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Highwood council meeting roundup: minutes, warrants, zoning, tax levy and a seven-unit PUD approved
Summary
At its Nov. 18 meeting the council approved meeting minutes, the warrant list, two bond-levy abatements, the 2025 tax levy ordinance, zoning amendments, a special-use permit for a seven-unit planned development, and adjourned after deciding an executive session was not needed.
The City of Highwood City Council on Nov. 18 handled routine and substantive business, approving meeting minutes and financial warrants, abating levies for prior general-obligation bonds, adopting the 2025 tax levy ordinance, approving zoning amendments and a special-use permit/preliminary plan for a seven-unit planned unit development at 118 South Central Avenue, and adjourning without entering executive session.
Votes at a glance (all roll-call votes recorded as unanimous in the meeting transcript):
- Minutes (item 3.1): approved (aye unanimous). - Committee minutes (item 3.2): approved (aye unanimous). - Warrant list dated 11/18/2025 (item 5.1): approved (aye unanimous). - Ordinance abating levy for Series 2020 G.O. bond (item 11.1): approved (aye unanimous). - Ordinance abating levy for Series 2021 G.O. bond (item 11.2): approved (aye unanimous). - Ordinance for levy, collection and assessment of taxes for 2025 (item 11.3): approved (aye unanimous). - Amendments to zoning ordinance (item 11.4): approved (aye unanimous). - Special-use permit/preliminary PUD for 118 South Central Avenue (item 11.5): approved (aye unanimous). - Executive session (item 12): not needed; no action taken. - Adjournment (item 14): motion carried (aye unanimous).
The transcript records questions and brief explanations from staff on finance items and a short exchange on the seven-unit project; no public-comment controversy or executive-session action was recorded during this meeting.
