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Zoning board denies appeal
McHENRY COUNTY WOMEN COPING WITH LACK OF CHILD CARE AID
Developers of Cary housing project to decide next step By CAITLIN SWIECA cswieca@shawmedia.com
Sarah Nader – snader@shawmedia.com
Sue Morrissey, vice president of program services at Home of the Sparrow, is silhouetted against a window Oct. 15 at the McHenry facility.
Stricter rules for subsidies cause concern in county State guidelines affecting local domestic violence victims, homeless women Program, fewer people qualify to receive subsidies. The effect, local domestic violence and homeless McHENRY – Sue Morrissey has advocates say, is that the women a new reason to be worried about they serve could have a harder time what will happen to the women in getting out of temporary shelter or her shelter. away from abusive situations and Because of stricter guidelines for on to independent living. the state’s Child Care Assistance “These subsidies allow people to
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get out into the community,” said Morrissey, the vice president of program services for Home of the Sparrow. “If these supports aren’t there ... how this benefits anyone, we don’t get it.” Under an emergency rule enacted by Gov. Bruce Rauner’s administration at the beginning of
the state’s budget impasse, a new applicant has to fit into one of four categories to be eligible: a Temporary Assistance to Needy Families recipient; a teen parent enrolled full-time in school or GED classes; from a family with a special needs
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CARY – In a 4-3 decision, the Board of Zoning, Planning and Appeals voted to deny an appeal from the developers of the Pedcor affordable housing project, which was seeking to reverse an earlier village decision regarding the use of porous asphalt in lot coverage calculations. The denial means Pedcor would need a zoning variance to move forward with the project as proposed. The zoning board gave a negative recommendation to a variance that would have allowed the porous asphalt in August, meaning the measure would need a supermajority vote to pass through the Village Board. The decision came after an hour of public comment and two hours of presentation, argument and testimony from attorneys for both sides, largely focusing on interpretations of two specific passages in the village’s code and one passage in Pedcor’s planning documents. The vote, which represents another road block for the controversial project, came at about 11 p.m. Thursday at Cary Junior High and was met with applause from the audience. Board members James Graziano, Patrick Jasper and Holly Kelps voted to grant the appeal. Board President Joseph
See HOUSING, page A4
Huntley school adds bus stops after man allegedly tried to ride bus By KATIE DAHLSTROM kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com HUNTLEY – While the 20-year-old man who police said tried to board a Marlowe Middle School bus remained behind bars, Huntley Community School District 158 leaders altered a bus stop that parents complained was too close to the man’s home. Superintendent John Burkey on Monday greeted parents bringing their children to the bus stop near the 11000 block of Caldwell Drive. His
visit came after Ruben E. Palacios, who lives on the same block, allegedly tried to get on a school bus. On Tuesday, the district split the students into two new bus stops a few hundred yards away. “That was a better solution than moving the stop, because either direction we moved it would have necessitated some students to walk by the residence of the man in question,” District spokesman Dan Armstrong said in an email. He said some students still will be
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picked up in the original stop at the request of their parents, but most of the 15 or so students in that area will be picked up at the new stops. Meanwhile, Palacios remains in the McHenry County Jail without bond on a hold from U.S. Immigration Ruben E. and Customs. Palacios Palacios’ charge is a misdemeanor that typically carries a maximum sentence of 30 days in jail
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with a $1,500 fine. He also has a pending misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge for allegedly asking two 12-year-old girls to kiss him Aug. 11 in Lake in the Hills, according to police and McHenry County court records. Lake in the Hills Deputy Police Chief Pat Boulden said the girls were playing after school at Marlowe Middle School when Palacios approached them. After the girls told him “no” several times, Palacios walked away, Boulden said.
Boulden said police do not believe Palacios was targeting specific students. Judge Joel Berg signed an order Aug. 19 in connection with that case, releasing Palacios on his own recognizance, but barring him from going near Chesak Elementary School in Lake in the Hills. Palacios’ lawyer, David Ullrick, did not return a request for comment.
• Reporter Chelsea McDougall contributed to this report.
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