Planning and Zoning Commission Minutes 2023 05-10-23APPROVED 6/14/23
Page 1 of 4
PLANNING & ZONING COMMISSION
Yorkville City Hall Council Chambers
651 Prairie Pointe Drive, Yorkville, Il
Wednesday, May 10, 2023 7:00pm
NOTE: In accordance with Public Act 101-0640 and Gubernatorial Disaster
Proclamation issued by Governor Pritzker pursuant to the powers vested in the Governor
under the Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act, the City of Yorkville is allowing
remote attendance at this meeting. Social distancing is being encouraged due to the
current Covid-19 pandemic.
Meeting Called to Order
Chairman Jeff Olson called the meeting to order at 7:00pm, roll was called and a quorum
was established.
Roll Call
Jeff Olson-yes, Deborah Horaz-yes, Richard Vinyard-yes, Reagan Goins-yes, Greg
Millen-yes (via Zoom)
Absent: Danny Williams, Rusty Hyett
City Staff
Krysti Barksdale-Noble, Community Development Director
Jason Engberg, Senior Planner
Other Guests
Lynn Dubajic Kellogg, City Consultant (via Zoom)
Christine Vitosh, Court Reporter/Vitosh Reporting Service
Mr. Kyle Barry, McGuire Woods
Emily Kahanic, Kimley-Horn
Scott Osborn, Turning Point Energy
Donna Krahn, Cannonball Trail, Bristol
Paulette Budreck, Cannonball Trail, Bristol
Andrew Silagyi, Irrev. Tr.
Roger Arntzen, Cross St., Bristol
Paul Borneman, Conover
Bill Bazan
Lori Haff-DeLancy, Plum St., Bristol
Timothy Kepler, resident
Michelle (no last name given), via phone
Previous Meeting Minutes February 8, 2023
The minutes were approved as presented on a motion and second by Commissioners
Goins and Horaz, respectively. Roll call: Olson-yes, Vinyard-yes, Goins-yes, Horaz-yes,
Millen-yes. Carried 5-0.
Citizen’s Comments
Page 2 of 4
Mr. Roger Arntzen asked about the boundary of Yorkville with Bristol and if the property
adjacent to Bristol Ridge Rd. and Cannonball is in Yorkville's jurisdiction. These
questions will be answered after the meeting.
Public Hearings
Chairman Olson said there are two Public Hearings scheduled for tonight. He explained
the procedure for the Hearings and swore in those would give testimony. At
approximately 7:05pm Commissioner Vinyard moved to open the Hearings and
Commissioner Goins seconded. Roll call: Vinyard-yes, Goins-yes, Horaz-yes, Millen-
yes, Olson-yes. Carried 5-0.
Mr. Olson then read the Public Hearing descriptions:
1. PZC 2022-02 Turning Point Energy, LLC, petitioner, has filed applications with
the United City of Yorkville, Kendall County, Illinois, requesting rezoning
approval, special use authorization and variance approval to construct a solar farm
on the 54-acre parcel generally located east of Cannonball Trail and north of the
Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad line within the Bristol Ridge Planned Unit
Development. The petitioner is requesting to rezone the parcel from the R-2
Single-Family and R-2 Duplex PUD to the A-1 Agricultural District, special use
permit approval for a solar farm land use and variance approval to decrease the
minimum distance between the ground and the solar panels from ten (10) feet to a
minimum height of two (2) feet.
2. PZC 2022-03 Turning Point Energy, LLC, petitioner, has filed applications with
the United City of Yorkville, Kendall County, Illinois, requesting rezoning
approval, special use authorization and variance approval to construct a solar farm
on the 42-acre parcel generally located east of Cannonball Trail and south of
Galena Road within the Bristol Ridge Planned Unit Development. The petitioner
is requesting to rezone the parcel from the R-2 Single-Family and R-3 Townhome
PUD to the A-1 Agricultural District zoning, special use permit approval for a
solar farm land use and variance approval to decrease the minimum distance
between the ground and the solar panels from ten (10) feet to a minimum height
of two (2) feet.
See Court Reporter's Transcripts of Public Hearing Proceedings
Power Point Presentation and related materials to be entered into official record
At approximately 8:24pm the presentations finished and a motion was made and
seconded by Ms. Horaz and Mr. Vinyard, respectively, to close the Public Hearings. Roll
call: Goins-yes, Horaz-yes, Millen-yes, Olson-yes, Vinyard-yes. Carried 5-0.
Unfinished Business None
New Business
1. PZC 2022-02 Turning Point Energy (see full description above)
2. PZC 2022-02 Turning Point Energy (see full description above)
Page 3 of 4
Mr. Engberg presented details for the southern parcel. He said the Bristol Ridge
development for residential was approved in 2006 with a 20-year lifespan, expiring in
2026 and not likely to be developed. To move forward, these petitions will require an
annexation amendment and a Public Hearing at City Council and annexation agreement.
The rezoning and variance are contingent on a positive annexation agreement
amendment. That matter will go to the May 30th City Council meeting.
Mr. Engberg briefly outlined some of the recommendations. He discussed panel height
and also said staff has recommended a maximum of 15 foot setbacks. An ag-style fence
for both properties was proposed, however, staff recommends an 8-foot chain link fence
with slats and screening. A dollar estimate was provided for decommissioning and EEI
said it was appropriate. Per city policy, the requirement is 120% of the estimate plus a
3% inflation rate. This is a condition of the special use. An approved landscaping plan
and site plan are also needed as part of the special use. A blanket easement for the city is
required as part of the decommissioning. An inspector will be required for a 2-year
maintenance period to insure the establishment of grasses. Finally, the gap in the
northern parcel must be filled with landscaping as a condition of the special use.
Commissioners' Discussion
Mr. Olson said he had many questions. He said the value to decommission is incorrect
based on his experience as a 20-year demolition contractor. He also said the solar panels
cannot be salvaged and re-sold as the presentation claimed. He said Waste Management
said there is no means by which to dispose of solar panels as indicated in the
presentation and they would go into a landfill and not be deconstructed for salvage value.
In the future, the panels alone would cost over half a million to be disposed of and the
money set aside would not be adequate. He said the presentation was thorough, but he
questions other statements in the report. He would like more information on the effect on
Bristol residents and he would like an engineered SWPPP (Stormwater Pollution
Prevention Plan). He said more information is needed on the drain tile/wet spot and he
does not have confidence in a software report for the glare study. Because the
decommissioning report is incorrect according to Mr. Olson, he would want to add in the
conditions that engineering is needed prior to a vote. He also wishes for the city to
determine if they want restoration of grass in the event of decommissioning and they
must determine if the grass cost is included.
It was decided that more information is needed and the petitions would be continued. A
list of requested items is:
1. Engineered SWPPP which documents how the site will manage their water during
construction.
2. Drain tile issue to be resolved.
3. Engineering study for glare report.
4. Re-evaluation of decommissioning study.
5. City to approve cost of restorative grass at decommissioning time.
6. Wish to have native Illinois pollinators.
Motions for Continuance:
PZC 2023-02 Rezoning: Motion by Mr. Vinyard, (no second). Roll call: Goins-yes,
Horaz-yes, Millen-yes, Olson-yes, Vinyard-yes. Carried 5-0.
Page 4 of 4
PZC2023-02 Special Use: Motion by Mr. Vinyard, (no second). Roll call: Millen-yes,
Olson-yes, Vinyard-yes, Goins-yes, Horaz-yes. Carried 5-0.
PZC2023-02 Variance: Motion by Ms. Goins, second by Ms. Horaz. Roll call: Goins-
yes, Horaz-yes, Millen-yes, Olson-yes, Vinyard-yes. Carried 5-0.
PZC 2023-03 Rezoning: Motion by Mr. Vinyard, second by Ms. Goins. Roll call:
Horaz-yes, Millen-yes, Olson-yes, Vinyard-yes, Goins-yes. Carried 5-0.
PZC2023-03 Special Use: Motion by Mr. Vinyard, (no second). Roll Call: Millen-yes,
Olson-yes, Vinyard-yes, Goins-yes, Horaz-yes. Carried 5-0.
PZC 2023-03 Variance: Motion by Mr. Vinyard, second by Ms. Goins; Roll call:
Olson-yes, Vinyard-yes, Goins-yes, Horaz-yes, Millen-yes. Carried 5-0.
Additional Business
1. Appointment of Vice Chair
Commissioner Vinyard volunteered to be the Vice Chair and was approved unanimously
on a voice vote.
2. City Council Action Updates
PZC 2022-24 New Leaf Energy dba Beecher Solar and PZC 2022-25 Giovanna
Schmieder were both approved.
Adjournment
There was no further business and the meeting was adjourned at 8:52pm on a motion by
Ms. Goins and second by Mr. Vinyard, respectively. Unanimous voice vote.
Respectfully submitted by
Marlys Young, Minute Taker
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
1
UNITED CITY OF YORKVILLE
YORKVILLE, ILLINOIS
PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION
PUBLIC HEARING
800 Game Farm Road
Yorkville, Illinois
Wednesday, May 10, 2023
7 :00 p .m .
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
2
PRESENT:
Mr. Jeff Olson, Chairman,
Ms. Deborah Horaz,
Mr. Richard Vinyard,
Ms. Reagan Goins.
ALSO PRESENT:
Ms. Krysti Barksdale-Noble, Community
Development Director;
Mr. Jason Engberg, Senior Planner,
Ms. Marlys Young, Minute Taker.
- - - - -
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
3
I N D E X
WITNESS: PAGE
BARRY KYLE 8
SCOTT OSBORN 9
EMILY KAHANIC 33
BILL BAZAN 39
LORI HAFF-DELANCY 45
ROGER ARNTZEN 48
DAVID ENGER 52
- - - - -
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
4
(WHEREUPON, the following
proceedings were had in public
hearing:)
CHAIRMAN OLSON: We're going to move on
to the public hearing portion of the meeting.
There is two public hearings scheduled for
tonight's Planning and Zoning Commission meeting.
The purpose of this hearing is to provide
testimony from members of the public regarding
proposed request that is being considered before
the Commission tonight.
Public testimony from persons
present who wish to speak may be for or may be
against the requests or to ask questions of the
petitioner regarding those requests.
Those persons wishing to testify are
asked to speak clearly, one at a time, and state
your name, who you represent, if anyone. You are
also asked to sign in at the podium or that card
that went around, which I think everyone did, if
you plan to speak.
Right now, if you plan to speak
during tonight's public hearing as a petitioner
or a member of the public, please stand, raise
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
5
your right hand, and repeat after me. So anybody
who wishes to speak tonight, stand now. Okay.
Thank you.
(Witnesses thereupon duly sworn.)
CHAIRMAN OLSON: All right. The order
for receiving testimony during the public hearing
portion of tonight's meeting will be the
petitioner presentation where they will talk
about what's up for vote tonight, then we will
have those who want to speak in favor of the
request and then we will have those who want to
speak in opposition to the request, so
petitioner, in favor, opposition. And with t hat
said, we have the ground rules.
May I have a motion, please, to open
the public hearing on Petition Number PZC
2023-02, Turning Point Energy, LLC, rezoning
approval, Special Use Authorization and Variance
approval for the 54-acre parcel, and PZC 2023-03,
Turning Point Energy, LLC, rezoning approval,
special use authorization and variance approval
for the 4 2 -acre parcel.
MR VINYARD: So moved.
MS. GOINS: Second.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
6
CHAIRMAN OLSON: Roll call vote on the
motion, please.
MS. YOUNG: Vinyard.
MR. VINYARD: Yes.
MS. YOUNG: Goins.
MS. GOINS: Yes.
MS. YOUNG: Horaz.
MS. HORAZ: Yes.
MS. YOUNG: Millen. Millen.
MR. MILLEN: Yes.
MS. YOUNG: Thank you. Olson.
CHAIRMAN OLSON: Yes.
MS. YOUNG: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN OLSON: All right. The public
hearings up for discussion tonight are PZC
2023-0 2 , Turning Point Energy, LLC, petitioner,
has filed applications with the United City of
Yorkville, Kendall County, Illinois, requesting
rezoning approval, special use authorization and
variance approval to construct a solar farm on
the 54-acre parcel generally located east of
Cannonball Trail and north of the BNSF railroad
line within the Bristol Ridge Planned Unit
Development.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
7
The petitioner is requesting to
rezone the parcel from R -2 Single-Family and R -2
Duplex PUD to the A -1 Agricultural District,
special use permit approval for a solar farm land
use and variance approval to decrease the minimum
distance between the ground and the solar panels
from ten to a minimum height of two feet.
PZC 2023-03, Turning Point Energy,
LLC, petitioner, has filed applications with the
United City of Yorkville, Kendall County,
Illinois, groundhog day here, requesting rezoning
approval, special use authorization and variance
approval to construct a solar farm on the 4 2 -acre
parcel generally located east of Cannonball Trail
and south of Galena Road with the Bristol Ridge
Planned Unit Development.
The petitioner is requesting to
rezone the parcel from R -2 Single-Family and R -3
Townhome PUD to the A -1 Agricultural District
zoning, special use permit approval for a solar
farm land use and variance approval to decrease
the minimum distance between the ground and the
solar panels from ten feet to a minimum highlight
of two feet. Okay.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
8
Is petitioner for P Z C 2023-0 2 ,
Turning Point Energy, present and prepared to
make their presentation of the proposed request?
MR. BARRY: Yes, Mr. Chairman.
CHAIRMAN OLSON: Would you take the
podium, please? Does the mic work on the podium?
MR. ENGBERG: That's a good question.
CHAIRMAN OLSON: If the mic doesn't
work, if you could speak a little louder. We're
not sure.
KYLE BARRY,
having been first duly sworn, testified from the
podium as follows:
MR. BARRY: Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Members of the Commission, good evening. My name
is Kyle Barry, I am an attorney with the law firm
of McGuireWoods, and tonight I am here
representing the petitioner for both cases that
are on the agenda.
The petitioner is Turning Point
Energy and my client for the first case is TPE I L
K E 1 0 5 . It's a developer of a solar project in
the area described by the chairman in the opening
description.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
9
For both the projects, and
specifically for K E 1 0 5 , we will have -- I will be
presenting two witnesses. The first witness is
Scott Osborn, so, Scott, if you could please step
up. Scott is a project developer for Turning
Point Energy. The second witness is Emily, she
is an engineer supporting the engineering firm of
Kimley-Horn, and she is supporting the project.
So each witness is going to take you
through a PowerPoint presentation for both
projects, so without further adieu, I am going to
turn things over to Scott Osborn, who will walk
you through it now. Thank you.
SCOTT OSBORN,
having been first duly sworn, testified from the
podium as follows:
MR. OSBORN: Thank you, Kyle. As Kyle
mentioned, my name is Scott Osborn. I am the
developer on this project, which means I am
responsible for the various permitting tasks
through the city, and I 'll reach the landowners
and try to meet -- make sure we meet all your
requirements. So I have notes in my slide on my
computer, so hopefully I can do this properly.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
10
So what is Turning Point Energy?
TPE is a developer of solar projects. We
primarily focus on what's called community solar,
and that's -- community solar at least in
Illinois is five megawatts of AC power, and that
generally translates to 20 to 30 acres of panels.
So a 40-acre parcel, which is pretty common, can
host one of these -- one of these types of
projects, and so that's what we focus on.
The owners of this company -- I work
for this -- I joined the company part-time last
year, but full-time in January, and the owners of
this company have been in and around solar energy
for 20, 25 years. I 've been around energy
development for 25 years working in the field.
So we do these community solar
projects. We advise our -- we advise investor
clients, we advise landowners in some cases in
how to work with other developers if they call
asking for our help on what's this lease mean. I
do that pretty regularly for wind and solar.
So this is a map of where we have
worked and where we are working. As you can see,
it's a pretty broad spectrum across the country.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
11
Our people, we're mostly a remote company, so I
live outside of Denver, the person I report to
lives in Rhode Island, the person she reports to
lives ten miles north of me, so it's an
interesting structure for me because we have
staff really all over the country. Next slide,
please. Thank you.
The company has a goal of making
long-term investments in the communities in which
we work. We try to find charities that are doing
good work that we can support. It's part of
the -- a good member of the community, a good
corporate citizen, and we will -- we work to find
these charities, and if we can help them, we
certainly -- we certainly will try.
The company owner, the primary
owner, has a certain number in mind he wants to
give away every year, I think it's very generous,
and we are working to meet his goal.
This slide indicates different
places where the company has given money just
trying to help the local communities where we
work. Next, please.
So this is a video of one of the --
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
12
of a project that the company did, and if you
will click play, Jason, I think it will run. It
has a lovely soundtrack in the background, so --
that might not work for us, but this is a
Maryland project, it's a smaller project, 1 .27
megawatts DC, so that's about a megawatt of AC
power.
It's an active tracking array,
which means the panels will tilt to follow t he
sun across the sky trying to -- the panels
maintain a perpendicular position to the sun,
helps them capture 15 to 20 percent more energy
than just being stationary.
As you can see, the field is
planted in a grass and that helps reduce any kind
of erosion. There are some places where it
didn't take very well and had to be replanted,
but that is what that array looks like. A gain,
that's in Maryland. The soundtrack is really
quite moving. Next slide, Jason, please. Thank
you.
So community solar, like I
mentioned, it ends up being about 25 acres in
panels. This facility, the K E 1 0 5 , that is just
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
13
north of the Burlington Northern railroad and
east of Cannonball Trail, we believe it's going
to produce enough power to power 1 ,030 homes in
output throughout the year.
The community solar programs allow
people who would really love to have solar,
really hope to buy solar, and maybe even at a
discount to their standard ComEd rates, but don't
want to write a check for $20,000 or more to put
solar on their roof.
Maybe you're a renter and you don't
own the roof, so you can't do that anyway. Maybe
your house is surrounded by trees, you have a
little shade, but you want this, too, so you can
participate in this program and it will allow the
homeowner or renter or business owner or renter
to participate and have the green power that they
want to buy. Next, please.
