Pulte Homes Corp. received a cold shoulder from village officials this week when the developer presented a plan to put in an 850-unit development on land zoned office light industrial.
Despite the rejection of his plan Monday, the developer said he will return with a new plan.
Trustees told Jack Weber, area land manager for Pulte Homes, that the 397 acres on U.S. Highway 30 west of the EJ&E Railroad and Normantown Road and south of 111th Street, is one of the largest areas earmarked for future industrial development.
If developed into Pulte’s plan for 371 town homes, 479 single-family homes and 70 acres commercial, it would reduce by one-third the area for potential industrial development.
“I didn’t like it at all giving up industrial,” said Mayor Richard Rock.
After the meeting, Weber said the idea for a residential and commercial development is not necessarily dead.
“I got some positive feedback concerning lot size,” Weber said. “We will re-evaluate the plan and we will have to come back.”