The Homer Township Board voted 3-2 Monday to sell the 86-acre Purdy Farm, which had been designated as open space, over the objections of about 150 people who packed the Homer Glen Village Hall to protest the plan.
Residents pack the Homer Township Board meeting Monday to speak out against plans to sell two parcels of farm land purchased decades ago as open space. The board voted to sell one of the two farms.
Residents, including some current and former Homer Township and Homer Glen elected officials, condemned the plan. Some residents have retained a lawyer to try to fight the sale and created a Go Fund Me page to pay for legal expenses. Signs promoting open space and asking township officials to “Stop the Sale” are mingled between election signs on streets and homes across the township.
“Residents feel like they don’t know what is happening,” Snyder said. “They don’t have enough information. They feel blindsided. This is a community crisis of your own making and no one else’s.” “Once we destroy these valuable ecosystems, we will never get them back,” said Homer Glen resident Brittany Schaller, a science teacher who is pursuing a master’s degree in environmental education.
Both former township attorney Gerald Sramek and former township Supervisor Ron Svara said the township does not have the authority to sell open space, a claim Balich denies. Balich said this is being scaled back and the concept is changing. He said he would like a community center that could house nonprofit groups and be used for bingo or yoga classes for seniors, basketball programs for special needs students or after-school outreach programs for children. He said he believes it could be built for less than $2 million and that the board will have workshops to figure out what it would include. He estimated it would have parking for about 300 cars.
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