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"Awesome signs up on Winfield & Roosevelt" via winfield411.com

These appeared a little while ago!   (They’ll probably be taken down soon but we love them!)

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How did Costco become interested in Winfield?

By now, if you have looked in your mail you have seen the direct mail from the good people at RightOnRoosevelt.com informing you that they were solicited by Mike Stratis who is the site selector for Costco for a new store.

You are probably wondering how this all came about.

Last year as the Marathon & Fire Station Rezoning from residential to commercial was working it’s way through the planning commission, commissioners Karen Skillman, Peter Dopper and Dennis Clark postponed the process for 3 months saying that they would keep postponing a decision until “the cows came home“.

I was frustrated and needed to keep moving the needle on commercializing Roosevelt Road. I knew the two corners would be easy so I called the land owners and solicited them to change their zoning. They both said yes. Then I walked the length of the North side of Roosevelt from Winfield to Wynwood and to my amazement all of them were in favor except one.....

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Winfield Illinois

Winfield Candidates Night 2013

Jay Olson - Trustee Candidate

Charles Jacques - Trustee Candidate

Tom Blackburn - Trustee Candidate

Rob Hanlon - President Candidate (Mayor)

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Winfield votes to rezone portions of Roosevelt Road via dailyherald.com

Saying the time has come to create a larger revenue base for Winfield, a majority of village board members Thursday pushed through a controversial proposal to rezone portions of Roosevelt Road.

The decision by four of the six trustees to rezone 14 residential parcels along Roosevelt and Garys Mill roads was made despite opposition from residents and the village attorney repeatedly advising the board to postpone the vote.

"We are opening our door for business, and I am very proud to be part of that," said Trustee Jay Olson, who approved the ordinance along with trustees Tim Allen, Tony Reyes and James Hughes.

Village President Deborah Birutis said she is planning to veto the zoning change. However, the board is expected to override that veto on April 4.

Olson called the move to rezone the parcels to a commercial zoning classification "the right thing" for the village to do.

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WINFIELD AIN’T THE FARM ANYMORE

My name is Jack Bachman. I live in Winfield on a 2.4 acre parcel of land on Roosevelt Road. When I moved into my house years ago, Roosevelt was a sleepy two-lane road. It’s now a four lane State highway and in the next year or so the Illinois Department of Transportation is going to expand Roosevelt again by 6 feet. By the time they are done cutting down the trees in front of my house and moving the culvert, I should be able to catch a cab from my front door. I would like to move out of this house to a quieter location.  I would like to sell my house for what it is worth. But if the Village of Winfield won’t allow me to rezone my property to commercial, who will buy this house from me? Winfield isn’t farmland anymore. It’s suburbia. It’s time to face reality and allow landowners like myself to move with our assets and investments intact. - Jack Bachman

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35+ YEARS, WE’VE SEEN IT ALL

We are Richard and Vivian Blossfield.  Vivian was born and raised in our home and I am a 35 year resident of Winfield. We live on a large lot, almost 4 acres, on Garys Mill Rd in Southwest Winfield…during our 35 years together, various Village Board’s have changed our zoning, against our strong objections, three (3) times. The second time our zoning was changed was in the early 1990’s when Stan Zegel and Wooded Winfield targeted our property and some of our neighbors to prevent any development.  A compromise was reached and we thought that would be the end of it.

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