So this is a map of the site. This
is our zoning site plan. As you can see,
Burlington Northern is on the southern end.
Let's see if I can make this pointer work. So we
have Burlington Northern railroad here, the golf
course over here on the southeast side, there is
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
14
a big ComEd substation and a high voltage power
line that parallels the railroad to the south
side of our proposed subject area. Cannonball
Trail is over here, Bristol Tap right there, and
the refrigeration business.
This is the property now of Robert
Velazquez. He owns a landscape company called
Semper Fi. I have met with him a couple of times
and he is a little hesitant about this use, I
admit that, and, you know, they bought an old
farmhouse in the countryside kind of and kind of
expected this to be a bit more remote I think.
So we have designed in here
vegetative screening on the northwest side that
reduces the visibility of the facility, and Emily
will go into more detail on the plant mix that we
plan to use for this screening.
We have a screening also built down
the west side of the project area and that will
reduce visibility from Cannonball Trail from the
Tap into the homes on Cannonball.
As part of this process, we will
have to have an above-ground power line, and this
is dictated by ComEd, this is how the process has
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
15
to be, and there is a point right there, where
just to the -- little shaky, right there just to
the east of the driveway, the north driveway
on -- for the refrigeration shop, that's the
interconnect right there. There is a couple of
panels that ComEd has said this is where you are
going to tie in.
So as the data on this site shows,
the property is owned by Daniel White. He is a
commercial real estate developer, construction
guy, I think he is in Barrington, and he has
owned this property, I 'm trying to remember
when -- he has owned this property for several
years now.
They really don't have plans to
advance the planned unit development that's here
called Bristol Ridge that was permitted and
annexed into the city in 2006, and that
annexation agreement I guess expires in a couple
years and they haven't made any real advancement
in the development of any infrastructure like
utilities, water, sewer.
We think it's really unlikely that
anybody would be able to move a residential
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
16
subdivision quickly enough to meet that deadline
and we think this is a suitable alternative use
for the property.
What was planned here initially
with Bristol Ridge was I think about 2 0 7
residential units, primarily single-f amily homes,
and 2007 happened and a lot of the developments
through here, I 'm sure you all are aware of what
happened with property values as that occurred,
so the residential use kind of just fell out.
In this area we requested a
variance for panel height. The ordinance
presently says a minimum height on panels of
ten feet, a minimum height, so they're two feet
above my head here, so -- at the bottom, so that
would put them 25, 30 feet up in the air, and we
had speculated as to why that was written into
the ordinance when it was, we don't really -- I
don't think any of us knows, but that height
would make this -- would make something like this
almost impossible to screen visually with
planting.
We couldn't build a 30-foot high
wall fence to hide that, so that's why the reason
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
17
we requested a variance on the height. That
height would also add significant wind loads. I
think the term we described was an unnecessary
burden on the project design, so that is the
reason for the variance request.
We have an agreement pending with
ComEd for interconnection, so we know that they
can accept the power. In some cases projects
might go through this entire permitting process
and not know about interconnection, power
delivery. We know that they can accept the power
and we are first in line to sign up for this
location to serve power into ComEd on the wires
that are there.
Setbacks, so from the road we have
a minimum setback of 100 feet, but the distance
here from the property line of the refrigeration
shop to the first row of panels is 625 feet. So
we're nowhere near the road, so we're set back,
this road exists -- our driveway path here is --
I want to say it was -- well, it's 7 0 0 feet, I
have it written in right here. So 700-foot
driveway in, and setback from Bristol Tap, and
I 'm very worried about Mr. Velazquez and not
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
18
negatively affecting their quality of life, their
home, so we maximized our setback as far as we
could from the homes and businesses along
Cannonball Trail, and there is this potential
wetland in here in the property.
I think it's probably the result of
a drain tile failure or damage possibly by the
construction of the ComEd substation, and if we
can -- if we can figure out what is happening
here and solve that, we will move these panels
here that are on the west side, the farthest
west, and be able to move them a little bit to
the southeast, increasing our setback from the
western property line.
MR. ENGER: What about the other
residents that are living there, meaning us?
CHAIRMAN OLSON: We'll have time for
questions from the public after he's done with
the presentation.
MR. ENGER: Okay, I 'm sorry. I didn't
mean to interrupt.
CHAIRMAN OLSON: Don't be. It's okay.
MR. ENGER: We are talking about one
person and there is multiple.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
19
MR. OSBORN: And I want to make sure
everyone is heard and I will address all your
concerns.
MR. ENGER: I understand. Sorry to
interrupt.
CHAIRMAN OLSON: Go ahead.
MR. OSBORN: Next slide, Jason, please.
Pollinators. This is the grass and plant and
flower mix that we would place under the panels
to make sure that -- you can't leave an open
piece of dirt, it's just going to absorb a bunch
of weeds and have a lot of run-off and sediment
and drainage, so the entire field would be
planted with these pollinator seeds that are good
for the birds and bees and, in that respect, it
would also help reduce any kind of run-off from a
heavy rainfall. Emily is going to speak more to
that, she knows a lot more about that than I do.
Next slide, Jason.
Drain tiles, we have -- our advisor
is a gentleman named Tom Huddleston. He knows
drain tiles, he grew up in drain tiles, so this
is his field of expertise. I think it's a
generational business, so we have a lot of
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
20
experience.
The site does have a d rain tile
system in it, I have a map provided by the
landowner that shows that there is -- that there
is a system in place. Mr. Huddleston and his
team will survey that system and map it, make
sure that we know exactly where everything is,
and we can design the layout such that the -- so
that we don't drive an anchor through a drain
tile and create a problem, and if we think we're
going to do that, we can relocate the drain tiles
and make sure that the mutual line doesn't affect
neighbors upstream or downstream because we don't
want to create a problem for anyone.
I have very little experience
working with drain tiles, so I don't know all
that much about it, but what I have learned about
causing problems for other people scares me a
bit, so we will do everything we can to avoid
causing a problem in that area. Next one,
please.
So the project construction we think
is going to employ 50 to 7 5 people. It will be
four to six months, should it be allowed to move
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
21
forward. As you can see in the gray table here,
the taxes for the parcel right now as ag producer
are very small. For a solar facility we think
the number is about 42,000 year one and
70 percent of that money goes to the local -- to
the local school district. We always hear how
the schools need more money, so if we can help
the schools, we are happy to do that.
I know that the city just did
budgets and I saw the number and I see that
42,000 isn't even a drop in the bucket compared
to the city's annual budget, so is it a
significant difference? It's a significant
increase over the current number. Is it a
significant difference financially to the city?
I don't think it is, but it is an improvement
over what's there today. Let's see. Thanks,
Jason.
So we did a study, and I will go
into the study on glare in a moment. We found
that the facility does not reflect or shine onto
neighboring properties or onto the roads causing
any kind of danger. We won't have people coming
and going regularly from the project. I know
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
22
that I 'm sure we've all sat at the stoplight at
4 7 and Galena Road wondering when we were going
to get through the intersection, so we won't be
adding to traffic issues long-term, so we think
with 50 to 7 5 people working there during the
construction phase, that might be a bit of an
irritation in Bristol, but it won't be people
coming and going from 200-plus homes on a daily
basis long-term.
We have no water use, we have no
sewer use. These projects don't really emit any
smell or -- they shouldn't generate any noise,
there would be no lighting, they're not
plantable. There's been some concerns about
things catching fire and there's nothing really
there to catch fire.
The pollinator mix long-term will
improve the soil conditions, allow the soil to
rest. It's kind of like putting a farm field
fallow or in a C R P or some other program that
just lets the ground rest, and the last point
outside is I try to address the donations plans
that we have.
This is the first visualization we
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
23
had done of the facility, so this is kind of --
you can see the railroad right there, so this is
really right above the railroad, the intersection
with the railroad and Cannonball Trail, and that
is the substation as it is in place with ComEd,
and this area here is the potential wetland that
I addressed.
So if we can solve this question, we
can move all these panels here over here and
improve the setback from Cannonball Trail and the
adjacent homes even more, so if we can make that
happen, we certainly -- we certainly will, and
we're going to try. Also along here we have
vegetative screening, so this -- as the plants
grow in, they will help reduce the visibility of
this facility.
We have our driveway coming off of
Cannonball Trail and the above ground power poles
that I mentioned, and there will be some
electrical boxes that I mentioned here that are
inverters and transformers. It's necessary
equipment for any kind of electrical production.
Different aerial view. I like this
one because it shows the golf course, it shows
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
24
the existing trees planted along the railroad,
reducing visibility on th9 is side.
I tried to reach the golf course a
number of times just to get their comments, never
really heard back from anyone over there, so I
guess they're not concerned.
There are existing plantings along
the property lines over here that we're hoping
will help further reduce visibility and, again,
it's just another angle of view from above.
Along Cannonball Trail we have --
our proposed driveway would be here. This shows
the unused portion of the property north of our
driveway still being used for farming, so on this
parcel, I think it was 54 acres and we are using
about 26 acres, we will have some part of the
property that needs to be filled in just inside
the fence with the pollinators, but I estimated
that at eight to ten acres of unused property,
and in that unused property, my preference would
be to have it continue to be farmed. It was
soybeans last year, I assume it's going to be
corn this year. I haven't been up there this
week to see if it's been planted. They seem to
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
25
be alternating between soybeans and corn.
So, again, we have the poles that
would be proposed, and it's not terribly easy to
see that the panels are there back there, they're
showing a max height of I think 15 feet, and some
planting along our driveway, and the trees
that -- and we will go into some detail as to
what plants -- what plants we would like to plant
there. Jason, please. Thank you.
I wandered out in the back of the
Bristol Tap from their parking lot, and there is
kind of a gap here, so the facility again is in
the background there, the Com Ed substation and
high voltage power lines here. Our power pole is
over here, and again hoping for it to be farmed.
I am trying to get a definitive
answer on how we do that. I think that we -- the
landowner seems to be open to working to maintain
some of the other use. I don't want to have ten
acres of grass I have to go mow and I don't think
anybody else does. So that's kind of the
direction we are going, trying to get this --
make sure that this continues agricultural
production.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
26
So Mr. Velazquez, who has the home
there on the west side of the road, and this is
the back of his -- between his out-buildings, so
he has a large metal a shed over here, his garage
is on the other side of the photo. The trees in
the background are where the facility is. These
kind of big brown trees are currently there, he
has planted those. Just another view of what we
think.
I touched briefly on glare. Glare
is a reflection off of the panels or off of the
equipment, and we can't go shine a mirror on
somebody ever, so we had this study done, and the
study tracks the sun across the sky, it tracks
the position of the panels, and it gauges where
those panels might reflect the sun's light.
I 'm sure we've all had it driving
past a window or walking past a window and get
hit with that unexpected shine right in the eyes.
That's why we do the study. We don't want to
harm our neighbors, we don't want to risk -- we
don't ever want to risk anybody on the road.
This study does not contemplate
existing landscaping, trees, buildings, it just
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
27
looked at the sun, the position on the road or
the position of the potential observation point,
so if there are already trees there, it doesn't
know that.
The study here came back saying
you're not going to reflect on anybody, so we're
pretty confident in those results, but we're
still going to have the screening and the
fencing, and then should there ever be a problem,
we can adjust the tilt of the panels slightly so
that they kind of jump past that window where
they are reflecting on somebody or some location.
We can also plant trees, we can add slats to
fences. There are a number of things we can do
to mitigate that problem should it occur, but
this study says that it won't occur. Next,
Jason. Thank you.
So as I mentioned, the Bristol Ridge
Planned Unit Development was on this property.
It was annexed by the City in 2006. This
residential subdivision was proposed. 2007
happened and many of the homes, many of the new
Montgomery village homes north of there just went
through the floor in value, so people bought them
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
28
for 3 50, they ended up being foreclosed on and
sold a year and a half later for about 150,000,
many of them, and so the market for this
development at the time, before 2007, looked
great. 2007, it kind of killed that. So we
don't really -- given the timeline we don't see
that coming back as an alternative use here.
Looking at my notes, make sure I 'm not forgetting
anything. So it's been almost 17 years and there
hasn't really been any advancement of that
program or that development. Included in here,
well, Mr. White bought the property in 2017.
After the useful life of the project
we are required to decommission it. Under the
state law we have to enter into what's called a
AIMA, A gricultural Impact Mitigation Agreement,
and the counterpart to that is the Illinois
Department of Agriculture, so they dictate the
rules that say this has to come down, you have to
work with the county or the city, depending on
the jurisdiction, to establish decommissioning
security so that the money is there just in case
they can't find the project owner or the
developer to make sure it is removed, and the
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
29
financial security will be there to make sure
this facility is removed at the end of its life.
Under those rules I believe we are
required to make -- Under our estimate for that
we included plowing and planting, plowing and
planting with native grasses and seeds. If the
property was to return to agricultural use, the
plowing and planting I think would not be
necessarily needed. There would be some
decompaction, but I think we have a lot of buffer
in the number that we provided for
decommissioning given that the planting may not
be necessary should the parcel go back to
agricultural use. Next, please.
I discussed the glare analysis. We
don't have anything that should catch fire or
explode. People have asked if these generate
heat. They absorb the sun's light and so they
will become warm like the top of a car sitting in
the sun, that heat generally dissipates over
about five to eight feet, so we're not creating a
focus point for heat that could cause a fire.
We had a property study. This talks
about property values. We had a property study
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
30
by a group named CohnReznick, and they know how
to do this. They do the analysis. They studied
a number of different things, so they studied
previously peer reviewed studies of property
values around these types of facilities, they
interviewed tax assessors, they reviewed sales
data, and they found no statistical proof of
negative impact on property values of adjacent
properties or nearby properties, so we are pretty
confident in their work and we don't believe that
anybody would be financially harmed by the
presence of this facility.
So setbacks. For an agricultural
parcel, it requires a 100-foot setback from the
road. As we discussed, the setback is -- or as I
discussed, the setback is over 600 feet. The
side and rear yard for an agricultural parcel,
that setback is eight feet under the ordinance.
We are set back at least 20 feet, I believe it's
20 to 60 feet depending on the location along
around the north side, south side and/or east
side of the parcel, so we are meeting the
requirement for setback. I showed the viewshed
images that try to display what we think -- how
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
31
we think the facility is going to look.
Our operations maintenance plan
includes maintenance of the landscape, so we
can't just plant these pollinators and leave them
and let them grow to unlimited height. We also
have to -- so they will have to be mowed
regularly, I think it's every three to six weeks,
to make sure that the height doesn't get carried
away.
The noxious weeds, we have to handle
the weeds. You can't let them -- we can't let
them take over, so there will be some hand
removal, there may be some spraying for weed
control.
We believe that the pollinator mix,
once it takes hold, will help squeeze the weeds
out and keep them from establishing a foothold on
the property, and the decommissioning, the
decommissioning does require the whole thing has
to be removed. That's going to be part of the
contract with the state, it will be a condition
of the permit, and it will be subject to the
financial security to make sure it happens.
So the CohnReznick study, they did a
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
32
lot of analysis and they seem to really know
this. This is statistical analysis, I don't know
statistics, so we are pretty confident in their
knowledge, and I 've seen a number of other --
number of others cite this same firm doing this
analysis.
So it was a lead regulator in the
state government that oversaw the creation of
this report and we're pretty confident of her
neutrality on the question, that it's not biased
in our favor.
I think that's an important thing to
note because sometimes people get the studies
they pay for, so we got a study that I think is
pretty neutral and I think it provides a pretty
good set. That's the conclusion.
CHAIRMAN OLSON: All right. Thank you.
Is there anyone present who wishes to speak in
favor of the request?
MR. BARRY: We have Emily.
CHAIRMAN OLSON: Go right ahead, yes.
I 'm sorry. What was your name again, ma'am? I 'm
sorry.
MS. KAHANIC: Emily Kahanic.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
33
CHAIRMAN OLSON: Thank you.
EMILY KAHANIC,
having been first duly sworn, testified from the
podium as follows:
MS. KAHANIC: I am Emily Kahanic and I
am on this project as the civil consultant for
the firm of Kimley-Horn. You can go to the next
slide.
MR. ENGBERG: One second.
MS. KAHANIC: All right. So I think
Scott did a good job kind of going through the
site plan already, but I just want to go through
some setbacks. So the requirements for the
setbacks, our agricultural railroad setback is
200 feet, the right-of-way setback is 100 feet,
the solar side yard setback is eight feet, as
well as the rear yard setback, and then we also
have a wetland buffer of 30 feet.
So if you will kind of look at this,
I think we are 574 feet from the agricultural
setback, so we're exceeding that by 574 feet.
And then also if you look at it there is the
interconnection point, it's kind of along the
road, so we have those power poles connecting to
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
34
Cannonball Trail, and that will be where we are
planning to interconnect with approval from
ComEd.
Then we also have our vegetation
buffer, so we have that on the west side and the
northwest side as a buffer from the north
residential property, and then you can go to the
next slide.
So this is our transportation access
plan, so we would be coming off of Highway 34
going north on State Route 47 and then northeast
onto Cannonball Trail, which is where our site
access would be off of. You can go to the next
slide.
So this is our landscape plan and a
potential buffer that we would be using, so we
plan to comply with the City of Yorkville
recommendations, and it will be a mixture of
native grasses and pollinators that we are
planting throughout the solar array to create a
conservation area.
This will help reduce the sediment
and nutrient run-off, improve water quality and
create enhanced critical habitat for fish and
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
35
wildlife populations on private lands.
Just to kind of run through some of
the trees that we typically propose in this area,
and this will all be run by and permitted when we
get to the actual building permit application,
but typically we do evergreen trees and shrubs,
ornamental trees, ornamental grass and then large
deciduous shrubs.
