OSWEGO, IL — A 345-unit residential development on roughly 80 acres of vacant land near Wolf’s Crossing Road and Douglas Road is moving forward, the Oswego Village Board decided.
Trustees voted 3-3 on the concept plan for the Drake property during their Nov. 28 regular meeting. Village President Ryan Kauffman’s yes vote broke the tie created by trustees Tom Guist, Jennifer Jones Sinnott and Andrew Torres voting yes and Kit Kuhrt, Karin McCarthy-Lange and Karen Novy voting no.
The approved concept plan calls for 219 rentable townhouses and 126 detached single-family houses to be built on currently unincorporated Kendall County land south of Wolf’s Crossing Road and east of Douglas Road.
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“We are hoping to provide elevated design and superior quality, and we’ll be on the upper end of the range on both the townhomes and single-family homes,” Tom Drake, president of The Drake Group, said when asked about the project’s price point.
Townhouses — each building would contain three to six units — will be located on the eastern section of the property, which is also slated to feature a clubhouse with a pool. Houses will be constructed on the western half, with about 4.3 acres of the 55 acres of land dedicated to park space.
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“We don’t build the same product over and over; I think that makes us different than some of the other national builders that are here that take a product that they built in a different community and place it here,” Drake explained at the meeting. “We’re not doing that. This is designed to look like something different. … This is unique to Oswego.”
The proposed density for the development is 2.3 single-family homes per acre and 8.5 townhouse units per acre, for an overall gross density of 4.28 units per acre.
The development would contain 438 parking spaces for individual units and 63 guest spots scattered throughout the lot. Detention ponds and sidewalks are planned as well.
The concept plan currently outlines two access points off Wolf’s Crossing Road. The western access would be restricted to right-in and right-out, while the eastern access would be a full intersection aligned with Secretariat Lane, according to documents. The plan also provides for a right-of-way dedication for the future widening of Wolf’s Crossing Road.
The Planning and Zoning Commission voted 6-0 on Oct. 5 to recommend approval of the concept plan, with the added recommendation to align the stub street with the proposed Saddlebrook Farm development and to reduce the overall density of the project.
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