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all. 53 00:06:09,660 --> 00:06:12,260 Okay, so the next item on the agenda is public comment. 54 00:06:12,260 --> 00:06:14,860 Members of the public are welcome to provide comments 55 00:06:14,860 --> 00:06:15,980 on any matter. 56 00:06:15,980 --> 00:06:18,460 Please listen for the President to recognize you. 57 00:06:18,460 --> 00:06:21,060 State your name and address for the public record. 58 00:06:21,060 --> 00:06:23,020 Comments are limited to three minutes. 59 00:06:23,980 --> 00:06:28,500 We have David Finch signed up regarding event space, 60 00:06:28,500 --> 00:06:30,140 nuisance property. 61 00:06:30,140 --> 00:06:33,340 David, if you'd like to join us up at the podium. 62 00:06:37,260 --> 00:06:40,420 Make sure the green light is on, on the microphone. 63 00:06:40,420 --> 00:06:42,140 Name and address for the record. 64 00:06:42,140 --> 00:06:43,660 And the green light, I don't see a green light, 65 00:06:43,660 --> 00:06:45,780 but my name and address is Dave Finch. 66 00:06:45,780 --> 00:06:48,580 Address is 133 South Emerson Road. 67 00:06:50,460 --> 00:06:51,940 Capture good. 68 00:06:51,940 --> 00:06:52,940 All right. 69 00:06:53,700 --> 00:06:55,020 I wanted to talk to you guys tonight. 70 00:06:55,020 --> 00:06:57,020 This is very timely that this happened. 71 00:06:57,020 --> 00:06:58,380 I don't know how much of the Village Board 72 00:06:58,380 --> 00:07:01,700 heard about this already, but on Saturday night, 73 00:07:01,700 --> 00:07:03,820 it was a large, extremely large, 74 00:07:03,820 --> 00:07:06,460 disturbance on Emerson Road. 75 00:07:06,460 --> 00:07:09,900 The entire road was shut down for probably more than an hour 76 00:07:09,900 --> 00:07:12,940 or so, and I'll give you a little bit of a background 77 00:07:12,940 --> 00:07:14,500 of how that happened. 78 00:07:14,500 --> 00:07:18,380 There is a barn that was put in off Emerson Road, 79 00:07:18,380 --> 00:07:19,980 39 South Emerson Road. 80 00:07:20,980 --> 00:07:23,460 The longer story is, we didn't actually look to build there, 81 00:07:23,460 --> 00:07:24,340 but weren't allowed to build there 82 00:07:24,340 --> 00:07:25,740 because it had to share a driveway. 83 00:07:25,740 --> 00:07:27,740 Well, I think that got slipped through 84 00:07:27,740 --> 00:07:29,580 a very large house with foot back there. 85 00:07:29,580 --> 00:07:31,580 That's not a residence. 86 00:07:31,580 --> 00:07:33,100 It is an event space. 87 00:07:34,460 --> 00:07:35,780 It is set up to host events. 88 00:07:35,780 --> 00:07:38,460 It's set up to host 20-something people. 89 00:07:38,460 --> 00:07:41,140 Over the last two years, it's been listed on Airbnb, 90 00:07:41,140 --> 00:07:42,980 on BRBO. 91 00:07:42,980 --> 00:07:44,540 Every single weekend, usually it's a Friday, 92 00:07:44,540 --> 00:07:47,460 Saturday type occupancy. 93 00:07:47,460 --> 00:07:49,580 There's typically bachelor parties there. 94 00:07:49,620 --> 00:07:51,100 It's usually loud music playing a lot. 95 00:07:51,100 --> 00:07:53,300 We've made calls to the police, 96 00:07:53,300 --> 00:07:54,860 not an emergency number in several times 97 00:07:54,860 --> 00:07:57,500 and so will the other neighbors over here. 98 00:07:57,500 --> 00:08:00,380 It's been bad, but it's never escalated to this degree. 99 00:08:00,380 --> 00:08:05,380 On Saturday, there was a published party, 100 00:08:05,900 --> 00:08:08,460 and there were well over 300 people who showed up. 101 00:08:08,460 --> 00:08:10,780 The entire Emerson Road from both sides 102 00:08:10,780 --> 00:08:13,340 of it over a mile away was packed. 103 00:08:13,340 --> 00:08:16,500 I know that it was leased over 30 squad cars that attended. 104 00:08:16,500 --> 00:08:17,700 I have a couple of other neighbors. 105 00:08:17,740 --> 00:08:20,340 We spent, my wife Janice and I spent the day yesterday 106 00:08:20,340 --> 00:08:21,580 walking up and down Emerson Road, 107 00:08:21,580 --> 00:08:23,260 just making sure that everybody was in agreement 108 00:08:23,260 --> 00:08:25,340 that no one supported this. 109 00:08:25,340 --> 00:08:26,460 There's a little bit of research. 