Committee Wants to Hire a Planner to Craft the Future Look and Feel of North York
"A North York plan will serve as a guide yet have enough flexibility to allow development to be market-driven," proposal says.
The time is right to put together a plan for the North York Road business district rather than react to a developer's ideas, Elmhurst officials said Monday night. The portion of North York that stretches from North Avenue to Grand Avenue includes a jumble of architectural styles and parcel sizes, with buildings in various stages of occupancy. Mariano's Fresh Market is well under way at York and Industrial Drive, with opening expected by early summer. Aldermen know how that parcel is going to look, but what kind of character should the surrounding area have? Aldermen Dannee Polomsky (3rd Ward) and Kevin York (7th Ward) asked the Development, Planning and Zoning Committee late last year to begin setting up a framework for development in that…
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Daniel Caudy
9:21 pm on Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Hiring a planner is probably a good idea. Developing York Road north of Industrial Drive is a crazy idea. The elements of planning dictate that the area should be well organized and of a compatible nature. Nothing like that exists above Industrial Drive because no one in City Hall or the very unprofessional Development and Planning Committee took a real look at this area and made planning … more ›