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Commission backs rezoning, special-use recommendation for 309-unit South Milwaukee Avenue project
Summary
Connor Commercial Real Estate presented plans for a 309-unit rental community on 9 acres at 13–73 S. Milwaukee Ave.; the commission recommended rezoning to R‑7 and approved a PUD/special-use recommendation and a waiver of preliminary plat requirements subject to technical conditions, with one commissioner dissenting on the special-use vote.
The Vernon Hills Planning & Zoning Commission voted to recommend rezoning and to support a special-use planned-unit development for a large multifamily proposal on roughly nine acres at 13–73 South Milwaukee Avenue, but the special-use recommendation drew one dissent.
Developer Michael Fosone of Connor Commercial Real Estate described the project as a rental community with 309 units (the team said 291 apartments and 18 townhomes) in a wrap-style building with a parking garage. The applicant said the parcels had been in the founder’s ownership for over 20 years and the project evolved from prior proposals; Connor said the site is being designed both to connect to a future traffic signal and to function if an easement or acquisition across an intervening parcel (the locally referenced "Honey House" lot) does not materialize.
Key relief requested: the applicant sought rezoning from R‑1…
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