110 00:08:26,460 --> 00:08:29,860 It's owned by an out-of-state folks 111 00:08:29,860 --> 00:08:32,500 who established an in-state LLC. 112 00:08:32,500 --> 00:08:35,260 It's owned by 39 South Emerson LLC. 113 00:08:36,460 --> 00:08:39,700 The owners live in North Barrington, Illinois. 114 00:08:39,700 --> 00:08:40,740 They're not really present here. 115 00:08:40,740 --> 00:08:43,300 They just remotely rented out for events on weekends. 116 00:08:44,500 --> 00:08:45,780 Janice and I stopped by this morning 117 00:08:45,780 --> 00:08:47,660 and talked to Sam in Planning and Zoning, 118 00:08:47,660 --> 00:08:48,740 this guy to understand, 119 00:08:48,740 --> 00:08:50,100 hey, how is this even possible? 120 00:08:50,100 --> 00:08:51,340 Is this legit? 121 00:08:51,340 --> 00:08:52,740 Is this even legal? 122 00:08:52,740 --> 00:08:54,620 Short story is the way it's zoned, 123 00:08:54,620 --> 00:08:57,380 because it's zoned residential, it's built residential. 124 00:08:57,380 --> 00:08:59,860 Even though it's strictly an event space, 125 00:08:59,860 --> 00:09:01,740 it's zoned residential, and through Airbnb, 126 00:09:01,740 --> 00:09:03,420 it can be rented out. 127 00:09:03,420 --> 00:09:05,500 So we've also followed up with Airbnb. 128 00:09:06,820 --> 00:09:08,340 Raise our safety concerns. 129 00:09:08,340 --> 00:09:09,540 Of course, they're listed on our platform 130 00:09:09,540 --> 00:09:10,620 so they get banned off Airbnb. 131 00:09:10,620 --> 00:09:13,380 They're gonna have the RBO there right away. 132 00:09:13,380 --> 00:09:15,940 This weekend on Saturday, the party was dispersed 133 00:09:15,940 --> 00:09:17,180 and they were still there on Sunday. 134 00:09:17,180 --> 00:09:19,340 I'm sure some of our officers know that they were called there. 135 00:09:19,340 --> 00:09:21,860 On Sunday night, they were well after one o'clock 136 00:09:21,860 --> 00:09:23,860 in the morning, fights, noise. 137 00:09:23,860 --> 00:09:27,140 We heard swearing into the ball night long. 138 00:09:27,140 --> 00:09:28,740 That's the awareness of it. 139 00:09:28,740 --> 00:09:31,380 What our ask really is, is to take a look 140 00:09:31,380 --> 00:09:32,580 at how we're managing this. 141 00:09:32,580 --> 00:09:35,940 There's a very small amount of these rental properties 142 00:09:35,940 --> 00:09:37,820 that are short-term rental properties. 143 00:09:37,820 --> 00:09:38,900 This is an event space. 144 00:09:38,900 --> 00:09:41,540 It's not a house that people are showing up to visit with folks. 145 00:09:41,540 --> 00:09:43,220 It's a party space. 146 00:09:43,220 --> 00:09:45,380 And we think that we may need to update 147 00:09:45,420 --> 00:09:47,020 some of our regulations in town to say, 148 00:09:47,020 --> 00:09:48,740 how do we deal with this? 149 00:09:48,740 --> 00:09:51,540 Before we get 20 or 30 of them, 150 00:09:51,540 --> 00:09:53,460 we only have two or three of these that applies to. 151 00:09:53,460 --> 00:09:56,140 So can we take a look at the town ordinances 152 00:09:56,140 --> 00:09:58,420 and regulations that allow for something like this 153 00:09:58,420 --> 00:10:01,660 so that we can, I mean, it was really unsafe, 154 00:10:01,660 --> 00:10:05,220 like scary, scary, unsafe, sadly. 155 00:10:05,220 --> 00:10:09,020 All inner city kids from everywhere showing up. 156 00:10:09,020 --> 00:10:13,420 They had, I think Sarah sent a listing of their email 157 00:10:13,420 --> 00:10:15,340 that they sent out to groups saying, 158 00:10:15,340 --> 00:10:18,260 hey, show up with your own bottle and your own weed, 159 00:10:18,260 --> 00:10:19,180 and we'll party here. 160 00:10:19,180 --> 00:10:24,220 So it was not a safe environment for a while. 161 00:10:24,220 --> 00:10:26,780 So anyway, that's why I know them all the time already. 