So the evergreen trees, the
installed height is five feet, the ornamental
trees installed height is eight feet, and the
grass would be an installed height of two feet
and then the shrubs are about four feet. Then if
you go to the next slide.
So A SC does a hydrology abstract on
the hydrologic response of solar farms. So the
analysis of existing ground cover versus proposed
ground cover, which would be -- our existing is
crop and then proposed would be meadow, so the
report concluded that solar panels over grassy
fields do not have a n affect on the volume of
run-off, the peak discharge or the time to peak,
meaning we are reducing the run-off that's going
offsite onto neighboring properties.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
36
Also, in addition to this, we do
submit our plans to the IEPA, and we have to
comply with the M PDS requirements, so we will
submit a script to make sure that during
construction and the final conditions that there
is no run-off onto the neighboring properties and
impacting them.
So this is a visual of kind of the
existing versus proposed conditions, so in the
proposed conditions, the water will run off the
panels and come underneath the panels, and there
is meadow underneath, so this is to replace the
row crop that you can see on the left. That's
the existing.
So meadow has longer roots which
will which help decompact the soils and kind of
increase the infiltration rate, which helps
absorb water, and then it will actually decrease
the amount of run-off that's coming off-site.
With crops, a lot of that water
isn't really absorbed into the soil, so it kind
of has more run-off that's actually leaving the
existing site onto neighboring properties, so we
are required to reduce that, and that is our
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
37
plan.
This is a visual of the ground
cover. These aren't the exact plants that will
be, but this is just an example of one where they
have plantings.
There is a common misperception that
plants can't grow underneath panels. They
definitely can, and our landscape team definitely
works to make sure we are planting the right
plants that can sustain under shading versus
plants outside of the arrays which might have
more sun.
Decommissioning plan. I won't run
through every single bullet, but we will be
complying with the City of Yorkville Code
requirements and any other requirements. At the
end of the project life cycle, this will be
decommissioned and we will provide financial
security in the amount required per the City of
Yorkville Code.
And then sound. So there is a noise
ordinance that we plan to comply with. We are
also going to be complying with the Illinois
Pollution Control Board.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
38
As you can us tell by our zoning
site plan, we are 655 feet from the nearest home
and 260 feet from the property line to the
inverter, and the inverter is what would be
making supposedly the most sound, but we aren't
really going to hear this noise from the property
line. It's a fairly ambient noise, similar to
that of a refrigerator, so it should not or will
not negatively impact neighboring properties.
Also for the SUP we submitted an
EcoCAT. They evaluated it and actually
terminated this project because -- not terminated
the project. Their evaluation was terminated
because there were no adverse effects on-site.
You can go to the next one.
We submitted to SHPO, r esponse is
pending. We have seen a lot of times they do
require an archeological survey. We will be
complying with this and we will get this done
prior to the start of construction if that's what
they come back and ask for. And that is my
presentation.
CHAIRMAN OLSON: Thank you. All right.
For real this time, is there anyone who wishes to
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
39
speak in favor of the two requests?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN OLSON: Is there anyone who
wishes to speak in opposition to the proposed
request?
MR. BAZAN: Yes.
CHAIRMAN OLSON: If you would like to,
please go up there. The way this is going to
happen, if there is multiple people who want to
speak in opposition, we ask that you do not
repeat the same points, so I will ask you to move
on if we are repeating ourselves. But go ahead,
sir. First state your name so we --
BILL BAZAN,
having been first duly sworn, testified from the
podium as follows:
MR. BAZAN: My name is Bill Bazan. I 've
been a resident here since 1 9 7 0 when Yorkville
was about 600 people. I 've seen a lot of good
things in this town, I 've seen some not so good
things in this town. I 've seen some stupid
things, I 've seen some ignorant things, and I
think this is borderline ignorant and stupid.
Once it's in the ground, it's in the ground
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
40
forever. You've destroyed the landscape.
It's not feasible to build these in
northern Illinois because of our winters and --
excuse me, I don't do this very often. I worked
in the energy sector for -- off and on for the
past 15 years, I 've been an operating engineer
for 35 years, I 've worked on solar farms, I 've
worked on wind farms. I 've traveled across from
Gila Bend, Arizona, to Yuma, Arizona, and seen
all of the solar panels out there.
On the north side of the road you
can just see the heat boiling off of them panels
and the desert is doing what the desert does.
Most of the power there is shipped right out of
state over to California.
Northern Illinois produces a lot of
power. We have four power plants down a long --
down by Morris in Grundy and Will County. There
is a gas-fired generating station in Minooka,
there is two more under construction in Joliet.
We've got Byron nuclear out there. More than
likely, all this power is going to be shipped out
of state, too. It's not going to go to local
residents. Nobody's power -- or electrical
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
41
prices are going to go down.
It's a proven fact, wherever there
is solar or wind, energy costs do not go down.
The local residents do not see any relief
whatsoever. And it's all -- Is it all done with
all taxpayer incentives? Probably. Does the
taxpayer see anything out of it? No. Just a
little bit of money to the school district.
Is the money, the revenue, generated
from these things, does it stay in local banks?
Probably not. It's shipped right out, just like
they ship it down to Bentonville. It's kind of
like a drain, and once it's in the ground, it's
in the ground.
What about the tornadoes or
microbursts we've had out there, who is going to
pay the farmer for the $50,000 bean head that
just got destroyed by a panel? Who retains that
liability? What about if it goes through a 5 ,000
tank, who is going to pay for that?
My family has farmed around here in
Kendall County since the 1920's , and to see
something like this -- this was a n
agricultural-based county, Yorkville is the
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
42
county seat, and we prided ourselves on our
agriculture, and to see something like this go
up, you know, that's a 10-foot ceiling, that's a
12-foot ceiling, so you are going to go three
foot higher above than what this ceiling is, and
they are really hideous. You drive across
wherever this stuff is and they are really ugly
in my opinion.
They are made with foreign-made
materials. Are they going to be made with copper
out of Arizona, aluminum out of Kentucky or
Tennessee, steel out of Indiana? No, probably
not a chance. It's all stuff made in China. Do
we want to support a communist country? I sure
as heck don't .
I just -- No. It's wrong. There is
other ways to produce revenue. You want to build
it? Why don't you take down this old gravel pit
out there and reclaim that? There is probably 75
or 100 acres there that's not being used. Take
the Nelson's old landfill out there. They build
them on top of landfills. Add another five or
ten foot of dirt to the landfill out there, put
your panels out there.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
43
You know, keep our agriculture
around here. You can't eat solar panels, you
can't feed solar panels to livestock, you know.
It's just -- we are losing the core of what our
county was and it's getting pretty sad to see
this go on, you know. Just take a dive, nobody
cares. Nobody is afraid to speak up.
If I hurt somebody's feelings, I
don't care. Like I said, I 've lived here all my
life. I 've seen crazy things go on. Part of the
city code is all infrastructure materials
underground has to be domestically made, has to
be made out of U .S . products. Are these going to
be made out of U .S . products? Probably not a
chance, is there?
MR. OSBORN: There is manufacturing
coming back to the U .S . now.
MR. BAZAN: Are these going to be made
out of U .S . made products? Probably not.
Probably not. And what are you going to do when
they go out of date? How do they get recycled?
Do they end up in a landfill just like the wind
farms? They can't recycle those blades. You
know, those things, they have a life expectancy
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
44
of about 15, 20 years. They are replacing all
the ones out in Paw Paw that were put up in '0 8 ,
and when they say only use ecofriendly
lubricants, well, that thing spins around about
50 times, that oil is all contaminated. When it
leaks, where does it go? Blows out in the
cornfield on top of the crops. I don't really
care for that stuff in my food, I don't know
about you people.
And does it catch fire? You know
what? Anything man-made is destined to fail. 99
percent of the time over time it will fail. And,
you know, how do you put that stuff out when they
do catch fire? Does our fire department put that
stuff out? Just like lithium car batteries, how
do you put that out? It's 20,000 gallons of
water to put out a car battery.
It's just -- I don't know, this
whole green deal thing, it's like they're trying
to sell ketchup and popsicles to a woman in white
gloves. It's just --
Is it going to be done by union
labor? Is it going to be done by local labor?
Not the ones I 've seen, it was all imported
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
45
labor, so, you know, and I am a union man and I
am proud of it, but I know what goes on with a
lot of these projects.
They'll have a couple of guys out
there and everybody else is from different
states, different countries. I worked on one
where hell, most of the people, they weren't from
the United States. There were a lot of investors
in that project, they were all Chinese investors.
I just -- it doesn't add up. It doesn't make
sense. They are trying to sell something to you
that we really don't need. I think there is
other and better ways to produce revenue for this
city and for the county.
So that's just something for you to
think about. That's all I have to say.
CHAIRMAN OLSON: Thank you, sir. Does
anyone else want to speak in opposition? Yes,
ma'am. What's your name, ma'am?
LORI HAFF-DELANCY,
having been first duly sworn, testified from the
podium as follows:
MS. HAFF-DELANCY: I am Lori
Haff-Delancy. I think live at 8 Plum Street in
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
46
Bristol, which is directly across the railroad
tracks.
CHAIRMAN OLSON: Would you mind spelling
your name for me, your last name?
MS. HAFF-DELANCY: H -A -F -F hyphen
D -E -L -A -N -C -Y .
CHAIRMAN OLSON: Thank you. Go ahead.
MS. HAFF-DELANCY: I am directly across
it on the south side of the railroad tracks, and
they did not address how they are going to block
it from our view, although the tracks are there
and they will see the buildings are there, but we
still have -- it's going to impact us.
I am also a realtor, and as a -- you
know, they said that it doesn't affect property
values, but I know as a realtor, if you are
showing a property next to power lines, next to
solar panels, it definitely brings the property
value down.
One of the questions I have is the
heat. I have read that it does affect us, that
the heat stays day and night, it just doesn't
regulate -- generate extra heat during the day,
but it continues at night.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
47
And also the farmland, once they do
decommission it and it goes back, it's unknown if
there is any value to that -- what value is to
that farmland after it's been a solar field for
that length of time. It's unknown if they can
reclaim farmland after 30 or 50 years, the
quality of the soil after that.
What about electromagnetic fields?
I know that, you know, there is a lot of that
generated from the power lines. How much extra
is that going to be generated from the solar
panels? It's also an eyesore for everybody
around there, and, again, like he said, the
farmland, it's taking up too much of our
farmland, and it definitely impacts the property
values.
The other question is mosquito
control, when you've got all the pollinators and
weeds growing up underneath there, we already
have weeds growing from seed when they brought
bird seed in, we still deal with a lot of the
seeds that blew off of the -- and now we are
picking that, so mosquitos from that.
Now, does it generate -- they said
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
48
it doesn't generate glare, but from all angles,
if you are tilting it to keep it from glaring
from one side, what about the other side? If you
are tilting it so that it doesn't a ffect the
people on your side, will it affect the people
on -- all of us on the south side?
And what about -- I mean, does it
have a glare? Because we are right -- we have
planes that fly over. Is it going to blind them
as they are going over? I don't know what
happens with that glare. That's all.
CHAIRMAN OLSON: Thank you. All right.
Is there anyone else that would like to speak?
Go ahead, sir. And if you could, if I could have
your name again.
ROGER ARNTZEN,
having been first duly sworn, testified from the
podium as follows:
MR. ARNTZEN: My name is Roger Arntzen.
I live at 8 Cross Street in Bristol, Illinois. I
have lived there since 197 2 .
CHAIRMAN OLSON: Arntzen family, is that
what you said?
MR. ARNTZEN: Huh?
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
49
CHAIRMAN OLSON: The Arntzen family, is
that what you said?
MR. ARNTZEN: Yes.
CHAIRMAN OLSON: Okay.
MR. ARNTZEN: There is a lot of things I
worry about in Bristol. If you look at Bristol
on a map, all the way around it, Bristol is
surrounded by water. All the way around Bristol
is flood areas. We battle floods every time
there is a big storm, and we -- you take away
that area and you change the water flow and the
septic areas, I am afraid we're going to end up
with water in our basements again, which we
battled for years.
We also have -- a lot of us in
Bristol have long septic areas, septic systems,
our own water systems, and we don't want that,
those systems , messed with.
We already, a lot of people in
Bristol, have had to have their wells redug
because of the low water area, water systems,
already. It causes a lot of problems if you mess
with the ecosystems, with the water and the
septics and the flooding.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
50
It doesn't take a lot because if you
look at Bristol, if you look at the railroad
tracks in Bristol, if you get a lot of water, it
flows to the south, and if you get a lot of water
from fields heading south into Bristol, if you
load that field up so it doesn't fill the water
or it starts floating towards Cannonball Trail,
or that side of the town, those people over there
are going to have trouble with water in their
basements and we will have trouble with the water
flowing.
We don't have drainage systems like
you do in Yorkville, we don't have any hardly at
all, so we have no place for the water to go but
into our basements. We have maybe one or two
drainage systems out in Blackberry Creek and
that. So we have a real problem if we have a lot
of water and it comes from the fields in Bristol.
Another thing with solar panels, if
you have a lot of bright lights or heat coming
from solar panels, it affects birds. Birds think
that the solar panels -- it looks like water to
them, and birds have been known to head into the
solar panels and crash and die. It would hurt
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
51
our ecologic system if the birds start -- all of
a sudden in Bristol all started to die because
they have seen all these solar panels and they
start heading toward the panels because they
think it's water. It would not help that at all.
And if they talk about taking all
the dirt and stuff out of that field and move it
back and forth, it's going to be on Bristol
Township roads, and all of these big trucks are
going to be coming in and out of the Bristol
Township roads and damaging all the roads. Who
is going to pay for all those roads when they
have to be repaired from all those big trucks
coming back? I 'm sure the City of Yorkville
isn't going to pay for it. Who is going to pay
for the road damage? We haven't got money in our
account to pay for damaged roads when semis come
in and out of town.
And another thing, you know, the
other fellow's presentations that they put up
there, they said yes, sometimes we have donations
we give the schools and stuff. You never seen
anything that said we will or we promise or the
percentage we will give you, they just said
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
52
sometimes we do. Sometimes. It isn't always,
and didn't say we guarantee you money coming in.
It just says sometimes and some places we do
things. Remember that. They didn't guarantee
anything, they just said that sometimes they do
it. So you've got to think about that.
Sometimes ends up being never.
CHAIRMAN OLSON: Thank you. Is there
anybody else who would like to speak in
opposition? Go ahead, sir. What's your name?
MR. ENGER: David Enger.
CHAIRMAN OLSON: Can you spell your last
name for me?
MR. ENGER: E -N -G -E -R .
CHAIRMAN OLSON: Thank you.
DAVID ENGER,
having been first duly sworn, testified from the
podium as follows:
MR. ENGER: You guys have touched on
almost everything. I do live directly -- it's
directly behind where my property is, and I am
concerned with the drainage as well.
I mean, I 've seen that pool up back
there, I don't see that disappearing, it's a
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
53
small lake when it pools up back there, and all
of our houses are over a hundred years old and
they easily, easily get that -- that drainage
comes in towards us, and any kind of adjustment
back there is going to create a serious problem,
serious water problem.
And all of us have well and septic
also, so any of that run-off is going to come
into us, and any pesticides from the field that
are there already and churned up and brought in,
it's a big concern, but other than that,
everything else was touched on, so I hate to
repeat everything.
CHAIRMAN OLSON: Thank you, sir. All
right. Anybody else have any inkling to speak in
opposition? Speak now or forever hold your
peace.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN OLSON: All right. We are
going to move on and close the public hearing.
MR. ENGBERG: There is another one.
CHAIRMAN OLSON: Are we going to do it
again?
MR. ENGBERG: Well, yes, there is
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
54
another public hearing.
CHAIRMAN OLSON: Do we want to do the
same presentation over again or what do we want
to do?
MS. NOBLE: So for your second parcel,
you didn't address any of that, so are you going
to do a presentation for that? You should do it
now in the public hearing.
CHAIRMAN OLSON: Yeah, go ahead then,
please.
MR. BARRY: Can I do a closing at the
end of the second?
CHAIRMAN OLSON: Sure, yeah. No
problem.
MR. BARRY: This presentation is very
similar to the last one, so, Mr. Chairman, with
your agreement, I would like to skip through
several of the points that I think are not
necessary --
CHAIRMAN OLSON: Anything that is --
anything that is redundant we can skip.
MR. BARRY: Okay. Yes.
CHAIRMAN OLSON: Thank you.
MR. BARRY: Okay. Please keep going,
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
55
Jason.
MR. ENGBERG: I will just go to the --
MR. OSBORN: This one does address that
the output of this project we believe will
power -- all of our numbers indicate that this
will power 1 ,050 homes. Jason, next, please.
So this is the northern parcel.
This is also along Cannonball Trail, the
Jehovah's Witness church is there on the north
end, and this is a very similar design. It meets
the setbacks of the ordinance.
Our nearest panels to the Kingdom
Hall church are 215 feet. Nearest panels to the
home to the southwest is 591 feet. There are no
homes to the west, immediately to the west of the
parcel. The parcel to the south is empty, it's
currently a field and will remain an open field.
To the east is agricultural use, to the northeast
side is a parcel owned by the local YMCA. I
believe they have a recreation center planned for
there, but not -- I 'm not familiar with -- if
they have any timing on that.
The parcel itself is 41.8 acres.
We're talking about 27.7 acres of solar panels.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
56
Again, max height at 15 feet. And we have an
executed power -- executed interconnection
agreement with ComEd here.
Same question on pollinators, what
we addressed before. Same with the drain tile.
Drain tiles will be surveyed and relocated to
avoid driving an anchor into them, so we will
know exactly where they are. Please.
Again, the property tax revenue is
not a significant number to the City compared to
the City's overall budget. It's a decent
increase over the current number. And I think
that is -- it's the same slide as before, almost.
