Is it the right fit? That was the question around Arlington Heights village hall this week about a proposal for six-story, 136-unit apartment building with ground-floor restaurant across from a neighborhood of historic homes on the northern edge of the downtown.
Dozens of single-family homes have been torn down every year in Arlington Heights as part of the McMansion craze of recent decades. So it was rare when a lower-level village panel this week denied a developer s request to demolish a 19th-century home that would be replaced with a modern, bigger one.
Owners of a group of century-old homes just north of downtown Arlington Heights convinced the village board Monday to downzone their properties in an effort to prevent future high-density redevelopment there.
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