6-month apt. building ban approved for most of Waukegan

[Danno]

With the economy the way it is there will be a growing need for affordable housing. Like it or not, Alderman Larson and others need to face the fact that Waukegan IS a community of affordable housing. The apartments and renters are not going to go away. I also believe the money problems with the schools are not due to apartments and kids but rather poor management of the money they already have. Even if kids live in apartments, taxes are paid to the schools for those building. Waukegan schools also get taxes for the senior housing apartments and condos which have no kids living in them. Apartments are not the problem in Waukegan.

In my neighborhood most of the single family owner occupied houses are the more well kept houses. It's the rentals that are usually an ugly mess... in both human and non-human qualities. With that said this moratorium is nothing but feel good crapola... nothing will change because of it. 6 months from now it's back to business as usual.