Developer for Shepley Gets 3-3 Vote at Planning and Zoning

Prior to the April municipal elections in Crystal Lake, I saw so many Shepley for Mayor signs on vacant property, I wrote a story called,

So, I wasn’t too surprised when the site on Huntley and Bard Roads turned up in the Northwest Herald last Thursday.

Jim Butts wrote the story about how the Planning and Zoning Commission had split 3 to 3 on whether to recommend the 38 townhouse and commercial development in this heretofore residential area.

Now, one can readily see why Crystal Lake wouldn’t care about invading the area that is the entrance to Lakewood’s Turnberry. And it is next to a Crystal Lake fire station.

But some neighbors from Crystal Lake upscale Wedgewood and Harvest Run subdivisions apparently are none too happy.

Harvest Run is the subdivision that stopped Dartmoor from being extended to hook up with some road in Lakewood. It’s an east-west road from the eastern edge of Coventry that runs through Four Colonies to Huntley Road and, maybe, beyond into Harvest Run.

So these folks have experience in lobbying city council.

One must assume that residents of Wedgewood, a subdivision that many influential Crystal Lakers have moved in retirement, might be able to exercise some power as well.


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