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Yorkville data center settlement delayed after second resident lawsuit file against city, developer · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Yorkville Data center settlement delayed after second resident lawsuit file
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  Speaker 1: against city developer. Written by Joey Weslow, this article is
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  Speaker 1: While attorneys previously said substantial progress has been made toward
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  Speaker 1: a settlement for a resident claiming harm from the one
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  Speaker 1: thousand and thirty four acre Project Cardinal Data Center in Yorkville,
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  Speaker 1: another resident led lawsuit against the city and the developers
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  Speaker 1: has cast everything up in the air. During a May
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  Speaker 1: eight status hearing before Kendall County Judge Robert Pilmer, attorneys
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  Speaker 1: for both sides said they need an extension until May
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  Speaker 1: twenty second to see how the new lawsuit impacts the
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  Speaker 1: settlement negotiations. Resident John Brian filed the lawsuit on October
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  Speaker 1: twenty eighth, twenty twenty five, against the United City of Yorkville,
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  Speaker 1: claiming that Project Cardinal, with its fourteen to two story
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  Speaker 1: warehouses to be built over a decade or more, will
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  Speaker 1: negatively impact his property values and quality of life. At
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  Speaker 1: a December nineteen, twenty twenty five hearing, the developer, Pioneer
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  Speaker 1: Development LLC, requested and was granted permission to join the
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  Speaker 1: case as a defendant. Since then, both legal teams have
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  Speaker 1: repeatedly asked for extension since late twenty twenty five, while
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  Speaker 1: telling the judge they are close on a settlement agreement.
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  Speaker 1: Neither side has disclosed a possible monetary amount or specific
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  Speaker 1: details of the settlement. On April twenty ninth, several residents
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  Speaker 1: filed a separate lawsuit against the City of Yorkville and
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  Speaker 1: Pioneer Development LLC, claiming the city failed to notify immediate
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  Speaker 1: area residents of the plans to annex the unincorporated Kendall
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  Speaker 1: County land and rezone the property to manufacturing for data
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  Speaker 1: center construction. The residents involved in the lawsuit have united
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  Speaker 1: to form a community based organization, Preserve Our Use Yorkville
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  Speaker 1: and Community, LLC, with the stated goal of filing lawsuits
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  Speaker 1: against the city to halt data center construction. Accompanying the
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  Speaker 1: group as plaintiffs is sky Fall Equestrian LLC residents Dorothy
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  Speaker 1: and John Flisk, and Charles and Laura Casper. Pausing to
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  Speaker 1: consider potential impacts During the May eighth status hearing, attorney
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  Speaker 1: Matt Klepper, representing Pioneer Development LLC, said his client needs
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  Speaker 1: time to assess how the new lawsuit impacts the path
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  Speaker 1: forward with that new lawsuit. I think all the parties
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  Speaker 1: right now are pausing to consider what, if any impact
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  Speaker 1: that has on the settlement that we've been discussing with,
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  Speaker 1: Brian Klepper said during the hearing. I think we would
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  Speaker 1: ask that it be continued for a couple of weeks
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  Speaker 1: so we can sort our whatever impact this new lawsuit
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  Speaker 1: might have. Both Attorney Todd Rodden representing Brian, and Attorney
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  Speaker 1: Tom Gardner representing the United City of Yorkville agreed to
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  Speaker 1: the extension. Pillmer granted an extension to May twenty second
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  Speaker 1: for further case status regarding the potential settlement. The lawsuit
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  Speaker 1: filed by Preserve Are Yorkville and Community LLC is also
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  Speaker 1: before Pilmer. The next court date for that lawsuit is
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  Speaker 1: July twenty fourth. During the April fourteenth City Council meeting,
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  Speaker 1: the city announced the developers for the proposed eighty acre
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  Speaker 1: Meyer Data Center withdrew their proposal after losing city council support.
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  Speaker 1: Mayor John Purcell said there's no more appetite from the
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  Speaker 1: City Council for data center proposals outside of what's already
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  Speaker 1: been approved. The city was at one point entertaining about
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  Speaker 1: a dozen different data center proposals, stretched out across more
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  Speaker 1: than three thousand acres of the Eldamain Corridor for Yorkville's
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  Speaker 1: own data center alley, the city already has approved the
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  Speaker 1: two hundred twenty eight acre Cyrus one Data Center, the
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  Speaker 1: Project Cardinal Data Center, and the five hundred forty acre
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  Speaker 1: Project Steel Data Center,