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8 | October 18, 2018 | The Northbrook tower news northbrooktower.com From Oct. 9 Helicopter lands at Northbrook school to transport burn victim to hospital Martin Carlino, Editor A Flight for Life helicopter landed at approximately 11:26 a.m. Oct. 9 at Northbrook’s Field Middle School to transport a burn victim in the area to a local hospital, according to school officials. Per Northbrook Fire Chief Andrew Carlson, the Northbrook Fire Department was called to Longvalley Drive just before 11 a.m. for a burn victim. “Crews were directed to an elderly male in the backyard of a residence with severe burns that appeared to be the result of an accident while doing yard work,” Carlson told The Tower in an email. According to District 31 Superintendent Dr. Alexandra Nicholson, local officials requested to use the school’s field to transport the subject from a ground ambulance to a helicopter. Nicholson confirmed the burn victim was not any of the school’s students or staff members. “It had nothing to do with the school,” she told The Tower. “No students or staff were injured, but we allowed them to use our property to transport this person.” The burn victim was transported to a nearby burn center in Maywood, Carlson said. The cause and circumstances are still under investigation. To sign up for Breaking News Alerts, visit NorthbrookTower. com/Plus Northbrook Village Board Trustees generally support 86-unit development, with qualifiers Chris Pullam Freelance Reporter Eighty-six townhomes could be replacing the current corporate offices for Maurice Sporting Goods to the east of Techny and Shermer Roads. The Northbrook Village Board conducted a preliminary review of the proposed development, located at 1910 Techny Road, during its Tuesday, Oct. 9 meeting. Based on village staff’s initial review, the area would need to be rezoned from an I-1 Restricted Industrial District to an R-8 Multiple Family Residential District. The applicant, M/I Homes, also hopes to build a private, two-way drive connecting the various buildings on the 11- acre property. M/I Homes would demolish the existing onestory office building and replace it with a planned development consisting of 18 townhome buildings with three to seven units each. The development would include multiple individual driveways, plus seven guest parking space divided into two locations. According to the board packet, “The R-8 district is predominantly intended to provide a suburban environment for development utilizing various residential building types, including multiple family dwellings, which may result in higher densities than in single-family developments.” As proposed, the 86 units situated on 11.14 acres of land would result in a density of 7.7 units per acre. The townhomes would Eighty-six townhomes could be replacing the current corporate offices for Maurice Sporting Goods to the east of Techny and Shermer Roads. Village Trustees first heard the proposal on Tuesday, Oct. 9. Rendering Courtesy of the Village of Northbrook appear to be two-stories tall from the front, but would be three-stories high from the rear facade. There would also be various models with different interior floor plans. Specifically, units would have either two or three bedrooms and would range in size from 1,810 to 2,350 square feet. The three-story units would not exceed 35 feet in height and the facades would use a combination of architectural shingles, brick and stone. The townhome units would cost approximately $400,000-500,000. “I think this is nice development at that location,” Trustee Karagianis said. “I think townhomes are a good idea there. Part of what’s fueling that is the idea that we’ll get more population density closer to downtown and that will assist the health of our downtown businesses.” But, Karagianis finished his assessment by asking the Northbrook Plan Commission to look at the proposed development’s density, consider the height of the buildings relative to the distance between them to avoid a “canyon effect,” and see if the private drive could be converted into a public roadway owned and maintained by the Village. Trustee A.C. Buehler III agreed with Karagianis’s recommendations but voiced confidence that the Plan Commission could work through those details with the developer. Trustee Kathryn Ciesla also voiced concern about density but then showed some support for the plan’s private roadway because the Village would be off the hook for maintenance costs, arguing that “to extent that the Village of Northbrook doesn’t have to incur that added expense, the better for us.” She wasn’t as supportive about the number of guest parking spots. “I don’t think parking is adequate at all with seven additional spaces,” she said. “That’s really not even a starter for me, so the developer will have to do a lot better in my mind.” Trustee Robert Israel also worried about the proposed density, but mostly because of its potential effect on stormwater retention and flooding. Trustee Muriel Collison was the fifth-straight trustee to worry about the density, but she spent most of her time discussing the implications of having only seven guest parking spots. “If you’re talking about two or three bedrooms and 86 units, and that’s presumably going to have families and kids with friends and parties, it’s nowhere near enough for me,” she said. She also brought up the traffic concerns that could arise with adding a housing development so close to the railroad tracks, which already slow passing vehicles. The development’s biggest criticism came from Trustee Jason Han, who doesn’t believe the property should be rezoned, which would immediately kill the proposal. “I think it should stay R-1,” he said. “I drive down Techny Road at least four to five times a week [and] I would comment on traffic. Just to the east of the development is that iconic underpass where the trains go through and it’s a bottleneck. … It seems [Maurice Sporting Goods] was a great tenant there and it would be great to keep it industrial or commercial.” Village President Sandy Frum voiced overall support for the proposal, especially considering that the development wouldn’t require any variations other than the private drive. She also praised the price of the units. “I also think what is attractive about this is the price point, which no one has talked about,” she said. “And when we see the kinds of houses being built in Northbrook in other places, and we’re talking about milliondollar homes, it’s really nice to see homes that are looking at coming in at the [$400,000-500,000] range. And its important to acknowledge that as you drop units, you go up in price. So sometimes we need to trade off.” The board will reassess the proposal at a future meeting after the Plan Commission gives its assessment.
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