So this site does have a potential
for glare, as glare was raised in one of the
comments just made. I did submit this study
to -- this location to the FAA. The FAA did do a
review of this -- of both of these sites. They
concluded that it was not a hazard to air
navigation.
I have a determinative -- what they
call -- what the F AA calls a determination of no
hazard to air navigation. That is the name of
the f orm. I believe that was included in our
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
57
application package. Please.
This is the aerial view of the
array. I included this slide and the next one to
try to show the progression of the vegetative
screening that is intended to reduce the view of
this.
There is a gap in the northwest
corner that is open in our current site plan. I
don't recall why it was left open, I don't think
there was a reason for it to be open, but it is
now -- in our site plan is now closed, so that
gap will be planted.
Again, this is a Cannonball Trail
view of the facility with year one of the
vegetative screening planted. This has an open
fence. That would be -- I believe this
contemplates what's called an agricultural fence,
which is really wire mesh in about a four-by-four
grid, four-inch-by-four-inch grid.
Chain link is a suitable alternative
and I think it's probably better from a security
and safety perspective. Next, please.
Year five of the previous plantings
grown in, so we see that it's really starting to
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
58
reduce the visibility. I took photos from the
church parking lot at the entrance of the church,
I met with a couple of church elders to discuss
the project. They didn't have any immediate
concerns.
They did forward information on to
their church headquarters to see if they had any
feedback from that angle, and I have not heard
anything from them. They were also notified
under the rules for these permit applications.
And five years, showing the growth
on the left side, that is -- the gap on the right
is what I tried to address. It will be filled in
with plantings as well. There was -- the
software that does this analysis on the glare, it
tracks the sun across the sky and it tracks the
position of the panels and it evaluates a number
of different locations.
I had them track the railroad as
well because that provides a path that could be
affected should there be glare. Now, in this
case, this study did say there was a little
potential for some glare, but the study doesn't
contemplate existing plantings around homes, so
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
59
where that number six is, just behind it is
number five, and it is said well, you may cause a
glare issue here on this property, I believe it
is the Silagyi -- I 'm sure I 'm mispronouncing
their name. I believe it's the Silagyi property.
That home is surrounded by mature
trees, so I don't believe there is a glare issue
there, and if there is, if there is and the sun
is causing glare at this angle, we can program it
to turn back just a little bit and skip that
angle, so it would be a flash across their
windows, but not shining on the home or on any
other location. That is the programming that we
would use for the system operations to
hopefully -- well, not hopefully. That all the
numbers, all the math, all the engineering says
this is the solution.
We can also plant additional
plantings, taller trees to help alleviate spots
where that may be a concern.
And this is really the same slide
that was presented before, so I think you can
skip it. Again, it's the same information. And
yet again.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
60
So the property values were
addressed, the statistics by this CohnReznick
group say one thing, statistics by other groups
say other things. I read a number of reports;
some say in this particular market this is what
happened, some say -- others say across the
field, this is what we have seen is no negative
impact, so I -- you know, the story changes
depending on who you are listening to and you who
you are reading. That is the second site. I
know Emily may have additional points.
MS. KAHANIC: You can just skip to hat.
So all setbacks same in this area. I think just
a few key points I wanted to touch on. So
originally when we submitted for S UP we didn't
have -- in that northwest corner, there was a
gap, kind of in the lands cape buffer, so we did
fill that in so that we are kind of blocking the
entire area along that road, but just to kind of
run through some setbacks that we are exceeding,
we are 240 feet from the road, 591 feet from the
nearest residence and 214 feet from the church.
We could go to the next slide. We could skip
this, it's right next to the other one. All
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
61
right.
Landscape, it's the same plantings,
same kind of plan. Again, this will get updated
to show -- this was where it was before, we
didn't have that landscape buffer and we have
added it since then. You can go to the next one.
This is the same slide.
This one, I know there are a lot of
questions on it, so I just wanted to touch that
the panels do rotate, so the water will slide off
the panels and underneath them, so all of that
surface underneath is pervious, so it's not like
typical commercial development where it's a
parking lot and that whole area is impervious,
increasing the run-off.
This will decrease it because we are
adding better plants to help with that run-off,
so ideally you actually decrease the run-off and
some of the flooding issues you are seeing from
this site. Same slide. Also same slide. I
don't know that I actually have any other
differences.
The SHPO one, though, we did get
SHPO response back from this. They do not
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
62
require a survey, so this has been terminated and
we don't need to do anything additional.
CHAIRMAN OLSON: Thank you. All right.
Is there anyone who wishes to speak in support of
this specific request?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN OLSON: Is there anyone who
wishes to speak in opposition to this specific
request? Go ahead, sir.
MR. ARNTZEN: I just have one thing
that -- nobody said anything about the railroad.
Has anybody been in touch with railroad about
this? Those trains are awful big and awful high
up in the air when they come through that area.
Has anybody looked into the height of the train
coming by and will the glare affect the trains?
We get a lot of trains going through
Bristol, there is at least four trains, coal
trains, come through there a day, plus four
passenger trains, and there is a crossing at
Cannonball that trains go through every day, and
there are two tracks.
CHAIRMAN OLSON: Thank you.
MR. OSBORN: I can speak to that, but I
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
63
don't know if it's appropriate for me to at this
time.
CHAIRMAN OLSON: Go ahead.
MR. OSBORN: Okay. He asked the
question. Thank you. I did analyze the train
height. The cab of the locomotive, the driver
would sit with a head height of about 12 and a
half feet, and so the glare study that I had done
along the railroad track looked at five feet and
above to make sure that we are not shining any
kind of light, any kind of reflection, into the
cab, into the train drivers.
MR. ARNTZEN: What type of trains?
MR. BARRY: I researched the type of
trains that use the track and they said that the
max height of the trains was 15 and a half feet,
so the driver's head at the window -- and I
looked up all the specs for the engine they were
using, puts their head right about 12 and a half
feet.
MR. ARNTZEN: Did you look at how high
the tracks are or how high it is built up?
MR. BARRY: That was contemplated in the
topographic review of the solar software as I
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
64
understand how it works, so it's looking at that
point location on the track plus 15 feet and --
or plus five feet and looking above it, too, so
it said if it doesn't see it at 15 feet, it's not
going to see it below. If it doesn't see it at
five feet, it could see it above, but we have
that window pretty well blocked out from all the
information that I have.
MR. ARNTZEN: I hope so.
MR. OSBORN: Thank you.
MR. ARNTZEN: Yes, sir.
CHAIRMAN OLSON: Did you want to say
something before we close out our public
hearing?
MR. BARRY: Yes. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
First, if I could ask to enter into evidence the
PowerPoint presentations for both cases this
evening, as well as the materials associated with
the permit application.
CHAIRMAN OLSON: Yes. Thank you.
MR. BARRY: So just to sum up quickly,
I 'd like to -- obviously you know this is a
public hearing. One of the roles of the
Commission is to establish findings of fact and
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
65
to take in evidence, so that's the real focus of
this as a public hearing, the public hearing
portion of this proceeding is on the collection
of evidence and testimony, which is part of that.
But the request -- there are three requests for
each project on the table tonight, one for a
rezoning, one for a special use permit and one
for a variance.
On behalf of the applicant, we
submit that the evidence that's been presented,
including the materials in the permit application
as well as the testimony and the presentation
materials this evening, satisfy the standards for
issuance of a special use permit and a variance
as well as the rezoning, and I won't go through
all of the standards, but for a solar project
they are set forth in Section -- it's in the
solar provisions of the ordinance, but the
special use standards are set forth in
Section 10-4 -9 , and that's really the question.
It's not whether you like solar
projects or not, the county has -- or, excuse me,
the city has already established solar farms as a
special use within the boundaries, and so the
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
66
question this evening is whether the application
and the testimony and the evidence meets the
standards, and we believe that it does, and those
standards, for example, relate to things like
whether there is going to be an impact on
neighboring properties, whether it's going to be
unreasonably detrimental to the public health,
safety, morals, comfort or general welfare.
Well, we submit that the evidence
shows that the project will actually benefit or
promote the general welfare by increasing the
property tax revenue, and we submit that -- there
was discussion about, you know, no fire hazards,
et cetera, it won't impact neighboring properties
because there just aren't any emissions for solar
projects. To the extent there are emissions,
they are related to noise and it's a humming
sound from an inverter as Emily testified, and
these inverters are going to be two football
fields away from people's houses, so you're just
not going to hear them because they sound like a
refrigerator.
And then with respect to the
property values, I just want to point out that
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
67
again, focusing on the evidence, the evidence
that was submitted is a property value impact
study, preparation of which was supervised by
Patricia McGarr at CohnReznick.
Patricia McGarr is the -- I believe
the chair of the committee or whatever it's
called that regulates property value -- excuse
me, property appraisers in the state of Illinois,
so she provides -- oversees the licenses for
issuing -- issuance to appraisers, and she is
what's called an MAI, she has a special license
as an appraiser, and so they have to abide by
certain rules, and they prepared -- and
standards, and she oversees those standards, and
as Mr. Osborn testified, the report -- and you
can take a look at it yourself, it states and
concludes that there is just no impact, no
negative impact, on property values in the
vicinity of solar projects. That is the
conclusion of the experts, so I will close there.
I will stop there.
We thank you for the opportunity
this evening and we ask for a recommendation of
approval for the rezoning request, special use
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
68
request, and the variance request, and just
quickly on the variance, Mr. Osborn, as he
testified, imposes the height of the panels is
not going to be good for anybody, but it imposes
an unnecessary hardship on the property, and
again, thank you very much for the opportunity
and respectfully ask for a positive
