The Village has released an ePacket agenda for this evening’s public hearing. The packet includes all written comments submitted to the Village regarding the two horse boarding and training text amendment proposals received by 5:00 PM today.
Click here to view the agenda, and click on “Public Comments” to download PDF copies of written comments.
Thanks to the many Barrington Hills residents who spoke out last night on the topic of commercial boarding. Clearly, the ZBA must realize that pursuing either of the text amendments proposed in their current format will not benefit the Village. However, it is equally clear that some form of clarity on the topic of commercial boarding will benefit the residents, all of whom appear to support a continued friendly equestrian environment.
Separating the issues and distancing time involving Oakwood Farms from the larger issue remains necessary or the Village will be considered culpable in aiding either side in that litigation. Those who encouraged a “let’s all get along” message will be more helpful to the process if they consider the merits of our heritage of terrific code protecting neighbor rights. That code worked well for decades when fairly managed by a ZBA membership not politically motivated.
What a tremendous time waste. My observations of the “meeting” areas follows:
-The entire ZB should be replaced. If they have that much power, let’s elect them.
-LeCompte screaming at the lone dissenter on the board did not serve him well. -His attorney sunk him when she droned on and was basically telling the board what to do.
-The man from Algonquin? Speaking twice? Then yelling? I almost asked the officers to remove him. No more speaking unless you pay taxes here and are fully invested in property values. And that goes double for lawyers. Her “practicing” her defense has no place here.
-Time for Freeman, Anderson, Messer, Roesne, et el to GO. If you have unethical ties to an agenda, please don’t force it down our throats.
If I ever hear the words Zoning Board or LeCompte again, it will be too soon. What a fiasco. Enough drama.
I thought it was a good meeting since the board got a dose of what most residents (not nonresidents who board here) think of the ridiculous boarding proposals. With every objection Judy Freeman’s face looked more and more like that of a 5 year old who opened their one and only Christmas present only to find out it was a pair of sox. Too bad reality is so disappointing to those so disengaged as she is from the community’s interests as a whole.
Just to be clear for the record most people I know have no issues with residents renting out empty stalls to neighbors who don’t have a stable. There’s no issue with existing larger boarding facilities save for one since most people who bought homes adjacent to these knew what they were buying in to.
It’s the prospect of having our own privacy shattered if an adjacent property sells and a large stable is built to run as a business under these proposals without any recourse on our part and we have strangers yelling over the fence “How ya doin?” Most of us didn’t move here for that noise.
There’s never been an issue with private horse boarding. Never. But that doesn’t suit some people’s agenda. They would much rather create issues where none exist and pit neighbor against neighbor for personal gain. Shame on you all. If you are that morally bankrupt, God help you. You have no place in a quite village that has been working just fine before the prior administration turned us into reality show.
I, too, attended the ZBA meeting. It was obvious to me there is a lot of fear on both sides about what will happen regarding the boarding of horses in the Village. I came away from the meeting reaffirmed in my belief that it is time for this Village to place some regulations on the number of horses a property owner is allowed to keep. One speaker suggested one horse per graze able acre. I fully agree with him. Many of the homes in Barrington Hills are clustered on five acre lots. I live on one of those lots next door to people who have had anywhere from nine to thirteen horses in paddocks on their five acre property in the past five years. As my partner calculated and presented at the meeting, after the three months of winter during which waste removal is not required, we can have four and a half tons of manure sitting within eighty feet of our home. Not a pretty visual, is it? Now the property on the other side of us is for sale. A beautiful, large barn sits on that property and I wonder what will happen if the new owners have horses. Will we enjoy watching three or four horses grazing in their pasture or will we be subjected to another over-crowded situation?Frankly, I don’t care who owns the horses on a property, whether they’re boarded or not. I do care that the Village begins regulating the number of horses that can be there. It seems to me the Village can also move forward with this issue regardless of how the commercial horse boarding case plays out.