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Oswego plan commissioners to review housing development near Oswego East High School · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Oswego Plan Commissioners to Review Housing Development Near Oswego East
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  Speaker 1: High School. Written by Eric Shelkov. This article is being
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  Speaker 1: Oswego Planning and Zoning Commissioners on September 10th will review
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  Speaker 1: the plans of Silverthorne Development Company to build 182 single-family
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  Speaker 1: homes and 295 townhome units just west of Oswego East
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  Speaker 1: High School. The meeting will start at 7 p.m. at
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  Speaker 1: Oswego Village Hall, 100 Parkers Mill, Oswego. The 102-acre property
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  Speaker 1: is located north of Wolf's Crossing Road, immediately east of
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  Speaker 1: the Churchill Club subdivision and approximately 300 feet west of
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  Speaker 1: Oswego East High School. The property is currently unincorporated and
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  Speaker 1: zoned for agriculture. The single-family homes are located generally on
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  Speaker 1: the northern two-thirds of the property and and the townhome
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  Speaker 1: units are located to the south, closer to Wolf's Crossing Road.
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  Speaker 1: Village planner Jeff Lynn said in a memo to planning
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  Speaker 1: and zoning commissioners, Density diminishes going south to north so
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  Speaker 1: that the largest and widest single-family lots are found to
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  Speaker 1: the north and northwest, mirroring the abutting Ogden Falls and
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  Speaker 1: Churchill Club single-family lots, Lynn said. The single-family lots range
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  Speaker 1: in size from 7,020 square feet to 10,000 square feet.
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  Speaker 1: As part of the concept plan, 295 townhome units would
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  Speaker 1: be built towards the southern portion of the development. Plans
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  Speaker 1: call for the construction of 61 separate townhome buildings, each
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  Speaker 1: of which contains between three and six attached dwelling units,
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  Speaker 1: Lynn said. Two 10-foot-wide bicycle paths, one running north-south along
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  Speaker 1: Ogden Falls Boulevard and the other east-west along Preakness Drive,
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  Speaker 1: are being planned to provide future bicycle and pedestrian connection
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  Speaker 1: to Oswego East High School from both the subject property
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  Speaker 1: and its surrounding neighborhoods. Village staff noted the proposed use
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  Speaker 1: is consistent with the village's comprehensive plan and the distribution
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  Speaker 1: of housing types aligns with adjacent subdivisions.