Back to the Drawing Board...or NOT?

Round one on the Wilmette Village Center plan. Wilmette Life:

Wilmette's Plan Commission voted 4-3 last week to recommend that village trustees reject plans to redevelop the Wil-Shore Ford property, seen by some as a key to downtown Wilmette's future.

Commissioners' salient objection was the five-story height, but after the commission's rejection, Wilmette Village Center development principal Keith Pochter said he won't be taking the project down a peg.

"We're going to the Village Board," he said at the June 29 meeting, adding that he'll be bringing substantially the same plans for the 54-condominium, 16,000-square foot retail building as were spurned by the recommending panel.

It may be a tough go, however. By Wilmette law, an approval that supersedes a Plan Commission recommendation needs five of seven Village Board votes instead of four. A date for that session has not been set.

Apparently it's NOT back to the drawing board for the developers, who are not happy. Recent post from the Wilmette blog here. My earlier post here.