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Home My WebLink About07/13/1965 VB minutes MINUTES OF SPECIAL MEETING OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES HELD JULY 13, 1965 President Congreve called the meeting to order at 8:05 P.M~ with the following members present: Bergen Bruhl Colfer Ekren Grittani Teichert Roll call The Reverend Dr. Henry Van Dyke of Dutch Reformed Church gave the invocation. Invocation TrUstee Teichert, seconded by Trustee Bruhl, moved to approve the minutes of the previous meeting of July 6th Minutes as corrected° Upon roll Call: Ayes: Bergen Bruhl Colfer Ekren Grittani Teichert Motion car,~ied. Tnustee Gmittani, seconded by Trustee Bruhl, moved for approval of the following bills: General $26,887.68 Parking System Revenue 31.25 Bills Library 963.22 Public Works Bldg. 196~ 225.00 Waterworks & Sewerage 6 ~ 912.67 $35,019.82 Upon roll call: Ayes: Bergen Bmuhl Colfer Ekmen ~ittani Teichert Motion carried. Trustee Grittani, seconded by T~ustee Teichert, moved to amend proposed ordinance establishing license fee and regulations for miniature golf: courses, which has had ~,~cense fees first reading, as follows: Add to Sec. 11,905, Sanitary min. go~f courses Regulations, "and separate washroom facilities are to be pro- Ord. 1065 vided for men and women". Upon roll call: Ayes: Bergen Bx, uhl Colfer Ekren Grittani Teiche~t Motion carried. T~ustee Grittani, seconded by Trustee Teichert, moved for the passage of Ord. 1065 as amended heretofore: AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A LICENSE FEE AND REGULATIONS FOR THE CONDUCT OF MINIATURE GOLF COURSES~ GOLF DRIVING RANGES AND PAR 3 GOLF COURSES Upon roll call: Ayes: Bergen Colfer Grittani Nays: Bruhl Ekren Motion carried. July Trustee Grittani, seconded by Trustee Teichert, moved that Ord. 1065 be published in a newspaper of local circulation. Upon roll call: Ayes: Bergen Colfer Grittani Teichert Nays: Bruhl Ekren Motion carried. Trustee Grittani, secoD~ed by T~ustee Bruhl, moved to approve expenditure of funds to install concrete driveway concrete drive at Fire Station #2 on Golf Road, in lieu of previously speci- Fire Sra. #2 fied blacktop. Upon roll call: Ayes: Bergen Cotfer Grittani Teichert Bruhl Ekren Motion carried. The estimated cost of this drivewa~ is $1',728.00. Trustee Ekren, seconded by Trustee Grittani, moved for the adoption of Res. 22-65: Res. 22-65 (Repeal resurface A RESOLUTION REPEALING RESOLUTION 16-65 Kenilworth Res. 16-65) (Resurfacing Kenilworth Avenue) Upon roll call: Ayes~ Bergen Bruhl Colfer Ekren Grittani Teichert Motion carried. Trustee Ekren, seconded by Trustee Colfer, moved Res. 23-65 for the adoption of Res. 23-55: A RESOLUTION REPEALING RES. 17-65 (Repeal resurface (Resurfacing Waverly Ave.) Waverly Ave. Res. 17-65) Upon roll call: Ayes: Bergen Bruhl Colfer Eknen Grittani Teichert Motion carried. Trustee Ekren gave the f~rst reading of ordinance Spec. Assess. setting up special assessment for paving of Kenilworth Avenue Kenilworth and other improvements, To be placed on next week's agenda. Trustee Bergen, seconded by Trustee Colfer, moved that the Plan Commission'should hold public hearing to discuss Village Plan possible amendment to Section 1~, Article 2, Village Plan, which would add a penalty clause for non-compliance. Upon roll call: Ayes: Bergen Bruhl Colfer Ekren Teich~rt Grittani Motion carried. July 13, 1965 Trustee Bergen ~ead the following letter from Jacob Kellen: President and Board of Trustees Village of Modnt~Prospect Mount Prospect Village Hall Mount Prospect, Illinois Gentlemen: Re: Zoning Case No. 65-6 We have been advised that the Zoning Board of Appeals of the Village of Mount Prospect has recommended that a varia- tion of the terms and conditions of the Mount Prospect Zoning Ordinance be granted to permit the use of our property at the northeast corner of Golf Road and William Street, hereinafter Case 65-6 described, for a wholesale and retail greenhouse business and. Golf 6 William a garden supply business. We are presently conducting such businessess on our said property as legal nonconforming uses, and we have sought a variation so that our uses will be per- mitred uses and so that we can construct a new building to use in connection with the conduct of our businesses. We understand and have agreed that if an ordinance granting the variation that we have requested is adopted by the President and Board of Trustees of the Village of Mount Prospect, that the granting and. adoption of that variation is not to be construed as a decision by the Board that a reclassi- fication of our~property to the B-3 Business and Retail Service District would be appropriate, desirable, or in the best interest of the