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Talk-Line: Glen Hughes on Dixon City Council changes · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: Quarter past the hour. This is Tuesday. It's July the
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  Speaker 1: twenty second, the year is twenty twenty five, and it's
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  Speaker 1: time for another informational edition of tuck Line. Here at
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  Speaker 1: w i XN Radio. Good morning, I'm Steve Marco. It
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  Speaker 1: is time for our monthly look at news and information
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  Speaker 1: from the City of Dixon. This is the Mayor's Open
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  Speaker 1: Line for July of twenty twenty five, and our open
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  Speaker 1: lines are open eight one, five, two, eight, eight three
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  Speaker 1: three four one eight one five six two six three
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  Speaker 1: zero nine one. If you have a city issue or
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  Speaker 1: city concern that you would like to voice to the community,
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  Speaker 1: this is your springboard to city Hall. I can't think
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  Speaker 1: of any better person to answer your questions than the
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  Speaker 1: honorable Mayor of the City of Dixon, who is alongside
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  Speaker 1: yours truly for the Mayor's Open Line for this month,
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  Speaker 1: and if you'd like to give us a call, we'll
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  Speaker 1: field your questions to our Dixon City Mayor. Glen Hughes
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  Speaker 1: joins us this morning here at w IXN. Good morning,
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  Speaker 1: mister Mayor, Good morning, Good to have you with us,
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  Speaker 1: or thanks to be here. Yes, it is again. I
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  Speaker 1: guess we call it the downside of the season now
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  Speaker 1: after the busy Dixon Petunia Festival, you know, right, we're
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  Speaker 1: kind of in that slide, know as we move through July,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the pinnacle of the month obviously in the
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  Speaker 1: in the in our community, mayor, is the Petunia Festival.
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  Speaker 2: Well yeah, it's you know, been a significant event for
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  Speaker 2: a while. Actually considering on the downslide, maybe I should
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  Speaker 2: just sit here and wait wait for some collings, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I you know, that's right. We'll just we'll just sit here.
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  Speaker 2: I'll drink my coffee and wait for some calling.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, I you know, it's it's a it's
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  Speaker 1: a pro and con when we talk about this. You know,
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  Speaker 1: if you if you if you receive a college usually
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  Speaker 1: you know some you know issue that we have to
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  Speaker 1: take aboard and you know, work on and Mayor's as
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  Speaker 1: has been doing that, you know with some of our constituents.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, if we don't, you know, if we're
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  Speaker 1: kind of light on calls, that means you know, everything
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  Speaker 1: is you know, okay, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Al We've we've got a lot of open you know,
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  Speaker 2: dead air, right, that's right.
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  Speaker 1: We don't want to do we don't want to waste
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  Speaker 1: the time you know, we'll we we do have some
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  Speaker 1: issues to talk about with the mayor this morning, and
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  Speaker 1: one of those issues, I guess you know, took place
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  Speaker 1: last evening. I want to I want to start with
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  Speaker 1: that story that we have been leading with on our
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  Speaker 1: newscast this morning from the latest Dixon City Council meeting
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  Speaker 1: because it opens up a little bit of topic discussion
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  Speaker 1: having to do with zoning. And the issue last night
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  Speaker 1: involved a family wanting to again get their property in
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  Speaker 1: the City of Dixon renamed, I guess or rezoned. Is
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  Speaker 1: that correct matter?
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  Speaker 2: Map? It's a map amendment, and the issue is and
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  Speaker 2: here's here's the crux of the matter is it's not
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  Speaker 2: in the City of Dixon. It's within a mile and
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  Speaker 2: a half of the City of Dixon, which means that
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  Speaker 2: the city has some say as to the intent or
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  Speaker 2: the expected use of that property. Because as the city grows,
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  Speaker 2: there may be something that we see going on in
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  Speaker 2: the future that may impact that property, or that property
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  Speaker 2: may impact the plans of the city. So the state
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  Speaker 2: statute provides that within a mile and a half of
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  Speaker 2: the city limits, the city can have some input on
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  Speaker 2: that property. That's particularly in the case of a map amendment,
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  Speaker 2: which is changing the actual zoning. It's not as as
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  Speaker 2: the same issue as with special use. It's actually changing
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  Speaker 2: the zoning. Yes, the property last night, and this has
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  Speaker 2: come up even in the two years a little over
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  Speaker 2: two years that I've been office, this has come up
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  Speaker 2: four or five times in terms of looking at properties
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  Speaker 2: that are within that mile and a half and what
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  Speaker 2: impact they have on the city. Okay, sometimes we don't
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  Speaker 2: anticipate any type of impact because of where they're located,
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  Speaker 2: the terrain they're on, and that type of stuff. But
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  Speaker 2: the city has the opportunity to object to that change
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  Speaker 2: or to not post any objection. We actually, unfortunately, and
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  Speaker 2: this is part of the confusing part, we actually start
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  Speaker 2: from the premise that we're going to object. Okay, that
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  Speaker 2: we object to a change within the parameter that mile
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  Speaker 2: and a half parameter of the city. Yes, that objection
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  Speaker 2: does not stop the project or whatever is going on.
