Homes for a Changing Region provides comprehensive strategies for communities seeking to broaden or diversify their housing options.
Interactive public workshops in Arlington Heights, Buffalo Grove, Mount Prospect, Palatine and Rolling Meadows will shape future housing planning
Through the "Homes for a Changing Region" project, five northwest suburban communities will engage the public around strategies to meet each community’s future housing needs.
The public is encouraged to attend interactive workshop events in June in Arlington Heights, Buffalo Grove, Mount Prospect, Palatine, and Rolling Meadows. Each Homes for a Changing Region event will bring area residents together to start creating a collective vision for future housing in their community.
Community leaders and citizens alike will participate in a board game-like exercise, through which participants work together over large maps and use game pieces representing different types of housing development to indicate how and where the village's expected residential growth should occur. The results will be used to guide strategies in each community that support a balanced mix of housing types, serve the needs of existing and future residents and workers, and enhance livability.
“In hosting this workshop we hope to gain insight into planning for housing needs,” said Irvana K. Wilks, Mayor of the Village of Mount Prospect. “Whether a business owner or resident, we invite everyone from the community to attend. We will listen to presenters who have gathered demographical data about Mount Prospect and surrounding areas. Then we will explore new ideas the attendees have. Those ideas will help us chart our Village's future."
Homes for a Changing Region is led by the Metropolitan Mayors Caucus and Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning's Local Technical Assistance (LTA) Program, in partnership with local communities, and with support from the Metropolitan Planning Council. In recent years, Homes for a Changing Region has collaborated with leaders from Aurora, Blue Island, Gurnee, Libertyville, Montgomery, Northlake, Oak Forest, Plainfield, and Woodstock.
Details follow on each community's meeting. For more information about Homes for a Changing Region, visit www.cmap.illinois.gov/homes or www.metroplanning.org/homes.
WHAT
Arlington Heights, Buffalo Grove, Mount Prospect, Palatine, and Rolling Meadows will host public workshops in June, inviting local residents to weigh in on local housing plans being created through Homes for a Changing Region project.
WHEN AND WHERE
Rolling Meadows
June 6
7:00pm
City Hall
3600 Kirchoff Road
Rolling Meadows, IL 60008
Staff Contact: Valerie Dehner, Community Development Director
Mount Prospect
June 12
7:00 p.m.
Village Hall
50 South Emerson St
Mount Prospect, IL 60056
Staff Contact: Brian Simmons, Deputy Director of Community Development
Arlington Heights
June 19
7:00 p.m.
Village Hall
33 S. Arlington Heights Road
Arlington Heights, IL 60005
Staff Contact: Nora Boyer, Housing Planner
Buffalo Grove
June 20
7:00 p.m.
Village Hall
50 Raupp Blvd.
Buffalo Grove, IL 60089
Staff Contact: Bob Pfeil, Village Planner
Palatine
June 28
7:00 p.m.
Village Hall
200 East Wood Street
Palatine, Illinois 60067
Staff Contact: Kevin Anderson, Assistant Director of Planning and Zoning
PROGRAM CONTACTS
Drew Williams-Clark, Principal Planner, Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (312-386-8770 or awilliamsclark@cmap.illinois.gov)
Allison L. Milld, Director of Housing Initiatives, Metropolitan Mayors Caucus (312-201-4507 or amilld@mayorscaucus.org)
Nancy Firfer, Senior Advisor, Metropolitan Planning Council (312-863-6025 or nfirfer@metroplanning.org)