Concept Plan Approved For New Multi-Use Development On Oswego Farmland

OSWEGO, IL — Oswego trustees approved Tuesday a concept plan for more than 600 new dwelling units and commercial space on a 160.6-acre plot of farmland.

Trustees voted 5-1 — with Kit Kuhrt opposed — to move forward with Oswego Grand, a project from a developer of the same name, to be built at the southeast corner of Wolf's Crossing Road and Route 31.

The development will contain 125 single-family houses, 243 townhouses and 288 apartment units, taking up 81.9 acres. The apartments would occupy 10 buildings and have a clubhouse, while the townhomes would be separated into two neighborhoods with a total of 50 buildings and four to six units per building.

About 32.2 acres of the land will consist of a gas station with a car wash, a grocery store, and more general commercial and retail space as possibilities for the designated commercial space. Four acres will be reserved for a religious institution, but the plan is to be determined as it would require a special use permit, Patch reported. Just over 30 acres will remain open space, documents show.

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The lot is adjacent to the future Wikaduke Trail, a planned north-south roadway connecting Kendall, Will, Kane and DuPage counties. As such, Oswego Grand Development would dedicate 140 feet of right-of-way for the trail and another 70 feet along Wolf's Crossing Road, along which the developer would also be required to provide a path.

A developer first eyed the land in 2014, submitting a concept plan for the original Hudson Pointe for the area that is now Hudson Pointe I and II and the current Oswego Grand proposal. The Plan and Zoning Commission voted 4-4 on the idea and forwarded a "non-recommendation" to the Village Board, but the project never made it to the Board, according to village documents. The current proposal is "completely unrelated."