recommendation.
CHAIRMAN OLSON: Thank you. Since all
public testimony regarding this petition has
been taken, may I have a motion, please, then to
close the taking of testimony in this public
hearing?
MS. HORAZ: So moved.
MR. VINYARD: Second.
CHAIRMAN OLSON: Roll call vote on the
motion, please.
MS. YOUNG: Yes. Goins.
MS. GOINS: Yes.
MS. YOUNG: Horaz.
MS. HORAZ: Yes.
MS. YOUNG: Millen. Millen.
CHAIRMAN OLSON: Greg, are you --
MR. MILLEN: Yes.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
69
MS. YOUNG: Olson.
CHAIRMAN OLSON: Yes.
MS. YOUNG: And Vinyard.
MR. VINYARD: Yes.
CHAIRMAN OLSON: All right. The public
hearing portion of tonight's meeting is closed.
(Which were all the proceedings
had in the public hearing portion
of the meeting.)
---o 0 o ---
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
70
STATE OF ILLINOIS )
) SS.
COUNTY OF LASALLE )
I , Christine M . Vitosh, a Certified Shorthand
Reporter, do hereby certify that I transcribed
the proceedings had at the pubic hearing and that
the foregoing, Pages 1 through 70 inclusive, is a
true, correct and complete computer-generated
transcript of the proceedings had at the time and
place aforesaid.
I further certify that my certificate annexed
hereto applies to the original transcript and
copies thereof, signed and certified under my
hand only. I assume no responsibility for the
accuracy of any reproduced copies not made under
my control or direction.
As certification thereof, I have hereunto set
my hand this 2 3 rd day of May, A .D ., 2023.
Christine M . Vitosh, CSR
Illinois CSR No. 084-002883
$
$20,000 [1] - 13:9
$50,000 [1] - 41:17
'
'08 [1] - 44:2
0
084-002883 [1] - 70:20
1
1 [1] - 70:6
1,030 [1] - 13:3
1,050 [1] - 55:6
1.27 [1] - 12:5
10 [1] - 1:21
10-4-9 [1] - 65:20
10-foot [1] - 42:3
100 [3] - 17:16, 33:15,
42:20
100-foot [1] - 30:14
12 [2] - 63:7, 63:19
12-foot [1] - 42:4
15 [8] - 12:12, 25:5,
40:6, 44:1, 56:1,
63:16, 64:2, 64:4
150,000 [1] - 28:2
17 [1] - 28:9
1920's [1] - 41:22
1970 [1] - 39:18
1972 [1] - 48:21
2
20 [6] - 10:6, 10:14,
12:12, 30:19, 30:20,
44:1
20,000 [1] - 44:16
200 [1] - 33:15
200-plus [1] - 22:8
2006 [2] - 15:18, 27:20
2007 [4] - 16:7, 27:21,
28:4, 28:5
2017 [1] - 28:12
2023 [2] - 1:21, 70:17
2023-02 [3] - 5:17,
6:16, 8:1
2023-03 [2] - 5:19, 7:8
207 [1] - 16:5
214 [1] - 60:22
215 [1] - 55:13
23rd [1] - 70:17
240 [1] - 60:21
25 [4] - 10:14, 10:15,
12:23, 16:16
26 [1] - 24:16
260 [1] - 38:3
27.7 [1] - 55:24
3
30 [4] - 10:6, 16:16,
33:18, 47:6
30-foot [1] - 16:23
33 [1] - 3:6
34 [1] - 34:10
35 [1] - 40:7
350 [1] - 28:1
39 [1] - 3:7
4
40-acre [1] - 10:7
41.8 [1] - 55:23
42,000 [2] - 21:4,
21:11
42-acre [2] - 5:22, 7:13
45 [1] - 3:8
47 [2] - 22:2, 34:11
48 [1] - 3:9
5
5,000 [1] - 41:19
50 [4] - 20:23, 22:5,
44:5, 47:6
52 [1] - 3:10
54 [1] - 24:15
54-acre [2] - 5:19, 6:21
574 [2] - 33:20, 33:21
591 [2] - 55:14, 60:21
6
60 [1] - 30:20
600 [2] - 30:16, 39:19
625 [1] - 17:18
655 [1] - 38:2
7
70 [2] - 21:5, 70:6
700 [1] - 17:21
700-foot [1] - 17:22
75 [3] - 20:23, 22:5,
42:19
7:00 [1] - 1:22
8
8 [3] - 3:4, 45:24,
48:20
800 [1] - 1:17
9
9 [1] - 3:5
99 [1] - 44:11
A
A-1 [2] - 7:3, 7:19
A.D [1] - 70:17
abide [1] - 67:12
able [2] - 15:24, 18:12
above-ground [1] -
14:23
absorb [3] - 19:11,
29:18, 36:18
absorbed [1] - 36:21
abstract [1] - 35:15
AC [2] - 10:5, 12:6
accept [2] - 17:8,
17:11
access [2] - 34:9,
34:13
account [1] - 51:17
accuracy [1] - 70:14
acres [9] - 10:6, 12:23,
24:15, 24:16, 24:19,
25:20, 42:20, 55:23,
55:24
active [1] - 12:8
actual [1] - 35:5
add [4] - 17:2, 27:13,
42:22, 45:10
added [1] - 61:6
adding [2] - 22:4,
61:17
addition [1] - 36:1
additional [3] - 59:18,
60:11, 62:2
address [6] - 19:2,
22:22, 46:10, 54:6,
55:3, 58:13
addressed [3] - 23:7,
56:5, 60:2
adieu [1] - 9:11
adjacent [2] - 23:11,
30:8
adjust [1] - 27:10
adjustment [1] - 53:4
admit [1] - 14:10
advance [1] - 15:16
advancement [2] -
15:20, 28:10
adverse [1] - 38:14
advise [3] - 10:17,
10:18
advisor [1] - 19:20
aerial [2] - 23:23, 57:2
affect [7] - 20:12,
35:21, 46:15, 46:21,
48:4, 48:5, 62:16
affected [1] - 58:21
affecting [1] - 18:1
affects [1] - 50:21
aforesaid [1] - 70:9
afraid [2] - 43:7, 49:12
ag [1] - 21:2
agenda [1] - 8:19
agreement [4] - 15:19,
17:6, 54:17, 56:3
Agreement [1] - 28:16
agricultural [10] -
25:23, 29:7, 29:14,
30:13, 30:17, 33:14,
33:20, 41:24, 55:18,
57:17
Agricultural [3] - 7:3,
7:19, 28:16
agricultural-based [1]
- 41:24
Agriculture [1] - 28:18
agriculture [2] - 42:2,
43:1
ahead [9] - 19:6,
32:21, 39:12, 46:7,
48:14, 52:10, 54:9,
62:9, 63:3
AIMA [1] - 28:16
air [4] - 16:16, 56:19,
56:23, 62:14
alleviate [1] - 59:19
allow [3] - 13:5, 13:15,
22:18
allowed [1] - 20:24
almost [4] - 16:21,
28:9, 52:20, 56:13
ALSO [1] - 2:7
alternating [1] - 25:1
alternative [3] - 16:2,
28:7, 57:20
aluminum [1] - 42:11
ambient [1] - 38:7
amount [2] - 36:19,
37:19
analysis [7] - 29:15,
30:2, 32:1, 32:2,
32:6, 35:17, 58:15
analyze [1] - 63:5
anchor [2] - 20:9, 56:7
AND [1] - 1:10
angle [4] - 24:10, 58:8,
59:9, 59:11
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
1
angles [1] - 48:1
annexation [1] - 15:19
annexed [3] - 15:18,
27:20, 70:10
annual [1] - 21:12
answer [1] - 25:17
anyway [1] - 13:12
applicant [1] - 65:9
application [5] - 35:5,
57:1, 64:19, 65:11,
66:1
applications [3] -
6:17, 7:9, 58:10
applies [1] - 70:11
appraiser [1] - 67:12
appraisers [2] - 67:8,
67:10
appropriate [1] - 63:1
approval [14] - 5:18,
5:19, 5:20, 5:21,
6:19, 6:20, 7:4, 7:5,
7:12, 7:13, 7:20,
7:21, 34:2, 67:24
archeological [1] -
38:18
area [14] - 8:23, 14:3,
14:19, 16:11, 20:20,
23:6, 34:21, 35:3,
49:11, 49:21, 60:13,
60:19, 61:14, 62:14
areas [3] - 49:9, 49:12,
49:16
Arizona [3] - 40:9,
42:11
ARNTZEN [11] - 3:9,
48:16, 48:19, 48:24,
49:3, 49:5, 62:10,
63:13, 63:21, 64:9,
64:11
Arntzen [3] - 48:19,
48:22, 49:1
array [4] - 12:8, 12:18,
34:20, 57:3
arrays [1] - 37:11
ASC [1] - 35:15
assessors [1] - 30:6
associated [1] - 64:18
assume [2] - 24:22,
70:13
attorney [1] - 8:16
Authorization [1] -
5:18
authorization [3] -
5:21, 6:19, 7:12
avoid [2] - 20:19, 56:7
aware [1] - 16:8
awful [2] - 62:13
B
background [3] -
12:3, 25:13, 26:6
banks [1] - 41:10
Barksdale [1] - 2:8
Barksdale-Noble [1] -
2:8
Barrington [1] - 15:11
Barry [1] - 8:16
BARRY [13] - 3:4, 8:4,
8:11, 8:14, 32:20,
54:11, 54:15, 54:22,
54:24, 63:14, 63:23,
64:15, 64:21
based [1] - 41:24
basements [3] -
49:13, 50:10, 50:15
basis [1] - 22:9
batteries [1] - 44:15
battery [1] - 44:17
battle [1] - 49:9
battled [1] - 49:14
Bazan [1] - 39:17
BAZAN [5] - 3:7, 39:6,
39:14, 39:17, 43:18
bean [1] - 41:17
become [1] - 29:19
bees [1] - 19:15
behalf [1] - 65:9
behind [2] - 52:21,
59:1
below [1] - 64:5
Bend [1] - 40:9
benefit [1] - 66:10
Bentonville [1] - 41:12
better [3] - 45:13,
57:21, 61:17
between [4] - 7:6,
7:22, 25:1, 26:3
biased [1] - 32:10
big [7] - 14:1, 26:7,
49:10, 51:9, 51:13,
53:11, 62:13
BILL [2] - 3:7, 39:14
Bill [1] - 39:17
bird [1] - 47:21
birds [5] - 19:15,
50:21, 50:23, 51:1
bit [6] - 14:12, 18:12,
20:19, 22:6, 41:8,
59:10
Blackberry [1] - 50:16
blades [1] - 43:23
blew [1] - 47:22
blind [1] - 48:9
block [1] - 46:10
blocked [1] - 64:7
blocking [1] - 60:18
blows [1] - 44:6
BNSF [1] - 6:22
Board [1] - 37:24
boiling [1] - 40:12
borderline [1] - 39:23
bottom [1] - 16:15
bought [3] - 14:10,
27:24, 28:12
boundaries [1] - 65:24
boxes [1] - 23:20
briefly [1] - 26:10
bright [1] - 50:20
brings [1] - 46:18
Bristol [25] - 6:23,
7:15, 14:4, 15:17,
16:5, 17:23, 22:7,
25:11, 27:18, 46:1,
48:20, 49:6, 49:7,
49:8, 49:16, 49:20,
50:2, 50:3, 50:5,
50:18, 51:2, 51:8,
51:10, 62:18
broad [1] - 10:24
brought [2] - 47:20,
53:10
brown [1] - 26:7
bucket [1] - 21:11
budget [2] - 21:12,
56:11
budgets [1] - 21:10
buffer [7] - 29:10,
33:18, 34:5, 34:6,
34:16, 60:17, 61:5
build [4] - 16:23, 40:2,
42:17, 42:21
building [1] - 35:5
buildings [3] - 26:3,
26:24, 46:12
built [2] - 14:18, 63:22
bullet [1] - 37:14
bunch [1] - 19:11
burden [1] - 17:4
Burlington [3] - 13:1,
13:21, 13:23
business [3] - 13:16,
14:5, 19:24
businesses [1] - 18:3
buy [2] - 13:7, 13:18
Byron [1] - 40:21
C
cab [2] - 63:6, 63:12
California [1] - 40:15
Cannonball [17] -
6:22, 7:14, 13:2,
14:3, 14:20, 14:21,
18:4, 23:4, 23:10,
23:18, 24:11, 34:1,
34:12, 50:7, 55:8,
57:13, 62:21
capture [1] - 12:12
car [3] - 29:19, 44:15,
44:17
card [1] - 4:19
care [2] - 43:9, 44:8
cares [1] - 43:7
carried [1] - 31:8
case [3] - 8:21, 28:22,
58:22
cases [4] - 8:18,
10:18, 17:8, 64:17
catch [4] - 22:16,
29:16, 44:10, 44:14
catching [1] - 22:15
causes [1] - 49:22
causing [4] - 20:18,
20:20, 21:22, 59:9
ceiling [3] - 42:3, 42:4,
42:5
center [1] - 55:20
certain [2] - 11:17,
67:13
certainly [4] - 11:15,
23:12
certificate [1] - 70:10
certification [1] -
70:16
Certified [1] - 70:3
certified [1] - 70:12
certify [2] - 70:4,
70:10
cetera [1] - 66:14
chain [1] - 57:20
chair [2] - 64:15, 67:6
CHAIRMAN [45] - 4:4,
5:5, 6:1, 6:12, 6:14,
8:5, 8:8, 18:17,
18:22, 19:6, 32:17,
32:21, 33:1, 38:23,
39:3, 39:7, 45:17,
46:3, 46:7, 48:12,
48:22, 49:1, 49:4,
52:8, 52:12, 52:15,
53:14, 53:19, 53:22,
54:2, 54:9, 54:13,
54:20, 54:23, 62:3,
62:7, 62:23, 63:3,
64:12, 64:20, 68:9,
68:16, 68:23, 69:2,
69:5
Chairman [4] - 2:2,
8:4, 8:14, 54:16
chairman [1] - 8:23
chance [2] - 42:13,
43:15
change [1] - 49:11
changes [1] - 60:8
charities [2] - 11:10,
11:14
check [1] - 13:9
China [1] - 42:13
Chinese [1] - 45:9
Christine [2] - 70:3,
70:20
church [7] - 55:9,
55:13, 58:2, 58:3,
58:7, 60:22
churned [1] - 53:10
cite [1] - 32:5
citizen [1] - 11:13
City [8] - 6:17, 7:10,
27:20, 34:17, 37:15,
37:19, 51:14, 56:10
city [8] - 9:21, 15:18,
21:9, 21:15, 28:20,
43:11, 45:14, 65:23
CITY [1] - 1:6
City's [1] - 56:11
city's [1] - 21:12
civil [1] - 33:6
clearly [1] - 4:17
click [1] - 12:2
client [1] - 8:21
clients [1] - 10:18
close [4] - 53:20,
64:13, 67:20, 68:12
closed [2] - 57:11,
69:6
closing [1] - 54:11
coal [1] - 62:18
code [1] - 43:11
Code [2] - 37:15,
37:20
CohnReznick [4] -
30:1, 31:24, 60:2,
67:4
collection [1] - 65:3
Com [1] - 25:13
ComEd [10] - 13:8,
14:1, 14:24, 15:6,
17:7, 17:13, 18:8,
23:5, 34:3, 56:3
comfort [1] - 66:8
coming [12] - 21:23,
22:8, 23:17, 28:7,
34:10, 36:19, 43:17,
50:20, 51:10, 51:14,
52:2, 62:16
comments [2] - 24:4,
56:16
commercial [2] -
15:10, 61:13
Commission [4] - 4:7,
4:11, 8:15, 64:24
COMMISSION [1] -
1:10
committee [1] - 67:6
common [2] - 10:7,
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
2
37:6
communist [1] - 42:14
communities [2] -
11:9, 11:22
Community [1] - 2:8
community [6] - 10:3,
10:4, 10:16, 11:12,
12:22, 13:5
company [9] - 10:10,
10:11, 10:13, 11:1,
11:8, 11:16, 11:21,
12:1, 14:7
compared [2] - 21:11,
56:10
complete [1] - 70:7
comply [3] - 34:17,
36:3, 37:22
complying [3] - 37:15,
37:23, 38:19
computer [2] - 9:24,
70:7
computer-generated
[1] - 70:7
concern [2] - 53:11,
59:20
concerned [2] - 24:6,
52:22
concerns [3] - 19:3,
22:14, 58:5
concluded [2] - 35:20,
56:19
concludes [1] - 67:17
conclusion [2] -
32:16, 67:20
condition [1] - 31:21
conditions [4] - 22:18,
36:5, 36:9, 36:10
confident [4] - 27:7,
30:10, 32:3, 32:9
connecting [1] - 33:24
conservation [1] -
34:21
considered [1] - 4:10
construct [2] - 6:20,
7:13
construction [7] -
15:10, 18:8, 20:22,
22:6, 36:5, 38:20,
40:20
consultant [1] - 33:6
contaminated [1] -
44:5
contemplate [2] -
26:23, 58:24
contemplated [1] -
63:23
contemplates [1] -
57:17
continue [1] - 24:21
continues [2] - 25:23,
46:24
contract [1] - 31:21
Control [1] - 37:24
control [3] - 31:14,
47:18, 70:15
copies [2] - 70:12,
70:14
copper [1] - 42:10
core [1] - 43:4
corn [2] - 24:23, 25:1
corner [2] - 57:8,
60:16
cornfield [1] - 44:7
corporate [1] - 11:13
correct [1] - 70:7
costs [1] - 41:3
counterpart [1] -
28:17
countries [1] - 45:6
country [3] - 10:24,
11:6, 42:14
countryside [1] -
14:11
county [6] - 28:20,
41:24, 42:1, 43:5,
45:14, 65:22
County [4] - 6:18,
7:10, 40:18, 41:22
COUNTY [1] - 70:2
couple [5] - 14:8,
15:5, 15:19, 45:4,
58:3
course [3] - 13:24,
23:24, 24:3
cover [3] - 35:17,
35:18, 37:3
crash [1] - 50:24
crazy [1] - 43:10
create [5] - 20:10,
20:14, 34:20, 34:24,
53:5
creating [1] - 29:21
creation [1] - 32:8
Creek [1] - 50:16
critical [1] - 34:24
crop [2] - 35:19, 36:13
crops [2] - 36:20, 44:7
Cross [1] - 48:20
crossing [1] - 62:20
CRP [1] - 22:20
CSR [2] - 70:20, 70:20
current [3] - 21:14,
56:12, 57:8
cycle [1] - 37:17
D
D-E-L-A-N-C-Y [1] -
46:6
daily [1] - 22:8
damage [2] - 18:7,
51:16
damaged [1] - 51:17
damaging [1] - 51:11
danger [1] - 21:23
Daniel [1] - 15:9
data [2] - 15:8, 30:7
date [1] - 43:21
David [1] - 52:11
DAVID [2] - 3:10,
52:16
DC [1] - 12:6
deadline [1] - 16:1
deal [2] - 44:19, 47:21
Deborah [1] - 2:3
decent [1] - 56:11
deciduous [1] - 35:8
decommission [2] -
