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Oswego village trustees want bigger lot sizes in proposed west side subdivision · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Oswego Village trustees want bigger lot sizes and proposed west
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  Speaker 1: side subdivision. Written by Eric Schlkoff, a flipp This article
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  Speaker 1: is being read by an automated voice brought to you
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  Speaker 1: by Everlett. Oswego Village trustees said they would like to
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  Speaker 1: see bigger lot sizes as part of d R. Horton's
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  Speaker 1: plans to build two hundred and ten single family houses
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  Speaker 1: and seventy six townhouses on one hundred and seven acres
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  Speaker 1: north of US Route thirty four and west of the
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  Speaker 1: Orchard Woods development along Orchard Road. Trustees recently reviewed plans
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  Speaker 1: for the proposed Parksmith Run subdivision at the March fifth
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  Speaker 1: Oswego Planning and Zoning Commission meeting. The majority of commissioners
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  Speaker 1: voted to recommend approval of the plans, with the stipulation
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  Speaker 1: that the minimum lot with be increased five feet from
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  Speaker 1: sixty five feet to seventy feet in width to reduce
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  Speaker 1: the project's density. Increasing the lot sizes to seven feet
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  Speaker 1: in width would reduce the number of lots by ten
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  Speaker 1: or twelve, said Chris Funkauser, land acquisition project manager for
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  Speaker 1: d R. Horton. Oswego Village President Ryan Kaufman asked if
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  Speaker 1: d R. Horton would consider increase the minimum lot size
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  Speaker 1: to seventy feet. We would definitely consider that if that's
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  Speaker 1: the direction we would be asked to look at. Funkhauser said,
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  Speaker 1: we would have to take a look to see what
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  Speaker 1: it does to the site, but we would definitely take
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  Speaker 1: a look at it. Kaufman, along with several trustees, said
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  Speaker 1: they would like to see the minimum lot size be
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  Speaker 1: increased to seventy feet. The Parksmith Run development is being
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  Speaker 1: planned on land that at one time had housed the
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  Speaker 1: popular Oswego drag Raceway, which operated from nineteen fifty five
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  Speaker 1: to nineteen seventy nine. After it closed, it was a
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  Speaker 1: tree nursery for a time. Kaufman asked if d R.
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  Speaker 1: Horton would be in favor of paying homage to the
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  Speaker 1: Oswego drag Raceway. Funkhouser said the company is looking at
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  Speaker 1: naming streets in the subdivision after those associated with the raceway,
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  Speaker 1: including Jim Woody Woodrow of Montgomery, known for waving green
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  Speaker 1: and red starting flags while leaping in the air to
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  Speaker 1: start a race. The project also includes seven to fifty
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  Speaker 1: acres of commercial space, Village trustees in two thousand and
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  Speaker 1: seven had approved plans calling for the development of one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty four single family homes in eighty eight townhouses.
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  Speaker 1: That project was never built. During the meeting, residents voice
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  Speaker 1: concerns about the development bringing additional traffic to the nearby
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  Speaker 1: Lynwood subdivision, as well as the impact the development would
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  Speaker 1: have on the wildlife in the area. Concerns were also
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  Speaker 1: raised about the additional burden the development would put on
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  Speaker 1: Grande Reserve Elementary School, which is in Yorkville School District
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  Speaker 1: one hundred fifteen. I have met with the administrative staff
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  Speaker 1: over there and talked through the project. Funkhouser told village
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  Speaker 1: trustees they are aware of this and do have this
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  Speaker 1: factored into their counts and projections, so they are fully
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  Speaker 1: aware of the impact. Kawser also is a Yorkville Alderman.
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  Speaker 1: Swego Village trustee Jennifer Hughes said she would like to
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  Speaker 1: see curb bumpouts installed at the sidewalk crossings at Lewis
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  Speaker 1: Street and Heatherwood Drive to try to slow down traffic
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  Speaker 1: at that intersection. This would be d R. Horton's second
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  Speaker 1: subdivision in Oswego. In twenty twenty four d R. Horton
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  Speaker 1: broke ground for the eight oh one unit Sonoma Trail's
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  Speaker 1: housing development on two twenty eight acres at the southwest
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  Speaker 1: corner of Vols Crossing Road and Roth Road.