Plan Commission backs reduced floodplain compensatory storage for Sky Harbor hangar project

Aug 13, 2026

The commission recommended a reduction in the compensatory storage ratio from 1.5:1 to 1.1:1 for Sky Harbor's hangar project at 1090 S. Milwaukee Ave., citing site constraints and a pending FEMA map revision; staff emphasized the change still provides net flood storage and the approval is tied to the specific Sky Harbor development.

The full story

The Wheeling Plan Commission on Aug. 12 recommended approval of a variation to reduce the compensatory floodplain storage ratio from 1.5:1 to 1.1:1 for the Sky Harbor hangar development at 1090 South Milwaukee Avenue.

Free newsletter

Sign up to keep reading.

Your free newsletter brings you what your city council, county, and school board discussed and decided.

or
Already have an account? Sign in