28:14, 47:2
decommissioned [1] -
37:18
decommissioning [5]
- 28:21, 29:12,
31:18, 31:19, 37:13
decompact [1] - 36:16
decompaction [1] -
29:10
decrease [5] - 7:5,
7:21, 36:18, 61:16,
61:18
definitely [4] - 37:8,
46:18, 47:15
definitive [1] - 25:16
Delancy [1] - 45:24
DELANCY [5] - 3:8,
45:20, 45:23, 46:5,
46:8
delivery [1] - 17:11
Denver [1] - 11:2
department [1] - 44:14
Department [1] -
28:18
described [2] - 8:23,
17:3
description [1] - 8:24
desert [2] - 40:13
design [3] - 17:4,
20:8, 55:10
designed [1] - 14:13
destined [1] - 44:11
destroyed [2] - 40:1,
41:18
detail [2] - 14:16, 25:7
determination [1] -
56:22
determinative [1] -
56:21
detrimental [1] - 66:7
developer [6] - 8:22,
9:5, 9:19, 10:2,
15:10, 28:24
developers [1] - 10:19
Development [4] -
2:9, 6:24, 7:16,
27:19
development [6] -
10:15, 15:16, 15:21,
28:4, 28:11, 61:13
developments [1] -
16:7
dictate [1] - 28:18
dictated [1] - 14:24
die [2] - 50:24, 51:2
difference [2] - 21:13,
21:15
differences [1] - 61:22
different [6] - 11:20,
23:23, 30:3, 45:5,
45:6, 58:18
direction [2] - 25:22,
70:15
directly [4] - 46:1,
46:8, 52:20, 52:21
Director [1] - 2:9
dirt [3] - 19:11, 42:23,
51:7
disappearing [1] -
52:24
discharge [1] - 35:22
discount [1] - 13:8
discuss [1] - 58:3
discussed [3] - 29:15,
30:15, 30:16
discussion [2] - 6:15,
66:13
display [1] - 30:24
dissipates [1] - 29:20
distance [3] - 7:6,
7:22, 17:16
district [2] - 21:6, 41:8
District [2] - 7:3, 7:19
dive [1] - 43:6
domestically [1] -
43:12
donations [2] - 22:22,
51:21
done [8] - 18:18, 23:1,
26:13, 38:19, 41:5,
44:22, 44:23, 63:8
down [9] - 14:18,
28:19, 40:17, 40:18,
41:1, 41:3, 41:12,
42:18, 46:19
downstream [1] -
20:13
drain [11] - 18:7,
19:20, 19:22, 20:2,
20:9, 20:11, 20:16,
41:13, 56:5, 56:6
drainage [5] - 19:13,
50:12, 50:16, 52:22,
53:3
drive [2] - 20:9, 42:6
driver [1] - 63:6
driver's [1] - 63:17
drivers [1] - 63:12
driveway [8] - 15:3,
17:20, 17:23, 23:17,
24:12, 24:14, 25:6
driving [2] - 26:17,
56:7
drop [1] - 21:11
duly [8] - 5:4, 8:12,
9:15, 33:3, 39:15,
45:21, 48:17, 52:17
Duplex [1] - 7:3
during [5] - 4:23, 5:6,
22:5, 36:4, 46:23
E
E-N-G-E-R [1] - 52:14
easily [2] - 53:3
east [6] - 6:21, 7:14,
13:2, 15:3, 30:21,
55:18
easy [1] - 25:3
eat [1] - 43:2
EcoCAT [1] - 38:11
ecofriendly [1] - 44:3
ecologic [1] - 51:1
ecosystems [1] -
49:23
Ed [1] - 25:13
effects [1] - 38:14
eight [5] - 24:19,
29:21, 30:18, 33:16,
35:11
elders [1] - 58:3
electrical [3] - 23:20,
23:22, 40:24
electromagnetic [1] -
47:8
Emily [8] - 9:6, 14:15,
19:17, 32:20, 32:24,
33:5, 60:11, 66:18
EMILY [2] - 3:6, 33:2
emissions [2] - 66:15,
66:16
emit [1] - 22:11
employ [1] - 20:23
empty [1] - 55:16
end [7] - 13:21, 29:2,
37:17, 43:22, 49:12,
54:12, 55:10
ended [1] - 28:1
ends [2] - 12:23, 52:7
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
3
energy [5] - 10:13,
10:14, 12:12, 40:5,
41:3
Energy [8] - 5:17,
5:20, 6:16, 7:8, 8:2,
8:21, 9:6, 10:1
Engberg [1] - 2:10
ENGBERG [5] - 8:7,
33:9, 53:21, 53:24,
55:2
Enger [1] - 52:11
ENGER [9] - 3:10,
18:15, 18:20, 18:23,
19:4, 52:11, 52:14,
52:16, 52:19
engine [1] - 63:18
engineer [2] - 9:7,
40:6
engineering [2] - 9:7,
59:16
enhanced [1] - 34:24
enter [2] - 28:15,
64:16
entire [3] - 17:9,
19:13, 60:19
entrance [1] - 58:2
equipment [2] - 23:22,
26:12
erosion [1] - 12:16
establish [2] - 28:21,
64:24
established [1] -
65:23
establishing [1] -
31:17
estate [1] - 15:10
estimate [1] - 29:4
estimated [1] - 24:18
et [1] - 66:14
evaluated [1] - 38:11
evaluates [1] - 58:17
evaluation [1] - 38:13
evening [5] - 8:15,
64:18, 65:13, 66:1,
67:23
evergreen [2] - 35:6,
35:9
evidence [8] - 64:16,
65:1, 65:4, 65:10,
66:2, 66:9, 67:1
exact [1] - 37:3
exactly [2] - 20:7, 56:8
example [2] - 37:4,
66:4
exceeding [2] - 33:21,
60:20
excuse [3] - 40:4,
65:22, 67:7
executed [2] - 56:2
existing [9] - 24:1,
24:7, 26:24, 35:17,
35:18, 36:9, 36:14,
36:23, 58:24
exists [1] - 17:20
expectancy [1] - 43:24
expected [1] - 14:12
experience [2] - 20:1,
20:15
expertise [1] - 19:23
experts [1] - 67:20
expires [1] - 15:19
explode [1] - 29:17
extent [1] - 66:16
extra [2] - 46:23, 47:10
eyes [1] - 26:19
eyesore [1] - 47:12
F
FAA [3] - 56:17, 56:22
facilities [1] - 30:5
facility [12] - 12:24,
14:15, 21:3, 21:21,
23:1, 23:16, 25:12,
26:6, 29:2, 30:12,
31:1, 57:14
fact [2] - 41:2, 64:24
fail [2] - 44:11, 44:12
failure [1] - 18:7
fairly [1] - 38:7
fallow [1] - 22:20
familiar [1] - 55:21
Family [2] - 7:2, 7:18
family [4] - 16:6,
41:21, 48:22, 49:1
far [1] - 18:2
farm [5] - 6:20, 7:4,
7:13, 7:21, 22:19
Farm [1] - 1:17
farmed [3] - 24:21,
25:15, 41:21
farmer [1] - 41:17
farmhouse [1] - 14:11
farming [1] - 24:14
farmland [5] - 47:1,
47:4, 47:6, 47:14,
47:15
farms [5] - 35:16,
40:7, 40:8, 43:23,
65:23
farthest [1] - 18:11
favor [5] - 5:10, 5:13,
32:11, 32:19, 39:1
feasible [1] - 40:2
feed [1] - 43:3
feedback [1] - 58:8
feelings [1] - 43:8
feet [41] - 7:7, 7:23,
7:24, 16:14, 16:16,
17:16, 17:18, 17:21,
25:5, 29:21, 30:16,
30:18, 30:19, 30:20,
33:15, 33:16, 33:18,
33:20, 33:21, 35:10,
35:11, 35:12, 35:13,
38:2, 38:3, 55:13,
55:14, 56:1, 60:21,
60:22, 63:8, 63:9,
63:16, 63:20, 64:2,
64:3, 64:4, 64:6
fell [1] - 16:10
fellow's [1] - 51:20
fence [4] - 16:24,
24:18, 57:16, 57:17
fences [1] - 27:14
fencing [1] - 27:9
few [1] - 60:14
Fi [1] - 14:8
field [12] - 10:15,
12:14, 19:13, 19:23,
22:19, 47:4, 50:6,
51:7, 53:9, 55:17,
60:7
fields [5] - 35:21, 47:8,
50:5, 50:18, 66:20
figure [1] - 18:9
filed [2] - 6:17, 7:9
fill [2] - 50:6, 60:18
filled [2] - 24:17, 58:13
final [1] - 36:5
financial [3] - 29:1,
31:23, 37:18
financially [2] - 21:15,
30:11
findings [1] - 64:24
fire [8] - 22:15, 22:16,
29:16, 29:22, 44:10,
44:14, 66:13
fired [1] - 40:19
firm [4] - 8:16, 9:7,
32:5, 33:7
First [1] - 39:13
first [13] - 8:12, 8:21,
9:3, 9:15, 17:12,
17:18, 22:24, 33:3,
39:15, 45:21, 48:17,
52:17, 64:16
fish [1] - 34:24
five [10] - 10:5, 29:21,
35:10, 42:22, 57:23,
58:11, 59:2, 63:9,
64:3, 64:6
flash [1] - 59:11
floating [1] - 50:7
flood [1] - 49:9
flooding [2] - 49:24,
61:19
floods [1] - 49:9
floor [1] - 27:24
flow [1] - 49:11
flower [1] - 19:9
flowing [1] - 50:11
flows [1] - 50:4
fly [1] - 48:9
focus [4] - 10:3, 10:9,
29:22, 65:1
focusing [1] - 67:1
follow [1] - 12:9
following [1] - 4:1
follows [7] - 8:13,
9:16, 33:4, 39:16,
45:22, 48:18, 52:18
food [1] - 44:8
foot [2] - 42:5, 42:23
football [1] - 66:19
foothold [1] - 31:17
foreclosed [1] - 28:1
foregoing [1] - 70:6
foreign [1] - 42:9
foreign-made [1] -
42:9
forever [2] - 40:1,
53:16
forgetting [1] - 28:8
form [1] - 56:24
forth [3] - 51:8, 65:17,
65:19
forward [2] - 21:1,
58:6
four [9] - 20:24, 35:13,
40:17, 57:18, 57:19,
62:18, 62:19
four-by-four [1] -
57:18
four-inch-by-four-
inch [1] - 57:19
full [1] - 10:12
full-time [1] - 10:12
G
Galena [2] - 7:15, 22:2
gallons [1] - 44:16
Game [1] - 1:17
gap [5] - 25:12, 57:7,
57:12, 58:12, 60:17
garage [1] - 26:4
gas [1] - 40:19
gas-fired [1] - 40:19
gauges [1] - 26:15
general [2] - 66:8,
66:11
generally [4] - 6:21,
7:14, 10:6, 29:20
generate [5] - 22:12,
29:17, 46:23, 47:24,
48:1
generated [4] - 41:9,
47:10, 47:11, 70:7
generating [1] - 40:19
generational [1] -
19:24
generous [1] - 11:18
gentleman [1] - 19:21
Gila [1] - 40:9
given [3] - 11:21, 28:6,
29:12
glare [17] - 21:20,
26:10, 29:15, 48:1,
48:8, 48:11, 56:15,
58:15, 58:21, 58:23,
59:3, 59:7, 59:9,
62:16, 63:8
glaring [1] - 48:2
gloves [1] - 44:21
goal [2] - 11:8, 11:19
Goins [3] - 2:5, 6:5,
68:18
GOINS [3] - 5:24, 6:6,
68:19
golf [3] - 13:23, 23:24,
24:3
government [1] - 32:8
grass [5] - 12:15,
19:8, 25:20, 35:7,
35:12
grasses [2] - 29:6,
34:19
grassy [1] - 35:20
gravel [1] - 42:18
gray [1] - 21:1
great [1] - 28:5
green [2] - 13:17,
44:19
greg [1] - 68:23
grew [1] - 19:22
grid [2] - 57:19
ground [13] - 5:14,
7:6, 7:22, 14:23,
22:21, 23:18, 35:17,
35:18, 37:2, 39:24,
41:13, 41:14
groundhog [1] - 7:11
group [2] - 30:1, 60:3
groups [1] - 60:3
grow [3] - 23:15, 31:5,
37:7
growing [2] - 47:19,
47:20
grown [1] - 57:24
growth [1] - 58:11
Grundy [1] - 40:18
guarantee [2] - 52:2,
52:4
guess [2] - 15:19, 24:6
guy [1] - 15:11
guys [2] - 45:4, 52:19
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
4
H
habitat [1] - 34:24
HAFF [6] - 3:8, 45:20,
45:23, 46:5, 46:8
Haff [1] - 45:24
HAFF-DELANCY [5] -
3:8, 45:20, 45:23,
46:5, 46:8
Haff-Delancy [1] -
45:24
half [4] - 28:2, 63:8,
63:16, 63:19
Hall [1] - 55:13
hand [4] - 5:1, 31:12,
70:13, 70:17
handle [1] - 31:10
happy [1] - 21:8
hardly [1] - 50:13
hardship [1] - 68:5
harm [1] - 26:21
harmed [1] - 30:11
hat [1] - 60:12
hate [1] - 53:12
hazard [2] - 56:19,
56:23
hazards [1] - 66:13
head [6] - 16:15,
41:17, 50:23, 63:7,
63:17, 63:19
heading [2] - 50:5,
51:4
headquarters [1] -
58:7
health [1] - 66:7
hear [3] - 21:6, 38:6,
66:21
heard [3] - 19:2, 24:5,
58:8
hearing [17] - 4:3, 4:5,
4:8, 4:23, 5:6, 5:16,
53:20, 54:1, 54:8,
64:14, 64:23, 65:2,
68:13, 69:6, 69:8,
70:5
HEARING [1] - 1:11
hearings [2] - 4:6,
6:15
heat [8] - 29:18, 29:20,
29:22, 40:12, 46:21,
46:22, 46:23, 50:20
heavy [1] - 19:17
heck [1] - 42:15
height [19] - 7:7,
16:12, 16:13, 16:14,
16:19, 17:1, 17:2,
25:5, 31:5, 31:8,
35:10, 35:11, 35:12,
56:1, 62:15, 63:6,
63:7, 63:16, 68:3
hell [1] - 45:7
help [13] - 10:20,
11:14, 11:22, 19:16,
21:7, 23:15, 24:9,
31:16, 34:22, 36:16,
51:5, 59:19, 61:17
helps [3] - 12:12,
12:15, 36:17
hereby [1] - 70:4
hereto [1] - 70:11
hereunto [1] - 70:16
hesitant [1] - 14:9
hide [1] - 16:24
hideous [1] - 42:6
high [6] - 14:1, 16:23,
25:14, 62:13, 63:21,
63:22
higher [1] - 42:5
highlight [1] - 7:23
Highway [1] - 34:10
hit [1] - 26:19
hold [2] - 31:16, 53:16
home [6] - 18:2, 26:1,
38:2, 55:14, 59:6,
59:12
homeowner [1] -
13:16
homes [11] - 13:3,
14:21, 16:6, 18:3,
22:8, 23:11, 27:22,
27:23, 55:6, 55:15,
58:24
hope [2] - 13:7, 64:9
hopefully [3] - 9:24,
59:15
hoping [2] - 24:8,
25:15
HORAZ [3] - 6:8,
68:14, 68:21
horaz [1] - 68:20
Horaz [2] - 2:3, 6:7
Horn [2] - 9:8, 33:7
host [1] - 10:8
house [1] - 13:13
houses [2] - 53:2,
66:20
Huddleston [2] -
19:21, 20:5
humming [1] - 66:17
hundred [1] - 53:2
hurt [2] - 43:8, 50:24
hydrologic [1] - 35:16
hydrology [1] - 35:15
hyphen [1] - 46:5
I
ideally [1] - 61:18
IEPA [1] - 36:2
ignorant [2] - 39:22,
39:23
IL [1] - 8:21
ILLINOIS [2] - 1:7,
70:1
Illinois [11] - 1:18,
6:18, 7:11, 10:5,
28:17, 37:23, 40:3,
40:16, 48:20, 67:8,
70:20
images [1] - 30:24
immediate [1] - 58:4
immediately [1] -
55:15
Impact [1] - 28:16
impact [9] - 30:8,
38:9, 46:13, 60:8,
66:5, 66:14, 67:2,
67:17, 67:18
impacting [1] - 36:7
impacts [1] - 47:15
impervious [1] - 61:14
important [1] - 32:12
imported [1] - 44:24
imposes [2] - 68:3,
68:4
impossible [1] - 16:21
improve [3] - 22:18,
23:10, 34:23
improvement [1] -
21:16
incentives [1] - 41:6
inch [2] - 57:19
included [4] - 28:11,
29:5, 56:24, 57:3
includes [1] - 31:3
including [1] - 65:11
inclusive [1] - 70:6
increase [3] - 21:14,
36:17, 56:12
increasing [3] - 18:13,
61:15, 66:11
Indiana [1] - 42:12
indicate [1] - 55:5
indicates [1] - 11:20
infiltration [1] - 36:17
information [3] - 58:6,
59:23, 64:8
infrastructure [2] -
15:21, 43:11
inkling [1] - 53:15
inside [1] - 24:17
installed [3] - 35:10,
35:11, 35:12
intended [1] - 57:5
interconnect [2] -
15:5, 34:2
interconnection [4] -
17:7, 17:10, 33:23,
56:2
interesting [1] - 11:5
interrupt [2] - 18:21,
19:5
intersection [2] - 22:3,
23:3
interviewed [1] - 30:6
inverter [3] - 38:4,
66:18
inverters [2] - 23:21,
66:19
investments [1] - 11:9
investor [1] - 10:17
investors [2] - 45:8,
45:9
irritation [1] - 22:7
Island [1] - 11:3
issuance [2] - 65:14,
67:10
issue [2] - 59:3, 59:7
issues [2] - 22:4,
61:19
issuing [1] - 67:10
itself [1] - 55:23
J
January [1] - 10:12
Jason [10] - 2:10,
12:2, 12:20, 19:7,
19:19, 21:18, 25:9,
27:17, 55:1, 55:6
Jeff [1] - 2:2
Jehovah's [1] - 55:9
job [1] - 33:11
joined [1] - 10:11
Joliet [1] - 40:20
jump [1] - 27:11
jurisdiction [1] - 28:21
K
KAHANIC [6] - 3:6,
32:24, 33:2, 33:5,
33:10, 60:12
Kahanic [2] - 32:24,
33:5
KE105 [3] - 8:22, 9:2,
12:24
keep [4] - 31:17, 43:1,
48:2, 54:24
Kendall [3] - 6:18,
7:10, 41:22
Kentucky [1] - 42:11
ketchup [1] - 44:20
key [1] - 60:14
killed [1] - 28:5
Kimley [2] - 9:8, 33:7
Kimley-Horn [2] - 9:8,
33:7
kind [29] - 12:15,
14:11, 16:10, 19:16,
21:23, 22:19, 23:1,
23:22, 25:12, 25:21,
26:7, 27:11, 28:5,
33:11, 33:19, 33:23,
35:2, 36:8, 36:16,
36:21, 41:12, 53:4,
60:17, 60:18, 60:19,
61:3, 63:11
Kingdom [1] - 55:12
knowledge [1] - 32:4
known [1] - 50:23
knows [3] - 16:19,
19:18, 19:21
Krysti [1] - 2:8
Kyle [3] - 8:16, 9:17
KYLE [2] - 3:4, 8:11
L
labor [3] - 44:23, 45:1
lake [1] - 53:1
land [2] - 7:4, 7:21
landfill [3] - 42:21,
42:23, 43:22
landfills [1] - 42:22
landowner [2] - 20:4,
25:18
landowners [2] - 9:21,
10:18
lands [1] - 35:1
landscape [8] - 14:7,
