Aurora City Council set to vote on senior housing development – Chicago Tribune

Thank you for supporting our journalism. This article is available exclusively for our subscribers, who help fund our work at the Chicago Tribune. The Aurora City Council is set to vote next week on a preliminary plan and rezoning for a low-income senior housing development on the site of the former Jericho Circle housing complex. The new Fourteen Forty Nine Senior Estates subdivision would have 70 total units – 50 of them in 25, one-story duplexes, and the other 20 in one-story single-family residences – and also a clubhouse, on-site management offices, a media center, a fitness club, pickleball courts and an outdoor community area. The active senior development would be limited to residents 62 years old or older, with income eligibility of $15,000 to $45,000 a year. The development has gotten recommendations from both the city’s Planning and Zoning Commission and the City Council Building, Zoning and Economic Development Committee. This week, the full council, meeting as a Committee of the Whole, put both the rezoning and preliminary plan on the consent agenda for the regular City Council meeting on April 26. That means they are likely to pass. The development would be built on the 12 to 16…
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