Thursday, February 21, 2013
City Council approves city code amendment to allow construction of two buildings for a STARS group care home for adults with developmental disabilities.
Wheaton City Council members on Monday approved new wording for the city's definition of "Group Care Home" to allow a STARS Family Services to build its proposed group home at the corner of Cross Street and Union Avenue in Wheaton. The city in November approved the organization's plan to build a 15-resident group care home for developmentally disabled adults. STARS proposed, and now plans, to build two buildings that would share a yard and driveway, but to do so, the city needed to make changes to its zoning ordinance. STARS attorney David Bay addressed the amendment during public comment Monday. He said the amendment would allow for no more than two residential dwellings occupied by special needs individuals on the same zoning lot, …
Friday, November 9, 2012
Wheaton City Council approved a plan to build a group care home
Wheaton City Council members Monday approved the STARS Family Services plan to build a 15-resident group care home for developmentally disabled adults at the corner of Cross Street and Union Avenue in Wheaton. STARS, a nonprofit providing small supportive living arrangements and other services to developmentally disabled adults of the STARS Disability Ministry of College Church in Wheaton, plans to build two single-family homes with a common courtyard. The homes would be completed in stages, with the second home constructed as funding allows. Each home would have an attached two-car garage with a shared driveway off of Union Avenue. Guest, volunteer and staff parking will be on the shared driveway. Let Patch save you time. Get stories …
Monday, June 18, 2012
STARS Family Services, a nonprofit that provides small supportive living arrangements and related services to developmentally disabled adults, is proposing to build a group care home for up to 15 people in downtown Wheaton.
STARS Family Services, a nonprofit that provides supportive living arrangements developmentally disabled adults, is proposing to build a group care home to house up to 15 people in downtown Wheaton. Wheaton’s Planning and Zoning Board will hold a public hearing to consider the application for the proposed facility at the southeast corner of Cross Street and Union Avenue on Tuesday night. Sign up for our free daily newsletter to get top headlines sent to your inbox every morning. We're also on Facebook! STARS provides small supportive living arrangements and related services to developmentally disabled adults of the STARS Disability Ministry of College Church in Wheaton, according to a Wheaton city staff memo. Since opening its first house …
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8:33 am on Friday, February 22, 2013
Kathy, Welcome to the age of the agenda driven media. Just be thankful no one said you came from a binder. more ›