Aldermen voted 7-1 Monday night to defer taking action on a proposal to spend about $1.2 million to add 133 parking spaces to a garage in a $70 million downtown retail and residential development.
Earlier this month, the city’s partners in the development, Tucker Development Corp. and Joseph Freed and Associates, announced they were moving condominium parking spaces underground and no longer planned to build a health club atop the garage.
Merchants, shoppers and city staff members liked the idea of adding more parking with funds from a tax-increment finance fund, said Des Plaines Economic Development Director William Schneider Jr.
But aldermen reached no consensus on the benefits of adding an extra floor of parking. They asked for a city study of the cost of building the extra parking level in the future.
The City Council will take up the issue April 5 when it considers a planned-unit development for the entire project.
