Robin Meier

In an open letter to the community, Mundelein Mayor Robin Meier this week quashed any hopes officials with two local school districts may have of increasing the amount of cash they’ll receive from the company behind the massive Ivanhoe Village residential and commercial development.

“We have to stop focusing on the past and we cannot keep dividing our community with controversy,” Meier wrote. “We need to understand that the impact fee approval (process) has been completed, approved and doesn’t need to be reopened.”

That pronouncement puzzled state Rep. Daniel Didech, who — in response to the controversy in Mundelein — championed legislation that clarifies municipalities’ ability to impose impact fees on developers.

“Mayor Meier has promised all stakeholders that she would e

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