Stay incorporated, keep local control
As residents of the village of Campton Hills we are free to choose the officials that make our land development and zoning decisions.
If we un-incorporate people will still make those decisions, but they will be the members of the Kane County Board, only one of which is from Campton Township. The others are from the cities of Aurora, Dundee, Geneva, St. Charles, Batavia, and Elgin.
Those people are not used to thinking in terms of one acre residential lots, or our rural lifestyle. They think in terms of city lots and high density zoning.
The more houses per acre of land, the more children in school, the more school referendums, and the higher our property taxes go. Approximately 70 percent of our property taxes are for schools. That's what this conflict is about -- to keep zoning control here so we keep large lots, and prevent annexations by adjacent cities, so we keep our rural lifestyle.
The people who oppose that are land developers who want to put as many houses per unit of land that zoning will allow in order to maximize their bottom line. If you want to truly free us, keep the village that will keep land development and zoning decisions here. That is the way to keep property taxes down.
Richard Johansen
Campton Hills