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Riverwoods trustees delay action after residents cite health, nuisance concerns over outdoor burning
Summary
The Village of Riverwoods Board of Trustees did not adopt changes to its landscape-waste burning rules after more than a dozen residents described daily smoke, health effects and enforcement failures. Trustees and the fire chief discussed enforcement and public-safety tradeoffs; the item will return late February.
The Village of Riverwoods Board of Trustees declined to adopt the proposed ordinance amending rules on outdoor burning on Jan. 7 after lengthy public comment and trustee discussion. The board did not pass the draft ordinance and commissioners said they will take more time to review resident emails and enforcement options before returning to the item in late February.
Residents from multiple neighborhoods told the board the current rules allowed repeated, long-duration fires that had made their homes uninhabitable at times. “To your dismay, the progress our community made toward limiting outdoor burning last year was entirely undone in a single board meeting on Dec. 17,” resident Mag Retelewski said, reading a petition signed by more than 25 people. She cited health…
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