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Proposed data center in Yorkville scaling back to be further away from subdivision · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Put it around there five minutes, flip it over the
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  other five minutes. You're done. Then the key the key
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  to this. You tent it, bring it inside, tent it.
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  Put a couple of pieces of foil over it. Tanted
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  for about five to ten minutes. That keeps it so juicy.
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  And I gotta tell you, I've won my wife over
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  on this. My son, who did not really eat meat,
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  absolutely loves it. Asks for stake every week. So that
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  is my stake. Advice. Parafos Data Center in Yorkville scaling
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  back to be further away from subdivision. This article is
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  being read by an automated voice brought to you by Everlett.
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  After feedback from city officials, the developers of a proposed
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  data center campus in Yorkville are downsizing plans in order
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  to keep the warehouses further away from residential areas. The
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  developers of the Mayor Data Center campus south of Corneil's
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  Road and east of Beecher Road are shrinking the project's
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  footprint from one hundred and third acres down to ninety
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  one acres. City officials and nearby residents, especially from the
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  Caledonia Subdivision neighborhood, urge nothing east of rob Roy Creek
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  because of concerns of the proximity to residential areas. The petitioner,
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  Matt Gilbert, who is representing Greendoor Capital with other data
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  center projects in town like the two hundred and twenty
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  eight acre cyrus I Data Center with nine two story warehouses,
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  has agreed to drop plans for the eastern parcel the
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  Meyer Data Center. Gilbert originally requested the city to rezone
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  three parcels to manufacturing for data center usage. Two of
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  the parcels are west of rob Roy Creek, with the
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  now relinquished parcel on the east side of the creek.
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  With the parcel east of the creek, city staff is
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  recommending that Gilbert downzone the property to agricultural. The current
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  land use is for farming. This recommendation would provide a
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  substantial buffer to the residential properties in the Caledonia Subdivision
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  to the east from a future data center development and
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  ensure that a high density residential land use is not
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  adjacent to established residential parcels in the Caledonia Subdivision. Sara Mendez,
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  the city's senior planner in the Community Development Department, said
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  in city documents. The city is also recommending a Development
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  Agreement ensuring that no other manufacturing land uses are allowed
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  on the two western parcels proposed for rezoning by the applicant.
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  The city is also requiring a five hundred foot minimum
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  building separation from the data center, warehouses and any future
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  residential structures on the thirty seven acre eastern parcel, according
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  to city documents. During the December twenty twenty five Economic
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  Development Committee meeting, a resident of the Caledonia Subdivision expressed
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  concern about the data center campus being so close to
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  residential areas. The resident said when she and her neighbors
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  originally purchased their homes, the adjacent area was not zoned
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  for manufacturing, which now having it change is obviously a
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  great area of concern for us. During the meeting, city
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  officials said a petition was received by the city for
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  the property to the south of the proposed Meyer Data Center.
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  The city said that petition is currently paused, but that
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  it's likely that will not remain residential. The developers are
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  seeking a January fourteenth Planning and Zoning Commission date for
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  their zoning request. Before that date, the developers are required
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  to meet with residents of the Caledonia Subdivision and other
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  nearby residents. The proposed project is part of the city's
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  overall plan to develop around three thousand acres of farmland
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  along the Eldamain Road corridor into Yorkville's own data center region.
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  The city has touted substantial expected tax revenues for the
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  city from the development. At several city meetings, Residents neighboring
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  the projects have voiced their objections to the city placing
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  the data center warehouses close to residential areas. Several residents argued,
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  including one in a lawsuit against the city, that the
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  city's Comprehensive Plan does not designate the area for manufacturing.
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  The city is looking to alter the twenty sixteen Comprehensive
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  Plan to better fit the city's new vision. The city
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  pointed to the recent cyrus One Data Center project, Cardinal
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  Project Steel, the Calocca Data Centers, and the Loftist Data Center,
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  all surrounding the proposed Meyer Data Center campus as reason
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  to rezone the whole area. If approved for rezoning, the
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  city will initiative an amendment to the Comprehensive Plan to
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  reflect the new General Manufacturing Zoning District, City officials said,
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  and city documents the subject property's future land use designation
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  will be revised from suburban neighborhoods to general industrial