Chicago suburb plans educational/residential complex for young people with autism

From The Chicago Tribune:

The Naperville City Council on June 1 unanimously gave final approval to plans for an educational and residential complex for teens and young adults with autism on the city's southwest side.

Council members gave the go-ahead to the Turning Pointe Autism Foundation's plans for the 6.44-acre site on the west side of Plainfield-Naperville Road between Hamlet and Saratoga roads.

Turning Pointe plans to construct a 22,164-square-foot that would serve 36 students between middle school and age 21. During the project's first phase, Turning Pointe also will build 77 parking spaces. In subsequent phases, the foundation plans to erect a 9,455-square-foot recreation center -- which until recently had been planned for the first phase of construction -- and six residential care facilities in duplex buildings that would serve 36 more young adults with autism.

As part of Tuesday's approval, council members voted to vacate a little-used public street, Tramore Court, which had been designed to serve 16 duplex structures and which Turning Pointe plans to rip up. Only one duplex ever was built, and Turning Pointe plans to incorporate that 3,000-square-foot duplex into its campus-style development as a support building.