Proposed site rendering for the Claremont luxury home development. The Barrington Plan Commission had its first look at the plan Tuesday. | Courtesy of Vintage Luxury Homes
By Steve Zalusky | Daily Herald
A proposal to bring 88 custom luxury homes to the former PepsiCo site in Barrington was met with a variety of concerns from residents, commissioners and the park district at this week’s Barrington Plan Commission meeting.
The affect on traffic along Main Street near Barrington High School, the numerous proposed zoning exceptions, the lack of sidewalks and the developer’s request for a waiver of park district impact fees were issues raised at Tuesday’s meeting.
Joe Elias of Vintage Luxury Homes plans to build the Claremont, an upscale gated community, on 94 acres on the 600 block of West Main Street. He intends to demolish the vacant PepsiCo building and create lots ranging from 10,000 to 13,000 square feet, while keeping more than 60% of the property as open space.
Promised amenities include a clubhouse with café, swimming pools, fitness center, pickleball and bocce courts and a walking path. An eight-foot decorative brick wall would line Main Street.
Critics of the plan, however, said the development would be both isolated from the community at large and out of character from the historic village.
Joe Coath of the Architectural Review Commission said he was “very concerned about the precedent set by bringing in a walled, gated community (that is) so close in proximity to our historic downtown.”
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