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  Speaker 2: It just requires a higher level of voting at the
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  Speaker 2: county board level. So what happened last night, and we
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  Speaker 2: had two different situations there with the case where the
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  Speaker 2: young lady wanted to have her horse on their property.
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  Speaker 2: It's four acres, it's wooded, it's a bit of a hill.
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  Speaker 2: It is unlikely the changing it from residential to agg
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  Speaker 2: is going to be a major issue for the city,
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  Speaker 2: even though there's commercial property around it, and it's close
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  Speaker 2: enough within this to the city limits. I think it's
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  Speaker 2: just maybe about a quarter of a mile as the
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  Speaker 2: crow flies from the edge of city limits, probably a
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  Speaker 2: half mile or less if you actually went by road,
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  Speaker 2: if you went down two to where the city limits
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  Speaker 2: come in. So it has some potential that in the
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  Speaker 2: future the city could want to be reaching out that way,
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  Speaker 2: probably would be more in the commercial vein, but that
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  Speaker 2: property where it's located, probably is not something that's necessarily
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  Speaker 2: going to be developable from a commercial standpoint. Could it
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  Speaker 2: be residential, Yes, and that's the current zoning within the county.
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  Speaker 2: But the other side of it is again it's kind
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  Speaker 2: of the location and do you necessarily add more residential
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  Speaker 2: development right into an area that is more commercial related.
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  Speaker 2: The city turned down the motion to object. That's the
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  Speaker 2: way it came in. We object to what the county
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  Speaker 2: wants to do in this map amendment in this case
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  Speaker 2: because it probably wasn't going to have any materially impact,
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  Speaker 2: whether that's five ten or twenty years down the road.
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  Speaker 2: And because although AG one for the county provides for
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  Speaker 2: a broad scope of agg related uses, it's unlikely that
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  Speaker 2: a hog confinement operation, for example, is necessarily going to
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  Speaker 2: go on that property. It's unlikely that some agribusiness related
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  Speaker 2: operation is going to go on that property. So we
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  Speaker 2: voted no on that objection. We don't have an objection
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  Speaker 2: to what was being proposed. That doesn't mean that I
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  Speaker 2: mean we aren't approving anything. We are not objecting to
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  Speaker 2: their request for a map amendment from residential zoning to
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  Speaker 2: egg zoning it. In the other case, the property was
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  Speaker 2: right on or partially off of institute that's a residential area.
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  Speaker 2: Even though it is open field right now behind Tilton
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  Speaker 2: Park and Institute in that area, that's still immediately adjacent
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  Speaker 2: to a residential area. From the council's perspective, that does
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  Speaker 2: not make sense for us to approve an ag zoning there.
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  Speaker 2: There's too much potential for that property down the road,
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  Speaker 2: and with a property that size, it would be difficult
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  Speaker 2: for us to anticipate what could be with that property.
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  Speaker 2: Even if the use currently is benign, you know that
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  Speaker 2: it's not going to be an issue that the but again, five, ten,
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  Speaker 2: twenty years down the road, what's the impact on the city.
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  Speaker 2: And that property is immediately adjacent. We're not talking a
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  Speaker 2: quarter mile a half mile mile away. We're talking immediately
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  Speaker 2: adjacent to city residential area. So in that case, we
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  Speaker 2: voted to approve the objection of the use, and that's
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  Speaker 2: the difference. Now let's get back to that change from
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  Speaker 2: residential to agg We've had this come up with the county.
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  Speaker 2: Actually within this year, we've had it happen a couple
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  Speaker 2: of times. Our intent is not to prohibit somebody like
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  Speaker 2: the young gal last night from having a horse on
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  Speaker 2: the property, but because eggs zoning opens up a lot
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  Speaker 2: more things, as I've already said, we really would like
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  Speaker 2: to see the county do something additional with their residential zoning.
