City Goals and Objectives: • Expand shopping and dining opportunities in the City and further expand the City’s tax base. • Enhance the character and vitality in the historical heart of the community. • Complement the existing mix of uses in the surrounding area. • Support small business development and expansion. • Attract additional desirable private investment into the surrounding area. • Improve pedestrian and bicyclist safety in the area. Site-Specific Goals and Objectives: • Development of multiple, small, two- and threestory mixed-use buildings with retail, commercial and office uses on the first floor and office and residential on the upper floors. • New buildings located closer to the street and adjacent to outdoor plaza spaces like what one would expect to find in a more traditional downtown setting . • Building design that is generally more traditional and inviting to pedestrians that also compliment the surrounding architecture. • Incorporate sustainable best management practices and energy efficient buildings. • Shared access and on-site parking improvements to serve the collective needs of new uses on the Property and the adjacent Warrenville Grove Animal Hospital and Voegtle properties. New on-site parking would be located to the side and rear of new buildings
