green space.
[1:04:14] Never in school, so I was wondering if there was more.
[1:04:17] What's this moment of point?
[1:04:19] The second case was missing, I justified the 80 properties for potential redevelopment.
[1:04:27] There were some graph lots on there.
[1:04:31] Yeah, I mean, there's grass lots there, but none of those that were contemplated, none of those
[1:04:39] that were identified.
[1:04:39] It was necessarily a contemplated that they would be identified as a park.
[1:04:44] it wasn't necessarily contemplated that, you know, they would be like a mixed use project
[1:04:51] or residential project, we're just saying that, you know, a lot of these properties that
[1:04:56] are identified as upper G sites are not operating as the highest in best use. Some of them
[1:05:01] are lacking investment, like a reinvestment, some of them are grasslots, some of them are vacant,
[1:05:06] some of them are a number of different circumstances. Some of them could be turned into parts,
[1:05:10] that could always be an alternative for some of them.
[1:05:12] I mean, if we could compare the opportunity site map with, you know, the map, where you
[1:05:19] have the circles for potential park areas, I wonder if some of those would be nearby or
[1:05:24] line up, you know, I'd like to put some of these maps side by side and see if we can find
[1:05:31] any correlations.
[1:05:33] So I think what you're describing is a great idea, and I also think it goes beyond the scope
[1:05:38] or deeper than what the comprehensive plan is meant to do.
[1:05:41] So that's like the next step, basically.
[1:05:43] Yeah, that would be, so we have these sub-area plans.
[1:05:47] You know, we could expand the boundaries.
[1:05:49] If we see fit or change them in some way, it would just be a public process.
[1:05:53] But in a situation like that, identifying this vacant parcel, we could say,
[1:05:58] this is right in the middle of the neighborhood.
[1:06:00] It's vacant.
[1:06:01] It would be a perfect park.
[1:06:03] But it would just take more thought than the comprehensive plain contemplates.
[1:06:06] One thing I did notice about my neighborhood is,
[1:06:08] We have two schools that have open green space that kids could play in and they're not listed as parks.
[1:06:19] But it is open green space.
[1:06:22] So should we augment that?
[1:06:23] There's all sorts of ways to introduce sort of park-like features.
[1:06:29] Whether it's in passive stormwater features as well.
[1:06:32] just passive walkways, paths, walking space, other areas that are, you know, treated as parks
[1:06:40] or utilizes open space, but necessarily aren't designated as that.
[1:06:45] So, you know, there's a number of ways where parks and green space sort of come to fruition
[1:06:49] over time.
[1:06:50] It's just really, you know, this document says we would support the creation of that green space
[1:06:55] in these areas.
[1:06:56] But to say, you have the green space there.
[1:06:59] So the school here is a whole big green space next to it,
[1:07:03] that the kids play in, but it's not shown on the map
[1:07:05] as green space because it's a school.
[1:07:10] But it's green space.
[1:07:11] And so that would probably come up when?
[1:07:14] Yeah, you just defined parks.
[1:07:16] You didn't define the other green space there.
[1:07:18] We happened to have.
[1:07:20] It's okay.
[1:07:22] It's okay.
[1:07:24] We like to hear what you have to ask.
[1:07:25] .
[1:07:26] .
[1:07:30] Okay, my name is Sue Ellenberger, and I live on the south side of my prospect. Very good.
[1:07:35] Close to the HQ Center. Okay, and what's your question?
[1:07:40] And we're all just a little bit worried about the noise and the water and all that.
[1:07:47] And in the paper this morning, it's said about the data centers getting these text incentives.
[1:07:56] Okay, I don't know.
[1:07:58] To build there, they get the text incentives and then our property taxes are going up
[1:08:03] because somebody has to pay for the incentives that they're given.
[1:08:11] So I don't know, I just was curious as to, you know, your thoughts on that?
[1:08:16] Okay, so I'll say two things.
[1:08:19] That's a non-agenda item so we could talk about that before on a non-agenda items in the other side
[1:08:25] I'm not sure I mean we're we're the zoning board. I mean we don't we don't know anything about any tips. That's the village board
[1:08:33] So we we don't
[1:08:35] I mean when they did the presentation for the data center that was in part of our discussion because we're in zoning and zoning rules
[1:08:43] So so that we're to wipe ring that up yet the village board is where you want to talk about
[1:08:47] Okay, thank you.
