Urbana

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Urbana

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ana’s rolling farmlands are about to experience a vast transformation. Maybe more than any other local area, Urbana will experience a huge growth spurt in residents, businesses, facilities and offices, thanks in large part to the Villages of Urbana planned unit development.
Change is nothing new in an area that just a few hundred years ago saw Native Americans hunting game and using trails that eventually became modern roads. Europeans entered the area in the 1700s, erecting mills, mining the land’s resources, and establishing one of the first glass factories in America.
Today, Interstate 270 is the lifeline of the area as hundreds flood in and out daily to their jobs in more metropolitan areas.
If all goes as planned, the community should increase the population of Urbana proper from 150 to 200 people, pre-Villages, to 9,000 to 10,000 people, all in just 10 years.
Urbana is not a municipality, so it does not have a town government. Many of its services are provided by the county or homeowners’ associations.