To people who don’t live on his block, he’s a whining activist. Like most people, he wants his neighborhood to remain pretty much as it was when he sunk all that goddamned money into keeping Urbana beautiful. But then the hammering and BEEP-BEEP-BEEPING starts.Ĭahill sought a hearing with the Urbana Zoning Board of Appeals. It seems almost pastoral, like it might go well with a cup of coffee. This is what he sees when he looks out the window at 7 a.m. Cahill and Gail Taylor woke up one morning to discover that their world was being knocked down to make way for an expanded apartment complex for drunk west suburban children.

Then he also claimed we should have looked at the “Building Permits Granted” section of the

The city attorney claimed that staff followed the rules and to add insult to injury, when we saw “work” started in May we should have questioned the process. Just thinking about this still makes me mad, and I have to look out my window and see and hear this every day starting at 7 a.m.! Gazette that is very far from a “Public Notice.” That is the BS of the “45 day protest rule” that ended the ZBA (Zoning Board of Appeals) hearing before it even started and allowed us to present our side of the story. All variances were granted with NO PUBLIC REVIEW or NOTICE by city staff. There were never any signs posted for the variances granted.

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