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T HE ENTERPRISE Your Complete Source For Plainfield News Since 1887
Thursday, december 25, 2014
volume 127 no. 21
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Village approves contract for TIF District development Water fees go up for the next three years
Plainfield Park District announces Holiday Lights Contest winners
By PaT schaGer
For The enTerprise
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Forty-thousand lights, 13 different holiday songs and a winner sign in his front yard. Scott Milkeris and son Christopher for the second time in a row impressed the Plainfield Park District judges and won the coveted musical category. The Details. (TOP) The winning display in the non-musical Holiday Lights Contest located at 25424 bower court, Plainfield. (BOTTOM) Winner of the musical Holiday Lights Contest sponsored by the Plainfield Park District at 1834 Springside Drive, Crest Hill.
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Development along the Route 30 corridor got a boost from Plainfield trustees during the Dec. 15 Village Board meeting. This was the second time the proposal came up for a second vote by the board. At the Dec. 1 meeting, Trustee Paul Fay and Mayor Michael Collins both voted no, and the proposal failed. At the Dec. 15 meeting, Collins changed his vote to a yes and changed the outcome for passage. By the nearly unanimous vote, trustees voted to hire SB Friedman Development Advisors, The Lakota Group and Sam Schwartz Engineering to provide development proposals for the Route 30 Renwick Road to Spangler Road corridor. Fay again voted no. He previously said he opposed the $78,200 price tag for the studies. Trustee Garrett Peck did not attend Monday night’s meeting. The firms will complete a TIF Eligibility study in the first phase and develop a redevelopment plan in the
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