Posted in BACOG, IAA, Land Use, Well Water Quality on July 14, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Proposed IAA Site
When East Dundee trustees decide Monday whether to let a wrecked auto auctioneer do business in town, there will actually be two separate votes, due to a recent decision by ComEd that forces the business to use another street for access.
And members of the Barrington Hills-based group, who have opposed the plan amid concerns Insurance Auto Auctions will pollute their groundwater, plan on speaking their minds one more time at that Monday meeting.
Read more here.
Posted in IAA, Land Use on July 12, 2013| Leave a Comment »
East Dundee has posted their Village Board meeting agenda for Monday, July 15. A copy of the board’s agenda packet, which includes an “Ordinance Approving the Plat of Subdivision for Insurance Auto Auction”, can be downloaded here.
Posted in IAA, Land Use, Village President on July 10, 2013| 2 Comments »
After spending almost a year in limbo over a property access issue, East Dundee officials are ready to vote on a redevelopment agreement for Insurance Auto Auctions, a business that sells totaled vehicles to the highest bidder. The proposed business has raised the ire of a neighboring subdivision in Barrington Hills, and its former mayor, Robert Abboud, may have been part of the reason for the delay.
Abboud said Tuesday that while he was still in office, he contacted Ann Pramaggiore, president and CEO of ComEd, and urged her to reject IAA’s request to use a ComEd-owned easement to access the property. He said he also reached out to her husband, Michael Harrington, before Harrington was elected to the village board last spring. The couple live in Barrington Hills.
Read more here.
Posted in Agendas, IAA, Plan Commission, Village Board, Zoning Board on June 21, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Monday’s Village Board meeting agenda can be viewed here.
Posted in Audio Recordings, Heritage and Environs Committee, IAA, Land Use, OMA, Plan Commission, Village Board on May 30, 2013| 2 Comments »
The Village has released edited audio recordings from the May 23 Village Board meeting. To access the menu of the meeting’s topical audio recording segments, click here.
Posted in BACOG, Elections 2013, IAA, OP/Ed, Plan Commission, Save 5 Acres on April 5, 2013| 5 Comments »
Next Monday evening’s monthly Plan Commission meeting has been canceled. Ordinarily, we would not publish non-events. But this is the fourth cancellation of a Plan Commission meeting in a row, making it noteworthy. Review of Village records shows the Plan Commission met only seven times in all of 2012. More meetings have been canceled in the last sixteen months than have been held.
Two candidates running for trustee positions on the “Save 5 Acres” slate have included their “Plan Commission experience“ in their candidate biographies. Based on absences from scheduled meetings in 2012, Mr. Harrington could attend only five of seven meetings, and Ms. Mazeski managed to make six. No doubt, this is voluntary service to the residents of Barrington Hills. But these candidates cannot be considered seasoned commission members, especially given their votes to approve the error riddled Spring Creek Watershed Plan.
Of course, Bob Abboud must consider this light attendance at Plan Commission meetings to be political currency, since he appears to be behind the Save 5 Acres campaign and platform. We know that Abboud is coordinating campaign meetings and filing financial reports to the Illinois State Board of Elections for candidates Gohl and Mazeski (see ISBOE A-1 Filings).
If Plan Commission experience is the measurement for qualification, then David Stieper should be Abboud’s eye-on endorsement. From 2003-2010, Stieper served or chaired over sixty-one Plan Commission meetings, including the time-intensive updating of our Village Comprehensive Plan.
Perhaps if David’s experienced commission guidance had been allowed to continue after 2010, our Village would not be in the precarious position we now face over the planned Insurance Auto Auction facility at our border. We’ll never know the answer, but clearly our current Plan Commission cannot be vigilant about future threats if they are not meeting with any regularity.
– The Observer
Posted in Agendas, IAA, Legal Committee on March 20, 2013| Leave a Comment »
The Village Legal Committee meets tomorrow evening at 7:00 PM to discuss “East Dundee Insurance Auto Auctions” among other things. To view their agenda, click here.
Posted in Elections 2013, IAA on March 5, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Two of the three newcomers running for a spot on the East Dundee village board said officials should have done a better job of explaining an auto auction business proposal to the public. Insurance Auto Auctions hopes to sell wrecked vehicles to the highest bidder from a building and 34 acres of outdoor storage on a reclaimed gravel pit in East Dundee.
The site is near a Barrington Hills subdivision, where residents have said they fear leaking fluids from vehicles will contaminate groundwater. East Dundee has approved the plan’s concept but has yet to vote on its redevelopment agreement.
To read the full Daily Herald political report, click here.
Posted in BH Polo Club, Cellular Service, Commercial Horse Boarding, Elections 2013, IAA, Lighting Ordinance, Longmeadow Parkway, Riding Club of Barrington Hills, Save 5 Acres, Taxes, Village President on March 5, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Two competitors for Barrington Hills village president agree on one thing: the need to protect the village’s rural appeal, with its estates, horse paddocks and 5-acre zoning. But their approaches differ.
Read more here.
Posted in Agendas, IAA, Village Board on February 23, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Monday evening’s Village Board agenda can be viewed here.
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