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PCZBA backs Planned Mixed-Use Development at 570 Evanston Avenue with tree-replacement and fence conditions
Summary
The PCZBA voted to recommend the village board approve a text amendment and special-use PMD at 570 Evanston Avenue (Block 3) that would allow a four-unit condominium building taller than PMD limits, subject to a tree-replacement plan and final-plan specifics about a decorative fence and other details.
The Village of Lake Bluff Joint Plan Commission and Zoning Board of Appeals on April 16 voted to recommend the village board approve a zoning-text amendment and special-use permit to allow a Planned Mixed-Use Development (PMD) at 570 Evanston Avenue (Block 3), including modifications and variances to PMD/R4 standards.
Tom Dobbins, the project architect, told the commission the owners seek to develop a four-unit condominium building on a 14,250-square-foot parcel that comprises about 43 percent of Block 3. "If the village was not in favor of, at least conceptually, multifamily on the entire block, including the corner that we're referring to, which is 570 Evanston, we would not be here," Dobbins said, underscoring that the proposal was brought forward in the context of an established policy preference for…
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