Politics & Government

Clarendon Hills Downtown Update: Second Community Meeting Set

The community visioning workshop will take place at 7 p.m., April 24, at Clarendon Hills Middle School.

The following is a release from the Village of Clarendon Hills regarding the Downtown Master Plan update process: 

Maybe your ideal downtown involves coming home from work on the train, walking through downtown Clarendon Hills and picking up a few last ingredients for dinner and a bottle of wine. Or maybe you are looking for a downtown where you can spend the afternoon shopping for clothes, shoes, home items and enjoying dinner and drinks with friends. 

Whatever your vision for downtown Clarendon Hills, the village invites you to share it during a community visioning workshop on April 24 in a continuation of the Downtown Master Plan update process currently underway. The event will take place at 7 p.m. at Clarendon Hills Middle School. 

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The visioning workshop will be an interactive meeting with residents, business owners, project committee and sub-committee members and anyone else interested in the future of downtown Clarendon Hills. The concepts and ideas that come out of the visioning meeting will then be reviewed by the Economic Development, Land Use and Design sub-committees as they develop recommendations to update the 2006 Downtown Master Plan. 

On March 20, the village hosted a Downtown Master Plan Kick Off meeting. Approximately 50 people attended and discussed the Downtown Master Plan update process and shared the questions they have about downtown Clarendon Hills. The questions generated at the meeting will set the stage for the sub-committees’ work. The sub-committees are currently working to determine what additional research or community feedback needed to complete their tasks. 

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The Downtown Master Plan update will continue to seek community input in various forms as it tries to define the vision for downtown Clarendon Hills. The process aims to incorporate residents’ interests and needs for the central business district into a plan and determine what is feasible, what roadblocks might exist, and how to chart a path in that direction. Attendance at the community meetings, as well as participation throughout the process, will help to better define the vision for downtown and help develop solutions. 

Residents have multiple opportunities to provide input outside the community meetings. Signs are located throughout the downtown with QR Codes, which link to surveys about the downtown. In addition, people who follow the village on Twitter or Instagram will be entered in for a chance to win Chamber Dollars, good at local businesses. People can share their ideas, provide feedback or send a picture of something they would like to see or something they think would not be a fit for our community. Those who prefer not to use social media can still provide ideas by emailing community development director Dan Ungerleider at dungerleider@clarendonhills.us and still be eligible for a chance to win Chamber Dollars. 


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