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Developers agree to re-phase Project Cardinal data center in Yorkville in settlement with resident · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Developers agree to RePhase Project Cardinal Data Center in Yorkville
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  Speaker 1: in settlement with resident. 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. Matt McCarron and Pioneer Development LLC previously said
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  Speaker 1: there was no way they could reorder the construction phasing
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  Speaker 1: of the one thousand and thirty seven acre Project Cardinal
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  Speaker 1: Data Center in Yorkville away from the more residential areas.
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  Speaker 1: A residence lawsuit has changed all that. A settlement has
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  Speaker 1: been reached with resident John Bryan, who sued the City
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  Speaker 1: of Yorkville and the developers in an attempt to halt
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  Speaker 1: construction of the project. Bryan argued the construction of the
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  Speaker 1: fourteen two story warehouses over ten twenty years will negatively
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  Speaker 1: impact his property values and quality of life. After months
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  Speaker 1: of extended negotiations, the developers agreed to re order the
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  Speaker 1: phases of construction to a northeast southeast west order. The
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  Speaker 1: city previously approved a planned unit development agreement back in
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  Speaker 1: November twenty twenty five, dictating a phasing plan with construction
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  Speaker 1: beginning in the northeast of the site working to the
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  Speaker 1: west before finishing in the southeast of the site. Brian
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  Speaker 1: lives west of the project's site. According to the settlement,
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  Speaker 1: each construction phase must be substantially complete before workers can
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  Speaker 1: begin construction on the next phase. City Council approved on
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  Speaker 1: June twenty third an ordinance regarding the settlement agreement. The
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  Speaker 1: settlement contains no financial payment from the city to Brian. However,
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  Speaker 1: Brian and the project developers may still separately negotiate the
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  Speaker 1: terms of a side agreement. No financial data of any
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  Speaker 1: possible settlement between them has been made public. City Administrator
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  Speaker 1: bart Olsen said any change to the phasing plan requires
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  Speaker 1: a major PEWD amendment to the project. According to the City,
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  Speaker 1: the d developers have already applied for a major pued
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  Speaker 1: amendment to update the phasing plan. The plans are expected
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  Speaker 1: to be discussed during the July meetings of the Economic
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  Speaker 1: Development Committee and Planning and Zoning Committee before a vote
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  Speaker 1: can take place during the July fourteenth City Council meeting.
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  Speaker 1: The re ordering of the phases of construction for the
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  Speaker 1: project is not the only snag the developers have recently hit.
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  Speaker 1: City Council also passed on June twenty third an amendment
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  Speaker 1: to the developer's annexation agreement to allow an eighteen month
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  Speaker 1: extension for the developers to acquire all the titles for
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  Speaker 1: the subject property. The city did not say why the
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  Speaker 1: developer is struggling closing on all the properties, only citing
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  Speaker 1: unforeseen circumstances. The original deadline for the developer to acquire
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  Speaker 1: all the parcels for the project to keep all the
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  Speaker 1: city's agreements was July first. It has now been extended
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  Speaker 1: to December thirty first, twenty twenty seven. If the developers
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  Speaker 1: cannot close by that date, the annexation agreement green lighting
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  Speaker 1: the whole project would become null and void. According to
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  Speaker 1: city documents, This would put the entire project at risk
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  Speaker 1: of ever being built because it would also void the PAD,
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  Speaker 1: the Utility and Infrastructure Agreement, and the fifty one million
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  Speaker 1: dollars upfront payment development Agreement. Shaw Local News has reached
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  Speaker 1: out to McCarran for comment via email on June eighth,
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  Speaker 1: but has not received a response. While the one thousand,
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  Speaker 1: thirty four acre site consists of several properties, the annexation
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  Speaker 1: agreement specifically pertained to seven individual farmland parcels stretched across
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  Speaker 1: a total of three hundred five acres. The city and
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  Speaker 1: the developers for Project Cardinal are also facing another lawsuit
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  Speaker 1: by residents forming a community based organization, Preserve Our Yorkville
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  Speaker 1: Community LLC, who argue the city failed to properly notify
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  Speaker 1: area residents before approving the project. The lawsuits also are
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  Speaker 1: argue the sound, traffic, environmental and property value studies were
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  Speaker 1: not comprehensive in taking into account the lengthy period of
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  Speaker 1: construction and the close proximity of the other data center
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  Speaker 1: projects approved by the city. During an April City Council meeting,
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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 el Domain corridor for
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  Speaker 1: Yorkville's own data center alley. The city already has approved
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  Speaker 1: the two hundred and twenty eight acre cyrus Ie Data Center,
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  Speaker 1: the Project Cardinal Data Center, and the five hundred forty
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  Speaker 1: acre Project Steel Data Center.