Zoning for Vibrant Villages
DeKalb County · in development

DeKalb: the local version of the question.

The DeKalb County page applies the same corridor template that anchors the Hanover–Elizabeth pilot in Jo Daviess, adapted to the corn belt and the university-town edge and to the villages of DeKalb · Sycamore · Genoa.

This page is a working draft.

What this page will become.

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The Jo Daviess template uses a six-section structure: why this corridor first, the corridor in pictures, what people are asking, what the villages could be, local zoning context, and how to engage.

For DeKalb County, the corridor candidates and the local stakeholder questions are different. The shape of the conversation is the same.

Candidate corridors for DeKalb.

To be drafted with input from DeKalb County landowners, board members, and residents. The DeKalb page will name two villages, roughly within twenty minutes of each other at LSV speed, as the local pilot candidates.

See the Jo Daviess template →

Help shape the DeKalb draft.

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