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States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands,
one nation under God, indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all.
Okay, so the next item on the agenda is public comment.
Members of the public are welcome to provide comments
on any matter.
Please listen for the President to recognize you.
State your name and address for the public record.
Comments are limited to three minutes.
We have David Finch signed up regarding event space,
nuisance property.
David, if you'd like to join us up at the podium.
Make sure the green light is on, on the microphone.
Name and address for the record.
And the green light, I don't see a green light,
but my name and address is Dave Finch.
Address is 133 South Emerson Road.
Capture good.
All right.
I wanted to talk to you guys tonight.
This is very timely that this happened.
I don't know how much of the Village Board
heard about this already, but on Saturday night,
it was a large, extremely large,
disturbance on Emerson Road.
The entire road was shut down for probably more than an hour
or so, and I'll give you a little bit of a background
of how that happened.
There is a barn that was put in off Emerson Road,
39 South Emerson Road.
The longer story is, we didn't actually look to build there,
but weren't allowed to build there
because it had to share a driveway.
Well, I think that got slipped through
a very large house with foot back there.
That's not a residence.
It is an event space.
It is set up to host events.
It's set up to host 20-something people.
Over the last two years, it's been listed on Airbnb,
on BRBO.
Every single weekend, usually it's a Friday,
Saturday type occupancy.
There's typically bachelor parties there.
It's usually loud music playing a lot.
We've made calls to the police,
not an emergency number in several times
and so will the other neighbors over here.
It's been bad, but it's never escalated to this degree.
On Saturday, there was a published party,
and there were well over 300 people who showed up.
The entire Emerson Road from both sides
of it over a mile away was packed.
I know that it was leased over 30 squad cars that attended.
I have a couple of other neighbors.
We spent, my wife Janice and I spent the day yesterday
walking up and down Emerson Road,
just making sure that everybody was in agreement
that no one supported this.
There's a little bit of research.
It's owned by an out-of-state folks
who established an in-state LLC.
It's owned by 39 South Emerson LLC.
The owners live in North Barrington, Illinois.
They're not really present here.
They just remotely rented out for events on weekends.
Janice and I stopped by this morning
and talked to Sam in Planning and Zoning,
this guy to understand,
hey, how is this even possible?
Is this legit?
Is this even legal?
Short story is the way it's zoned,
because it's zoned residential, it's built residential.
Even though it's strictly an event space,
it's zoned residential, and through Airbnb,
it can be rented out.
So we've also followed up with Airbnb.
Raise our safety concerns.
Of course, they're listed on our platform
so they get banned off Airbnb.
They're gonna have the RBO there right away.
This weekend on Saturday, the party was dispersed
and they were still there on Sunday.
I'm sure some of our officers know that they were called there.
On Sunday night, they were well after one o'clock
in the morning, fights, noise.
We heard swearing into the ball night long.
That's the awareness of it.
What our ask really is, is to take a look
at how we're managing this.
There's a very small amount of these rental properties
that are short-term rental properties.
This is an event space.
It's not a house that people are showing up to visit with folks.
It's a party space.
And we think that we may need to update
some of our regulations in town to say,
how do we deal with this?
Before we get 20 or 30 of them,
we only have two or three of these that applies to.
So can we take a look at the town ordinances
and regulations that allow for something like this
so that we can, I mean, it was really unsafe,
like scary, scary, unsafe, sadly.
All inner city kids from everywhere showing up.
They had, I think Sarah sent a listing of their email
that they sent out to groups saying,
hey, show up with your own bottle and your own weed,
and we'll party here.
So it was not a safe environment for a while.
So anyway, that's why I know them all the time already.
Just wanted to plant the seed and ask for some help with that.
We'll run down what we can with planning zoning already
asked for at least a check with the permits
to make sure they were filed correctly.
And we spoke with Jenny over in the police department
and also say, we'll continue to call when we have issues
so that proper that nuisance is documented well.
We got police at the back of the room, too,
if you wanted to have any further conversation.
Any thoughts from the village attorney?
Just off the top of my head without researching it,
my instinct is that the solution to this issue
is not a zoning or because state law has,
unfortunately we hear this a lot.
State law has constrained our local government's power.
And one of the ways that has done so
is to regulate short-term rentals,
which we're generally not able to do.
However, if it's a place, a disorderly house,
things like that, there are other ways
we can enforce against the property owner.
And I think that's usually the best strategy
is to enforce our nuisance laws and things like that
against the owner rather than the,
and not to say you can't give tickets
to the people who are creating the problem the night of,
but usually to get to the root of the problem
you have to hold the owner of the property account.
It'll just happen, yeah.
So I think they're rented out for next week already.
And I don't know, we'll see how this goes.
But I would encourage the neighbors to do what you've been
doing, which is contact in the police
because the more record that the village has
to rely upon of these incidents,
the better equipped we will be to do something about it.
Absolutely.
We'll continue to be more actionable we can be.
Can we look into, do we?
Oh, we can't.
We're kind of off the agenda already.
Oh, I thought you asked for comments.
So I was ahead of comment.
I was having comment from the attorney.
Yeah, that's the other thing.
Open meetings laws are something else
that the state has regulated for local governments.
And we're generally not able to discuss something
that's not on the agenda for the meeting.
Fair enough.
We can have a very limited response to public comment,
but we can't have a broader discussion.
I completely acknowledge that.
And we're just very lucky that we stopped
into talking to planning and zoning
and saw the meeting was tonight.
So we took the opportunity.
So rather than wait a month for a strike
from why the iron is hot, while it's really fresh
and everybody's mind, the scar is still wide open
for everybody in a neighborhood right now.
So that's why we just wanted to make sure you guys
were aware and can be, so you don't find out
about a month later.
Yeah, and that's why we explain it,
especially for elected officials.
There's laws about these agendas
and that they're posted and they're public
and they can only discuss things that were on the agenda.
So that's why we don't engage with people generally,
especially the trustees, because they're the ones
that the law applies to.
Understood.
I assume that's why I would leave my contact information
on there as well.
Thank you.
I'd be happy to do that.
And I'm sure my other neighbors would be happy to do it too.
We can, like I said, we can't miss the whole street
and hand it out my contact information
so I can connect with all the other neighbors as well.
Appreciate your thoughts.
All right, thank you.
Anybody else willing to speak public comment?
I've only got Mr. Finch signed up.
Going once, going twice.
Oh.
Giving your paperwork, please.
Just.
Go to the podium.
Just for the other guy, we're tricky.
It's tricky.
Rodney, name and address for the record.
Address is 1514 Derby Avenue.
I'm one of the people in Lake Park along the Lakebank
and you told us that the reason our property tax is mine
went up 800% just on my land,
that the reason that did that was because of a court case.
Cannot find the court case.
My neighbors, lawyer couldn't find the court case
and I can't find the court case.
Could you tell me what court case you're talking about?
Who told you that?
When I came in for the, yeah,
when I came in to argue about 800% raise
in my property tax or in my value of my property.
I mean, if someone at border review told you that,
yeah, this isn't the border review.
This is the village border.
They wouldn't give me the answer now.
I mean, my only instinct would be,
and we can't have a big deal.