Comprehensive plan for Joliet calls for more apartments in key locations

Joliet residents seemed receptive to the idea of more apartments in town during a community workshop this week on the city’s proposed comprehensive plan.The draft plan, which is available for review and comment on the city website, calls for multifamily housing in at least three areas of the city where it doesn’t exist now. Homeowners typically object when multifamily housing is proposed close to their subdivisions, and the city has rejected projects in the past.But as a long-term plan for the city, the idea of more multifamily housing was a welcome concept to those interviewed at a community workshop Thursday designed to collect public input on the details.The plan calls for apartments at the Louis Joliet Mall, in a far West Side area along Ridge Road, and along South Chicago Street running south of the downtown area.“I like it,” Diane Calingo said after viewing display boards showing what multifamily housing could look like near the Louis Joliet Mall. Calingo lives near the mall, whe