The City Council on Tuesday unanimously rejected plans by the owner of the two-story Private Bank building in Oak Brook to expand across village borders into Oakbrook Terrace.
Aldermen rejected plans by building owner Gerry Kostelny of InSite Real Estate Development to put a 24,000-square-foot, two-story addition with first-floor retail space on the building at 1603 16th St.
The council refused to rezone to commercial use four vacant single-family lots on Monterey Avenue that back up to Illinois Highway 83 in Oakbrook Terrace’s main subdivision.
In recent years, the City Council has been loathe to rezone any single-family properties for commercial use, doing so only to settle litigation by developers or when the single-family lots are not adjacent to any other homes.
Additionally, the four lots are owned by Town & Country Homes, which previously owned the Private Bank building and was rebuffed by city officials in a similar quest to expand that building in 1995.
