School leaders urge Mundelein trustees to reopen Ivanhoe Village impact-fee talks after new state law

School officials and residents urged the Village of Mundelein Board of Trustees on Aug. 25 to reopen negotiations over the Ivanhoe Village planned unit development’s impact fees, saying the project will add significant enrollment pressure to local schools and that the village can revisit fees under recently enacted state law. Why it matters: Fremont School District 79 and Mundelein school officials said the development could bring roughly 750 additional K–8 students and that, under the current plan, much of the cost to accommodate that growth would fall on existing taxpayers. Gabriela Whipple, president of the Fremont School District 79 board of education, asked the trustees to “reopen negotiations before final approvals are made so that our students, our families, and our taxpayers aren’t left bearing a burden they did not create.” Whipple said the district and the village have consensus on one key fact: the development…