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MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING OF THE
CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DES PLUNES HELD
IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14,
19L3. T 7:.30. I.
GALL TO ORDER: The meeting was called to order by Myer Charles
H, Garland, presiding, with Aldermen Carroll, Johns2n, Pflughanpt, Ube,Friott and Lemke responding to the roll -call. The lerk reported six (6)
Alderman present. (Ldermen Loos, Dopheide, Schwahbeck and Campagna were
absent during the entire meeting.)
READI OF T1E CA Js The Clerk then read the call of the meeting
as follows:
To the Meabers of the City Council
of the City of Des Plaines, Illinois
April 12, 1943
Gentlemen:
You are hereby officially notified that upon order of Mayor Charles H.
Garland a special,X meeting of the City Council of the City of Des Plaines
will be held at 7:30 P.M. Wednesday, April 14, 1943 in the Council Chambers
for the purpose of meeting with F.H.A. officials to promote sound defense
housing in Des Plaines, and siposing of such other business as may require
attention.
All members of the Zoning Board as well as the members of the Plan Com-
mission are requested to be present.
Very truly yours,
EFGAR J, D R, Sty Cie*
WAIJR OF ICE
We, the undersigned meaabers of the City Council of the City of Des P]dnee,
do hereby waives notice of the time, place, date and purpoee'of a special
meeting of the City Council of the City of Des Plaines to be held on the
14th day of April, 1943, A.D. at 700 P.M. in the Council Chambers, and
do hereby consent to the holding of such meeting and to the transaction
of any and all business that may come before such meeting:
MAYOR CHARLES H. GARLAND
JAMES J. CARROLL
EIMER W. JOHNSON
G.A. PFLUGHAUPT
WALTER L. DOPHEIDE
EDGAR N. FIETCHER
HENRY J. KEBE
JOHN W, IEMKE
ERNEST H. FRIOTT
THEO. SCHWAICK
SAMUEL CAMPAGNA
PRAWN. OPERA
MOREaOPLFN MAs REC s The Clerk then read the following
recommendation from the Zoning Board of Appeals:
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Honorable Mayor
City Council
City of Des Plaines, Illinois
In accordance with Legal Notice duly published in the Des Plaines
Journal and the Des Plaines Suburban Times on March 11, 1943,
your Zoning Board of Appeals held a public hearing for the purpose
of rezoning the following described property from area district A
,(single family) to areadistrict AA (duplex).
Parcel 1 - Lots 20, 21, 22, 23 and 24 in Resubdivision of Lots 15 to
34 inclusive in Block 2 in Whipple's Addition to Riverview, Illinois,
a subdivision of the West it. of the SBS} of the NE* of Section 29,
Township 41, Range 12.
Parcel 2 - Harrington1s eubdivison of Lots 6, 7 and 8 in Block 2 of
Arthur T. McIntosh and Company's second addition to Riverview, being
a subdivison of the North of the SW* of the NW* of Section 28,
Township 41, Range 12, East of the 3rd P.M.
Fors"'ire same reasons previously set forth in similar recommendations
covering the approximate locality of the above described property,
(RECO ATIOI - coated)
your Baord recommends that the necessary council action be taken to
legally make the required change for duplex usage.
Among the reasons affecting your Board's decision were'not merely the
great pressure of war necessity in local housing but -also becuase the
area has lain dormant for decades and the building of duplexes at this
particular time will revitalise and recreate real estate value in a
large surrourdag area.
Moreover, it is believed that within reasonable limits the heavy tax
delinquency which has made such of this land unmarketable will be sub.
stantially dissolved.
Because of modern financing methods, it also appears that property dev-
eloped by the construction of duplex buildings will be sound tax paying
property in the future. Based upon informed estimiates, it currently
appears that the present available land soned for -duplex use is far from
the saturation point, and further expansion of this and similar multiple
family types is warranted.
7. R‘ NAPIEALS,jCI
Secy. Dee Plaines Zoning Brd. of Appeals.
Cvl and then followed by reading for first reading a proposed ordinance entitled:
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED "AA
ORDINANCE TO CLASSIFY, REGULARS AND RESTRICT THE
LOCATIONS OF TRADES AND INDUSTRIES AND THE LOCATION
OF BUILDINGS DESIGNED FOR SPECIFIED USES; TO RE-
GULATE AND LIMIT THE INTENSITY OF THE USE OF LOT
AREAS AND TO REGULATE AND DETERMINE THE AREA OF
YARDS, COURTS AND OTHER OPEN SPACES WITHIN AND
SURR01N DDG SUCH BUILDINGS, AND TO ESTABLISH THE
BOUNDARIES OF DISTRICTS FOR THE SAID PURPOSES AND
PRESCRIBING THE PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION OF ITS
PROVISIONS*, PASSED FEBRUARY 5, 1923, AS AiIENHED.
Payor Garland ordered the said proposed ordinance filed for second reading.
musii ']NAR HQjtSl 1e : Mayor Garland then introduced
the following Federal representatives:
Mr. Edward J. Kelly - State Director of F. H. A.
Air. M.C. Haggett • Chief Processing Architect of Priorities Div. of F.H.A.
Air. George Bnmbera • Valuator, Priorities Division of F.H.A.
Mr. Edward Leighly - Valuator of Conversion Program of F.H.A.
Mr. Ed. Mittelbusher - Asst. Chief Architect of F.H.A.
Mr. 11. Aeichbradt - Director of War Housing Center of Chicago Met-
ropolitan Area.
An informal discussion on war housing then followed, in which City officers,
citisens, and the visiting Federal representatives participated. The die.
cussiou revealed that Des Plaines will no doubt be called upon to
supply several hundred new living units for war workers, and that perhaps
most of these will be one and one-half story and two-story duplexes.
ADt0URN1i NT: The motion was Bade by Alderman Lemke and seconded
by Kobe that the meeting adjourn. The motion was voted upon by acclamation
whereupon the Mayor declared the motion pied Council regularly
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adjourned.
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