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Vernon Hills committee leans to keep conversion-certificate review but remove or restrict pilot payment-in-lieu provision
Summary
After a lengthy Committee of the Whole discussion, staff was directed to draft amendments that would retain the village's conversion-certificate review but eliminate or tightly define the pilot payment-in-lieu of sales tax provision, with a future public hearing planned.
Committee members spent an extended session reviewing the village's conversion-certificate program, created in 2010 to limit non-retail conversions in designated retail-overlay areas once more than 20% of space shifts away from retail. Staff described market changes and the program's effects on landlords and leasing; the village attorney warned the program's pilot payment-in-lieu provision could be legally arbitrary unless clear standards are added.
Director Jennings summarized options: minimally add standards for when a pilot would apply; increase…
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