Would you be upset if you woke up to find construction crews building an affordable housing project next door to your house? A project that you had no opportunity to learn about, support or oppose, or provide input on. A project that could impact your neighborhood schools and your quality of life.
Councilman Holzhauer thinks you should suck it up and deal with it. At the most recent council meeting, Holzhauer strongly supported a controversial staff idea that would allow for affordable housing developments to move forward “by right”. By right means no public hearing would be necessary for the proposal to move forward.
The staff proposal to allow such treatment was soundly rejected by the Plan Commission. It was also rejected by our Mayor and the majority of council without vote at the last meeting. Nonetheless, Holzhauer pounded the table to bring such developments forward without the need for public hearing.
How utterly ridiculous and what an insult to our residents. Naperville, please keep Holzhauer’s flippant attitude toward resident input in mind when voting next April. There will be many strong choices on the ballot who will value your input (and who also have always paid their taxes).
Another example of Ian putting politics over the people of Naperville, how sad!!
The truth has three compenents: the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. To gauge if you feel if CCWD meets this criterion I recommend that you read the following Chicago Tribune article https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/11/20/naperville-city-council-affordable-housing-incentives/ and see if it is true or just another partisan attack. Naperville continues to fail at resolving the affordable housing and printing a pretty catalog instead revising issues with proposed ordinance is a council failure on a grand scale.
Odd comment. It’s partisan to want transparency? What about the post isn’t true? Your link corroborates the post.
Ian is a well known grifter and odd dude. Vote him out and elect someone who is competent. Same with grifter Benny.
You think the issue is transparency not the failure to address the affordable housing problem. You target Ian but fail to mention years of effort by consultant and staff to develop ordinance. If Naperville does not resolve this issue, the State of Illinois may be forced to do it for us and transparency will be the least of our problems. Maybe CCWD should consider proposing meaningful solutions instead of complaining.