What Went Wrong With “Re-Zoning”
The reaction of the community to the proposed re-zoning makes it crystal clear that the Village is on the wrong track. The process should be tabled until a new President and Trustees that represent the vision of the community can be elected.
It is important to understand that the Village is attempting to do two very different things. First, it wants to change the zoning of hundreds of parcels throughout the Village. So, your F zoning may change to R, for instance. Maybe more important, the Village has introduced a new Zoning Ordinance that places new restrictions on every parcel in the Village.
Meanwhile, the Village has offered no meaningful answers to the most basic questions:
“Kane County’s zoning was good enough. Why change?”
“Why does the Village need more rules and regulations?”
“I moved here for the semi-rural feel. Why is it necessary to change what we have?”
Even worse, the current administration in Campton Hills has been propagating half-truths and mis-statements about the zoning process. The most important of these misleading statements include:
- “This process is NOT creating new zoning regulations”
This is manifestly untrue. The Village has proposed 127 pages of new Zoning Ordinance language that details all the various new restrictions that would be placed on our properties. - “All the meetings and workshops have been noticed and open to the public”
While this is technically true, it doesn’t matter. The best attended sessions were in 2013. Even the workshops held in 2019 seem very long ago and most residents were unaware. The “Steering Committee” was dominated by Mike Tyrrell himself. Post-pandemic, the community deserves a fresh start on project of such huge significance to our residents. - “Simply, segments of the County’s decades old code did not meet our community’s Vision.”
We really don’t know what the communities “vision” is but it appears to be at odds with the “Vision” of Mike Tyrrell and his hand-picked “steering committee”.