The developer of a proposed, $40 million townhouse project in Inverness agreed Wednesday night at a Plan Commission hearing to decrease the number of units and increase the number of gated entrances.
Barrington Partners told the Plan Commission it would drop to 103 from 110 the number of single-family attached homes proposed for the 30-acre site.
But a potential obstacle to the developer’s other promise, to create a second entrance to its project, involves the Cook County Forest Preserve District.
The district owns property across Barrington Road and will have to be asked to grant easements for the southbound left-hand turn lane into the development, to be built on the southeast corner of Barrington and Dundee Roads.
Plan Commission Chairman Robert Curry asked that the Forest Preserve District and Illinois Department of Transportation be contacted before the commission’s Jan. 27 meeting and asked if a turn lane can be constructed.
“We have to do something with this land so we don’t get something that we don’t want,” Curry said.
