HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESOLUTION - 41-73 - 5/1/1973 - ARL HTS ARMY AID DEFENSE SITE/PRESERVERESOLUTION NO. 4I-73
RESOLUTION URGING PRESERVATION OF THE ARLINGTON HEIGHTS
ARidY AIR DEFENSE SITE (NIKE BASE)
WHEREAS, the Village of Elk Grove Village is a neighboring
municipality of and sympathetic wi:_h the open space concern of the
Village of ArIingtcn Heights, and
WHEREAS, the urban population of the United States as a whole
increased 55% between 1950 and 1970, and more than 70% of the United
States population new lives in urban areas and it is predicted that by
1980, ki01 of the total population will be living in urban communities,
and
WHEREAS, there is an Urgent need for open space land in the
Village of Arlington Heichts and its environs to assure a decent living
environm_2nt, to Provide for adequate parks and recreation areas and the
growing leisure ti:e of area rr.sidents, and to curb suburban sprawl and
Prevent the sprear� of urban blight and deterioration, and
WHEREAS, the Congress of the United States and various agencies
of the United States Goverrimcrit have recognized the very pressing need of
preserving open space land and have adopted measures to aid and assist
eammunitles in obtaining acreage fcr recreation purposes, and
WHEREAS, the only open space lend in the Arlington Heights
Park District substantial in nature (11:0 acres) is the Arlington Heights
Army Air Defense Situ (Nike Case) in Arlington Heights, Illinois, and
owned by the, United States Government, and
WHEREAS, 100 acres of the Arlington Heights Army Air Defense
Site (Hike Base) has been declared surplus property for use as an air
defen,e, site and the Arlington Heights Park District has for the past
several years had a policy of acquiring said surplus properties for
parks .and recreation whenever the some have been made available, and
WHEREAS, the United States Navy has now indicated intention
of building homes for personnel whose duties are performed in Glenview,
Illinois, some 12 miles away from Arlington Heights, Illinois, and
WHEREAS, there are substaitial tracts of land which are now
federally owned which are located closer to the Glenview Naval Air
Station than the Arlington Heights Nike Base, and thus would be more
useful as housing sites than the Arlington Heights Army Air Defense
Site (Nike Base), and
WHEREAS, there are yet other large tracts of undeveloped land
located closer to the Glenview Naval Air Station than the Arlington
Heights Nike Ba<:e, which while not awned by the United States Government,
would be available for minimal compensation, while not being detrimental
to cxistirg communities, and
WHEREAS, the proposed use of said surplus property for housing
will destroy one of the last remaining natural resources in the Village
of Arlington Heights, will cause congestion and overcrowding, is dia-
metrically oppo:,;,d to the United States Government's own open space land
programs, and defeats the development of the area for recreation purposes.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the President and Board
of Trustees of the Village of Elk Grove Village that vie support the
request made by the Village of Arlington Heights th-:f all governmental
agencies concerned with the opcn-sp,:c.e. program or tho United StaLes
Government I>e strongly urged to ma'. :e l.nown to the Lepartment of Defense
the Urgcnt nf,,d for the surplus properties known as the Arlington Heights
Army Air Defense site (Nike [;,-.so) as recreation area. and that the United
States Seemtory of Defense bo requested to reconsido_r- the decision to
take over the property far a liousirl, Project.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by the President and Board of Trustees
of the Village of Elk Grove Village that a copy of this Resolution be
forwarded to Richard M. Nixon, President of the United States of America,
U. S. Senator Charles H. Percy, U. S. Senator Adlai Stevenson III, U. S.
Representative Philip Crane and U. S. Representative Samuel Young.
PASSED this Ist day of May , 1973.
APPROVED this Ist day of May , 1973.
ATTEST:
Eleanor G. Turner
Village Clerk
Charles J. Zettek
Village President
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