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Machesney Park committee backs variances, amends plan for mobile-home court at 9305 N. Second St.
Summary
The Planning and Economic Development Committee voted 3–2 to amend a staff-recommended condition and forward a variance and zoning-change recommendation for a longtime mobile-home court at 9305 N. Second St.; the applicant sought to allow 40 sites and reduced setbacks while staff stressed inspections and limits on increased density.
The Machesney Park Planning and Economic Development Committee voted on Nov. 3 to forward a package of variances and a zoning-map amendment for a mobile-home court at 9305 North Second Street to the full board with a positive recommendation, after amending staff’s condition to allow 40 sites.
Village planning staff told the committee the property on Rainbow Lane has been a preexisting, nonconforming mobile-home court since annexation in 1983 and that code performance standards — including a 25-foot setback from property boundaries, a 20-foot separation between units and a density requirement of 6,000 square feet per unit — make replacing or adding units impractical on the existing lots. "Staff is recommending…
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