View from Gray's Lake on the North

View from Gray's Lake on the North
Project "porch view" from Gray's Lake on the North per the developer (if you were standing 20 feet above the water)

Sunday, April 24, 2011

REVEALED! The actual Mercy Housing Lakefront Zoning Special Use Permit Application for the Grayslake Senior Center

Through a Freedom of Information Act Request we have obtained more of the actual documents contained in application by Mercy Housing Lakefront for modifications to the 2007 Zoning Special Use Permit for the Grayslake Senior Center project at Route 120 and Neville Road being considered by Grayslake Zoning Board of Appeals.

The Special Use Permit document: 2011SUPApplication.pdf
Color Exhibits: colorexhibits.pdf

The citizens of Grayslake have requested repeatedly that the full collection of documents included in the application being considered by Grayslake Zoning Board of Appeals - on which the board is seeking public comment - be made available to the public. This request was made at the Grayslake Zoning Board of Appeals Meeting on March 14 and again on April 11 - each time asking how the public could be invited to comment on a matter the public could not be aware of. Some documents were posted on the Village of Graylake web site, http://villageofgrayslake.com on April 4th. The posted "housing special use.pdf" version of the full file has 8 pages. The actual document being reviewed by the board, linked above, has 34 pages.

Some interesting items in the SUP document:

The application indicates that one change from the 2007 plan is the building is "3 stories w/garden level" vs. the original 3 stories...

...while the brochure from Mercy Housing Lakefront, included in the same document says "The building will be a four story elevator structure."


The application not only does not contain the required "Preliminary Plat," there is no drawing with a single dimension callout in the entire application, even as the variation being asked for mentions changes to normal 5 foot property setback. Not only is there is no indication where that request applies, there is not a mention of a single dimension of any length in any drawing included in the application to the board.

We continue to wonder how the Grayslake Zoning Board of Appeals is being asked to make an informed recommendation to the full Grayslake Village Board with the incomplete and inconsistent information in this application.

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