[1:08:49] Don't be very welcome.
[1:08:52] Okay, any other questions for staff?
[1:08:58] Okay, see you in the next.
[1:09:00] I'll make a motion that we approve the
[1:09:02] the strategic plan for staff support.
[1:09:09] Okay, we have a motion in a second.
[1:09:11] Any discussion?
[1:09:14] I'll just get your question answered.
[1:09:16] Yeah, oh, I just have some comments.
[1:09:19] Yeah, this is the time for the comments.
[1:09:21] Yeah, so I'm paid 103.
[1:09:22] I appreciate that you guys on that map regarding stormwater and potential for flooding.
[1:09:30] You guys listed as 1% annual chance of flood hazard, which is a good way to ward it as opposed to, you know, the hundred-year storm, which is a very misleading term that I don't know why they invented that.
[1:09:43] People, it misleads people, so thank you for wording that more clearly for our residents.
[1:09:52] And then I wanted to say about the public art that's in here, I've heard a lot of feedback
[1:09:57] from folks that are in support of it, and I guess they're doing something similar in
[1:10:04] displayings right now, so people have kind of noticed that, and are excited about it.
[1:10:11] And then just kind of on a personal note over the summer revocation, and the same were
[1:10:16] had a lot of public murals in this neighborhood and they publish a map of
[1:10:21] where all the murals are and it's a big touristy thing. People go from
[1:10:24] mural to mural and take pictures and post a mental media and it's a big
[1:10:30] draw. So that's my comment on the public arts. So I know this is a very high-level
[1:10:38] plan and it mentions sustainable design standards. So I just want to say that
[1:10:43] very looking forward to hearing more details about the sustainable design standards and getting
[1:10:51] those into the code. So I'm very much looking forward to that. And then I wanted to comment
[1:10:58] the table that you sent us earlier this week with the list. It just really drove home to me
[1:11:05] looking through that list how many of these items are related to each other. For instance, the
[1:11:12] sustainability design standards, you know, the energy line, you know, 40.H is related to
[1:11:20] is related to sustainability. So is, you know, the reuse, 40.I, that's all related to sustainability.
[1:11:28] So, and you know, there are other things also that are kind of related to each other,
[1:11:31] even though they're categorized differently.
[1:11:36] So, I don't know if it will be useful to put that,
[1:11:40] But the table isn't in the report.
[1:11:42] I don't know if there's some way to index that,
[1:11:45] or maybe people can just figure that out from the table.
[1:11:47] But that was very helpful.
[1:11:56] I like that map with the parks because there are a lot of parents
[1:12:02] that make it school to live on the south side of Mt. Crossback.
[1:12:05] And they are very eager to see more parks on the south side
[1:12:08] of Mt. Crossback.
[1:12:09] So I just wanted to relate that from the community as well.
[1:12:12] I think those are my comments, so thank you very much and I'm excited to see these plans come to fruition.
[1:12:22] Thank you.
[1:12:23] Yep.
[1:12:24] I think it's very wonderful job.
[1:12:28] Okay.
[1:12:28] Seeing no more discussion.
[1:12:31] We have motion in the second.
[1:12:32] Let's go for a roll call.
[1:12:36] I'm sorry.
[1:12:37] I'm a bad narrator.
[1:12:38] Can I get one more review of who made the motion that he's seconded?
[1:12:44] I think I made it.
[1:12:45] I will put faith down for the motion, and who's our second?
[1:12:50] Second.
[1:12:50] All right.
[1:12:51] Thank you.
[1:12:54] Commissioner Simset.
[1:12:55] Hi.
[1:12:57] Commissioner Weir.
[1:12:57] Hi.
[1:12:58] Commissioner Beatty.
[1:13:00] Commissioner Fakano.
[1:13:02] Commissioner Costa.
[1:13:04] Hi.
[1:13:05] And Chairman Donnelly.
[1:13:06] Hi.
[1:13:06] So you have positive recommendation to the bully court.
[1:13:10] All right.
[1:13:11] Thank you.
[1:13:13] Wonderful job.
[1:13:14] Thank you.
[1:13:15] Okay, uh, citizens here to be heard for not agenda items, do you know anything else?
[1:13:21] Or us? Okay, it's nothing. Well, I'll make a motion to adjourn.
[1:13:25] Oh, move.
[1:13:26] Second, all of favor?
[1:13:27] Hi, we're adjourned. Thank you.