public. By this letter, and to induce the President and Board of Trustees of the Village of Mount Prospect to adopt an ordi- nance granting us the variation that we have requested in the above case, we hereby agree that we will not, at any Time in the future, use the granting of such variation in support of a peti- tion, or a lawsuit, to secure a B-3 classification of our property described above. We further agree that we will abide and be bound by such conditions as the Board of Trustees may, by ordinance, t ach to the granting of the variation requested in the above mat- ~he property for which application for a variation has been made is more particularly described as: Parcel A Thaw part of the West 325.71 feet (meastu-ed at right angles to the West line thereof~) of Lot. 7 in Owners Subdivision of Sec. 13, Twp. 41 North, Range 11, East 3rd P.M~ lying South of a line drawn at right angles to the West line of Lot 7 from a point on said West line which is 1004.70 feet South of the Northwest cor- ner of said Lot 7 (except the West ~00 ft. thereof); all in Cook County, IlliDois. Parcel B That part of Lot 7 in Owners Sub of Section 13, Twp. 41 N, R-ii E 3rd P.M., described as follows: Commencing at the intersection of the Eas~t line of the West 325.71 feet, measured at right angles to the West line thereof, of said Lot 7, with the Southerly line of said Lot 7; thence north on the East line of the West 325.71 leer'aforesaid, 344 feet to the place of beginning; thence East at right angles to the last described line 25 feet; thence July 13, 1965 North parallel with the~West line of said Lot 7, 179.94 feet more or less to a line drawn at right angles to the West line of said Lot 7, from a point on said West line, which is 939.70 feet South of the Northwest corner of said Lot 7; thence West along last described right,~angle line, 25 feet to the East line of the West 325.71 feet aforesaid, thence South along the East line of the West 325.71 feet aforesaid 179.94 feet more or less, to the place of begin- ning, all in Cook CountY, ~linois~ By our signatures affixed below, we hereby agree that this letter may be ~ecorded in the office of the Record- er of Deeds of Cook County, Illinois. Very truly yours, Jacob Kellen Helen Kel~en Trustee Bergen gave the first reading of an ordinance varying the use regulations of Kellen's property to allow continuation Kellen propertyof his garden supply business. The Board asked the Village Attorney to meet with Mr. Kellen's attorney, Dudley Sullivan, to agree to amending the second paragraph of the letter by de- leting "B-3 Business and Retail Service District" and insert- ing "any business district". Trustee Bergen, seconded by Trustee Teichert, moved that the Board of T~ustees disapprove the plans and specifica- tions for the installation of sanitary sewers and water mains in Units 6 and 8 of Elk Ridge Villa and that the Board of sewers & mains Trustees direct the Acting Superintendent of Buildling to for- Elk Ridge Villa-~e ward a letter to the developer, explaining that the following changes are required in-said plans and specifications in order to provide the necessary fire flow: 1. 500.000 gal. storage tank and pumps to be installed at approximately Golf and Busse. 2. Install 10" water main from Redwood to Busse. 3. a. Connect 8" water main in Timberlake Apartments to corner of Tamarack and Pheasant, or Install 8" water main on Pheasant to Tamarack. b. Install 6" water main from Pheasant to Willow Lane (continuation of Lavergne). c.Install 6" water main from Catalpa to Busse. Upon roll call: Ayes: Bergen Bruhl Collar Ekr~n Teichert Grittani Motion carried. Curfew T~us~ee Teichert asked the press as a public service to publish the Village ordinance regarding curfew. The Board discussed nuisances; overgrown lot at nuisances 200 S. Emerson; purple martin bird houses kept by resident, the birds annoy the neighbors, No action was taken. July 13, 1965 Letter was received by the Board signed by Mrs. Mary Gardner, President of the Library Board, requesting that the President and Board of Trustees take such action as the law may~equire to secure a maximum tax rate for the Library Library tax Fund at .12% of the full, fair cash value of all taxable prop- rate erty in the Village of Mount P~ospect. Copy of proposed library /budget accompanied this letter. Prospective purchasers of homes in Elk Ridge Villa complained because the Village was holding up building permits and they wanted their houses completed by due date. President Elk Ridge .Vill Congreve replied that this was a matter of litigation, not to bldg. permit be discussed at open meeting. Adjournment by acclamation at 9:14 P.M. Respectfully submitted, Richard H. Monroe, Clerk July 13, 1965