Controversial plan to build Taco Bell in Elburn is back
A controversial plan to build a Taco Bell in Elburn has been resuscitated.
The village's plan commission will conduct a hearing at 7 p.m. Tuesday on the request to build the restaurant, including a drive-up window, in the Prairie Valley North Commercial Center on the northeast corner of routes 38 and 47.
The restaurant would be on the northwestern section of the center, near Walker Drive.
The restaurant was proposed this year, with a right-turn-only exit from its parking lot on to Walker. The neighborhood off Walker is residential, and people protested. The plan commission recommended denying the plan.
But when it came time for the village board to vote April 16, the developer had revised the plan to eliminate the exit on to Walker and direct traffic to leave through the shopping center parking lot.
The village board rejected that plan, in a 3-3 vote.
"We should not even have voted on it," board President Jeff Walter said, because that version had not been presented to the plan commission.
The new version of the plan has the traffic exiting through the parking lot. The shopping center lot has exits on to Route 38 and Route 47.