Plans for a fertility clinic in downtown Naperville hit an unexpected snag when community members came out to protest the clinic. Citing moral objections and questioning the location people have spoken up and written to the Sun against the project. The City Council is addressing the issue again.
Columnist Mark Brown, a parent of children through in vitro fertilization, has weighed in.
He's surprised by the sudden opposition to such a clinic and relates in a second column how the threatened protests might be the first such effort of their kind.
What's your take?
Fertility clinic draws concern
No TrackBacks
TrackBack URL: http://blogs.suburbanchicagonews.com/cgi-bin/mt-tb.cgi/9011
Does their zoning allow them to perform abortions?
Ok. Ok. Let's stay on topic please. There's a new string that covers Bill's column and related stories.
The Sun should hire a college student to run the blog from his smartphone!
Funny how Bill Mego, in today's column (obstensibly about the fertility clinic, among other thngs), manages YET AGAIN to take a shot at conserbaives while giving libals a bye.
Bill, your red slip is showing, buddy! How about a little fair writing for a change?
Unfortunately, you are correct. The postings are toooooo sloooooow, I have had several not appear, the topics are not always current, and, I would hope that the Sun would follow up on some of the comments. There's just no investigative reporting. I know, I get it, there's no people or money, So, slow death.
You are correct in your observation ---- part of the problem is a lack of attention as postings oft go long periods of time before posted (and do just plain get lost at times).
A blog that is not basically instantaneous is close to useless.
I notice a lot of nasty comments. It's made me shy away because the attacks come fast and furious, especially if you disagree with some of the posters. I tried bringing up points to debate but well...
Is it just me or is Potluck dying a slow death of irrelevance?
Can yo utell me how much they have paid or will pay and how many parking spaces they will receive?
THanks
Just to clarify the parking point: Businesses have an option to either provide the parking on site or pay a fee to offset the use of spots in the public garages. The clinic opted to pay the fee (as most businesses do). They have already paid half of the fee up front and will pay the other half once they go for their final approval to open.
Cheers!
Sam,
It goes both ways. Many businesses that have their own off-street parking often are forced to have way more parking than they reasonably need because of the formulas used to calculate the number of spaces. This drives up their cost and lowers their competitiveness.
At the same time the city mandates way too much handicap parking on private lots and doesn't provide any where near the same number of spaces on city streets and in the public lots.
I'm not sure if this parcel is inside or outside the boundaries of the downtown special taxing district. If it is then part of the variance should include expanding the boundary to include this parcel so it can start paying it's fair share of the cost of building the parking decks like all of the other parcels downtown without off-street parking.
Naperville residents complaining? C'mon. That never happens.
I have no problem with the clinic per se.
I do have a problem with providing a variance to eliminate the off street parking requirement. Why should the taxpayer foot the bill for a private business' parking requirements?