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  Speaker 2: Even in the city, we currently have allowance for livestock
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  Speaker 2: lack of a better word, horses, goats, yes, chickens based
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  Speaker 2: on the acreage. So if somebody has an acre and
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  Speaker 2: a half or more and they're willing to abide by
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  Speaker 2: the setbacks required X number of feet away from the
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  Speaker 2: property line, you know, and concurrent of their neighbors, then
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  Speaker 2: we allow for a horse or some goats or you know,
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  Speaker 2: a calf to be within the city limits. We've got
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  Speaker 2: that in multiple places. In fact, I believe the annexation,
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  Speaker 2: the voluntary annexation, was related specifically to that county doesn't
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  Speaker 2: have that flexibility and they're residential. We would like to
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  Speaker 2: see them have some of that flexibility. Now. They don't
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  Speaker 2: need to follow what we've got. It doesn't need to
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  Speaker 2: be an acre and a half, you know, it could
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  Speaker 2: be two acres, three acres, four acres, whatever they want
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  Speaker 2: to set. But we think from a city standpoint, it
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  Speaker 2: would remove some of these issues that we're dealing with
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  Speaker 2: if they had an ordinance that dealt with that type
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  Speaker 2: of issue. I mean, it seems natural when you've got
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  Speaker 2: kids out in the country that are involved in forage
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  Speaker 2: or just want to have, you know, some livestock as pets, right,
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  Speaker 2: even if they're not in for age. It seems odd
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  Speaker 2: that somebody that in the county level they don't make
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  Speaker 2: allowance for that, and yet in the city level we do.
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  Speaker 2: I believe that the county is currently looking at that,
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  Speaker 2: and we appreciate that from the city level, sure, but
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  Speaker 2: that's part of the complication in going from residential to
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  Speaker 2: ag that we deal with in these types of situations.
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  Speaker 2: And that's and that's why this young lady had to
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  Speaker 2: come to the city Council and for all intents and purposes,
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  Speaker 2: plead her case to get that map amendment. And like
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  Speaker 2: I said, it's not a special use, it's a it's
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  Speaker 2: an actual amendment of the of the zoning. So although
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  Speaker 2: it was a fairly simple process last night, there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot more implications to that, to that zoning issue than
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  Speaker 2: just whether or not we're we're okay with her having
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  Speaker 2: a horse on her.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly, And and the family will have to go through
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  Speaker 1: the proper channels. Then they've done, they're doing that right now,
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  Speaker 1: they know what to do.
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  Speaker 2: They still have to Yeah, they still have to they
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  Speaker 2: still have to go to you know, it still has
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  Speaker 2: to go before the counting board to get approval. So actually,
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  Speaker 2: in both of those cases, the one we had no
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  Speaker 2: objection to, which was hers, and the one we did
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  Speaker 2: object to. Now hers will get approved with a simple
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  Speaker 2: majority if the county chooses to do that. The other one,
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  Speaker 2: to make that change at the counting level will need
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  Speaker 2: to take a larger majority. I don't remember what the
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  Speaker 2: exact I don't remember whether it's right sixty or two
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  Speaker 2: thirds or whatever, but it I should know that, but
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  Speaker 2: but I don't remember what it is right now. But
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  Speaker 2: that will if the county chooses to do that, and
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  Speaker 2: we were not going to be able to stop them,
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  Speaker 2: but we can object to what they're doing in that
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  Speaker 2: and therefore that requires a higher level of voting approval.
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  Speaker 1: It's an interesting process, and I thought we'd spread it
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  Speaker 1: out a little bit further, and Mayor has explained it
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  Speaker 1: to us this morning here at WI Accent about the
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  Speaker 1: you know, the paths that people have to take, and
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  Speaker 1: as you mentioned, Mayor, it's not just this particular family
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  Speaker 1: or individual or family or business, uh, you know that
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  Speaker 1: has to take the steps you mentioned in multiple ca
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  Speaker 1: that we've already experienced you know this on the on
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  Speaker 1: the dockets. So very interesting explanation that you give, you know,
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  Speaker 1: having to work you know, with the city, with the county,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to get the proper you know, areas designated
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  Speaker 1: and in some cases, as Mayor mentioned, may not you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just depended on the votes that are taken
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  Speaker 1: to the city and again in the League County area. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: so thank you, mister Mayor for that explanation. This morning
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  Speaker 1: here at WIX. Mayor's open line is today. Dixon Mayor
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  Speaker 1: Glen Hughes is on board. We're going to take a
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  Speaker 1: break for News First with Tim Lee next, but when
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  Speaker 1: we come back, we've got some other areas to talk
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  Speaker 1: about with the Mayor. Will do that after News First
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  Speaker 1: next on WYXM stam with us. We are conversing this
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  Speaker 1: morning with the honorable Mayor of the City of Dixon.
