Arlington 25 Plans Approved By Village Board

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL — The proposed Arlington 425 project was approved 8 to 0 by the village board Monday evening, according to the Daily Herald. The approval came at the end of a special board meeting, after around two years of planning and at least two meetings each since December by what the Daily Herald said was the village's plan, design and housing commissions.

Village staff has recommended the Arlington 425 project include 18 affordable housing units priced at 60 percent of the area median income in Arlington Heights. Staff projected this would come out to be $889 per month for a studio unit and $952 per month for a one-bedroom unit, Charles Perkins, village director of planning and community development said, according to the Chicago Tribune.

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• Call on AH Board to Include Affordable Housing in Arlington 425
• Attendees Of Housing Commission Meeting Argue Affordable Housing

Dozens of attendees at an April 29 Arlington Heights Housing Commission meeting argued about whether the affordable housing is needed or could lead to violent crime, according to the Chicago Tribune. The Arlington 425 project will include 182 apartments and up to 24,000 square feet of business space all inside a nine-story building at 225 W. Campbell Street, the news report said. In addition, 125 more units in 13 stories above a several-story parking garage at 44 S. Highland Avenue and dozens more units in a four-story building at 33 S. Chestnut Street are also part of the proposed project, according to the Chicago Tribune.

According to The Daily Herald, Trustee Jim Tinaglia, whose Tinaglia Architects firm designed the project, recused himself from the vote and the discussion. The board also sided with the following housing plan: "18 of the development's proposed 361 units be priced for those making at or below 60% of the area median income, while the developer would offer fees to a village housing trust fund in lieu of nine units at $25,000 per unit, for a total of $225,000," according to the Daily Herald, which was endorsed last week by the village's housing commission.

The news report said construction on the project wouldn't begin until at least next spring (2020)-and could take up to four years to be developed.