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Crest Hill planners start comprehensive‑plan update; residents flag water, downtown and Broadway as top priorities
Summary
Consultants and the Crest Hill Planning Commission launched an audit‑and‑update of the city’s 2014 comprehensive plan on March 9, collecting about 33 issues from commissioners and residents who prioritized keeping water costs down, creating a downtown gathering space and redeveloping Broadway/Route 30.
Crest Hill planners and commissioners opened a special March 9 meeting to begin an audit‑and‑update of the city’s 2014 comprehensive plan. Josh Kuntz, a planner with House Levine, told the group the update will be a targeted process using current demographic data, public outreach and an implementation strategy rather than an automatic full rewrite.
"We're gonna spend most of the evening on a listening session workshop exercise," Kuntz said as staff outlined a roughly six‑to‑eight month timeline for establishing priorities, drafting updates and holding a public open house.
Mitch, the workshop facilitator, guided a round‑robin exercise in which about two dozen commissioners and residents named the community's top concerns. Participants produced a list of about 33 issues that the project team will incorporate into outreach…
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