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Yorkville ready to vote on annexing, rezoning 106 acres for proposed new school · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Yorkville ready to vote on annexing, rezoning one oh six
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  acres for proposed new school that i'd written by Joey Weslow.
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  This article is being read by an automated voice brought
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  to you by Everlett. With a vote tonight, the Yorkville
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  School District one point fifteen could be one step closer
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  to building a new school on a one oh six
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  acre property west of the current high school campus north
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  of River Road. The school district is requesting the City
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  of Yorkville annex and rezone the property to enable construction
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  of the new school building. A full plan for the
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  site will not be submitted to the city until after
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  the outcome of the vote on the school district's two
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  hundred and seventy five million dollar referendum in the March
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  seventeenth primary election. The City council meeting is at seven
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  pm at City Hall, sixty five to one Prairie Point Drive.
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  A public hearing was previously held during the Planning and
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  Zone and Commission meeting on January fourteenth. The committee moved
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  forward the plans with a unanimous approval recommendation vote. During
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  a previous city Council meeting, some residents voice concerns about
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  the plans encroaching on the area near River Road, the
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  amount of access points and roads given the influx of
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  new traffic, and the impact on stormwater drainage on the
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  surrounding properties. During the meeting, Heather di Verde, the school
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  district's executive director of Facility Operations, said the district foresees
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  minimum impact along River Road. She said the district has
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  no plans to put a road through the property from
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  the north end to the south end near River Road.
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  Deverde said the road that the district will be putting
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  through will be coming from US Route thirty four on
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  Beecher Road. De Verde said the school district is having
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  meetings with the Rush Copley Healthcare Center, located just off
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  Route thirty four and Beecher Road, on potentially using some
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  of its land for a second route out of the proper.
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  While there have been some preliminary discussions of a possible
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  new Bristol Kendall Fire Protection District fire station on the
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  school site, there are no details yet about how vehicles
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  would get in or where the new station would be located.
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  The school district purchased the one hundred and six acre
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  farmland property from the Conover family last summer for around
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  two million dollars. The property is a quarter mile west
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  of the high school. The property is likely to be
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  the site of a new middle school or an elementary school,
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  both of which are included in the plan outlined in
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  the referendum to build new facilities to accommodate the community's
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  booming population. The school district is also looking to rezone
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  a forty five acre property adjacent to the high school.
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  If the referendum is approved by voters in March, residents
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  will get the chance to participate in public hearings regarding
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  any final building plans that will come back before city
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  council for final approval, but