The Journal-Topics.com has an article about two districts discussing a land swap:
A plan to disconnect 25 homes from the Prospect Heights Fire Protection District territory is part of a larger land swap deal in the works, the Journal & Topics has learned.
Two public hearings are planned for October regarding a proposal to turn the homes over to Northbrook Rural Fire District control. In return, the Prospect Heights Fire Protection District would add to its tax rolls property along Sanders Road south of Willow now in Northbrook Rural’s coverage area, according to Prospect Hts. Fire Chief Donald Gould.
City officials, however, still have their eye on one day redeveloping close to 30 acres of land south of Willow owned by Allstate Insurance. Allstate’s headquarters are across Sanders Road in unincorporated Northbrook. As part of the land swap, Northbrook Rural would take control of nearly 25 properties in the Forest View Estates subdivision east of Portwine Road north of Dundee.
An apartment development was proposed on eight acres along Sanders late last year, but was rejected by the city after much debate. Gould said the two districts have been in talks about the land swap for almost 10 years — talks that finally came to a head when the apartment plan surfaced. He said most calls to Forest View are ambulance requests already handled by Northbrook due to mutual-aid agreements in place. Prospect Heights would still respond to fires in the nearby Cook County Forest Preserve. Gould said Prospect Heights has maintained control of the area north of Dundee along Portwine since the early 1990s after the consolidation of the former Palwaukee Area and Wheeling Rural fire districts.
The public hearings will be held at 5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9 and 8 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 21 at fire stations in Northbrook and Prospect Heights respectively.
thanks Dan
