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Yorkville close to reaching settlement on resident’s lawsuit over 1,037 acre data center · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Yorkville close to reaching settlement on residence lawsuit over one thousand,
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  Speaker 1: bitter seven acre data center Written by Joey Weslow. This
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  Speaker 1: article is being read by an automated voice brought to
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  Speaker 1: you by Everlett. A residence lawsuit filed against the City
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  Speaker 1: of Yorkville to halt the one thousand, thirty seven acre
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  Speaker 1: project Cardinal Data Center is heading closer to a settlement.
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  Speaker 1: The final agreement between the attorneys is subject to approval
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  Speaker 1: by city Council. During a hearing at the Kendall County
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  Speaker 1: Courthouse in front of Judge Robert Pilmer on March twentieth,
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  Speaker 1: attorneys for all involved parties said substantial progress has been
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  Speaker 1: made and there are only a few remaining issues to
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  Speaker 1: agree upon for the revised draft of the settlement agreement.
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  Speaker 1: Resident John Bryan's lawsuit argues the data center campus and
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  Speaker 1: its construction with fourteen two story warehouses built over a
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  Speaker 1: decade or more, will negatively impact his property values and
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  Speaker 1: quality of life. Brian filed his initial lawsuit against the
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  Speaker 1: city to stop the project from going through on October
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  Speaker 1: twenty eighth, twenty twenty five. At a December nineteenth, twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five hearing, the developer Pioneer Development LLC, requested and
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  Speaker 1: was granted permission to join the case as a defendant.
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  Speaker 1: Neither side disclosed a possible monetary amount or specific details
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  Speaker 1: of the settlement. The judge granted a continuance to April tenth.
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  Speaker 1: During the hearing, an attorney for the city said, we
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  Speaker 1: certainly share in the desire to get this resolved. The
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  Speaker 1: city recently greenlit Project Cardinal by approving the necessary annexation, rezoning,
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  Speaker 1: utility and infrastructure agreement for the data center to move forward.
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  Speaker 1: During the city council meeting on March tenth, several neighboring
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  Speaker 1: voice concerns about the data centers negatively impacting the area.
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  Speaker 1: City Administrator bart Olsen said the property deal for Project
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  Speaker 1: Cardinals should close this fall. COMED still needs to grant
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  Speaker 1: full power allocation to the sites for them to be finalized.
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  Speaker 1: During a city council meeting earlier this year, Brian demonstrated
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  Speaker 1: what he said was the expected noise pollution generated from
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  Speaker 1: the data center campus by blaring the decibels through a speaker.
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  Speaker 1: During several city meetings, residents upset over the data centers
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  Speaker 1: said they would rather move away from their Yorkville neighborhoods
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  Speaker 1: than live next to them. City Administrator bart Olsen previously
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  Speaker 1: said data centers will be required to keep their noise
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  Speaker 1: pollution under the city's Noise Ordinance LIVES. A sound pollution
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  Speaker 1: study was commissioned by the developers. The study did not
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  Speaker 1: include sound pollution generated from the ten to twenty year
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  Speaker 1: construction period. City officials and aldermen have previously said they
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  Speaker 1: envisioned three thousand acres of former agricultural land along the
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  Speaker 1: Eldaman Corridor becoming Yorkville's own data center development. The city
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  Speaker 1: has moved forward around a dozen data center projects outside
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  Speaker 1: of Project Cardinal, including the five oh two acre Project
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  Speaker 1: Steel