The Arlington Heights Village Board, meeting as Committee of the Whole this week, heard a proposal that could bring a single, large development to 10 adjoining, single-family home lots along Algonquin Road west of Arlington Heights Road.
Owners of 10 different lots surrounding Martin Lane are asking the village to vacate the cul-de-sac so that the property can be sold to an unspecified developer and all 10 lots can be developed in unison.
Charles Witherington-Perkins, director of planning and community development for the village, said that he had heard a number of development proposals for the area.
The village rezoned the area for commercial use in 1989.
Village staff has requested that the owners of the lots pay the village $35,000 for vacating Martin Lane.
The proposal is scheduled to again come before the Village Board on June 15.
In other action Monday night, trustees approved more than $3 million in new sewers, sidewalks and curbs for the Arlington Manor subdivision in the southeast part of the village.
The work will affect 152 property owners, who will have to pay special assessments of about $4,500 per lot or roughly $675,000 total for the work.
Streets affected by the improvements are Pine Avenue from Central Avenue to 120 feet north of White Oak Avenue; Belmont Avenue from Magnolia Street to 120 feet north of White Oak; Haddow Street from Central Avenue to 120 feet north of White Oak; Magnolia Street from Arlington Heights Road to Belmont, and Cypress Street from Arlington Heights Road to Douglas Avenue.
Mark Schoeffmann, director of engineering for the village, said that the improvements should begin later this summer.
