VILLAGE OF LONG GROVE
Long Grove Plan Commission
Chairman
present: Fred Phillips
Commissioners present: Ed Acuna, Michael Dvorak,
Nicholas Fasano, Robert Jenkins and Lisa Phillips
Commissioners Absent: Joseph Di
Iorio and Camy Gould
Also Present: Village Attorney Julie Tappendorf and Village
Planner
1. CALL TO ORDER
Chairman Fred Phillips
called the meeting to order at
2.
MINUTES OF
Commissioner
Dvorak was not present at the previous meeting and wanted to add his comments
into the minutes on the proposed day care center petition. He found option A more favorable but that a
scaled plan is important and that the foliage along Route 83 should be trimmed
so as to not interfere with ingress and egress.
There were changes made to
the draft meeting minutes from
3. Continued Public Hearing For a Text Amendment and Special
Use Permit to Operate a Day Care Center for Approximately 22 Children Within
the Existing Residence Located at 7155 RFD (Lot #29 Towner Subdivision), Submitted
by Dmitriy Makhovik.
The Petitioner had not
submitted the traffic study as requested by the Plan Commission and the
Petitioner had requested that this petition be tabled until the next regularly
scheduled meeting on
4. Public
Hearing for the Consideration of a Request for a Special Use to Permit an
Addition and any Additional Relief Necessary to Expand the Existing Fire
Protection Facility, located at 1165 Old McHenry Road, Submitted by SRBL on
Behalf of the Long Grove Fire Protection District.
Kelly Jameson of SRBL Architects introduced
the project. Ms. Jameson presented the
plans for the proposed addition and noted that it would provide a much better
elevation on the West side of the building as the façade itself was broken up
into smaller sections rather than one big imposing wall. She explained that the addition would extend
approximately 40 feet to the west of the present building.
Joe Rubel, a SRBL Partner, finished the
presentation by discussing the interior of the building and the layout of the
parking areas.
Norma Sayles, 1180 RFD, said she thought the addition was to
increase the number of bays to five for the Fire District rather than
increasing office and living space. She
is not in favor of this proposal at this location and would prefer the Route 83
location for a Fire District facility.
Chairman Fred Phillips stated that the Plan
Commission could not comment on the relocation of the Fire District because the
review of the Special Use application is the only Plan Commission mandate at
this time.
James Monroe, 1841 RFD, identified himself as the President of the
Fire District and explained the reasons for the much needed addition. He stated that maybe in the future there
would be a need for an additional satellite fire station but the Fire District
cannot afford to build a new station at this time. He stated that there is an approximate $3.5
million shortfall. The Fire District has
borrowed approximately $1.4 million and a new station would cost approximately
$5 million.
Gerald Ostick, 5109 RFD, asked what the value of the property
located at the intersections of Route 53 and Route 83 on the south side of the
Executive House was?
No one had the answer to this question.
Commissioner Acuna stated that he did not
have a problem with the planned addition proposal and feels that this request
does not eliminate the potential selling of this property in the future. He would be interested in the relocation of
the Fire Station if there is a buyer for the property, but as no buyer has come
forward at this time, he is in favor of the addition.
Commissioner Lisa Phillips stated that the
submitted plans were very detailed but she had a concern on the precedent set
by increasing the impervious area.
Village Attorney Tappendorf said the text
amendment in the R-2 district allows an increase in percent of impervious for
institutional uses only.
Commissioner Acuna stated after reviewing a
letter submitted to the Plan Commission that the Fire District collects
additional run-off water on site and re-uses it, and this might be a good
reason to justify such an increase in impervious lot coverage.
Attorney Tappendorf stated that a concern was
that if other petitioners could also capture water on-site, then this would be
a concern to the Village for authorizing an increase in impervious lot
coverage. Such an increase to impervious
lot coverage should be limited to institutional uses only.
Commissioner Acuna would like to include
verbiage in the proposed text amendment about containing water on-site.
Steve Triphahn of W-T Engineering, who is the
engineer working on this project, said the site lighting would involve moving
poles on the west side of the new addition further to the west of the lot. Other than this change, all the other
fixtures would remain the same.
Commissioner Lisa Phillips requested that the
applicant consider decorative streetlights such as those planned for the
downtown area. She also requested that
the existing dumpster should be enclosed.
Commissioner Acuna requested that some
landscaping be added to the east of the building, this would make an
improvement to buffering in this area, this was per a letter submitted by a
neighboring resident.
Commissioner Fasano stated that he prefers
the concept of the text amendment, he felt that it was important that no
precedent would be set. He stated that the
Plan Commission cannot deal with the relocation of the Fire District at this
time.
Commissioner Jenkins said the present Fire
District building was built for a volunteer department and should be updated
now that there is full-time staff at this location. He has no problem with the application and is
in favor of the proposal.
Commissioner Dvorak has very similar views to
the other commissioners.
Village Planner Cage explained the main staff
report issues were the lighting, landscaping, dumpster enclosure, parking and
impervious lot coverage. He read into
the record letters dated
Attorney Tappendorf stated that two separate
motions would be needed, one for the text amendment and one for the special use
permit.
Commissioner Lisa Phillips said she has a
concern about the text amendment not being referred to the Plan Commission by
the Village Board.
Norma Sayles asked if this means with this
approval, a private business can use this building?
Village Attorney Tappendorf said they would
have to bring this building into compliance.
Commissioner Lisa Phillips also asked for a
calculation of impervious surface area if the front and rear concrete drive
areas were returned to grass to insure the property could be brought back into
compliance should the Fire Station decide to move and sell the property to a
commercial entity.
Norma Sayles stated that she thought the Fire
District building will not be big enough.
Commissioner Lisa Phillips motioned to recommend
approval of a special use permit to (i) allow the proposed expansion of
the existing fire protection district facility, subject to the comments
contained in the updated staff report dated October 1, 2003, and (ii) allow the
fire protection district facility to exceed the maximum lot coverage
restrictions contained in Subsection 5-4-3-4(D) of the Zoning Code, but in no
event shall the facility exceed 46.9 percent of impervious surface area.
Commissioner Jenkins seconded, ayes all.
no nays. Motion carried.
Village staff were directed to address all
the outstanding details and plan revisions with the petitioner including
landscaping, dumpster enclosure, lighting, etc prior to the next Village Board
meeting.
Meeting ended at
5. Other Business.
No other business was discussed.
6. Adjournment:
Next
Regular Meeting,
Next Special Meeting,
Motion to adjourn by
Commissioner Jenkins, seconded by Commissioner Lisa Phillips. Ayes, all.
Nays, none, motion carried.
Meeting adjourned at
Respectfully submitted by,
Village Planner
Village of Long Grove