Good evening.

I would like to call the planning and zoning commission meeting for June 18th, 2025 to order.

All right, thank you, and let's get started.

Secretary Wright, please conduct roll call.

Alba Baker.

Here.

Clement?

Here.

Namas?

Here.

Rogellia?

President.

Wright is present and Robins?

Here.

Madam Chair, we have a forum.

Great.

Thank you.

The first order of business tonight is the public forum.

During the public forum, members of the public have the opportunity to address the planning and zoning commission on issues which are not part of tonight's agenda.

Please keep your comments limited to three minutes.

Also, for the sake of all of those in attendance, please refrain from clapping or shouting out in response to comments made by any speaker.

Secretary Wright, do we have anyone signed up for public forums?

No one's on.

Great.

Public hearings.

Our next order of business is public hearings.

For each hearing, we will begin with the staff presentation or introduction followed by the petitioner's presentation.

We will then take public testimony to ensure that we have an opportunity to hear from each person wishing to speak.

Please keep your comments specific to the request under the consideration and try to avoid repetitive comments.

Also, for the sake of all of those in attendance, please refrain from clapping or shouting out in response to comments made by any speaker.

Following the public testimony, the petitioner will provide closing remarks to your prior to the closure of public hearing.

No further public testimony will be taken after the petitioner begins their closing remarks or during the planning and zoning commission's deliberations.

I will now swear in any member of the public wishing to speak.

For those who wish to provide testimony, please stand up.

Please raise your right hand and respond.

I do.

All right.

Thank you.

The first case on tonight's agenda is DEV-0010-2025, 25013, and 2535 West 111th Street.

Thank you, Chair.

Anna Franco at the city's planning services team.

The petitioner for DEV 0010-2025 requests approval of annexation into the city of Neighborville, rezoning to OCI upon annexation, a conditional use for single family attached dwellings in the OCI district, a variance to the corner side yard setback, and a preliminary plat of subdivision for the development of 68 single family attached residential units at 2525013 and 20535 West 11 Street, to be known as Everly Trace.

MI Homes is the developer of the property, and the preliminary site plan includes townhome and row home buildings located on either side of an extension of Cedar Drive with a stormwater detention area situated along the north property line.

The subject property is approximately 10 acres located on the north side of 111th Street.

Excuse me, the south side of 111th Street, where 111th Street intersects with Cedar Drive.

The property is currently an unincorporated Will County and improved with an on-site landscaping supply store and a single family home and associated farmstead buildings.

Adjacent uses include Crone Middle School and its recreational fields to the east, Creekside Park to the south, single family residential homes to the south and west, and single family and single family attached residential homes across 111th Street to the north.

As part of the request, the petitioner seeks to rezone the subject property to the OCI or Office Commercial and Institutional Zoning District upon annexation.

The city's land use master plan identifies the future place type of the subject property to be single family and duplex residential.

The proposed OCI zoning district is consistent with the zoning of the adjacent middle school and provides an opportunity for a transitional land use between the school to the east and the single family residential to the west.

While the OCI zone is not listed in the land use plan as an applicable zoning district under that designation, the OCI zoning district has regulatory commonalities with the listed R2 zone for single family attached residential, including the allowance for single family attached residential as a conditional use and a minimum area requirement of 4,000 square feet per dwelling unit.

Staff finds the proposed rezoning and the land use proposed under this zone to be consistent with the intent of the city's land use master plan and recommends the planning and zoning commission adopt the petitioner's attached responses to the standards for granting a map amendment.

The petitioner also requests condition approval of a conditional use to permit single family attached dwelling units in the OCI zoning district pursuant to municipal code section 6-7F-3 colon 11.

The petitioner is proposing 68 townhomes slash row homes for a density of approximately 6,400 square feet per dwelling unit, which exceeds the minimum area requirement of 4,000 square feet per dwelling unit.

The petitioner has designed the site plan to consider compatibility with the existing, excuse me, with the existing single family residential to the west and south of the subject property by strategically locating the two-story townhomes, which are more single family in character than the row homes along the west and south property lines, and by providing a minimum 36-foot landscape setback along the west and south property lines.

Staff is supportive of the proposed use of the subject property and finds it's appropriate at the end location.

The proposal for single family attached dwelling use is consistent with the land use master plan recommendation to provide higher density residential uses on the periphery of single family and duplex residential neighborhoods to assist with the transition between adjacent uses and respects the character of existing neighborhoods while supporting the city's changing demographics and market.

The petitioner's responses to the standards for granting a conditional use are attached upon review.

Staff generally agrees with the petitioner's findings and recommend their adoption by the planning and zoning commission.

The petitioner also requests a variance to miss municipal code section 6-7F-7 to reduce the corner side yard setback from 20 feet to 15 feet for the Roho building on lot 7.