Members of a DuPage County panel voted unanimously to recommend approval of a conditional-use permit for a proposed development, adding conditions aimed at emergency access, parking and traffic control.

Board members added several conditions to a staff-recommended approval: redesign the parking lot to allow clear, efficient access for fire department vehicles; install an aesthetic barrier and landscaping between the development and the adjacent property; prohibit parking on Route 83; allow a limited height exception—raising the limit from 36 feet to 40 feet only for mechanical equipment on the building identified as "2" on the site plan; require impervious materials for parking areas where needed to support emergency vehicles and prohibit use of tar products; and require some form of traffic regulation on Sundays to manage congregational traffic. The panel also instructed staff to prepare written, consolidated conditions and provide them to board members before the item goes to the county board development committee.

The height clarification was described as applying only to mechanical equipment (air-conditioning equipment or similar) and only for the building shown as "2" on the submitted site plan. Board members discussed how to make the emergency-access requirement enforceable because the currently submitted site plan does not show the redesign; staff was asked to coordinate with the relevant departments to ensure the final site plan documents the emergency-access work.

Panel members discussed but did not adopt a time limit for the conditional use. One board member noted the panel's typical practice of including a maximum of 10 years for conditional uses, with earlier expiration possible in cases of change in ownership or destruction of the facility, but concluded that a time limit may not make sense when substantial capital improvements are required. The panel instead included monitoring and a requirement for traffic control on Sundays to address safety and neighborhood concerns.

When a member proposed that off-duty DuPage County police specifically be required for Sunday traffic control, staff and other members said the panel could require traffic regulation on Sundays but could not mandate a particular agency or require county officers by name; the condition was left as an obligation to provide traffic regulation on Sundays without specifying the provider.

On a roll call, Member Ramon, Member Cutter, Member Shultz, Member Murphy, Senator Moran and Chairman Carfeld each voted "aye." The motion passed 6-0. The panel will forward the recommendation and the record of conditions to the county board development committee for further consideration.

The panel indicated there was no old or new business remaining and adjourned after the vote.