The intent of this project is to recommend amendments to the Village of Fox Lake's Zoning Code focusing on the downtown and area around the Fox Lake Metra station. This project is one of the recommended actions from the 2025 Fox Lake Downtown Plan to evaluate zoning and regulatory tools. The Zoning Code amendments will explore potential changes regarding: zoning districts, building heights and density, intensity of uses, parking, streetscape design, architectural and design standards, transit access, bicycle infrastructure, mixed use transit-oriented development (TOD), and other aspects relating to zoning and development.

2025 Fox Lake Downtown Plan

The 2025 Fox Lake Downtown Plan provides goals and strategies, conceptual opportunity site development scenarios, design guidelines, and set of implementation actions to further enhance downtown and support the transit-oriented development (TOD) around the Village’s Metra station. The plan provides strategies and actions to improve downtown by identifying opportunities for business and housing growth, development, access to transit, pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure, and site improvements across the study area.

Study Area

As identified in the 2025 Fox Lake Downtown Plan, the study area is generally bounded by Nippersink Boulevard on the north, York Street on the east, Hillside Drive on the south, and Pistakee Lake on the west. The study area is depicted in this map image and the Comment Map below.