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Project Change - Village of Highwood CDBG 2014
Staff Summary
• The Village of Highwood received a CDBG award in the 2014 application cycle and consequently the awarded project’s environmental review is invalid.
• When notified of the ineligibility of its proposed road improvement project for CDBG funding due to the invalid environmental review, the Village of Highwood agreed to move its $85,000 CDBG grant to a different project at the County’s request.
• The proposed alternate project is a CDBG-eligible road improvement and stoplight installation that will allow access from a new senior living facility onto Sheridan Road, a major thoroughfare. Seniors are presumed by HUD to be low- or moderate-income. A project map is attached.
• The City of Highwood is working with a developer to put in a 104-unit Senior Living Facility in the old Hotel Moraine (700 N Sheridan Road). There is a traffic study demonstrating a stop light is necessary to avoid unacceptable wait times at the intersection that is utilized by the US Army Reserve, Highwood and this senior living facility. CDBG 2014 funds previously allocated to Highwood could be used to fund this project. The total cost of the project is over $200K, with both the developer and the US Army also contributing to the project.
• The Lake County Citizen Participation Plan requires a public comment period for this change. The proposed 2014 Action Plan Amendment is presented also at this meeting.