According to the Village Google calendar, the Zoning Board of Appeals will hold a rescheduled public hearing on the latest Anderson horse boarding amendment on Tuesday, December 2nd at Countryside School. A copy of the agenda can be downloaded here or viewed via the Village Google calendar here.
On Wednesday, December 3rd, the Zoning Board will meet again at Countryside School to vote on the amendment. That agenda has not yet been posted, but we will keep readers informed as more information becomes available.
A copy of the latest Anderson horse boarding text amendment can be downloaded here.
Written comments on this latest horse boarding text amendment proposal can be submitted to the Village by fax or email through December 1st by 5:00 PM [updated]. Fax your comments to 847-551-3050 or send them by email to the Village Clerk at clerk@barringtonhills-il.gov.
At last night’s Village Board meeting, 5-Acre slate Board members complained about dollar amount in legal fees charged by Bond-Dickson for previous month’s work; yet the reason why their legal fees were higher than usual is due to a hyper ZBA Chairman scheduling numerous special ZBA meetings in order to get Lecompte’s bidding done. Does anyone see the irony here?
April cannot come too soon!
Hypocritical since Bond Dickson prepared the cover letter for the submission of Anderson’s latest boarding proposal that will be discussed and definitely approved due to conflict on the ZB soon. Too bad rules don’t allow them (Bond Dickson) to withdraw that application for non-payment.
As for the “Slave 5” board members they’re just puppets controlled by the chubby fingers of the former politically manipulative special interest president. They are too dumb to get the fact that their nonproductive political antics are known to most. Agree April cannot come too soon.
Nope, “2 cents worth” – they are not dumb, or even controlled by the expired President Bob Abboud. The gang of 5 and conflicted ZBA Chair and members are 2 things. First, they are obsessed with protecting the interests of the Riding Club and Oakwood Farms is critical to those interests. They care not for the Village, but only for their extreme commercial boarding interests. In order to get what they want, they will throw away the Village’s unique Open Spaces nature.
Second, the Trustee gang (under Abboud’s direction) completely mismanaged the Village’s funds with Roads, Legal Expenses, Police Labor disputes and Pension, Sears Litigation, Duda property management, etc. etc. They are political hacks trying to bully and hide from the truth. The truth keeps poring out now that we have someone in office willing to speak up, that is Marty and Colleen on the Board and David on the ZBA.
This Village does not need more public meetings about commercial boarding that the public has already repeatedly cried out against. We’ve already spoken up and the Chair refuses to listen. The ZBA Chair (Freeman) and ZBA liaison (Messer) will pass the Anderson Amendment regardless of majority opposition. They think that’s winning, it is not! It’s just destroying the Village and more and more people realize this, there will be consequences.
Why attend the public meeting? It’s all a sham.
The majority of residents who wrote and attended voiced loud opposition to Agriculture designation. The limits placed by Anderson are absurd. Intervening in the Oakwood litigation is clearly for the benefit of the Riding Club’s financial best interest. .
Freeman, Anderson, Rosene, Messer, Benkendorf are obviously conflicted. Harrington may be right, the new ZBA lawyer isn’t providing adequate counsel in this matter. Maybe the threats by Messer and Harrington not to pay them are causing this new attorney to be afraid and not represent the public.
Who is protecting the majority and the public and decades of useful code? Stieper is isolated, though he tries. Wolfgram and Chambers are new and appear unwilling to fight to the extent necessary. The public has no chance – it’s their job to be persistent or they become part of the problem.
I cared about this issue, worked to learn more, became involved. The many equestrians who said if you don’t like it to move may get their wish, there is less corruption in Chicago, This fight is over, I won’t bother attending December 2,
Shame on all of them, it’s an embarrassment to our Village and the legacy of those who build this wonderful community.
Mary,
We owe it to those those who came before us as stewards of our zoning code to not allow a commercial takeover by a few profiteering equestrians. This attempt by a radical few cannot go “unchecked” by the supermajority of residents who oppose this hijacking of our “residential” Village Code.
This is about zoning for one landowner who wants to change our Village code to the detriment of all homeowners for no other reason than “pecuniary gain” and to “moot” a pending lawsuit. What Freeman and Anderson are about to do with the help of ZBA drones Rosene and Beckendorf exists nowhere in the entire U.S., just take a look at Bull Valley, Mettawa, Bartlett, Wayne, Homer Glen, Kane County, McHenry County and Will County.