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  Speaker 1: It's the Mayor's open line for July of twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: Our open line numbers are still available. Friends, if you
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  Speaker 1: need to make a call for a city issue or
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  Speaker 1: city concern, If you have a question to post to
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  Speaker 1: the mayor, you're invited to do that at eight one,
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  Speaker 1: five two eight, eight three three four one one five
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  Speaker 1: six two six three zero nine one. Dixon Mayor Glen
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  Speaker 1: Hughes is with us this morning here at w Wyxen Mayor,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for spending the extra time. I always appreciate you.
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  Speaker 1: Glad to and we need to after our discussion of
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  Speaker 1: a very interesting process that the city and the county
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  Speaker 1: have to go through as far as zoning is concerned,
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to kind of turn to well, let's first
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  Speaker 1: of all talk about the completion of the Galena Avenue.
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  Speaker 1: The South Kalida Bridge is fixed, it's repaired. That's great.
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  Speaker 1: The railroad bridge, the railroad bridges fight. We got four
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  Speaker 1: lanes open now. I was there, you know, earlier this morning,
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  Speaker 1: and it's great having that project completed. Obviously, Galen Avenue
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  Speaker 1: is still under you know.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and that'll be a while.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we'll have a couple of more sessions before there.
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  Speaker 1: God yeah, yeah, well, but infrastructure has begun on the
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  Speaker 1: city streets.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yeah, we're We've started work that we need
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  Speaker 2: to do on the city streets. That'll be ongoing.
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  Speaker 1: Me.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't checked as to what streets are being you
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  Speaker 2: know what, what's being done now and uh so those
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  Speaker 2: of you who are in those neighborhoods just bear with us,
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  Speaker 2: with us. We put out we put out the list
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  Speaker 2: of the streets that that we're going to be done,
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  Speaker 2: and you can, I believe you can find that on
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  Speaker 2: the city site. I know it was, it was posted
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  Speaker 2: in the newspaper. I had an opportunity right after that
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  Speaker 2: information was released last month to mention it here online.
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  Speaker 2: So that works. That work is getting started. So and
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  Speaker 2: there's some water line work that's going to be getting done,
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  Speaker 2: and I think there's a fair amount of that coming
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  Speaker 2: along going to be coming along. So uh, the infrastructure
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  Speaker 2: now that we're past Petunia Fest and it's a little
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  Speaker 2: bit safer to, you know, to tear up some of
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  Speaker 2: the streets or to divert some of the traffic. It's
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  Speaker 2: complicated enough, you know when when there were working on
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  Speaker 2: when you've got the highway working. But I have to
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  Speaker 2: publicly thank the State Illinois i DOT for its cooperation
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  Speaker 2: on Glen Avenue and how well they opened that street
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  Speaker 2: back up during the time of Petunia Festival. I know
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  Speaker 2: there were a lot of people that were just going,
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, what is going to happen. This is
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  Speaker 2: going to be back And as I mentioned last month
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  Speaker 2: and possibly even the month before, i DOT had agreed
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  Speaker 2: to work with us on that, and that's that's what happened.
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  Speaker 2: And it went very smoothly. I know, you had the
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  Speaker 2: Chief of Police in here and he talked about how
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  Speaker 2: smoothly things went. From their standpoint, it appears that it
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  Speaker 2: may be one of the lowest uses of the police
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  Speaker 2: or fewest calls. I believe the chief said in his
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  Speaker 2: fifteen years that was definitely the lowest call numbers, so
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  Speaker 2: that went really well. But now we're into the city's
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  Speaker 2: infrastructure and the state is back working on on Glene Avenue,
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  Speaker 2: so bear with us it. You know, it's a temporary issue.
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  Speaker 2: It's an inconvenience, but it's a temporary issue and the
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  Speaker 2: streets will be improved. And then speaking of improvements, the
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  Speaker 2: project Rock is moving smoothly along. If you happen to
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  Speaker 2: be looking down the river, you will see that there
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  Speaker 2: is some steel going up being erected up there. So
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  Speaker 2: that's that's moving along. Don't want to say ahead of schedule,
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  Speaker 2: that would totally jinx it, but but at this point
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  Speaker 2: they appear to they appear to be solidly on the schedule.
