Posted in Land Use, Public Safety on October 9, 2014| Leave a Comment »
The Village of Lake Barrington will be holding another public hearing on the proposed twenty-four hour Speedway gas station and convenience store at the corner of Kelsey Rd and Route 14 tonight at 7:00 PM. The meeting will take place at the Lake Barrington Municipal Center located at 23860 Old Barrington Rd.
Residents living in the far northeastern portion of Barrington Hills should consider attending the meeting. A copy of the agenda can be downloaded here.
Posted in Algonquin Rd, County, Kane, Longmeadow Parkway, Politics, Road construction, Roads and Bridges, Topics Of Interest on October 8, 2014| 9 Comments »
Residents are reminded there will be a Longmeadow Parkway update meeting tonight at Village Hall beginning at 7:00 PM. A copy of the presentation to be covered at the meeting can be downloaded here.
A link to the Kane County Division of Transportation’s Longmeadow Parkway project website can be accessed here.
Posted in 220, School Districts, Taxes on October 8, 2014| Leave a Comment »
The Barrington Area Unit School District 220 board gave its support Tuesday night for a plan that would offer tuition-based full-day kindergarten starting in the 2015-2016 school year.
According to the plan laid out by Linda Klobucher, the assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction, the full-day program would cost parents around $4,500 for the school year, or around $125 per week.
Read more here. To view the presentation provided to the board on full-day classes at the meeting, click here.
Posted in Audio Recordings, BH Polo Club, Board of Health, Commercial Horse Boarding, Conflict of interest, Ethics, Financial Reports, FRVPC, Heritage and Environs Committee, Horse Boarding, Land Use, Legal Expenses, Longmeadow Parkway, OMA, Plan Commission, Politics, Public Safety, Riding Club of Barrington Hills, Road construction, Sears, VBHPD, Village Board, Village Code, Zoning Board on October 6, 2014| 1 Comment »
The Village has released edited audio recordings from the Village Board meetings that took place on September 22 and 29. Readers are forewarned that the recordings from the first meeting held at Countryside School are of mediocre quality due to the acoustics of the room, and at times it is difficult to understand some of the speakers are saying.
At the September 22 meeting, thirty people spoke during public comment. Most spoke of their objections to the Anderson/LeCompte horse boarding text amendment to be discussed later in the evening. A few voiced support for the boarding amendment, though citing no specifics.
Several speakers’ comments deserve special attention. A former village trustee warned of the unintended consequences of potentially altering the zoning of any residential lot (click here). Another resident who owns twenty horses not kept on her property expressed her concerns about the impact of a commercial operation on residential neighbors (click here). And yet another resident spoke passionately about the misclassification of horse boarding as agriculture (click here).
One of the last speakers opened many eyes and ears when he revealed what he’d discovered by researching historic legal spending by the Village. A direct link to his comments can be found here, and we’ll have much more to say about his findings in an upcoming editorial.
The menu for the full September 22 meeting recordings, including discussion of the Anderson/LeCompte boarding amendment proposal lasting over an hour, can be accessed here.
The Village Board reconvened a week later at Village Hall on September 29 to continue their business from the unfinished agenda, and two matters were resolved that we believe residents should be aware of.
The Board ultimately voted on the process of selecting new Village legal counsel and it will follow guidelines set forth in our Village Code.
There was also discussion of the posting of monthly Roads and Bridges committee meetings on the Village Google calendar so that residents can attend, just as the protocol is for all other village committees. A direct link to Trustee Meroni’s reaction to publicizing her regular monthly Roads and Bridges meetings to residents can be heard here.
The menu for the complete recordings for the September 29 Village Board meeting can be accessed here.
Posted in Public Safety, VBHPD on October 5, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Trustee Fritz Gohl will chair a public safety meeting this Tuesday at Village Hall beginning at 10:00 AM. A copy of the agenda can be viewed here.
The primary topic for discussion will be a “Public Safety Answering Point Report” discussed at the September 29 Village Board meeting. A copy of the report can be downloaded here.
Posted in Animal Welfare, BH Polo Club, Commercial Horse Boarding, Conflict of interest, Elections 2011, Ethics, FRVPC, Horse Boarding, Land Use, Politics, Riding Club of Barrington Hills, Village Code, Zoning Board on October 3, 2014| 4 Comments »
There’s something missing from the stables at Oakwood Farm in Barrington Hills: horses. On a recent morning, most stalls were empty. The horses that had boarded here were gone, banished following a court order.
The feud between neighbors that led to the shutdown of Oakwood Farm’s boarding operations has simmered for years. Now it’s boiling over into a communitywide controversy that has angry residents of Barrington Hills arguing over the very nature of their community.
Following years of litigation, the Illinois Appellate Court has ruled that horse boarding at the farm does not comply with the village code. That has raised alarms at other boarding stables that they may be in danger of getting shut down, and led to heated public debates over whether to limit or protect horse boarding.
Read more of the Chicago Tribune story here.
Posted in Animal Welfare, HARPS on October 3, 2014| Leave a Comment »
There are 75 abandoned horses in Hampshire in desperate need of good homes, and time is of the essence, according to a local animal rescue organization.
Barrington-based Hooved Animal Rescue and Protection Society has teamed up with Hands and Hooves of Chicago to find homes for the 75 American quarter horses in just a few weeks. The horses have been living in inadequate conditions for the past two years, society president Donna Ewing said.
“We have less than a month to get 75 of these horses off the leased property and into permanent homes,” she stated in a recent news release. “We are pleading with the community to come and adopt these animals and give them a new beginning in life.”
Read more here.
Posted in Algonquin Rd, County, Kane, Longmeadow Parkway, McHenry, Politics, Real Estate, Road construction, Roads and Bridges, Western Bypass on October 2, 2014| 7 Comments »
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Roads & Bridges chair, Patty Meroni, will be hosting a meeting next Wednesday evening, October 8, to update residents on Kane County’s latest plans for the Longmeadow Parkway project, due to begin as early as next year. The meeting will take place at Village Hall beginning at 7:00 PM.
According to the posting on the Village website, Kane County has submitted “greater detail than previously provided concept plans regarding the planned roadway improvements and how they would impact Autumn Trail, IL Rte. 62, and adjacent properties.”
For planning purposes, Trustee Meroni has requested residents RSVP for the meeting by tomorrow, October 3, by emailing the Village Clerk at clerk@barringtonhills-il.gov or by phone at 847-551-3000. Any specific questions are also requested in advance of the meeting by submitting them to the Village Clerk.
We recommend residents who regularly use Algonquin Rd/ Rte. 62 should attend. For more information, click here.
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