Title/Name/Summary
Southmoor Lodge and Conference Center
History
PETITIONER: William O’Malley
PURPOSE: The petitioner requests Site Plan and Elevation approval in order to construct an eighty-room Staybridge Hotel adjacent to the existing Southmoor Conference Center.
LOCATION: Southwest corner of 131st Street and Southwest Highway
PIN: 23-34-410-001
ATTACHMENTS: Preliminary Site Plan and Elevations, overall Southmoor Planned Development approved in 2003, aerial photo
SIZE: 2.18 acres
EXISTING ZONING: BIZ General Business
EXISTING LAND USE: Golf Course and parking lot
SURROUNDING ZONING AND LAND USE:
South: E-I Estate Residential/Golf Course
North: Forest Preserve
East: MFG Manufacturing/undeveloped land
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN DESIGNATION: Private open space (golf course)
PLANNING OVERVIEW and DISCUSSION:
The proposed 80 room hotel is a part of the Southmoor Country Club Planned Development that was approved by the Village in 2003 (2002-0087). The Planned Development addressed 174.62 acres bound by 131st to the north, LaGrange Road to the west, Southwest Highway to the east, and135th Street to the south. Most of the Southmoor Commons residential and retail developments already have been or are currently under construction. The Conference Center existed at the time of annexation into the Village. The ten-acre northeast commercial area that includes the existing conference center was addressed in the original 2003 Planned Development, and zoned to BIZ General Business at that time. The petitioner is proposing to subdivide a 2.18 acre parcel from the ten acre commercial area and construct the hotel on that piece of land. The 2002 plan showed the general location of the hotel, with elevations to be reviewed at a later time, and the special use permit required that it be developed ‘substantially in accordance with the Preliminary Plan’. A revised Site Plan and Elevations are before Plan Commission now for consideration. The 2003 Annexation agreeme...
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