CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM
ACTION REQUESTED:
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Receive the staff report and consider whether to direct staff to prepare a resolution establishing a 5th Avenue referendum for the November 3, 2020 general election
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DEPARTMENT: Legal Department
SUBMITTED BY: Michael DiSanto, City Attorney and Amy Emery, TED Operations Manager
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BACKGROUND:
For more than 20 years, Naperville City Councils' have invested strategically to purchase and lease land around the 5th Avenue Train Station. Now, the City controls more than 13 acres in the area that has the potential to accommodate, not only redevelopment, but municipal improvements to address existing stormwater, pedestrian safety, traffic, commuter parking, and affordable housing needs. In 2017, the Council initiated consideration of potential development plans for the area. The 5th Avenue Project involves a web of complex questions surrounding not only the type of development, but its design, height, open space accommodations, populations served, impacts on the surrounding neighborhoods, relationship to downtown Naperville, ownership options, financial considerations, and more.
Over the past three years, Ryan Companies and City staff have facilitated input and feedback from City Council, residents, and community stakeholders through a variety of methods. However, at this stage, there remains uncertainty whether there is City Council consensus as to what, if anything, can or should be done at this time. Significant Council consensus is needed because the City's Municipal Code generally requires a three-quarter vote of Council, seven votes, to convey real estate or lease real property owned by the City.
October 1, 2019 Ryan Concept
The last 5th Avenue concept plan formally presented by Ryan Companies to the City Council was on October 1, 2019. That concept introduced the Well Community approach and included more green spaces than prior proposals as well as changes to the mix of uses an...
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