For those of us who call this home who have hundreds of thousands of Dollars invested, we cannot sit by and allow commercial boarding operations to exist anywhere in VBH residential districts without responsble government oversight ie “special use.” The Riding Club law firm of Zukowski, McCardle and Flood are attorneys for Bull Valley and certainly, for Bull Valley, they would have it no other way than “special use”.
Make your voice be heard and remember this issue in April when you go to vote. Majority of individuals on the ZBA and Village Board do not reflect the beliefs, ethics and attitudes of supermajority of VBH residents. Anderson is a hold-over ZBA member who was asked by Pres. McLaughlin to step down and allow another VBH resident a chance to serve. Instead, Anderson stubbornly sits on the ZBA under a technicality in the IL Municipal Code. As a hold-over appointment (not elected official) he has taken it upon himself to rewrite the Village Code overrriding 50 years of precedent by allowing big business to co-exist adjacently to any one of our homes as if these zoning uses are equal. (In 2011, Anderson, former “of counsel” to the Messer Law Firm, supported “special use” by voting for this recommendation to the VBH Board).
Anderson, who arrogantly “motioned” without a scintella of evidence that allowing big business to operate adjacent to you and me was in your’s and my best interest under the penumbra of “not against the public health” when in reality commercial business of this magnitude benefits only those who stand to profit and nonresidents who house their equine for pay at these business establishiments.
The ZBA meetings [special] called by Chairman Freeman are scheduled for December 2nd and 3rd because the Chairman’s plan is to “ram” this through the ZBA and for Messer to put this on the Agenda of VBH Board for quick vote on December 18th at VBH Board meeting when you and I are at home preparing for Christmas. I say we prepare for Christmas this year by dropping off a lump of coal at the Village Hall. [There is no evidence that the conflicted 3 on the BOT [Messer, Meroni and Selman) are going to recuse themselves from this issue exposing VBH to a Multi-Million Dollar RICO claim by Drury, which we, the taxpayers, will be called upon to pay]. Is it only me, or does anyone else see this litigation coming? Remember, the 3 campaign donations and 34 days later, the Schuman Letter.
In 5 years, I have never given up on my battle to try and restore sanity and accountability to VBH government whether it be through Preserve Barrington Hills website, 2 runs for Village Trustee and now member of ZBA. I care about VBH and who we say we are and what those before us said we were. If you have any reservations, VBH is zoned residential (R-1, 2, 3 and 4) but embraces equestrian activities as a hobby for those who desire to do this activity and can afford it. VBH was never intended to provide “business opportunity” for some or be an “equestrian destination” for those who are domiciled beyond VBH borders.
Mary, I am now asking for all VBH residents to help by showing up in never before seen large numbers on December 2nd and 3rd and 18th to help stop the zoning disaster by a miguided Chairman and holdover ZBA member. Remember, if they cannot seat all residents who appear, the meeting will have to be cancelled and rescheduled. Do not rely on your neighbor to fight this battle for you, get off your duff and do it yourself.
In the meantime, write letters to the Village Clerk, educate your friends on the Anderson II madness and what it means to every homeowner by simply furnishing them with a copy of Anderson II. Start e-mail chains to get people involved and appear. You may call me at my office (847) 519-7970 ext. 1 to discuss the meaning of Anderson II and its impact on current zoning standards. But most importantly, show up at all these coming meetings and voice your opinion.
I leave you with this, if you believe 5 Acre residential zoning in VBH will survive irrespective of reckless ordinances like Anderson II, keep in mind, the original charter and zoning in South Barrington was residential 5-acres. It only ceased to be 5 acres when reckless zoning created “exceptions” which in time the exceptions became the rule. Will Anderson II one day be the rule in VBH where big business becomes the dominant “use” at the expense of residential estate living? This certainly is allowing the proverbial camel’s nose under the tent.
Lets give eachother a present this Christmas season by being vocal on commercial horse boarding in never seen before numbers letting ZBA and BOT know, Anderson II is a “Hum Bug”!
David Stieper, ZBA Member
Our entire family will be there!
I think of it as theater of the absurd and watch it as I would a a traveling circus replete with clowns and trained animals.
The truly sad part is what it is doing to our village and our way of life. God forgive them for they know not what they do.