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Neighbors and alumni urge council to keep student-only restriction as buyer seeks PUD change
Summary
At pre-council, speakers pressed the City of Joliet to resist amending a planned-unit development that restricts tenancy at a former Joliet Junior College housing complex to students and affiliates; applicant representatives said they plan to remove the restriction to allow broader rental occupancy and cited high current occupancy.
Allison Swisher and public-comment speakers set a cordial tone in the City of Joliet’s pre-council meeting, but the largest, most contentious discussion centered on a proposed amendment to a planned-unit development that had limited tenancy at a former Joliet Junior College (JJC) housing complex to students, families and JJC employees.
Bob Wunderlich, a longtime former trustee and board chair at Joliet Junior College, told the council he opposed changing the PUD to allow non-student renters, saying the restriction was negotiated to protect neighbors and students and that the rule had already been violated by the property’s current…
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