A proposed 99-home subdivision near Harper College in Palatine has drawn fire from residents and businesses near the site.
After a long meeting on the development Tuesday night, the village plan commission tabled a vote on the 30-acre project until its Dec. 16 meeting.
Carriageway Builders’ Peregrine Lake Estates would have 39 single-family homes and 60 townhouses on the northwest corner of Euclid Avenue and Quentin Road. The land is now zoned for office-research use.
The Palatine Village Council recently amended its comprehensive plan to allow single-family houses on the southeast corner of Euclid and Quentin.
Trace Labs representatives asked that Carriageway be prohibited from building 28 townhouses on nearly four acres bordering Trace’s property. Trace said it wants Peregrine Lake, on the other side of those four acres, to act as a buffer between the residential and research sites.
Trace spokesman Tom Hefty said the comprehensive plan supported his position, and Carriageway’s proposal would “adversely affect the property value of Trace.”
Village staff have recommended approval of the Peregrine plan subject to 20 conditions, said David Fieldman, Palatine planning and zoning administrator. They include removing those 28 townhouses from the project, he said.
Residents, meanwhile, voiced concerns on traffic and flooding.
One resident reminded the commission that the increased traffic from the development will be “compounded with the 20,000 kids going in and out of Harper College,” just southwest of the site.
Many residents of the Hunting Ridge subdivision, whose yards border the Carriageway property, said they fear increased flooding if the plan goes through.
But commissioner Marilyn Meller said, “The developer is not obligated to solve your drainage problems. He only has to not make them worse.”
The plan commission asked Carriageway to provide a preliminary landscape plan before its next meeting.
