Village of Glenview and Village of Oak Lawn |
The Anthem Memory Care website lists eight locations currently in operation. Seven of those sites are home to single-story facilities. The only two-story facility to date was approved by the Village of Glenview on May 19, 2015 .
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The Village of Glenview approved what appears to basically be the same two-story layout proposed for the Village of Oak Lawn site. In Glenview, an existing vacant commercial building will be demolished and the 2+ acre site will be cleared for development. The neighbor to the east will be a large commercial parcel that is home to the General Board Pension and Health Benefits of the United Methodist Church. The neighbor to the west will be the Immanuel Lutheran Church Cemetery which opened in 1876. The residential neighbors to the south in the abutting subdivision will have a six foot privacy fence plus the existing mature trees in place to serve as a natural buffer. Across the street to the north are the Valley Lo Towers (several large five-story apartment complexes) and the Immanuel Lutheran Church.
The proposed Village of Oak Lawn site will replace what is currently an open field and bus depot with an approximately 43,000 square foot, two-story facility built between the single family residences to the west and the school to the east. The only mature trees in the area will be cleared for the development.
Village code requires a physical buffer of some type between the neighboring homes to the west and the proposed facility. Various sources have mentioned that the buffer will be a six foot high masonry wall, which seems to follow along with section 4-13-5-1: General Requirements (Off-Street Loading Berths) of the village code. Until the official site development plans are made public, who knows for sure? Some residents dislike the masonry wall concept altogether, so another code exception might have to be granted anyway.
One thing for certain is that instead of seeing a large open field and the bus depot, people walking or driving westbound along 101st Street would see this approximately 300 foot long two-story facility...
Village code requires a physical buffer of some type between the neighboring homes to the west and the proposed facility. Various sources have mentioned that the buffer will be a six foot high masonry wall, which seems to follow along with section 4-13-5-1: General Requirements (Off-Street Loading Berths) of the village code. Until the official site development plans are made public, who knows for sure? Some residents dislike the masonry wall concept altogether, so another code exception might have to be granted anyway.
One thing for certain is that instead of seeing a large open field and the bus depot, people walking or driving westbound along 101st Street would see this approximately 300 foot long two-story facility...
It is a beautiful facility and serves a noble purpose, but it does not fit with this or any other single family residential area.