Tax Pushed To Keep Hinsdale Brick Street
HINSDALE, IL – Hinsdale is willing to keep Sixth Street all brick, but residents along the street would pay for it, an official said Tuesday.
At a Village Board meeting, Village President Tom Cauley said Hinsdale is proposing a neighborhood tax district that would raise property taxes to keep Sixth a brick street.
Sixth has been all brick from Garfield Avenue to County Line Road since the 1890s.
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The village said it needs to redo the street. It said it would keep the intersections brick, which would cost an extra $800,000. But officials said the village would pave the rest.
Late last year, residents along the street said they had no idea such a plan was in the works until Patch wrote about it last November. After they objected, the village delayed the project for a year.
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On Tuesday, Cauley said the village could set up a tax district known in Illinois as a “special service area” in which the village could tax residents for the brick street.
This tax would affect 38 properties along this four-block section of Sixth, according to the village.
Cauley said the village would set an upper amount that residents would have to pay, with the hope it would drop. That would be “based on our ability to use other funds in connection with the project,” he said.
“We want this street to be all brick if it’s at all possible,” Cauley said. “We want to try to work to reduce the cost of the (tax district).”
The project is set to start next year.
A public hearing on the tax district would be held in December, Cauley said. Under state law, 51 percent of property owners in a proposed district can prevent its formation through a petition.
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