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  Speaker 1: Twenty four hour semi trailer parking facility in Yorkville trucking
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  Speaker 1: ahead with some bumps. Written by Joey Weslow. This article
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  Speaker 1: is being read by an automated voice brought to you
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  Speaker 1: by Everlett. For the time being, the City of Yorkville
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  Speaker 1: is letting the proposed thirty three acre semi trailer parking
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  Speaker 1: facility just outside of town stay on course, while the
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  Speaker 1: twenty four hour fifty to seventy five spaces parking facility
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  Speaker 1: project by developers two Star Enterprises LLC is ultimately up
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  Speaker 1: to Kendall County. Yorkville passed a motion with some opposition
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  Speaker 1: on the City Council saying the city does not object
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  Speaker 1: to rezoning the East Beacher Road property to heavy industrial.
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  Speaker 1: A few council members cited concerns about local noise regulations
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  Speaker 1: and jurisdiction in monitoring that the project highlights a central
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  Speaker 1: flashpoint in the city, the transition of the el Domain
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  Speaker 1: Corridor from agric cultural to industrial. While several industrial projects
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  Speaker 1: are already in the area, The parking facility will have
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  Speaker 1: the one thousand and thirty four acre project Cardinal Data
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  Speaker 1: Center to the north and the five hundred and forty
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  Speaker 1: acre project steel data center flanking it to the east.
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  Speaker 1: The developers of the proposed parking facility said they do
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  Speaker 1: not want to annex to the City of Yorkville, and
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  Speaker 1: the city has not pursued a pre annexation agreement. The
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  Speaker 1: city is allowed to draw up a pre annexation agreement
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  Speaker 1: because even though the site is not contiguous to Yorkville's
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  Speaker 1: current boundaries, it is within its one point five mile
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  Speaker 1: planning boundary. Ultimately, the project would follow county guidelines and regulations,
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  Speaker 1: not Yorkville's. This led to some opposition from a few
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  Speaker 1: city council members, who said, with contentious industrial projects going
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  Speaker 1: in the Eldmain corridor, the buck should stop with the city,
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  Speaker 1: which we'll have to answer to the residents. Central to
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  Speaker 1: the issue is Yorkville's noise ordinance is enforceable at the
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  Speaker 1: receiving property line. Alderman Arden Joe Plocher said this means
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  Speaker 1: if a resident complains that the noise from the trucks
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  Speaker 1: exceeds city noise limits at the resident's property line, the
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  Speaker 1: city would have its hands tied. We would have no
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  Speaker 1: authority over them. I would not be in favor of that,
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  Speaker 1: Ploscher said, During a recent city meeting, Ploacher said he
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  Speaker 1: wants the property consistent with everything else surrounding it, meaning
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  Speaker 1: annexed into the city and under city jurisdiction. When pointed
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  Speaker 1: out that the county has similar noise ordinances to the city,
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  Speaker 1: Ploacher said it was a matter of who leads on this.
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  Speaker 1: I just don't like the fact that we have no
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  Speaker 1: authority over it. Plotcher said, the fact that we are
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  Speaker 1: more than likely going to completely surround the existing residential
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  Speaker 1: houses with contentious industrial use. Now you have an island
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  Speaker 1: that you don't have control over. Plocker was joined by
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  Speaker 1: alderman Craig Sooling and Rusty Corneills in opposing green lighting
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  Speaker 1: the county's momentum on the project. All other aldermen voted
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  Speaker 1: in approval. The motion says the city will not oppose
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  Speaker 1: the project provided that Kendall County works cooperatively with Yorkville
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  Speaker 1: regarding noise and traffic regulations. The city also wants a
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  Speaker 1: landscape buffer along the shared boundary between the parking facility
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  Speaker 1: and project steel. The developers said the project will be
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  Speaker 1: a continued economic pulse for the area, while downplaying concerns
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  Speaker 1: of excessive noise pollution. I don't think there's really a
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  Speaker 1: noise issue for the city in this case, the developers
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  Speaker 1: said during a city meeting. Trucks have been moving up
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  Speaker 1: and down East Beacher Road for years and years. The
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  Speaker 1: developer said. There is already several industrial businesses in the area,
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  Speaker 1: and the city plans on approving even more industrial projects
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  Speaker 1: for the corridor. The developers currently own heavy industrial properties
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  Speaker 1: to the east and north of the proposed parking facility site,
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  Speaker 1: including a concrete business off of Beecher Road. The final
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  Speaker 1: plans for the parking facility project have yet to be drawn,
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  Speaker 1: The developers said. Outside of parking semi trailers, it plans
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  Speaker 1: other industrial uses on the site. The properties currently used
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  Speaker 1: as a construction, cleaning and demolition debris facility. Before the
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  Speaker 1: nineteen seventies, the site was used for gravel extraction and
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  Speaker 1: mining operations. The gravel pits left over from the mining
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  Speaker 1: have been slowly filled in over the decades. The project
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  Speaker 1: proposal will come back before the City Council when a
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  Speaker 1: more drawn out site plan is developed. The city still
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  Speaker 1: can raise objections or provide feedback to the county as
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  Speaker 1: it navigates the land use process. The developers said they
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  Speaker 1: would not be requesting utilities from Yorkville and already have
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  Speaker 1: a well for water on the property. Like many other
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  Speaker 1: developments in the el Domain Corridor, the parking facility project
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  Speaker 1: would require another amendment to Yorkville's twenty sixteen Comprehensive Plan.
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  Speaker 1: The city recently approved several amendments to the plan after
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  Speaker 1: already approving the industrial projects. The updated plan highlights the
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  Speaker 1: city's desire to transition the Eldomain Corridor from its agricultural
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  Speaker 1: roots to an industrial powerhouse. Residents at city meetings have said,
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  Speaker 1: while they favored diversifying Yorkville's tax income, developing the city
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  Speaker 1: takes a more responsible, community driven approach