162 00:10:26,780 --> 00:10:29,860 Just wanted to plant the seed and ask for some help with that. 163 00:10:29,860 --> 00:10:31,900 We'll run down what we can with planning zoning already 164 00:10:31,900 --> 00:10:34,020 asked for at least a check with the permits 165 00:10:34,020 --> 00:10:35,660 to make sure they were filed correctly. 166 00:10:35,660 --> 00:10:38,660 And we spoke with Jenny over in the police department 167 00:10:38,660 --> 00:10:41,500 and also say, we'll continue to call when we have issues 168 00:10:41,500 --> 00:10:44,940 so that proper that nuisance is documented well. 169 00:10:44,940 --> 00:10:46,700 We got police at the back of the room, too, 170 00:10:46,700 --> 00:10:48,780 if you wanted to have any further conversation. 171 00:10:48,780 --> 00:10:50,740 Any thoughts from the village attorney? 172 00:10:54,340 --> 00:10:57,260 Just off the top of my head without researching it, 173 00:10:57,260 --> 00:11:00,820 my instinct is that the solution to this issue 174 00:11:00,820 --> 00:11:05,260 is not a zoning or because state law has, 175 00:11:06,460 --> 00:11:08,580 unfortunately we hear this a lot. 176 00:11:08,580 --> 00:11:12,580 State law has constrained our local government's power. 177 00:11:12,580 --> 00:11:14,980 And one of the ways that has done so 178 00:11:14,980 --> 00:11:17,020 is to regulate short-term rentals, 179 00:11:17,020 --> 00:11:19,060 which we're generally not able to do. 180 00:11:19,060 --> 00:11:22,940 However, if it's a place, a disorderly house, 181 00:11:22,940 --> 00:11:25,220 things like that, there are other ways 182 00:11:25,220 --> 00:11:28,300 we can enforce against the property owner. 183 00:11:28,300 --> 00:11:32,580 And I think that's usually the best strategy 184 00:11:32,580 --> 00:11:37,580 is to enforce our nuisance laws and things like that 185 00:11:38,220 --> 00:11:40,660 against the owner rather than the, 186 00:11:40,660 --> 00:11:42,100 and not to say you can't give tickets 187 00:11:42,100 --> 00:11:47,100 to the people who are creating the problem the night of, 188 00:11:47,100 --> 00:11:49,140 but usually to get to the root of the problem 189 00:11:49,140 --> 00:11:51,700 you have to hold the owner of the property account. 190 00:11:51,700 --> 00:11:52,540 It'll just happen, yeah. 191 00:11:52,540 --> 00:11:54,860 So I think they're rented out for next week already. 192 00:11:54,860 --> 00:11:57,820 And I don't know, we'll see how this goes. 193 00:11:57,820 --> 00:12:01,300 But I would encourage the neighbors to do what you've been 194 00:12:01,300 --> 00:12:03,060 doing, which is contact in the police 195 00:12:03,060 --> 00:12:07,980 because the more record that the village has 196 00:12:07,980 --> 00:12:10,020 to rely upon of these incidents, 197 00:12:10,020 --> 00:12:14,420 the better equipped we will be to do something about it. 198 00:12:14,420 --> 00:12:15,420 Absolutely. 199 00:12:15,420 --> 00:12:18,180 We'll continue to be more actionable we can be. 200 00:12:18,180 --> 00:12:19,620 Can we look into, do we? 201 00:12:19,620 --> 00:12:20,340 Oh, we can't. 202 00:12:20,340 --> 00:12:22,980 We're kind of off the agenda already. 203 00:12:22,980 --> 00:12:24,620 Oh, I thought you asked for comments. 204 00:12:24,620 --> 00:12:25,620 So I was ahead of comment. 205 00:12:25,620 --> 00:12:28,420 I was having comment from the attorney. 206 00:12:28,420 --> 00:12:30,700 Yeah, that's the other thing. 207 00:12:30,700 --> 00:12:32,500 Open meetings laws are something else 208 00:12:32,540 --> 00:12:37,780 that the state has regulated for local governments. 209 00:12:37,780 --> 00:12:42,100 And we're generally not able to discuss something 210 00:12:42,100 --> 00:12:44,380 that's not on the agenda for the meeting. 211 00:12:44,380 --> 00:12:45,220 Fair enough. 212 00:12:45,220 --> 00:12:48,420 We can have a very limited response to public comment, 213 00:12:48,420 --> 00:12:51,700 but we can't have a broader discussion. 214 00:12:51,700 --> 00:12:52,580 I completely acknowledge that. 215 00:12:52,580 --> 00:12:54,300 And we're just very lucky that we stopped 216 00:12:54,300 --> 00:12:55,300 into talking to planning and zoning 217 00:12:55,300 --> 00:12:56,500 and saw the meeting was tonight. 