Board tables Villas of Hidden Valley Planned Unit Development after resident concerns about density, park site

The Village Board of Trustees on Wednesday voted to table consideration of a Planned Unit Development (PUD) application for the Villas of Hidden Valley after residents raised concerns about the number and appearance of units and about a proposed park location next to 150th Street.

Why it matters: The proposal would rezone two parcels from local business (C-2) to an attached single-family residential district (R-6a) and create a 48-unit villa/townhome development on roughly 20 acres. Board members said they want more time to reconcile neighbors’ safety and amenity requests with the developer’s engineering constraints before acting.

Developer and resident concerns Jim Marth, the project’s developer, told the board the proposal includes roughly 2.3 units per acre (he described the project as below the ordinance limit), about 7.6 acres of open space plus an outlot for a park, and “we do offer 6 different elevations” to reduce the cookie‑cutter appearance residents criticized. Attorney Matthew (Matt) Klein spoke for the applicant during the meeting and said the…