Message from Dundee Neighbors

Please remember if you havent already to mail all of the Village Trustee’s before 4pm today in order for your voice to be heard and documented on file.

The main person to contact is Jennifer Becker @  JBecker@WDundee.Org

But to be effective, lets flood their inboxes and take it a step farther and send it to each of the Trustee’s at all of the following email addresses.

President Larry Keller– Kane County Misc. Depts. DuKane Valley Mayors Council    LKeller@WDundee.Org
Trustee Tom Price — Community Relations Cable Commission TPrice@WDundee.Org
Trustee Patrick Hanley– Administration/Finance Appearance Review Commission PHanley@WDundee.Org
Trustee Becky Gillam — Intergovernmental District 300 – Leadership  RGillam@WDundee.Org
Trustee Joe Motyl — Police/Fire QuadCom   JMotyl@WDundee.Org
Trustee Norm Osth– Community Development Planning & Zoning Commission  NOsth@WDundee.Org
Trustee Andy Yuscka– Public Works, Park Redevelopment Liaison  AYuscka@WDundee.Org

Email all of the Trustees   WDPresBoard@WDundee.Org or   trustees@wdundee.org

Also, if you would like to help in the efforts of canvassing all of Dundee, please email Dundee Neighbors (dundeeneighbors@gmail.com) to receive notifications of our upcoming meet locations.  All extra hands are greatly appreciated!! We need your help!!

Thank you for your time, and we hope to see you at the next meeting @ Randall Oaks Tuesday May 27 @7pm

Supercenter Wrong For West Dundee

The following is a Press Release issued by Dundee Neighbors.

WEST DUNDEE RESIDENTS: SUPERCENTER IS WRONG FOR WEST DUNDEE

A group of concerned residents in West Dundee have come together to form Dundee Neighbors, a coalition of residents and interested parties who want to send a message: development is an issue of deep public concern, and high-impact developments cannot be planned behind closed doors and then submitted to the public only as a formality. A 186,000 square foot, 24-hour Supercenter is wrong for West Dundee. Residents and neighbors are currently working to more comprehensively evaluate the plan, which includes requests for Special Uses and Variances and necessitates a road-widening.

What is clear is that West Dundee’s small-town, Main Street character could suffer irreparable harm by the opening of a 24-hour, mega-giant retailer in a residential neighborhood. The small retailers who typically prop up Main Street shopping could be discouraged, young families looking for a safe, quiet town will look elsewhere, and the quaint nature of our historic river town will be sacrificed for a quick fix to a budget gap caused by temporary economic conditions.

Dundee Neighbors has heard from dozens of residents in every part of the Village-from the river to Sleepy Hollow, from Huntley Road to the highway-that a high-impact development like a Wal-Mart Supercenter is wrong for West Dundee. Despite intimation and implications that the plan is a “done deal”, residents are eager to have their say and contribute to the public planning progress.

Besides its poor record for parking lot and customer safety [see: http://video.nbc5.com/player/?id=247256 ], a Supercenter is a less-than-optimal neighbor. The sheer size of the planned store-some 3.5x the size of a standard Wal-Mart discount store-is unacceptable with no transitional uses between itself and single family homes, both by common sense and by most planning standards. The abutting park and wetlands will also surely suffer. Wal-Mart is also planning taller lights-greater than the height of four basketball poles-and removing internal landscaping islands in favor of a vast parking desert with end-caps.

Tartans Drive, a residential road with homes that face the street, many of them with young children who cross the street to play in the park, will become a cut-through street for the heavy traffic intended for the huge retailer.

Dundee Neighbors are reaching out to residents across the village to encourage them to get all the facts and participate in the public process that is supposed to weigh ALL the evidence-not just the evidence provided by the developer. They can be reached at dundeeneighbors@gmail.com.

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A public hearing will be held at 7:30 p.m. tonight at Randall Oaks Golf Club, 4101 Binnie Road, West Dundee.