A 14-acre strip of vacant land on the north side of U.S. Route 34, squeezed between the Orchard Way shopping center and the sprawling Parksmith Run property, could soon hold eight multi-family buildings and 187 residential units. The Oswego Village Board is set to review the concept plan from developer PMC Investments on Tuesday, weighing in on a project that already cleared its first major hurdle with a unanimous nod from village planners.
The Oswego Planning and Zoning Commission voted 9-0 in July to recommend approval of the concept plan, according to reporting by the Chicago Tribune, which cited freelance reporter Linda Girardi’s account published in the Aurora Beacon-News. Even with that endorsement, commissioners flagged concerns about a proposed connection to the neighboring Parksmith Run development and how traffic would flow between the two sites, per the same report.
Village planner Jeff Lind described the property itself as long and narrow — 1,470 feet deep and just 340 feet wide, according to Lind’s account relayed in the Tribune’s coverage. That awkward geometry appears to be shaping the layout: PMC Investments has proposed placing three three-story buildings closest to the nearby commercial properties along Route 34, while five two-story buildings would sit nearest to the Parksmith Run site, per the same account. The concept plan also calls for a half-acre of open space and a clubhouse with a pool.
Annexation and Rezoning Still Ahead
Before any of it can move forward, the site must be annexed into Oswego and rezoned, the article notes. The property currently sits in unincorporated Kendall County on the north side of Route 34, west of the Orchard Way shopping center — a stretch of the corridor that Illinois Department of Transportation figures published by the Village of Oswego peg at roughly 27,900 vehicles a day, making it the community’s busiest commercial artery…