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Oswego village trustees reject plans for self-storage facility near Orchard Road · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Oswego Village trustees reject plans for self storage facility near
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  Speaker 1: Orchard Road. Written by Eric Shelkoff, This article is being
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  Speaker 1: Oswego Village trustees have rejected plans to put a self
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  Speaker 1: storage facility near Orchard Road. At the April twenty first
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  Speaker 1: Oswego Village Board meeting, village trustees voted against granting a
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  Speaker 1: special use permit for a self storage facility on seven
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  Speaker 1: five five acres at the southwest corner of Lewis Street
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  Speaker 1: and Station Drive in the Orchard Way Commercial Development. The
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  Speaker 1: proposal called for the construction of six storage structures, with
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  Speaker 1: the main parking lot located along the east end of
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  Speaker 1: the site. Self storage facilities require a special use permit
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  Speaker 1: in the village's general manufacturing and regional business districts. Trustees
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  Speaker 1: thought the site was not suited for a se storage
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  Speaker 1: facility and urge petitioner Phil McAllister to find another location.
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  Speaker 1: Oswego Planning and Zoning Commissioners had voted six to two
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  Speaker 1: to recommend approval of a special use permit. In voting
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  Speaker 1: against the proposal, village trustees sided with village staff. It
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  Speaker 1: is staff's opinion that the proposed use does not meet
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  Speaker 1: the intent of the Orchard Way Commercial Development or other
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  Speaker 1: retail corridors within the village. Oswego Development Services Director Rod
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  Speaker 1: Zenner said in a memo to the village board, typical
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  Speaker 1: uses in the center are intended to generate customers with
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  Speaker 1: relatively high vehicle traffic counts that will serve to bring
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  Speaker 1: additional customers to the center for other commercial uses to
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  Speaker 1: draw from. These customers often patronize more than one of
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  Speaker 1: the uses when they visit a retail center. The self
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  Speaker 1: storage facility is being proposed near the Whitetail Gulf Dome.
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  Speaker 1: Zenner said the latest trend in commercial uses are experiential retail,
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  Speaker 1: where patrons can go and experience an event or activity. Here,
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  Speaker 1: customers can eat or drink while also experiencing the activity
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  Speaker 1: of hitting golf balls, he said. In talking to village
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  Speaker 1: trustees about his proposal, McAllister said the village has a
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  Speaker 1: storage shortage. Based on a supply ratio analysis, he said,
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  Speaker 1: there is three hundred thousand square feet of self storage
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  Speaker 1: shortage in the Oswego area. It is an important need,
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  Speaker 1: especially when you think about some of the different people
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  Speaker 1: that are moving into the area. McAllister said. In addition,
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  Speaker 1: he said the project would generate eighty thousand dollars to
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  Speaker 1: ninety thousand dollars in estimated annual property tax revenue, and
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  Speaker 1: it's not going to bring a single new student. He said.
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  Speaker 1: I have a problem with the location. Village trustee Rachelle
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  Speaker 1: Koenig said it also sets a precedent. If we start
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  Speaker 1: approving things to fill space, we could then set a
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  Speaker 1: precedent for other boards to start approving things to fill space.
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  Speaker 1: Oswego Village President Ryan Kaufman also did not think it
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  Speaker 1: was the right location for a self storage facility. I
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  Speaker 1: think this is a prime location right on Orchard, he said,
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  Speaker 1: and we know that Orchard is a fast growing corridor.