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Shorewood committee says corner lots will be billed a 40-foot minimum for streetlight charge
Summary
The Public Works Committee directed that corner lots be charged based on the shorter street frontage but with a minimum billing width of 40 feet. The committee reached unanimous agreement and asked residents to contact village staff with questions.
The Shorewood Public Works Committee directed staff to charge corner lots a minimum of 40 feet of frontage when calculating the municipal streetlight charge, the committee said at the start of its meeting.
A committee member summarized the action, saying, "It was the board's or the committee's direction that we would, recommend a minimum of 40 foot, frontage to be charged for the street lighting, charge." The committee clarified that the shorter of the two lot frontages will be used to determine the frontage assessed, but that any result under 40 feet will be billed as 40 feet.
The directive was presented as a motion to move forward with the amendment and was described in the meeting as a unanimous decision of the committee. The committee apologized that the earlier portion of the meeting was not recorded and directed residents with questions to contact village manager Ewol or Trustee Arthur Ursink.
The committee's guidance focuses on implementation detail for an amendment already under discussion: how to measure and bill corner lots. The decision does not itself change fixture types or brightness; it is a billing determination tied to a pending ordinance amendment. The committee did not at the meeting set a final effective date for the billing change.
Residents with procedural or billing questions were directed to village staff for follow-up. The committee provided no other changes to the streetlight ordinance during the recorded discussion.
