Tinley Park trustees on Tuesday will begin discussions aimed at overhauling development codes tailored to the downtown business district that were meant to encourage development, but have handcuffed the Village Board in considering a controversial apartment project.
They’ll also talk about a possible moratorium on construction in the Legacy District, which takes in much of the Oak Park Avenue business area as well as the site for the planned The Reserve development at the northeast corner of 183rd Street and Oak Park Avenue.
No final votes can be taken at the committee of the whole meeting, which starts at 6 p.m. in the Fulton Conference Room at Village Hall.
The village’s Plan Commission last week delayed taking a vote on giving final approval to plans for the 47-unit building, which would be marketed to low- and moderate-income renters. The proposal brought hundreds of residents to the Plan Commission and Village Board meetings last week, with many of them arguing that the village already has a sufficient amount of affordable housing.
Residents were also upset that the project and the review process for it were not well publicized, and trustees at Tuesday’s session are also expected to discuss ways of improving the public communication process.
The village did post information about The Reserve on its website late last month, after the Plan Commission gave tentative approval to the project.
Building and development codes for the downtown Legacy District were designed to streamline the review process for projects in hopes of spurring development, but in the case of the apartment project, the Village Board had no say in the matter, prompting some trustees to call for a review and revision of the codes.
Also at Tuesday’s meeting, trustees will discuss bringing in an outside consultant to help in the review of the codes, and Mayor Dave Seaman named a four-person group of residents — Matt Coughlin, Trenton Ridgway, Charlie Smith and Roxane DeVos Tyssen — to be involved in the process as well.
