EDC Minutes 2005 03-17-05 Page 1 of 3
APPROVED 4/21/05
WITH REVISIONS
UNITED CITY OF YORKVILLE
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE MEETING
Thursday, March 17, 2005
7:00 PM
City Hall Conference Room
City Council and Staff Present:
Alderwoman Burd
City Administrator Tony Graff
Mayor Art Prochaska
Alderman Sticka
City Attorney John Wyeth
Guests:
Tom Grant
Richard T. Stanciu
Brian Henrick
Rodger Brom
Mark Kursnsky
Lynn Dubajic
The meeting was called to order by Alderman Sticka at 7:03PM.
1. Approval/Correction of Minutes: February 17, 2005: With no suggestion of
corrections needing to be made, the Committee moved to approve the minutes as
written.
2. PC 2005 -07 — 55 Riverside St. —1 % Mile Review: Alderman Sticka moved on
to item #2 on the agenda stating that the property was located at the end of Tuma
Road (Corner of Yorkville Road and Riverside St.) He stated that there was
nothing in the packets regarding this item for the Committee to look over. He
stated that this had gone through the Plan Commission and they had no issues
with this request. Mr. Tony Graff stated that all the information was in the
Council's Planning Commission packets. He went on to state that this meets
County requirements and there is no impact on the City. The Committee found
no problems with Mr. Henrick continuing on to split this one parcel into two.
3. Prairie Gardens PUD Amendment (public hearing at City Council 3/22/05):
Mr. Tom Grant spoke in regards this to this item. He began by stating that they
would like to do a sub -PUD with reference to lot 4. He explained how another
site has been set up previously and how they would like to split the buildings up
to have individual owners for each unit. He stated that the mapping currently
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shows the buildings as A, B, C and they will be changing that to sub -lot 1, 2 and
so on to make the recorder happier when they go to record that way they are able
to do some split -offs by meets and bounds descriptions. He stated there will
actually be 6 lots sold off with the 7 th lot owned by association as a common area.
These buildings will hold all commercial type businesses. They are requesting
this change to make it easier dealing with all of the cross - easements. Mr. Wyeth
questioned if the association for the common area would be modeled after a
condo association? Mr. Grant replied that it would. The declaration will declare
a portion of common area to each unit owner to prevent future problems with a
building going unclaimed. They will be single -story structures that are going to
be built.
Mr. Richard Stanciu, the property owner, stated that 2 units are pre -sold and some
are looking into buying. They are businesses as follows: dermatology, dentist,
financial planner, medical transcription, etc... Lynn Dubajic stated she has been
working with some of these business owners interested in buying a unit.
Mr. John Wyeth clarified that there could be multiple owners in each building.
They also clarified that there is no minimal size a unit may go down to, but it will
not be made to have unusable space left.
The Committee agreed to move this on to City Council on 3/22/05 for public
hearing.
4. Inland — Route 34 & Eldamain Business Park Concept Plan: Mr. Roger
Brown and Mark Kursnsky spoke on this item. Mr. Brown stated that this is
located on the NE corner of Eldamain and Route 34. They are looking to plan a
business park here. The piece they are showing this evening is part of a larger
piece they own in the area and this one is their Faxon Road piece. He stated they
met with Mr. Graff and some of the other City Staff earlier to talk about how it
will be developed in the future. This land is currently zoned office research and
suburban residential. They are looking to change zoning to more of a transit
oriented design with the train station potentially going in the area. Mr. Graff went
on to state that this is a secondary site in the Metra study if Plano does not get
approval for a train station. If that does not go through, there should be a joint
site with Plano and Yorkville on Eldamain Road.
Alderwoman Burd questioned why Inland is coming in with a business park here
when they gave up a business park idea when they were looking at Caledonia. At
that time they told the Council they could not find any potential businesses to
come into a business park. She questioned why this is now changing. They
replied that this area has more potential for business owners.
The Committee and all present discussed how the area is going to grow and where
the roads will be laid out in the future. The Committee suggested to the Inland
Representatives to come in and speak with the City and the neighboring land
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owners on the future of that area and how to set -up that area as a benefit to all
involved. They will also check with Metra again to investigate the shared site.
They will try to set up a meeting with the land owners in the next week or two.
5. Additional Business:
• Mayor Prochaska stated he has received a document showing that a self -
storage complex is planning on being built south of Narvick Concrete.
Mayor Prochaska suggested to the Committee that they look into setting
controls on the use of land in Yorkville and have self storage made as a
special use zoning. The Committee discussed this idea and agreed among
the safety issues of not having any way to restrict what is stored in the
these units, they would like the City to keep standards set high and not
have these buildings being built everywhere. Mr. Wyeth was asked to find
language and ideas for resolving this and then this will come back to a
future EDC meeting. Mayor Prochaska will also look to sit down with the
owner coming in now to work together in requesting they build a more
pleasant looking storage complex.
• Alderwoman Burd suggested that the City should require commercial
buildings which front on more than one street to meet front facade code M
on both streets to help it make the building more attractive. She brought
up the buildings in front of Menards where just the plain back of the
buildings face a City road, with no facade requirements able to be put in
force. The Committee discussed other lots in the City and how they
appeared too. The Committee agreed they would like to not look at the
rear entrance of a building on City Streets with no landscape upgrading or
facade requirements. The Committee directed Alderman Burd to take the
issue up with the Appearance Code Committee..
• Mayor Prochaska stated that IDOT would be coming in to speak with the
City tomorrow morning regarding Rt. 47 and hopefully Rt. 126 that need
to be worked on.
The meeting was adjourned at 7:45 pm.
Minutes by: Sheila Teausaw
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