The Oswego Village Board recently approved a special use permit for a preliminary and final planned unit development and subdivision plat for Jade Estates of Oswego, a proposed 52-unit residential project.
The board’s vote was 5-1, with Trustee Karin McCarthy-Lange voting no.
South Barrington-based Projades LLC proposes to build 40 duplex units and 12 townhome units on about 8 acres on the southwest corner of Wolfs Crossing and Douglas roads in an unincorporated part of Kendall County near Oswego.
The Oswego Village Board authorized an annexation agreement with the developer, MK Builders and Construction LLC, in May of 2025.
The annexation agreement outlines the conditions for a shared stormwater detention facility that would serve both the future Jade Estates of Oswego development and the village’s need for water detention related to the Wolfs Crossing Road improvements, village officials have said. The agreement specifies terms related to the costs associated with the construction of the stormwater basin.
The Village Board on March 3 approved a first amendment to the annexation agreement, which updated the shared stormwater detention facility project timeline and clarified responsibilities for the construction and maintenance of the facility.
The village’s Planning and Zoning Commission twice denied a recommendation of approval for the concept plan for the project based on concerns over density.
The developer initially requested 66 units, but now is looking to build 52 units.
McCarthy-Lange said she has been opposed to the project even before the Planning and Zoning Commission recommended against it.
“I think this is too high density,” McCarthy-Lange said. “It is at a very busy intersection and I am concerned about traffic.”
Village officials said the proposal is consistent with the concept plan that was approved last year with the annexation agreement.
Trustee Rachelle Koenig said she doesn’t have a problem with the density of the proposed development.
“I struggle with the starkness of this,” Koenig said.
She said the proposal “actually matches” the Avanterra subdivision next to it.
“There’s no park. I would assume the builder has taken into account who they are targeting (for prospective buyers). Is it ideal, no. It does comply with what we have set out,” she said.
The discussion at this stage of the process complies with the approved annexation agreement, Oswego Village Administrator Dan Di Santo said.
The Oswego Village Board approved the same plan for the project in May 2025 but now the engineering has been completed, he said.
“There needs to be a compelling reason not to move forward with the plan since it is essentially the same plan that was already approved,” Di Santo said.
He noted further that the Village Board already agreed to fund construction of a detention pond on behalf of the developer at a lower cost to the village, Di Santo said.
“We were going to pay the developer for our detention in the original agreement. We changed that to we are going to build their detention pond. The cost for us to pay the developer was $150,000 and in the bidding it has gone down to $130,000. It’s come down $20,000 from what we were originally going to end up paying,” Di Santo said.
Linda Girardi is a freelance reporter for The Beacon-News.
