Village officials this week pledged to arrange a meeting between management from a grocery store-anchored shopping plaza and nearby homeowners who say the businesses haven’t been good neighbors.
Homeowner Dawn Malik said untidy property, rodents and noisy trucks plague residents of the Lincoln Meadow subdivision, which adjoins the plaza anchored by Jewel-Osco at U.S. Highway 30 and La Grange Road.
“We feel neglected,” said Malik, who complained of being awakened by garbage trucks at 4 a.m., sometimes after being kept awake by the noise of refrigerated trucks left running and parked overnight.
A fence separating the back of the stores from homeowners’ back yards is falling down, and there is no screening, she said.
“We see rats, we see garbage, we see old mattresses,” Margy Sass said.
Residents can call police with a noise complaint when the garbage trucks show up in the pre-dawn hours, but the trucks will be gone by the time the police get there, Sass said.
Village Administrator Jerry Ducay said the village does not have the authority to regulate delivery times or garbage pickup hours on the site. “It’s not an issue of regulatory compliance; it’s an issue of voluntary compliance,” he said.
Mayor Jim Holland agreed to arrange a meeting among residents, village officials and representatives of the plaza’s merchants.
