] December 3, 1927 WINNETKA TALK 71 ~ COURTS MAY UNRAVEL GLENCOE ZONE SNARL Petitions Prepared for Signatures You Are Invited to Inspect a and Money Pledges to Test One-Fifth Acre Clause a ~ before the people of Glencoe as to whether an owner of a lot which has been regularly zoned and platted but . which contains less than the present O uU t 1 D b h 2 ordinance requirements whereby only pen n 1 ccem er t five houses to the acre are permissable, is entitled to a permit to build, may 3 vet go to the courts for decision. 10 A M a, 10 P M M . * > > * If plans, which are now underway proceed to completion, and it is said they will be carried to that extent . EE -- unless the village shall change front in the stand which it now takes, there will be mandamus proceedings institut- ed, very shortly. Petitions have been prepared and it 1] is said are ready for circulation among | the property owners in what is known \ as the Chicago North Shore Land Company's sub-division in Glencoe, which includes practically all the property bounded by Jackson, Scott and Greenwood avenues and Lake street. Many Already Built The petition sets forth that some- thing like fifty homes have been erect- ed in this sub-division, in the past, on lots which do not come up to the requirements of the zoning ordinance, but the village now refuses to issue further permits to build in this section on the grounds that it is illegal to iakaiim--=----., > hoo issue such permits. In our Restricted Pine Crest Development. Lis The lots, in this section, or most of In The Heart of Wilmette. them, it is pointed out, are under the At 1928 Highland Avenue at Ridge Road. one-fifth of an acre requirement in- Sided i the ordinate Bhsend Lili This is a smart MEDIUM PRICED HOME on the North Shore. Five rooms A on gi of solid brick, steel construction, insulated with Rock lath throughout; studio platted and regularly accepted by the living room, attached garage; tile bath; extra lavatory; beautiful open fireplace; village many years before the passage fixtures of Period design; steel kitchen cabizets; gas incinerator; metal weather- of the May, 1921 ordinance. strips and many other attractive and advanced features. The result has been that in recent | We also have Nine other Unique Homes in Spanish, English, French and Colonial Architecture, with five, six and seven rooms located in this same Pine Crest Development on Washington, Central and Highland Avenues. years, especially, when demand for vacant lots for building purpose in Glencoe is increasing all the time, the Building Commissioner and the Village Board are constantly confronted with the problem. At a recent meeting of the village board the matter was referred to Vil- lage Attorney Alexander H. Marshall for an opinion. This he rendered to ¢ the village board at its meeting Friday 1€ a] uc an mpany evening of last week. The report was We are offering these homes with an attractive down payment, with terms to suit your convenience. fy published in full in GLExcok NEws the . following morning. It sustains the Established 1885 present ordinance, with suggestions ARCHITECTS AND BUILDERS that such cases of dispute should be : referred to a zoning board of appeals. 519 Ridge Road--Wilmette, Illinois Attorneys' Opinions Phone Wilmette 802 At the meeting at which this deci- Chicago Office: sion was rendered, Max Murdock, of Winnetka, an official of the Illinois State Real Estate Board and attoraey for the North Shore Real Estate board, da was present, and he and Village Attor- ney Marshall took occasion for a most friendly discussion of the point at 3123 N. CLARK ST., PHONE BUCKINGHAM 1810 --_--. Acrtractively Furnished With Rugs, Furniture, Draperies and Household Appliances by the Interior Decorators of ~ issue which, it was explained, has not f ; been passed upon by the higher courts, and on which there is divided legal fersen opinion. | Village Attorney Marshall said he felt that if a person who owned a lot urniture ompan which comprised an area less than one fifth of an acre, before the passage of the ordinance referred to in the fore- 1046-56 Belmont Avenue, Chicago ooino. he cannot be prevented from J And 3 other Big Stores. building on it. | Attorney Murdock said he felt the "W hat Petersen Promises, Petersen Does" same way about the matter, excent. that in addition, he insists that the A rights which the owner had prior to the passage of the one-fifth of an acre ~ zoning, pass on to succeeding owners, . when the lot is sold.