31:3, 34:15, 37:8,
40:1, 60:17, 61:2,
61:5
landscaping [1] -
26:24
large [2] - 26:4, 35:7
LASALLE [1] - 70:2
last [6] - 10:11, 22:21,
24:22, 46:4, 52:12,
54:16
law [2] - 8:16, 28:15
layout [1] - 20:8
lead [1] - 32:7
leaks [1] - 44:6
learned [1] - 20:17
lease [1] - 10:20
least [3] - 10:4, 30:19,
62:18
leave [2] - 19:10, 31:4
leaving [1] - 36:22
left [3] - 36:13, 57:9,
58:12
length [1] - 47:5
liability [1] - 41:19
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
5
license [1] - 67:11
licenses [1] - 67:9
life [6] - 18:1, 28:13,
29:2, 37:17, 43:10,
43:24
light [3] - 26:16,
29:18, 63:11
lighting [1] - 22:13
lights [1] - 50:20
likely [1] - 40:22
line [9] - 6:23, 14:2,
14:23, 17:12, 17:17,
18:14, 20:12, 38:3,
38:7
lines [4] - 24:8, 25:14,
46:17, 47:10
link [1] - 57:20
listening [1] - 60:9
lithium [1] - 44:15
live [4] - 11:2, 45:24,
48:20, 52:20
lived [2] - 43:9, 48:21
lives [2] - 11:3, 11:4
livestock [1] - 43:3
living [1] - 18:16
LLC [4] - 5:17, 5:20,
6:16, 7:9
load [1] - 50:6
loads [1] - 17:2
local [8] - 11:22, 21:5,
21:6, 40:23, 41:4,
41:10, 44:23, 55:19
located [2] - 6:21,
7:14
location [6] - 17:13,
27:12, 30:20, 56:17,
59:13, 64:2
locations [1] - 58:18
locomotive [1] - 63:6
long-term [4] - 11:9,
22:4, 22:9, 22:17
look [8] - 31:1, 33:19,
33:22, 49:6, 50:2,
63:21, 67:16
looked [5] - 27:1,
28:4, 62:15, 63:9,
63:18
looking [2] - 64:1,
64:3
Looking [1] - 28:8
looks [2] - 12:18,
50:22
LORI [2] - 3:8, 45:20
Lori [1] - 45:23
losing [1] - 43:4
louder [1] - 8:9
love [1] - 13:6
lovely [1] - 12:3
low [1] - 49:21
lubricants [1] - 44:4
M
ma'am [3] - 32:22,
45:19
MAI [1] - 67:11
maintain [2] - 12:11,
25:18
maintenance [2] -
31:2, 31:3
man [2] - 44:11, 45:1
man-made [1] - 44:11
manufacturing [1] -
43:16
map [5] - 10:22, 13:19,
20:3, 20:6, 49:7
market [2] - 28:3, 60:5
Marlys [1] - 2:11
Maryland [2] - 12:5,
12:19
materials [5] - 42:10,
43:11, 64:18, 65:11,
65:13
math [1] - 59:16
mature [1] - 59:6
max [3] - 25:5, 56:1,
63:16
maximized [1] - 18:2
McGarr [2] - 67:4, 67:5
McGuireWoods [1] -
8:17
meadow [3] - 35:19,
36:12, 36:15
mean [4] - 10:20,
18:21, 48:7, 52:23
meaning [2] - 18:16,
35:23
means [2] - 9:19, 12:9
meet [4] - 9:22, 11:19,
16:1
meeting [6] - 4:5, 4:7,
5:7, 30:22, 69:6,
69:9
meets [2] - 55:10, 66:2
megawatt [1] - 12:6
megawatts [2] - 10:5,
12:6
member [2] - 4:24,
11:12
Members [1] - 8:15
members [1] - 4:9
mentioned [5] - 9:18,
12:23, 23:19, 23:20,
27:18
mesh [1] - 57:18
mess [1] - 49:22
messed [1] - 49:18
met [2] - 14:8, 58:3
metal [1] - 26:4
mic [2] - 8:6, 8:8
microbursts [1] -
41:16
might [5] - 12:4, 17:9,
22:6, 26:16, 37:11
miles [1] - 11:4
Millen [2] - 68:22
millen [2] - 6:9
MILLEN [2] - 6:10,
68:24
mind [2] - 11:17, 46:3
minimum [7] - 7:5,
7:7, 7:22, 7:23,
16:13, 16:14, 17:16
Minooka [1] - 40:19
Minute [1] - 2:11
mirror [1] - 26:12
misperception [1] -
37:6
mispronouncing [1] -
59:4
mitigate [1] - 27:15
Mitigation [1] - 28:16
mix [4] - 14:16, 19:9,
22:17, 31:15
mixture [1] - 34:18
moment [1] - 21:20
money [8] - 11:21,
21:5, 21:7, 28:22,
41:8, 41:9, 51:16,
52:2
Montgomery [1] -
27:23
months [1] - 20:24
morals [1] - 66:8
Morris [1] - 40:18
mosquito [1] - 47:17
mosquitos [1] - 47:23
most [3] - 38:5, 40:14,
45:7
mostly [1] - 11:1
motion [4] - 5:15, 6:2,
68:11, 68:17
move [9] - 4:4, 15:24,
18:10, 18:12, 20:24,
23:9, 39:11, 51:7,
53:20
moved [2] - 5:23,
68:14
moving [1] - 12:20
mow [1] - 25:20
mowed [1] - 31:6
MPDS [1] - 36:3
MR [48] - 5:23, 6:4,
6:10, 8:4, 8:7, 8:14,
9:17, 18:15, 18:20,
18:23, 19:1, 19:4,
19:7, 32:20, 33:9,
39:6, 39:17, 43:16,
43:18, 48:19, 48:24,
49:3, 49:5, 52:11,
52:14, 52:19, 53:21,
53:24, 54:11, 54:15,
54:22, 54:24, 55:2,
55:3, 62:24, 63:4,
63:13, 63:14, 63:21,
63:23, 64:9, 64:10,
64:11, 64:15, 64:21,
68:15, 68:24, 69:4
MS [25] - 5:24, 6:3,
6:5, 6:6, 6:7, 6:8,
6:9, 6:11, 6:13,
32:24, 33:5, 33:10,
45:23, 46:5, 46:8,
54:5, 60:12, 68:14,
68:18, 68:19, 68:20,
68:21, 68:22, 69:1,
69:3
multiple [2] - 18:24,
39:9
mutual [1] - 20:12
N
name [15] - 4:18, 8:15,
9:18, 32:22, 39:13,
39:17, 45:19, 46:4,
48:15, 48:19, 52:10,
52:13, 56:23, 59:5
named [2] - 19:21,
30:1
native [2] - 29:6, 34:19
navigation [2] - 56:20,
56:23
near [1] - 17:19
nearby [1] - 30:9
nearest [3] - 38:2,
55:12, 60:22
Nearest [1] - 55:13
necessarily [1] - 29:9
necessary [3] - 23:21,
29:13, 54:19
need [3] - 21:7, 45:12,
62:2
needed [1] - 29:9
needs [1] - 24:17
negative [3] - 30:8,
60:7, 67:18
negatively [2] - 18:1,
38:9
neighboring [7] -
21:22, 35:24, 36:6,
36:23, 38:9, 66:6,
66:14
neighbors [2] - 20:13,
26:21
Nelson's [1] - 42:21
neutral [1] - 32:15
neutrality [1] - 32:10
never [3] - 24:4, 51:22,
52:7
new [1] - 27:22
next [21] - 11:6, 11:23,
12:20, 13:18, 19:19,
20:20, 27:16, 29:14,
33:7, 34:8, 34:13,
35:14, 38:15, 46:17,
55:6, 57:3, 57:22,
60:23, 60:24, 61:6
Next [1] - 19:7
night [2] - 46:22,
46:24
NOBLE [1] - 54:5
Noble [1] - 2:8
nobody [3] - 43:6,
43:7, 62:11
Nobody's [1] - 40:24
noise [5] - 22:12,
37:21, 38:6, 38:7,
66:17
north [11] - 6:22, 11:4,
13:1, 15:3, 24:13,
27:23, 30:21, 34:6,
34:11, 40:11, 55:9
northeast [2] - 34:11,
55:18
Northern [4] - 13:1,
13:21, 13:23, 40:16
northern [2] - 40:3,
55:7
northwest [4] - 14:14,
34:6, 57:7, 60:16
note [1] - 32:13
notes [2] - 9:23, 28:8
nothing [1] - 22:15
notified [1] - 58:9
nowhere [1] - 17:19
noxious [1] - 31:10
nuclear [1] - 40:21
number [16] - 11:17,
21:4, 21:10, 21:14,
24:4, 27:14, 29:11,
30:3, 32:4, 32:5,
56:10, 56:12, 58:17,
59:1, 59:2, 60:4
Number [1] - 5:16
numbers [2] - 55:5,
59:16
nutrient [1] - 34:23
O
observation [1] - 27:2
obviously [1] - 64:22
occur [2] - 27:15,
27:16
occurred [1] - 16:9
OF [3] - 1:6, 70:1, 70:2
off-site [1] - 36:19
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
6
offsite [1] - 35:24
often [1] - 40:4
oil [1] - 44:5
old [4] - 14:10, 42:18,
42:21, 53:2
OLSON [45] - 4:4, 5:5,
6:1, 6:12, 6:14, 8:5,
8:8, 18:17, 18:22,
19:6, 32:17, 32:21,
33:1, 38:23, 39:3,
39:7, 45:17, 46:3,
46:7, 48:12, 48:22,
49:1, 49:4, 52:8,
52:12, 52:15, 53:14,
53:19, 53:22, 54:2,
54:9, 54:13, 54:20,
54:23, 62:3, 62:7,
62:23, 63:3, 64:12,
64:20, 68:9, 68:16,
68:23, 69:2, 69:5
Olson [3] - 2:2, 6:11,
69:1
on-site [1] - 38:14
once [4] - 31:16,
39:24, 41:13, 47:1
one [30] - 4:17, 10:8,
11:24, 18:23, 20:20,
21:4, 23:24, 37:4,
38:15, 45:6, 46:20,
48:3, 50:15, 53:21,
54:16, 55:3, 56:15,
57:3, 57:14, 60:3,
60:24, 61:6, 61:8,
61:23, 62:10, 64:23,
65:6, 65:7
One [1] - 33:9
ones [2] - 44:2, 44:24
open [8] - 5:15, 19:10,
25:18, 55:17, 57:8,
57:9, 57:10, 57:15
opening [1] - 8:23
operating [1] - 40:6
operations [2] - 31:2,
59:14
opinion [1] - 42:8
opportunity [2] -
67:22, 68:6
opposition [8] - 5:12,
5:13, 39:4, 39:10,
45:18, 52:10, 53:16,
62:8
order [1] - 5:5
ordinance [6] - 16:12,
16:18, 30:18, 37:22,
55:11, 65:18
original [1] - 70:11
originally [1] - 60:15
ornamental [3] - 35:7,
35:10
Osborn [5] - 9:4, 9:12,
9:18, 67:15, 68:2
OSBORN [10] - 3:5,
9:14, 9:17, 19:1,
19:7, 43:16, 55:3,
62:24, 63:4, 64:10
ourselves [2] - 39:12,
42:1
out-buildings [1] -
26:3
output [2] - 13:4, 55:4
outside [3] - 11:2,
22:22, 37:11
overall [1] - 56:11
oversaw [1] - 32:8
oversees [2] - 67:9,
67:14
own [2] - 13:12, 49:17
owned [4] - 15:9,
15:12, 15:13, 55:19
owner [4] - 11:16,
11:17, 13:16, 28:23
owners [2] - 10:10,
10:12
owns [1] - 14:7
P
p.m [1] - 1:22
package [1] - 57:1
PAGE [1] - 3:3
Pages [1] - 70:6
panel [2] - 16:12,
41:18
panels [41] - 7:6, 7:23,
10:6, 12:9, 12:10,
12:24, 15:6, 16:13,
17:18, 18:10, 19:9,
23:9, 25:4, 26:11,
26:15, 26:16, 27:10,
35:20, 36:11, 37:7,
40:10, 40:12, 42:24,
43:2, 43:3, 46:18,
47:12, 50:19, 50:21,
50:22, 50:24, 51:3,
51:4, 55:12, 55:13,
55:24, 58:17, 61:10,
61:11, 68:3
parallels [1] - 14:2
parcel [19] - 5:19,
5:22, 6:21, 7:2, 7:14,
7:18, 10:7, 21:2,
24:15, 29:13, 30:14,
30:17, 30:22, 54:5,
55:7, 55:16, 55:19,
55:23
parking [3] - 25:11,
58:2, 61:14
part [7] - 10:11, 11:11,
14:22, 24:16, 31:20,
43:10, 65:4
part-time [1] - 10:11
participate [2] - 13:15,
13:17
particular [1] - 60:5
passenger [1] - 62:20
past [4] - 26:18, 27:11,
40:6
path [2] - 17:20, 58:20
Patricia [2] - 67:4,
67:5
Paw [2] - 44:2
pay [7] - 32:14, 41:17,
41:20, 51:12, 51:15,
51:17
peace [1] - 53:17
peak [2] - 35:22
peer [1] - 30:4
pending [2] - 17:6,
38:17
people [18] - 11:1,
13:6, 20:18, 20:23,
21:23, 22:5, 22:7,
27:24, 29:17, 32:13,
39:9, 39:19, 44:9,
45:7, 48:5, 49:19,
50:8
people's [1] - 66:20
per [1] - 37:19
percent [3] - 12:12,
21:5, 44:12
percentage [1] - 51:24
permit [9] - 7:4, 7:20,
31:22, 35:5, 58:10,
64:19, 65:7, 65:11,
65:14
permitted [2] - 15:17,
35:4
permitting [2] - 9:20,
17:9
perpendicular [1] -
12:11
person [3] - 11:2,
11:3, 18:24
persons [2] - 4:12,
4:16
perspective [1] -
57:22
pervious [1] - 61:12
pesticides [1] - 53:9
Petition [1] - 5:16
petition [1] - 68:10
petitioner [11] - 4:15,
4:23, 5:8, 5:13, 6:16,
7:1, 7:9, 7:17, 8:1,
8:18, 8:20
phase [1] - 22:6
photo [1] - 26:5
photos [1] - 58:1
picking [1] - 47:23
piece [1] - 19:11
pit [1] - 42:18
place [5] - 19:9, 20:5,
23:5, 50:14, 70:9
places [3] - 11:21,
12:16, 52:3
plan [16] - 4:21, 4:22,
13:20, 14:17, 31:2,
33:12, 34:10, 34:15,
34:17, 37:1, 37:13,
37:22, 38:2, 57:8,
57:11, 61:3
planes [1] - 48:9
planned [3] - 15:16,
16:4, 55:20
Planned [3] - 6:23,
7:16, 27:19
Planner [1] - 2:10
Planning [1] - 4:7
planning [1] - 34:2
PLANNING [1] - 1:10
plans [3] - 15:15,
22:22, 36:2
plant [6] - 14:16, 19:8,
25:8, 27:13, 31:4,
59:18
plantable [1] - 22:14
planted [7] - 12:15,
19:14, 24:1, 24:24,
26:8, 57:12, 57:15
planting [8] - 16:22,
25:6, 29:5, 29:6,
29:8, 29:12, 34:20,
37:9
plantings [7] - 24:7,
37:5, 57:23, 58:14,
58:24, 59:19, 61:2
plants [9] - 23:14,
25:8, 37:3, 37:7,
37:10, 37:11, 40:17,
61:17
play [1] - 12:2
plowing [3] - 29:5,
29:8
Plum [1] - 45:24
plus [3] - 62:19, 64:2,
64:3
podium [10] - 4:19,
8:6, 8:13, 9:16, 33:4,
39:16, 45:22, 48:18,
52:18
point [7] - 15:1, 22:21,
27:2, 29:22, 33:23,
64:2, 66:24
Point [8] - 5:17, 5:20,
6:16, 7:8, 8:2, 8:20,
9:6, 10:1
pointer [1] - 13:22
points [4] - 39:11,
54:18, 60:11, 60:14
pole [1] - 25:14
poles [3] - 23:18, 25:2,
33:24
pollinator [3] - 19:14,
22:17, 31:15
pollinators [6] - 19:8,
24:18, 31:4, 34:19,
47:18, 56:4
Pollution [1] - 37:24
pool [1] - 52:23
pools [1] - 53:1
popsicles [1] - 44:20
populations [1] - 35:1
portion [6] - 4:5, 5:7,
24:13, 65:3, 69:6,
69:8
position [5] - 12:11,
26:15, 27:1, 27:2,
58:17
positive [1] - 68:7
possibly [1] - 18:7
potential [6] - 18:4,
23:6, 27:2, 34:16,
56:14, 58:23
power [25] - 10:5,
12:7, 13:3, 13:17,
14:1, 14:23, 17:8,
17:10, 17:11, 17:13,
23:18, 25:14, 33:24,
40:14, 40:17, 40:22,
40:24, 46:17, 47:10,
55:5, 55:6, 56:2
PowerPoint [2] - 9:10,
64:17
preference [1] - 24:20
preparation [1] - 67:3
prepared [2] - 8:2,
67:13
presence [1] - 30:12
present [3] - 4:13, 8:2,
32:18
PRESENT [2] - 2:1,
2:7
presentation [9] - 5:8,
8:3, 9:10, 18:19,
38:22, 54:3, 54:7,
54:15, 65:12
presentations [2] -
51:20, 64:17
presented [2] - 59:22,
65:10
presenting [1] - 9:3
presently [1] - 16:13
pretty [11] - 10:7,
10:21, 10:24, 27:7,
30:9, 32:3, 32:9,
32:15, 43:5, 64:7
previous [1] - 57:23
previously [1] - 30:4
prices [1] - 41:1
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
7
prided [1] - 42:1
primarily [2] - 10:3,
16:6
primary [1] - 11:16
private [1] - 35:1
problem [9] - 20:10,
20:14, 20:20, 27:9,
27:15, 50:17, 53:5,
53:6, 54:14
problems [2] - 20:18,
49:22
proceeding [1] - 65:3
proceedings [4] - 4:2,
69:7, 70:5, 70:8
process [3] - 14:22,
14:24, 17:9
produce [3] - 13:3,
42:17, 45:13
producer [1] - 21:2
produces [1] - 40:16
production [2] -
23:22, 25:24
products [3] - 43:13,
43:14, 43:19
program [4] - 13:15,
22:20, 28:11, 59:9
programming [1] -
59:13
programs [1] - 13:5
progression [1] - 57:4
project [23] - 8:22, 9:5,
9:8, 9:19, 12:1, 12:5,
14:19, 17:4, 20:22,
21:24, 28:13, 28:23,
33:6, 37:17, 38:12,
38:13, 45:9, 55:4,
58:4, 65:6, 65:16,
66:10
projects [11] - 9:1,
9:11, 10:2, 10:9,
10:17, 17:8, 22:11,
45:3, 65:22, 66:16,
67:19
promise [1] - 51:23
promote [1] - 66:11
proof [1] - 30:7
properly [1] - 9:24
properties [9] - 21:22,
30:9, 35:24, 36:6,
36:23, 38:9, 66:6,
66:14
property [42] - 14:6,
15:9, 15:12, 15:13,
16:3, 16:9, 17:17,
18:5, 18:14, 24:8,
24:13, 24:17, 24:19,
24:20, 27:19, 28:12,
29:7, 29:23, 29:24,
30:4, 30:8, 31:18,
34:7, 38:3, 38:6,
46:15, 46:17, 46:18,
47:15, 52:21, 56:9,
59:3, 59:5, 60:1,
66:12, 66:24, 67:2,
67:7, 67:8, 67:18,
68:5
propose [1] - 35:3
proposed [11] - 4:10,
8:3, 14:3, 24:12,
25:3, 27:21, 35:17,
35:19, 36:9, 36:10,
39:4
proud [1] - 45:2
proven [1] - 41:2
provide [2] - 4:8,
37:18
provided [2] - 20:3,
29:11
provides [3] - 32:15,
58:20, 67:9
provisions [1] - 65:18
pubic [1] - 70:5
PUBLIC [1] - 1:11
public [22] - 4:2, 4:5,
4:6, 4:9, 4:23, 4:24,
5:6, 5:16, 6:14,
18:18, 53:20, 54:1,
54:8, 64:13, 64:23,