218 00:12:56,500 --> 00:12:57,660 So we took the opportunity. 219 00:12:57,660 --> 00:13:00,140 So rather than wait a month for a strike 220 00:13:00,140 --> 00:13:01,620 from why the iron is hot, while it's really fresh 221 00:13:01,660 --> 00:13:04,140 and everybody's mind, the scar is still wide open 222 00:13:04,140 --> 00:13:05,420 for everybody in a neighborhood right now. 223 00:13:05,420 --> 00:13:08,100 So that's why we just wanted to make sure you guys 224 00:13:08,100 --> 00:13:10,740 were aware and can be, so you don't find out 225 00:13:10,740 --> 00:13:11,580 about a month later. 226 00:13:11,580 --> 00:13:14,700 Yeah, and that's why we explain it, 227 00:13:14,700 --> 00:13:16,420 especially for elected officials. 228 00:13:16,420 --> 00:13:20,140 There's laws about these agendas 229 00:13:20,140 --> 00:13:22,460 and that they're posted and they're public 230 00:13:22,460 --> 00:13:24,660 and they can only discuss things that were on the agenda. 231 00:13:24,660 --> 00:13:28,740 So that's why we don't engage with people generally, 232 00:13:28,740 --> 00:13:32,180 especially the trustees, because they're the ones 233 00:13:33,220 --> 00:13:34,420 that the law applies to. 234 00:13:34,420 --> 00:13:35,260 Understood. 235 00:13:35,260 --> 00:13:36,860 I assume that's why I would leave my contact information 236 00:13:36,860 --> 00:13:37,700 on there as well. 237 00:13:37,700 --> 00:13:38,540 Thank you. 238 00:13:38,540 --> 00:13:39,460 I'd be happy to do that. 239 00:13:39,460 --> 00:13:42,180 And I'm sure my other neighbors would be happy to do it too. 240 00:13:42,180 --> 00:13:44,020 We can, like I said, we can't miss the whole street 241 00:13:44,020 --> 00:13:45,900 and hand it out my contact information 242 00:13:45,900 --> 00:13:48,460 so I can connect with all the other neighbors as well. 243 00:13:48,460 --> 00:13:49,620 Appreciate your thoughts. 244 00:13:49,620 --> 00:13:51,100 All right, thank you. 245 00:13:51,100 --> 00:13:54,100 Anybody else willing to speak public comment? 246 00:13:54,100 --> 00:13:57,620 I've only got Mr. Finch signed up. 247 00:13:59,020 --> 00:14:00,180 Going once, going twice. 248 00:14:01,100 --> 00:14:01,940 Oh. 249 00:14:12,220 --> 00:14:13,700 Giving your paperwork, please. 250 00:14:21,060 --> 00:14:21,900 Just. 251 00:14:25,340 --> 00:14:26,580 Go to the podium. 252 00:14:26,580 --> 00:14:29,580 Just for the other guy, we're tricky. 253 00:14:29,580 --> 00:14:30,580 It's tricky. 254 00:14:32,780 --> 00:14:35,580 Rodney, name and address for the record. 255 00:14:37,940 --> 00:14:40,900 Address is 1514 Derby Avenue. 256 00:14:42,180 --> 00:14:45,980 I'm one of the people in Lake Park along the Lakebank 257 00:14:45,980 --> 00:14:50,340 and you told us that the reason our property tax is mine 258 00:14:50,340 --> 00:14:53,780 went up 800% just on my land, 259 00:14:53,820 --> 00:14:58,140 that the reason that did that was because of a court case. 260 00:14:58,140 --> 00:14:59,860 Cannot find the court case. 261 00:15:00,780 --> 00:15:03,460 My neighbors, lawyer couldn't find the court case 262 00:15:03,460 --> 00:15:05,060 and I can't find the court case. 263 00:15:05,060 --> 00:15:08,540 Could you tell me what court case you're talking about? 264 00:15:10,340 --> 00:15:11,340 Who told you that? 265 00:15:12,220 --> 00:15:15,780 When I came in for the, yeah, 266 00:15:15,780 --> 00:15:19,540 when I came in to argue about 800% raise 267 00:15:20,060 --> 00:15:25,060 in my property tax or in my value of my property. 268 00:15:25,420 --> 00:15:28,860 I mean, if someone at border review told you that, 269 00:15:30,260 --> 00:15:33,020 yeah, this isn't the border review. 270 00:15:33,020 --> 00:15:33,940 This is the village border. 271 00:15:33,940 --> 00:15:35,740 They wouldn't give me the answer now. 272 00:15:35,740 --> 00:15:38,780 I mean, my only instinct would be, 273 00:15:38,780 --> 00:15:40,180 and we can't have a big deal.