Both Brookfield and Riverside are decrying the Building Up Illinois Developments plan proposed by Gov. JB Pritzker, with officials saying the proposal to overhaul zoning laws across the state would have negative consequences at the local level.
Pritzker announced the plan, also known as BUILD, during his State of the State and budget address in February, where he named local zoning as a barrier against building new housing developments that he said will be necessary to meet statewide demand.
“The project for middle class renewal at the University of Illinois issued a report last summer showing that we will need to build 227,000 more homes by 2030 to keep up with demand. In many places, local regulations have made it too difficult and costly to build new housing,” Pritzker said. “The great news is we have developers ready to build homes, and we have Illinoisans who need them. It doesn’t get done because of these regulations.”…