Local municipalities should not be judge and jury over their own opponents. The judges in Island Lake were the very people who have publicly supported Herrmann for Mayor by being petitioners for her Mayoral candidacy. Does that seem fair? Every election cycle, objections are made in one or a few towns around the area and then the supporters or opponents sit in judgement. The town or city has to absorb the costs to carry on the hearings as well. In Island Lake, estimates are high on the cost of three hearings and lots of legal discussion in between hearings.When Shanon Fox read a prepared statement opposing the candidates, it was proof of a biased and intentional injustice and of the puppet show going on in Island Lake.
How do you stop this? Write your Illinois state senator and Illinois state representative and tell them you support the elimination of local municipal and township electoral boards. Tell them to move the hearings to the County. This is a prime example, especially where in this case, it took three hearings before any evidence was provided against or for the candidates.
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ReplyDeleteThanks Freddy. I just spit my coke across the room and landed on the floor laughing. Great analogy between the truth and levity.
ReplyDeleteIsland Lakers get slapped in the face once again by embarrassing news stories and astronomical legal fees.
Pack your bags Herrmann and take that pos McCorkle with you.
You'll both be ruined in politics and law enforcement.
Does anyone know what happened to the Warrior?
This was great you forgot to show Sharps Tow truck going out of town and not coming back. That would make State road look a lot better than the Village letting him spread junk from Colvers to the car wash. Who would move to town with such a wonderful appearance.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if there will be charges brought against Herrmann, Fox, Morris, Little, Sharp, or Fields for this? If so, the defendants should have to pay for their own lawyers.
ReplyDeleteI'm usually a reserved person but I can't sit silent any longer. Thank God for the few people who have questioned the secrets of Mayor Herrmann. It seems that her credibility is fading fast.
ReplyDeleteMr Reilly brings up a good point about our village's corridor. The area around the repair shop next to the car wash and the vehicles parked around Sharps body shop ruin any chance of new business being attracted to our town.
Is that why Mr Sharp has objected to Mr Amrich? To see that Herrmann stays in office so he can maintain his JUNK yard on Island Lake's main thoroughfare.
All we can do is hope that the County sees through the unethical electoral board in Island Lake and keep Mr Amrich on the ballot.
I'll write his name on the ballot no matter what happens in his appeal.
God Bless you Charles Amrich!
Me too. God bless you Mayor Amrich.
ReplyDeleteThank You MP for the great comments We need more people in this town to want to get it cleaned up.
ReplyDeleteRound Out,Il is a Junk Yard town and looks better than our town. We have a Village pile of wood chips
across from one of our parks on State Rd. Now what Business would come to town in the West ridge shopping center
than advertize on a radio station come see us we are next to the Village pigpen on route 176 you can't miss us
We have Sharp Piling Junk cars or as he would say cars for repair Piling up on both sides of 176. He went so far as parking them in a church parking lot than down Basilar Dr After someone Made comment at a Village board meeting they where moved. He does not even have enough room for his employee's to park I have been told that business in town are to provide parking for all of your Employees not half on the street and half off. Here is a copy of the code from the Village web site Zoning 9.9.4 Doesn't look like Sharp follows these Guide lines the way cars/trucks are piled around his buildings.
When it comes time I too will Write in Charles R Amrich on April 9th
Below just part of the zoning rules
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A. Parking. Subject to the limitations of this section 9-9-4, off-street parking is
permitted as an accessory use in all districts. Off-street parking is permitted as a
principal use only when expressly authorized by the applicable district
regulations. Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the right of any
person to provide off-street parking in excess of the requirements established by
this code but all such parking shall comply with the standards of this section.
1. General Requirements.
a. Applicability to Existing, New, and Expanded Uses.
i. General Applicability. Except as expressly provided
otherwise in this code, the provisions of this section shall
apply to, and off-street parking spaces sufficient to satisfy
the requirements of this section shall be provided for, all
existing and new uses, in accordance with the provisions
of this code.
ii. Increase in Use Intensity. Whenever the intensity of use of
any structure or use is increased through the addition of
floor area, seating capacity, or other units of measurement
specified herein for required parking spaces, parking
spaces as required by this code shall be provided for the
increase in intensity of use.
iii. Change in Existing Use. Whenever a use existing on the
effective date of this code is changed to a new use,
parking shall be provided as required for the new use;
provided, however, that when any existing use was
deficient in required parking spaces on the effective date,
the new use may be established with a deficiency in
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required parking spaces equal in number to not more than
the pre-existing deficiency.
b. Location of Required Parking Spaces. Parking spaces required
by this section must be located on the same zoning lot as the use
to which they are accessory.
2. Design and Maintenance. Every parking garage, area, lot, and structure
shall be designed, constructed, and maintained in accordance with the
applicable standards and requirements herein set forth:
a. Surface. All new parking lots shall be constructed with a paved
surface.
b. Design.
i. Access to street. All parking garages, areas, lots, and
structures shall be so located and designed as to provide
access to adjacent streets with the least interference with
through traffic movements.
ii. Ingress/Egress. Except in a residential district, each
parking garage, area, lot, or structure shall be designed to
avoid the backing of vehicles over a sidewalk or into a
public street.
iii. Location on Lot. Off-street parking spaces may be
provided on surface lots, underground, under a building, or
in parking structures. Parking lots, areas, and garages
must comply with the yard requirements made applicable
to them by the regulations of the district in which they are
located.
iv. Screening. All parking lots and garages must comply with
the screening and landscaping requirements set forth in
section 9-9-7 of this code
v. Circulation Aisles. Each parking space in a parking lot,
except spaces accessory to a single family dwelling, shall
be accessed by a circulation aisle of a width, in feet and
inches, as specified below:
Parking One-Way Two-Way
Angle Aisle Width Aisle Width
required parking spaces equal in number to not more than
the pre-existing deficiency.
b. Location of Required Parking Spaces. Parking spaces required
by this section must be located on the same zoning lot as the use
to which they are accessory.
2. Design and Maintenance. Every parking garage, area, lot, and structure
shall be designed, constructed, and maintained in accordance with the
applicable standards and requirements herein set forth:
a. Surface. All new parking lots shall be constructed with a paved
surface.
Hey Ed, where do we file our objections against Louie (not so) Sharp? He has turned his property into a ghetto of junk cars. Other towns require solid fences to conceal such eyesores.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone know what Builidng Inspector Desort does all day? It seems like he ignores the obvious violations of Herrmann's friends. Comprehensive Corridor Plan my AXX!
And you Mr CEO Field, your wealth doesn't impress me. Everyone noticed the smirk on your face while you attempted to defame two good men just so you can continue to keep your contract with the village.
April can't come fast enough. Herrmann will be given the boot as well as yourself. Please take your millions and move to Volo. Yourself, Sharp and Herrmann can start a new scam game there.
Someone should check with the State He might be leaking Oil on the ground from all the wrecks he is towing in. After all he is parking on gravel. And where might all that oil and Antifreeze going. This week he moved a bunch down to his old station and piled them up in the corner Now is that fair to the Guy that moved in and cleaned the place up from when he was there.
DeleteI wonder what the Secretary of state would say if they came out to run vin's and Plates... Wow !! the village could use the Revnue from all the Parking tickets, or From all the code Voliations tickets that should be written... Wait what am I talking about...Shame on me.. I think someone is greasing some one's pockets in this mess..!! what about Fire Code and Fire Lanes...!! But Becareful they ( Sharp and Son's) might just think it is another Political ambush by others to cause problems...
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