Panel Ends Work on St. Charles Comprehensive Plan
This week’s Corporate Reserve, Lexington Clubs decisions reflected in discussion of final revisions to St. Charles’ 2013 draft plan.
Just two days after a St. Charles City Council committee outright rejected one housing development and killed a key funding mechanism for another, a task force charged with crafting a guide for the city’s future growth ended its work on a draft comprehensive plan. The Comprehensive Plan Task Force voted unanimously Wednesday night to recommend its 2013 draft plan to the St. Charles Plan Commission, which is expected to begin its review of the 113-page document. The task force’s action included changes it made as members gave one final review of the draft plan and after they listened to more public recommendations about changes to the proposal. Key among those were in direct response to residents’ pleas as they related to the Corporate …
Steve Swanson
10:15 am on Thursday, December 13, 2012
The Task Force really dropped the ball as far as I am concerned by failing to address the comments made by the many citizens who attended the Open House two weeks previously. Not one comment was addressed. To me, it is very disingenuous to ask for public input and then to completely ignore it; but that typifies how things how worked in this City recently. I believe that the Plan adopted by the … more ›