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Oswego plan commissioners recommend approval of scaled back housing development near Oswego East · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Oswego Plan commissioners recommend approval of scaled back housing development near Oswego
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  East. Written by Eric Shelkoff. This article is being read by an
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  automated voice, brought to you by Everlet. After Oswego
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  Planning and Zoning Commission last month voiced concerns about the density of
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  a proposal to build 182 single family homes and 295 townhome units
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  just west of Oswego East High School, the developer has downsized the
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  project. At the October 8 Oswego Planning and Zoning Commission meeting, commissioners
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  unanimously recommended approval of a concept plan to build 183 single-family
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  homes and 232 townhome units as part of the proposed Lodai Grove
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  subdivision. As part of its recommendation, commissioners stipulated the developer must add
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  a southern access to Wolf's Crossing Road to the plan. Oswego Village
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  Trustees will now review the plans. All of us agree that the
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  Wolf's Crossing Road Access is paramount to its success in our eyes,
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  Commissioner Rick Kuhn said during The meeting. The 102-acre property is located
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  north of Wolf's Crossing Road immediately east of the Churchill Club subdivision,
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  and about 300 feet west of Oswego East High School. The property
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  is currently unincorporated and zoned for agriculture. The new plan shows 62
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  fewer units, or a 13 decrease. The overall density of the project
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  went from 4.68 residential units per acre in the previous concept plan
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  to 4.07 in the revised plan, village planner Jeff Lind told commissioners.
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  This development's proposed use and proposed density of four point zero seven
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  units per acre are consistent with the comprehensive plan, Lynn said. Within
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  the area of the townhomes the density went from approximately eight point
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  one residential units per acre to six point three per acre in
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  the revised lan, Lin said. The revised plan also adds about seven
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  acres of open space. The name of the proposed subdivision is a
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  historic reference. When the village. Was first being settled in the 1830s,
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  it was called Lodi. However, because another town in Illinois already claimed
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  that name, the community changed its name to Oswego in July 1838.
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  Our proposal is congruent with the village's comprehensive land, Paul DeCroef, Senior
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  Vice President of Sycamore Bay Silverthorne Home Builders, said at the meeting.
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  It fits and meets multiple housing types. This would be Silverthorn Home's
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  second housing development in the village. Pine Ridge Club, a 31 home
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  ranch villa development, will be built west of the intersection of Mill
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  and Orchard Roads on the village's west side. The ranch villas will
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  be built in the first phase of the development. The second phase
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  will feature 82 conventional two-story rear load townhouses.