08/16/2010 Meeting Minutes - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

Regular Council Meeting Minutes 8-16-10 Page 11 Plaruling and Zoning and Council. Voters approved that change. The market struck in the middle of that development, so it's been stalled. You notice the townhomes that are just north of Fisher's Tavern. The Village purchased adjacent to it the streamlands to the south, roughly a 4%2-5 acre site. A lot of the property that the Village has purchased, the wetlands, we acquired that at the time that Progressive built its north Campus. The lands in front of Progressive, south of Progressive, most of the frontage on the west side of SOM Center Road the Village has acquired because it's either undeveloped or it's residentially predominantly or we could assemble it for our parklands. So I would say by far and away most of the property that we've owned we have purchased for either passive or active open space areas. The park next to you, the 10-acre area, is another example of that. We acquired that from the County. That was one of the first large acquisitions we made. The property, and you said 15 acres, I tliink it's more like 55 that Progressive purchased from The Goldberg Companies, that's the chunk of land that's immediately north of the houses on Highland Road, in their backyards. We ended up using eminent domain and it's the only time we've acquired a full property by way of eminent domain, the Costanzo properly where the old kind of horse barn structure is located. We acquired that at the time for a two-fold purpose. To expand parklands and to promote the economic development that we were told was coming in for Campus 3. As everyone now knows, Campus 3 is not going in. We still own that parcel of land, most of it. It's about right around 7 acres. It's a split-zoned rectangular piece of property. We own a number of other properties in the area around the Beecher's Brook across from Fisher's Tavern, again to acquire parkland area. In places where there a.re older houses, we have acquired properties because we are looking for improvements like Raleigh Drive. We purchased a double lot that had a house. We tore that house down in order to create a relocated Raleigh Drive. I think everyone has seen that. We created really a pocket part right there, that "S" curve across from Beta. We've acquired the property immediately next door and the people who live there will reside there as long as time will let them and at some point the Village will likely tear that property down so that we have more balanced greenspace around that intersection. For the most part, the properties we have acquired have either been related to some Type of infrastructure improvement along our greenway area for our parklands or areas that are strategic. The property that you are in tonight was one where unbeknownst to us the Church had decided to move out. We knew that this was a property that would become commercially zoned. It was done so at the time that we had all those drugstore wars and we knew Walgreen's or somebody else was going to want to acquire it and we purchased this properiy for that purpose. So I think when you look through, it's roughly 150 plus acres altogether, the properties that we have owned, we have utilized largely for either zoning control, overall land use for infrastructure, stormwater management, or for park systems. Mrs. Triner stated, which is very helpful. Thank you and I don't know if there is anything that does say like you were talking about with the 7 or 8 acres that, whether there's any plan for that.