St. Charles Comprehensive Plan Review Continues
Plan Commission considers desire for greater precision and the need for flexibility in plan that is to serve as the city’s development guide over the next 20 years.
The St. Charles Plan Commission this week continued its review of the 2013 draft Comprehensive Plan, with commissioners appearing to be leaning toward a slow, deliberate look at the document that already has garnered intense scrutiny. How long that will take is uncertain. The commission’s next meeting is at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013, in the Council Chambers. But it s reviewing a document that took the Comprehensive Plan Task Force 16 months to compile as it worked with the St. Charles Planning Department and the city’s consultant, Houseal Lavigne Associates, to draw up the draft plan. Several factors appear to be coming into play as the commission wades through the 113-page document. One is a desire to maintain flexibility in the …
Steve Swanson
4:24 pm on Thursday, February 21, 2013
Charles, you stole my thunder. You probably explained it better than I would have. Ted, I believe in a specific Comprehensive Plan. If a developer comes along with an idea different than what the plan envisioned for a parcel, the plan can be amended if the City finds the developer's proposal to be worthy. Theoretically, that is what was done with the former Applied Composites property, although … more ›