Former Northbrook Village President Gene Marks, left, rejected by voters 12 years ago, wants back in. Ana Mendez McGuinnes, Christopher Lay and Robert Burns, left to right, are his village board slate. “Where does Gene want me to send the money?” the developer asked me.
Thank you Irv for your honest and enlightening article about the developers and Northbrook politics. They are not interested in anything other than their projects so it is up to our village trustees to protect our homes and businesses as they did by rejecting the Techny/Shermer project.
We must elect officials whose decisions will positively impact our town and not their wallets.
You are wrong about Heritage Woods. It definitely would have been built without massive residential opposition. The developer spent $300,000 trying to get the project approved. Why would the trustees have encouraged him to keep pursuing the project and waste all that money if it was doomed from the start? The first time the plan was presented to the trustees, they were intrigued by the idea and sent it to the Plan Commission. Why would they have done that if they didn't think it was a good idea? Of course the developer was angry. He himself said that it was all of the community opposition that defeated the project.
Thank you Irv for your honest and enlightening article about the developers and Northbrook politics. They are not interested in anything other than their projects so it is up to our village trustees to protect our homes and businesses as they did by rejecting the Techny/Shermer project.
We must elect officials whose decisions will positively impact our town and not their wallets.
You are wrong about Heritage Woods. It definitely would have been built without massive residential opposition. The developer spent $300,000 trying to get the project approved. Why would the trustees have encouraged him to keep pursuing the project and waste all that money if it was doomed from the start? The first time the plan was presented to the trustees, they were intrigued by the idea and sent it to the Plan Commission. Why would they have done that if they didn't think it was a good idea? Of course the developer was angry. He himself said that it was all of the community opposition that defeated the project.
I thought you died - sorry about that!