Carol Stream trustees approve a truck stop with open arms despite community resistence

Larry Frost
   Another huge truck depot type gas station is coming t Chicago's suburbs which is quickly dropping a livable place. Carol Stream trustees have approved plans to develop a former Brunswick zone into a gas Stilton and huge convenient  store I an area already by big box gas stations. This shitty proposal by developers will also have three scummy chain eateries for truckers to get fatter. Any area that caters to truckers is an area in decline and it seems the idiot trustees of Carol Stream want to expedite this process with agreeing to this plan. I stopped by the meeting with trustees but they refused to believe in any warnings we told would occur if this insane plan was allowed. the Brunswick Zone has been an eyesore and empty for awhile but more could be done for this huge intersection than allowing another large Pilot gas station. This is a gas station economy now and it seems that the only development along major roads in the suburbs of Chicago and Milwaukee are increasing the size of gas stations. These corrupt village leaders will allow any number of cigarette stores and gas stations as this is the only I vestment you are seeing in deteriorating suburbs like Dupage County. So many large old bowling sites have been abandoned and turned over. To gas stations and per capita the suburbs have about four times the fgas stations it seems than Chicago. Rich people can have other business besides gas stations and fast food outlets and these people are increasingly returning to the core center of Chicago, an area that would never be plagued by so many numerous large..large lot gas stations. This Carol Stream plan was fought by local residents in Carol Stream that saw this crap for what it is a truck depot. Trustee corrupt John LaRocco defended allowing this Pilot because the are is already co vested with truck traffic and disagreed that there would be more fumes and noise for the neighbors of this ridiculous plan. These trustees don't seem to notice there are already too many gas stations along North Avenue and somehow this is all they can offer their residents in for of retail for a high traffic area. A pilot Center has about the charm of a Russian prison and this can offer nothing to the area of North and Gary Avenue in Dupage County which has long had Ike no major retail or stores of substance and charm. Instead of the version of Bowling Alone this County is promoting driving alone and catering to the menacing trucking industry that only seems to be heavy in poorer outer ring neighborhoods and far for elite urban neighborhoods of modern Americana. When people look back at why wealth has been transferred from the suburbs to city they can only look at awful decisions such as allowing so many foreign owned gas stations to multiply and be primarily located on the major intersections of all the suburbs of America as this process of Arab and Indian dominated  gas station destruction of suburbia and its aesthetics and shopping potential continues to drain what was once the suburbs and an ideal pace to live.

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