Scaled-back housing development proposed for Huntley's Regency Square

A proposal to develop a new residential area at Huntley's Regency Square calls for building 186 townhouses and 40 ranch-style duplex homes at the southwest corner of Princeton Drive and Charles H. Sass Parkway, formerly Kreutzer Drive.

Larger residential proposals previously have been considered for the site. The current proposal is still early in the process, with village board members reviewing the concept at last week's board meeting and listening to public comments.

Residents' and the village board's reaction to the proposal generally was positive with a few concerns about how the proposed development would affect traffic flow and adjacent neighborhoods.

Charles Nordman, the village's director of development services, said most of the feedback from the board was "common concerns" that can be dealt with.

"There will likely be some fine-tuning of the plan," Nordman said, "most importantly to better buffer or separate the nearby neighborhoods from the duplex homes that are proposed."

Nordman said this plan was significantly different from other plans brought forward to the village. The previous proposals included large apartment buildings, which Nordman said received a lot of opposition and forced the developers to consider other options.

"It's definitely a different plan than the village has seen in the past," Nordman said. "But this is a much less dense project than what's previously been proposed to Regency Square."

Huntley's planning commission on Monday reviewed the developer's application and it will go before the village board for a project vote.