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Kendall County moving ahead to adopt new comprehensive plan · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Kendall County moving ahead to adopt new comprehensive plan. Written
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  Speaker 1: by Eric Shelcop. This article is being read by an
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  Speaker 1: automated voice brought to you by Everlett. Kendall County officials
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  Speaker 1: are moving ahead with adopting a new comprehensive plan for
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  Speaker 1: the county after holding several public workshops to hear from
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  Speaker 1: residents about what they would like to see in the plan.
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  Speaker 1: The new comprehensive plan will be used to guide the
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  Speaker 1: county's growth and development in the next ten to twenty years.
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  Speaker 1: At seven pm April twenty second, the Kendall County Regional
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  Speaker 1: Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on the adoption
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  Speaker 1: of a new Kendall County Comprehensive Plan. The meeting will
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  Speaker 1: be held in the County Boardroom in the Kendall County
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  Speaker 1: Office Building, five oh four s Main Saint. The updated
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  Speaker 1: comprehensive Plan will address key topics including land use, transportation,
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  Speaker 1: and growth management. The new plan will include updated population projections,
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  Speaker 1: a new map for municipal boundary agreements, and additional details
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  Speaker 1: on the Kendall County Broadband Project. Officials have said large
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  Speaker 1: portions of Kendall County do not have access to quality,
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  Speaker 1: high speed internet connectivity. To address this problem, the county
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  Speaker 1: has entered into an agreement with Fox Fiber, a nonprofit
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  Speaker 1: entity that will build and operate a broadband network across
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  Speaker 1: Kendall County, providing more than three thousand additional locations with
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  Speaker 1: high speed internet access. Other updates to the plan include
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  Speaker 1: strengthened strategies for trail and solar farm development, an updated
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  Speaker 1: scenic Roots inventory, and revised future land use, economic development,
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  Speaker 1: alternative energy, and transportation maps based on feedback