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Planning committee advances variances, rezoning, special-use permit and subdivision plat to April 20 board meeting
Summary
The Machesney Park Planning and Economic Development Committee on April 6 recommended that the board consider a floodplain compensatory-storage variance, a zoning change to allow single-family infill on Darwin Drive, a special-use permit for auto sales on Harlem Road, and a three-lot plat in the Vanderway subdivision; all items were forwarded with positive recommendations.
The Planning and Economic Development Committee on April 6 moved four land-use items to the village board with positive recommendations, clearing the way for final consideration at the April 20 meeting.
Staff told the committee that a homeowner at 6677 Kargo in the River Key subdivision proposes a rear-yard patio and inground pool that would require bringing fill onto the lot next to a canal. According to staff, the project’s engineer showed a plan to remove an equal volume of fill elsewhere on the parcel so there would be “zero net change to the flood water storage capacity and literally no impact to the flood plane.” Because village code requires greater compensatory excavation than is physically possible on that lot, the owner applied for Ordinance 09-26, a variance from the compensatory-storage requirement.…
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