Roos and his partners plan to take their proposal to the city\u2019s Zoning Board of Appeals tonight despite a thumbs-down recommendation from city staff.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a strong market study that came back very positive. We\u2019ve got commitments from some of our lenders. The missing link is the (city\u2019s approval of a planned unit development application),\u201d Roos said Monday. \u201cWe\u2019ve had positive conversations with the city, and we believe we\u2019ve addressed their concerns.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s not that these developers haven\u2019t made an effort to appropriately design their development,\u201d Cagnoni said. \u201cThe fundamental concern of staff is that it\u2019s not the appropriate land use. It\u2019s not consistent with our 2020 plan, nor is it consistent with the TIF plan that we\u2019ve adopted for that area. We\u2019re looking for more commercial and industrial uses to go in that area rather than residential.\u201d<\/p>\n Going against the city\u2019s plan can cause problems down the road, Cagnoni added.<\/p>\n \u201cOnce you start going against the land use plan, you start taking opportunities away from commercial development that you\u2019d like to see in the future, and you\u2019re setting the stage that it\u2019s going to be a residential development and we\u2019re going to have to provide the services that we typically provide for residential, which is not planned for that particular area.\u201d<\/p>\n But Roos argued that the current zoning classification would allow for a residential development. He said he\u2019s asking the zoning board for height and setback variances.<\/p>\n Rents of $630 to $930<\/strong> Because of the types of funding that LandWhite hopes to obtain, The Village would need to rent 80 percent of its units to people who meet income eligibility requirements, Roos said. The remaining 20 percent would be market rate, he said.<\/p>\n LandWhite also is putting together a proposal for the redevelopment of Church School on Rockford\u2019s west side.<\/p>\n Staff writer Corina Curry can be reached at Read the original article from the Distributed via A development team from Indiana and New York wants to build a 158-unit apartment complex on Rockford\u2019s south side near the intersection of 11th Street and Sandy Hollow Road, but the city says the proposal conflicts with long-range plans. LandWhite Developers LLC has put together a $17.6 million proposal to build the rental units, called […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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