In 1959, its founder and original developer Jay Stream incorporated the Village of Carol Stream. Jay Stream envisioned Carol Stream as community comprised of residential homes in the west sector mixed with light industrial business and industries in the east sector. Since its incorporation 48 years ago, the Village has continued to grow and prosper each year by following a progressive land use development plan that has resulted in controlled orderly growth. Today, the Village is home to over 900 businesses and industries and approximately 40,750 residents living in 14,350 dwelling units. Because of a strong industrial and commercial base, the Village has been able to offer its residents a full array of municipal services without levying a local property tax. Carol Stream offers its residents modern schools, a large modern park system, a recently expanded full-service library and a community of churches serving many religious denominations. The Village has recently expanded its water and wastewater utilities to meet projected future customer demand for these essential Village services. For more information on the Village of Carol Stream please go to www.carolstream.org
Village of Carol Stream's
Philosophy of Partnership with the Business Community
by Bob Glees, Community Development Director
Quality Standards - Carol Stream has adopted up-to-date, nationally-accepted building codes with very few local amendments. This makes it easy for architects to work in our town, and there is no question to what the minimum standards of quality are. In addition, the zoning regulations are relatively simple, and consistent with DuPage communities. Anyone who has a problem meeting these minimum standards is probably not interested in running a quality business in the first place. Our intent is not to hinder legitimate businesses or land uses, but rather to disallow uses that no one wants anyway because of the negative effects they have on our community.
Services - The Village offers many services to business, including job ads on our website and an extensive library of informational handouts. We are always open to suggestions.
Information Provider - Check out our website at www.carolstream.org for information valuable to businesses, such as the current available land and building space. We have plans in the works to offer other useful information on our website, and as I said, we are always open to suggestions.
Cooperation - I'm sure we all would agree that a healthy business climate is a benefit to all of us in the Carol Stream community. Our mission is to listen and respond to your needs as best we can, in order to help you achieve your goals while at the same time upholding the community's standards of health, life safety and quality.
Service - Because we love to see a business thrive and improve itself, we try to make the approval process as quick and easy as possible to get through. Sorry, we can't eliminate the approval process altogether (see "quality standards"), but compared with other communities, Carol Stream is known to be one of the quickest at turning around building permits submittals and zoning requests. The only thing that slows an applicant down is a failure to meet the established standards that everyone in the community must meet.
Approachable - I like to get things done without wasting a lot of time, and as successful business people I know you do too. If any of you ever has a problem with a building permit or zoning request, please give me a call at 630-871-6231 or e-mail me at bglees@carolstream.org and I will do my best to break the log jam.