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Schaumburg revising 20-year-old land plan

Schaumburg officials will soon begin revising the village's 20-year-old comprehensive land-use plan to help guide future development in the community for the next decade.

Trustees on Tuesday approved a $149,950 contract with Chicago-based Houseal Lavigne Associates to help in the yearlong process, which will involve significant public engagement likely to begin next month.

Schaumburg Community Development Director Julie Fitzgerald said community input will be solicited in a number of ways, including open public meetings, a website and a series of hands-on workshops.

The village's goal is to create a comprehensive plan that will be relevant for at least 10 years. The 1996 plan served for twice that long due in part to other, more pressing priorities, Fitzgerald said.

But it's not as if there have been no updates to the village's planning for two decades, she said. There have been sector plans developed for specific areas of the village during that period.

There have been significant changes in the village since the last comprehensive plan. Among the most major are the development of the Renaissance Hotel and Schaumburg Convention Center, as well as the soon-to-be-completed interchange ramps at Meacham and Roselle roads along the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway, Fitzgerald said.

Now Motorola Solutions is in the process of subdividing its longtime corporate campus with the intention of selling it off in parcels.

Also Tuesday, the village board approved a $129,950 contract with Orland Park-based Ginkgo Planning & Design to refine its earlier concept plan to divide Motorola's 277-acre site into 20 individual parcels connected by an internal road.

Schaumburg is embarking on its campaign to solicit public input for a new comprehensive plan just as Palatine-Schaumburg High School District is conducting a series of community engagement meetings for a new strategic plan of its own.

One topic on which they might intersect is the fate of a vacant 60-acre site between Summit Drive and Plum Grove Road in Schaumburg which the school district bought for a possible sixth high school decades ago.

Fitzgerald said information about the village's public input meetings will be finalized and publicized soon.

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