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Roscoe board recommends approval of Main Street zoning text amendment
Summary
The village zoning board recommended approval of a text amendment to create two Main Street zoning districts, allow accessory dwelling and commercial accessory units, and set design, height and parking standards; the board voted unanimously to forward the amendment to the village board for final adoption.
The Roscoe Zoning Board of Appeals recommended approval of a text amendment to create two Main Street zoning districts and related design and parking standards after a public hearing at its meeting. The board voted to forward text amendment 20-25-021 to the village board for final adoption.
The amendment would establish a Main Street Core district intended for a more intensely developed, walkable downtown center and a Main Street Edge district to act as a transition to surrounding neighborhoods. Both districts would allow mixed-use buildings (retail or service on ground floors with housing above), multifamily housing, townhomes and accessory dwelling units (ADUs). The Core district would require a minimum of two stories and allow up to four stories (with upper-story stepbacks); the Edge district would allow up to three stories.
Planning consultant Jackie Mish, representing Vanderwell and Associates, told the board the proposal grows out of the village's Main Street blueprint and is meant to…
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