Your action is needed immediately to keep this from happening!
Pulte Homes is taking the next step in their effort to build 84 homes with at least 168 cars that will enter and exit the development ONLY on Purnell Road. They have never listened to the residents and answered the question: Why not have the entrance/exit on Roosevelt Road which is designed to handle heavy traffic?
After hearing the complaints of a multitude of residents, the County forced Pulte to conduct a traffic study. The study proved the residents were correct – Purnell Road is overused and hazardous to you, to me, to our children, our friends, our neighbors and the many others who use it as a short cut between Winfield Road and Route 59. Pulte does not care about the safety of people on Purnell Road; they only care about their own profit.
On Friday, June 12, 2020, West Chicago published the agenda packet for their City Council meeting for Monday, June 15, 2020:
1) To consider and vote on a pre-annexation agreement resulting in Pulte building 84 homes on a parcel zoned for approximately 25 homes and 2) To approve public utility easement agreements to bring water and sewer to the homes. The request refers to sewer and water being available from the north side of Garys Mill Road, west of Purnell Road, and briefly and vaguely references “a small portion of the Blackwell Forest Preserve” on the other side of Garys Mill Road. It fails to explain the need to annex or obtain an easement from the Forest Preserve that would allow them to dig up Forest Preserve land and remove about 12 trees resulting, according to a study by the Forest Preserve, the ultimate destruction of up to 300 trees. The Forest Preserve denied the request for this easement in May 2020.
The packet link is provided below for you to see what is planned. Please take the time to read through it with special attention to pages 1-3, 30, 46 and 58, among others.
Click on Packet City Council below and see what West Chicago and Pulte want:
1. A pre-annexation agreement with Pulte
2. A resolution approving the final plat of Trillium Farm (note: this plat includes entrance and exit for the development ONLY onto Purnell Road)
3. A resolution authorizing the Mayor to enter into a pre-annexation agreement with Pulte and to sign a public utility easement agreement for private properties on the north side of Gary’s Mill Road
We believe Pulte has conveniently used the COVID restrictions and distractions to quickly and quietly bring this resolution to completion with West Chicago.
This is your opportunity to appeal to the City of West Chicago to prevent additional traffic and safety hazards on Purnell Road and to require Pulte to do the same by changing their entrance/exit to the development to Roosevelt Road. This is a serious safety issue and Pulte Homes does not care about it. Tell West Chicago that it is their responsibility to ensure the safety of the residents in this area.
Your comments/concerns/objections need to be sent in ASAP and no later than Monday, June 15, by 4 pm. Use the easy online form below on the West Chicago link to express your opposition. Attend the meeting virtually using the information below.
Thank you for all your current and past support! This could be our last chance to voice our opinions to oppose a development that will only bring Purnell Road to a new, more dangerous traffic and safety status with the addition of Trillium Farm with entrances and exits limited to Purnell Road.
City Council – June 15, 2020
JUNE 5, 2020 BY VALERIA PEREZ
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