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  Speaker 2: That still means we're not going to be done until
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  Speaker 2: next year. I mean, just because you see the steal,
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  Speaker 2: there's a there's a lot of work. There's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of work to be done, but we will we will
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  Speaker 2: get it. We will have it done next year. People
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  Speaker 2: will have an opportunity to start walking on it. It
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  Speaker 2: will be part of next year's fourth of July celebration,
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  Speaker 2: which will be part of that you you know, Illinois
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  Speaker 2: America two fifty celebration. We intend I'll say we as
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  Speaker 2: a generic usage, but I know the Councilman Chris Bishop,
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  Speaker 2: is actively working with different groups of people to to
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  Speaker 2: really make that a great celebration, and that completed bridge
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  Speaker 2: will be part of the part of the focus of
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  Speaker 2: that event.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. The timing couldn't be any better, really, it really could.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, Yeah, that works, It really worked very nicely, very nicey.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, you know, when it comes to the anniversary, the
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  Speaker 1: celebration and again that that improvement again along the rock
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  Speaker 1: again things focused on twenty twenty six. It's going to
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  Speaker 1: be a very interesting, very interesting time here in our community,
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  Speaker 1: as Mayor pointed out, with all going on, so we
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  Speaker 1: look forward to that next year. Did you want to
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  Speaker 1: mention the gateway project today?
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  Speaker 2: Sure, you know, as you and I talked, there's not
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  Speaker 2: a lot that I can disclose at this point, but
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  Speaker 2: if you listen to the the the last council meeting,
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  Speaker 2: the one back, I think in the seventh we did
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  Speaker 2: refer a request by McDonald's USA to the Plan Commission.
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  Speaker 2: That was for my understanding is that's for a drive up.
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  Speaker 2: Even though it's a commercial retail area. Drive ups to
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  Speaker 2: require a special use, so that had to that had
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  Speaker 2: to go, that had to go to the Plan Commission.
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  Speaker 2: I don't see, And maybe I shouldn't say this publicly.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to. I don't want to impact the
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  Speaker 2: Plan Commission. But at this point I wouldn't see, you know,
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  Speaker 2: from a personal standpoint, I wouldn't see a major issue
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  Speaker 2: with the special use of putting a drive up there.
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  Speaker 2: So that will be another piece in the gateway project,
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: a new McDonald's facility.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: They're still still working on the plans for the multi
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: purpose building, multi multi tenant building, I shouldn't say multiple
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: well multiple purposes, but multi tenant building that will be
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: added in there. So but that that, yes, has yet
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: to be finalized on that, okay.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: And obviously the fair field in looks like it's you know,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: moving a pace and uh.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Well they're coming along. They're coming along fairly nicely.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Yes, Yes, it looks like a nice structure there and
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: there that is right across the street from cases. Uh,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: that new fair field in. You know, we'll offer another
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: lodging area for people.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: And we're gonna we're gonna need.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: The lodging ish.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the work that's going to be done up in
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Byron and the number of employees that they'll have up
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: in Byron on that changing out the the generators of
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: the turbines.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I'm.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Not sure I got the right terminology, but there's gonna
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: be several hundred I think probably if if they have
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: you know, if they're doing an outage next year too,
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: that could be probably in the range of six hundred people,
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: including you know, the turbine and the outage work. And
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: I mean so that will impact hotels, hotels throughout the area.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: And that's not just you know Byron doesn't have enough rooms, yes.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Yes, and they'll they'll stretch down here. No, they'll stretch
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: down even even as far as as far south as
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Dixon because if you look at the you know, the
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: stretch of Highway Oregon, yes, it's right there. But they
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: again they're kind of limited on their lodging as well,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: so you move into Dixon where hopefully you know with.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they'll be coming down to Dixon or moving up
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: to the Rock for us exactly maybe some in Rochelle
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: that it'll it'll impact the fairly wide areas. So that's
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: that's a lot of work coming into the area and
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: additional people into our market.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: And again that is one of the topics that we'll
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: take up the next time that we talk with the
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: mayor because we would we do want to touch on
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: the comprehensive project that the mayor is working on as well,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: which of course guides us into the future, you know,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: and we're going to kind of save that we don't
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: have enough time right now to talk about that particular issue,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: but we we do want to talk about that because
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: that's an important again piece that the mayor is working on.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: We're moving forward, we're moving forward, yees.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: The comprehensive plan is coming yep, close to a conclusion
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: and the and the and there will be there will
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: be a public hearing on that, okay, and soon probably
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: probably around the end August.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so we'll get an opportunity perhaps next
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: month then to you know, really discuss that because that's
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: an important piece that we're working on for the future
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: of our community with the mayor and with the city
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Council and with the City of Dixon. So Mayor, that
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: will do it for the open line today, a lot
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: of great information shared this morning on the air. We
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: thank you so very much for doing that. Always appreciate
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: a visit and look forward to your visit, if not
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: sooner in the month of August, right here at WIX.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Thanks for Thank you very much.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Our Dixon City Mayor Glenn Hughes joining us this morning
• 26:11
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