Development crowding

While we support affordable housing, the corner of Rand and Chestnut in Arlington Heights is not the right location for the proposed Crescent Place, a 40-unit apartment building with 80 parking spaces on less than 2.5 acres of land.

This isn't a case of NIMBY (Not in My Back Yard), this is a case that my back yard is crowded!

The proposed apartments would sit directly across Chestnut from Stonebridge Apartments, which houses almost 600 apartments. Behind Stonebridge are 33 townhomes. The triangle bordered by Rand, Hintz and Arlington Heights Road also houses two churches (with child care programs), a large, year-round private school and two group homes. Directly across the street is a memory care center, a large condo building and Northwest Community Hospital doctors' offices.

Guided by Waze and other navigation systems, traffic cuts through this area to avoid traffic lights on Rand Road and on Arlington Heights Road. This small, mostly residential triangle has more than enough traffic and population density. The Arlington Heights Village Board will vote on this proposal on Monday, and we urge them to deny the rezoning and subsequent approval of this project.

Sheldon and Gail Galster

Arlington Heights