65:2, 66:7, 68:10,
68:12, 69:5, 69:8
Public [1] - 4:12
PUD [2] - 7:3, 7:19
purpose [1] - 4:8
put [9] - 13:9, 16:16,
42:23, 44:2, 44:13,
44:14, 44:16, 44:17,
51:20
puts [1] - 63:19
putting [1] - 22:19
PZC [5] - 5:16, 5:19,
6:15, 7:8, 8:1
Q
quality [3] - 18:1,
34:23, 47:7
questions [4] - 4:14,
18:18, 46:20, 61:9
quickly [3] - 16:1,
64:21, 68:2
quite [1] - 12:20
R
R-2 [3] - 7:2, 7:18
R-3 [1] - 7:18
railroad [16] - 6:22,
13:1, 13:23, 14:2,
23:2, 23:3, 23:4,
24:1, 33:14, 46:1,
46:9, 50:2, 58:19,
62:11, 62:12, 63:9
rainfall [1] - 19:17
raise [1] - 4:24
raised [1] - 56:15
rate [1] - 36:17
rates [1] - 13:8
reach [2] - 9:21, 24:3
read [2] - 46:21, 60:4
reading [1] - 60:10
Reagan [1] - 2:5
real [5] - 15:10, 15:20,
38:24, 50:17, 65:1
really [24] - 11:6,
12:19, 13:6, 13:7,
15:15, 15:23, 16:18,
22:11, 22:15, 23:3,
24:5, 28:6, 28:10,
32:1, 36:21, 38:6,
42:6, 42:7, 44:7,
45:12, 57:18, 57:24,
59:21, 65:20
realtor [2] - 46:14,
46:16
rear [2] - 30:17, 33:17
reason [3] - 16:24,
17:5, 57:10
receiving [1] - 5:6
reclaim [2] - 42:19,
47:6
recommendation [2] -
67:23, 68:8
recommendations [1]
- 34:18
recreation [1] - 55:20
recycle [1] - 43:23
recycled [1] - 43:21
reduce [9] - 12:15,
14:20, 19:16, 23:15,
24:9, 34:22, 36:24,
57:5, 58:1
reduces [1] - 14:15
reducing [2] - 24:2,
35:23
redug [1] - 49:20
redundant [1] - 54:21
reflect [3] - 21:21,
26:16, 27:6
reflecting [1] - 27:12
reflection [2] - 26:11,
63:11
refrigeration [3] -
14:5, 15:4, 17:17
refrigerator [2] - 38:8,
66:22
regarding [3] - 4:9,
4:15, 68:10
regularly [3] - 10:21,
21:24, 31:7
regulate [1] - 46:23
regulates [1] - 67:7
regulator [1] - 32:7
relate [1] - 66:4
related [1] - 66:17
relief [1] - 41:4
relocate [1] - 20:11
relocated [1] - 56:6
remain [1] - 55:17
remember [2] - 15:12,
52:4
remote [2] - 11:1,
14:12
removal [1] - 31:13
removed [3] - 28:24,
29:2, 31:20
renter [3] - 13:11,
13:16
repaired [1] - 51:13
repeat [3] - 5:1, 39:11,
53:13
repeating [1] - 39:12
replace [1] - 36:12
replacing [1] - 44:1
replanted [1] - 12:17
report [4] - 11:2, 32:9,
35:20, 67:15
Reporter [1] - 70:4
reports [2] - 11:3, 60:4
represent [1] - 4:18
representing [1] -
8:18
reproduced [1] -
70:14
request [13] - 4:10,
5:11, 5:12, 8:3, 17:5,
32:19, 39:5, 62:5,
62:9, 65:5, 67:24,
68:1
requested [2] - 16:11,
17:1
requesting [4] - 6:18,
7:1, 7:11, 7:17
requests [4] - 4:14,
4:15, 39:1, 65:5
require [3] - 31:19,
38:18, 62:1
required [4] - 28:14,
29:4, 36:24, 37:19
requirement [1] -
30:23
requirements [5] -
9:23, 33:13, 36:3,
37:16
requires [1] - 30:14
researched [1] - 63:14
residence [1] - 60:22
resident [1] - 39:18
residential [5] - 15:24,
16:6, 16:10, 27:21,
34:7
residents [3] - 18:16,
40:24, 41:4
respect [2] - 19:15,
66:23
respectfully [1] - 68:7
response [6] - 35:16,
38:16, 39:2, 53:18,
61:24, 62:6
responsibility [1] -
70:13
responsible [1] - 9:20
rest [2] - 22:19, 22:21
result [1] - 18:6
results [1] - 27:7
retains [1] - 41:18
return [1] - 29:7
revenue [5] - 41:9,
42:17, 45:13, 56:9,
66:12
review [2] - 56:18,
63:24
reviewed [2] - 30:4,
30:6
rezone [2] - 7:2, 7:18
rezoning [7] - 5:17,
5:20, 6:19, 7:11,
65:7, 65:15, 67:24
Rhode [1] - 11:3
richard [1] - 2:4
Ridge [5] - 6:23, 7:15,
15:17, 16:5, 27:18
right-of-way [1] -
33:15
risk [2] - 26:21, 26:22
Road [3] - 1:17, 7:15,
22:2
road [12] - 17:15,
17:19, 17:20, 26:2,
26:22, 27:1, 30:15,
33:24, 40:11, 51:16,
60:19, 60:21
roads [6] - 21:22,
51:9, 51:11, 51:12,
51:17
Robert [1] - 14:6
Roger [1] - 48:19
ROGER [2] - 3:9,
48:16
roles [1] - 64:23
roll [2] - 6:1, 68:16
roof [2] - 13:10, 13:12
roots [1] - 36:15
rotate [1] - 61:10
Route [1] - 34:11
row [2] - 17:18, 36:13
rules [5] - 5:14, 28:19,
29:3, 58:10, 67:13
run [18] - 12:2, 19:12,
19:16, 34:23, 35:2,
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
8
35:4, 35:22, 35:23,
36:6, 36:10, 36:19,
36:22, 37:13, 53:8,
60:20, 61:15, 61:17,
61:18
run-off [12] - 19:12,
19:16, 34:23, 35:22,
35:23, 36:6, 36:19,
36:22, 53:8, 61:15,
61:17, 61:18
S
sad [1] - 43:5
safety [2] - 57:22, 66:8
sales [1] - 30:6
sat [1] - 22:1
satisfy [1] - 65:13
saw [1] - 21:10
scares [1] - 20:18
scheduled [1] - 4:6
school [2] - 21:6, 41:8
schools [3] - 21:7,
21:8, 51:22
SCOTT [2] - 3:5, 9:14
Scott [6] - 9:4, 9:5,
9:12, 9:18, 33:11
screen [1] - 16:21
screening [7] - 14:14,
14:17, 14:18, 23:14,
27:8, 57:5, 57:15
script [1] - 36:4
seat [1] - 42:1
second [7] - 5:24, 9:6,
33:9, 54:5, 54:12,
60:10, 68:15
Section [2] - 65:17,
65:20
sector [1] - 40:5
security [5] - 28:22,
29:1, 31:23, 37:19,
57:21
sediment [2] - 19:12,
34:22
see [26] - 10:23, 12:14,
13:20, 13:22, 21:1,
21:10, 21:17, 23:2,
24:24, 25:4, 28:6,
36:13, 40:12, 41:4,
41:7, 41:22, 42:2,
43:5, 46:12, 52:24,
57:24, 58:7, 64:4,
64:5, 64:6
seed [2] - 47:20, 47:21
seeds [3] - 19:14,
29:6, 47:22
seeing [1] - 61:19
seem [2] - 24:24, 32:1
sell [2] - 44:20, 45:11
semis [1] - 51:17
Semper [1] - 14:8
Senior [1] - 2:10
sense [1] - 45:11
septic [4] - 49:12,
49:16, 53:7
septics [1] - 49:24
serious [2] - 53:5,
53:6
serve [1] - 17:13
set [6] - 17:19, 30:19,
32:16, 65:17, 65:19,
70:16
setback [15] - 17:16,
17:23, 18:2, 18:13,
23:10, 30:14, 30:15,
30:16, 30:18, 30:23,
33:14, 33:15, 33:16,
33:17, 33:21
setbacks [7] - 17:15,
30:13, 33:13, 33:14,
55:11, 60:13, 60:20
several [2] - 15:13,
54:18
sewer [2] - 15:22,
22:11
shade [1] - 13:14
shading [1] - 37:10
shaky [1] - 15:2
shed [1] - 26:4
shine [3] - 21:21,
26:12, 26:19
shining [2] - 59:12,
63:10
ship [1] - 41:12
shipped [3] - 40:14,
40:22, 41:11
shop [2] - 15:4, 17:18
Shorthand [1] - 70:3
show [2] - 57:4, 61:4
showed [1] - 30:23
showing [3] - 25:5,
46:17, 58:11
shows [6] - 15:8, 20:4,
23:24, 24:12, 66:10
SHPO [3] - 38:16,
61:23, 61:24
shrubs [3] - 35:6,
35:8, 35:13
side [24] - 13:24, 14:3,
14:14, 14:19, 18:11,
24:2, 26:2, 26:5,
30:17, 30:21, 30:22,
33:16, 34:5, 34:6,
40:11, 46:9, 48:3,
48:5, 48:6, 50:8,
55:19, 58:12
sign [2] - 4:19, 17:12
signed [1] - 70:12
significant [5] - 17:2,
21:13, 21:15, 56:10
Silagyi [2] - 59:4, 59:5
similar [3] - 38:7,
54:16, 55:10
single [2] - 16:6, 37:14
Single [2] - 7:2, 7:18
single-family [1] -
16:6
Single-Family [2] -
7:2, 7:18
sit [1] - 63:7
site [15] - 13:19,
13:20, 15:8, 20:2,
33:12, 34:12, 36:19,
36:23, 38:2, 38:14,
56:14, 57:8, 57:11,
60:10, 61:20
sites [1] - 56:18
sitting [1] - 29:19
six [3] - 20:24, 31:7,
59:1
skip [6] - 54:17, 54:21,
59:10, 59:23, 60:12,
60:23
sky [3] - 12:10, 26:14,
58:16
slats [1] - 27:13
slide [18] - 9:23, 11:6,
11:20, 12:20, 19:7,
19:19, 33:8, 34:8,
34:14, 35:14, 56:13,
57:3, 59:21, 60:23,
61:7, 61:10, 61:20
slightly [1] - 27:10
small [2] - 21:3, 53:1
smaller [1] - 12:5
smell [1] - 22:12
software [2] - 58:15,
63:24
soil [4] - 22:18, 36:21,
47:7
soils [1] - 36:16
solar [44] - 6:20, 7:4,
7:6, 7:13, 7:20, 7:23,
8:22, 10:2, 10:3,
10:4, 10:13, 10:16,
10:21, 12:22, 13:5,
13:6, 13:7, 13:10,
21:3, 33:16, 34:20,
35:16, 35:20, 40:7,
40:10, 41:3, 43:2,
43:3, 46:18, 47:4,
47:11, 50:19, 50:21,
50:22, 50:24, 51:3,
55:24, 63:24, 65:16,
65:18, 65:21, 65:23,
66:15, 67:19
sold [1] - 28:2
solution [1] - 59:17
solve [2] - 18:10, 23:8
sometimes [7] -
32:13, 51:21, 52:1,
52:3, 52:5, 52:7
sorry [4] - 18:20, 19:4,
32:22, 32:23
sound [4] - 37:21,
38:5, 66:18, 66:21
soundtrack [2] - 12:3,
12:19
south [8] - 7:15, 14:2,
30:21, 46:9, 48:6,
50:4, 50:5, 55:16
southeast [2] - 13:24,
18:13
southern [1] - 13:21
southwest [1] - 55:14
soybeans [2] - 24:22,
25:1
Special [1] - 5:18
special [11] - 5:21,
6:19, 7:4, 7:12, 7:20,
65:7, 65:14, 65:19,
65:24, 67:11, 67:24
specific [2] - 62:5,
62:8
specifically [1] - 9:2
specs [1] - 63:18
spectrum [1] - 10:24
speculated [1] - 16:17
spell [1] - 52:12
spelling [1] - 46:3
spins [1] - 44:4
spots [1] - 59:19
spraying [1] - 31:13
squeeze [1] - 31:16
SS [1] - 70:1
staff [1] - 11:6
stand [2] - 4:24, 5:2
standard [1] - 13:8
standards [7] - 65:13,
65:16, 65:19, 66:3,
66:4, 67:14
start [3] - 38:20, 51:1,
51:4
started [1] - 51:2
starting [1] - 57:24
starts [1] - 50:7
State [1] - 34:11
STATE [1] - 70:1
state [8] - 4:17, 28:15,
31:21, 32:8, 39:13,
40:15, 40:23, 67:8
states [2] - 45:6, 67:16
States [1] - 45:8
station [1] - 40:19
stationary [1] - 12:13
statistical [2] - 30:7,
32:2
statistics [3] - 32:3,
60:2, 60:3
stay [1] - 41:10
stays [1] - 46:22
steel [1] - 42:12
step [1] - 9:4
still [4] - 24:14, 27:8,
46:13, 47:21
stop [1] - 67:21
stoplight [1] - 22:1
storm [1] - 49:10
story [1] - 60:8
Street [2] - 45:24,
48:20
structure [1] - 11:5
studied [2] - 30:2,
30:3
studies [2] - 30:4,
32:13
study [17] - 21:19,
21:20, 26:13, 26:14,
26:20, 26:23, 27:5,
27:16, 29:23, 29:24,
31:24, 32:14, 56:16,
58:22, 58:23, 63:8,
67:3
stuff [7] - 42:7, 42:13,
44:8, 44:13, 44:15,
51:7, 51:22
stupid [2] - 39:21,
39:23
subdivision [2] - 16:1,
27:21
subject [2] - 14:3,
31:22
submit [6] - 36:2,
36:4, 56:16, 65:10,
66:9, 66:12
submitted [4] - 38:10,
38:16, 60:15, 67:2
substation [4] - 14:1,
18:8, 23:5, 25:13
sudden [1] - 51:2
suitable [2] - 16:2,
57:20
sum [1] - 64:21
sun [8] - 12:10, 12:11,
26:14, 27:1, 29:20,
37:12, 58:16, 59:8
sun's [2] - 26:16,
29:18
SUP [2] - 38:10, 60:15
supervised [1] - 67:3
support [3] - 11:11,
42:14, 62:4
supporting [2] - 9:7,
9:8
supposedly [1] - 38:5
surface [1] - 61:12
surrounded [3] -
13:13, 49:8, 59:6
survey [3] - 20:6,
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
9
38:18, 62:1
surveyed [1] - 56:6
sustain [1] - 37:10
sworn [8] - 5:4, 8:12,
9:15, 33:3, 39:15,
45:21, 48:17, 52:17
system [5] - 20:3,
20:5, 20:6, 51:1,
59:14
systems [6] - 49:16,
49:17, 49:18, 49:21,
50:12, 50:16
T
table [2] - 21:1, 65:6
Taker [1] - 2:11
talks [1] - 29:23
taller [1] - 59:19
tank [1] - 41:20
Tap [4] - 14:4, 14:21,
17:23, 25:11
tasks [1] - 9:20
tax [3] - 30:6, 56:9,
66:12
taxes [1] - 21:2
taxpayer [2] - 41:6,
41:7
team [2] - 20:6, 37:8
ten [7] - 7:7, 7:23,
11:4, 16:14, 24:19,
25:19, 42:23
Tennessee [1] - 42:12
term [5] - 11:9, 17:3,
22:4, 22:9, 22:17
terminated [4] - 38:12,
38:13, 62:1
terribly [1] - 25:3
testified [10] - 8:12,
9:15, 33:3, 39:15,
45:21, 48:17, 52:17,
66:18, 67:15, 68:3
testify [1] - 4:16
testimony [8] - 4:9,
4:12, 5:6, 65:4,
65:12, 66:2, 68:10,
68:12
th9is [1] - 24:2
thereof [2] - 70:12,
70:16
thereupon [1] - 5:4
three [3] - 31:7, 42:4,
65:5
throughout [2] - 13:4,
34:20
tie [1] - 15:7
tile [4] - 18:7, 20:2,
20:10, 56:5
tiles [6] - 19:20, 19:22,
20:11, 20:16, 56:6
tilt [2] - 12:9, 27:10
tilting [2] - 48:2, 48:4
timeline [1] - 28:6
timing [1] - 55:22
today [1] - 21:17
Tom [1] - 19:21
tonight [6] - 4:11, 5:2,
5:9, 6:15, 8:17, 65:6
tonight's [4] - 4:7,
4:23, 5:7, 69:6
took [1] - 58:1
top [3] - 29:19, 42:22,
44:7
topographic [1] -
63:24
tornadoes [1] - 41:15
touch [3] - 60:14,
61:9, 62:12
touched [3] - 26:10,
52:19, 53:12
toward [1] - 51:4
towards [2] - 50:7,
53:4
town [4] - 39:20,
39:21, 50:8, 51:18
Townhome [1] - 7:19
Township [2] - 51:9,
51:11
TPE [2] - 8:21, 10:2
track [4] - 58:19, 63:9,
63:15, 64:2
tracking [1] - 12:8
tracks [10] - 26:14,
46:2, 46:9, 46:11,
50:3, 58:16, 62:22,
63:22
traffic [1] - 22:4
Trail [15] - 6:22, 7:14,
13:2, 14:4, 14:20,
18:4, 23:4, 23:10,
23:18, 24:11, 34:1,
34:12, 50:7, 55:8,
57:13
train [3] - 62:15, 63:5,
63:12
trains [10] - 62:13,
62:16, 62:17, 62:18,
62:19, 62:20, 62:21,
63:13, 63:15, 63:16
transcribed [1] - 70:4
transcript [2] - 70:8,
70:11
transformers [1] -
23:21
translates [1] - 10:6
transportation [1] -
34:9
traveled [1] - 40:8
trees [15] - 13:13,
24:1, 25:6, 26:5,
26:7, 26:24, 27:3,
27:13, 35:3, 35:6,
35:7, 35:9, 35:11,
59:7, 59:19
tried [2] - 24:3, 58:13
trouble [2] - 50:9,
50:10
trucks [2] - 51:9,
51:13
true [1] - 70:7
try [7] - 9:22, 11:10,
11:15, 22:22, 23:13,
30:24, 57:4
trying [7] - 11:22,
12:10, 15:12, 25:16,
25:22, 44:19, 45:11
turn [2] - 9:12, 59:10
Turning [8] - 5:17,
5:20, 6:16, 7:8, 8:2,
8:20, 9:5, 10:1
two [11] - 4:6, 7:7,
7:24, 9:3, 16:14,
35:12, 39:1, 40:20,
50:15, 62:22, 66:19
type [2] - 63:13, 63:14
types [2] - 10:8, 30:5
typical [1] - 61:13
typically [2] - 35:3,
35:6
U
U.S [4] - 43:13, 43:14,
43:17, 43:19
ugly [1] - 42:7
under [9] - 19:9,
28:14, 29:3, 30:18,
37:10, 40:20, 58:10,
70:12, 70:14
Under [1] - 29:4
underground [1] -
43:12
underneath [6] -
36:11, 36:12, 37:7,
47:19, 61:11, 61:12
unexpected [1] -
26:19
union [2] - 44:22, 45:1
Unit [3] - 6:23, 7:16,
27:19
unit [1] - 15:16
United [3] - 6:17, 7:10,
45:8
UNITED [1] - 1:6
units [1] - 16:6
unknown [2] - 47:2,
47:5
unlikely [1] - 15:23
unlimited [1] - 31:5
unnecessary [2] -
17:3, 68:5
unreasonably [1] -
66:7
unused [3] - 24:13,
24:19, 24:20
up [28] - 5:9, 6:15, 9:5,
12:23, 16:16, 17:12,
19:22, 24:23, 28:1,
39:8, 42:3, 43:7,
43:22, 44:2, 45:10,
47:14, 47:19, 49:12,
50:6, 51:20, 52:7,
52:23, 53:1, 53:10,
62:14, 63:18, 63:22,
64:21
updated [1] - 61:3
upstream [1] - 20:13
useful [1] - 28:13
utilities [1] - 15:22
V
value [6] - 27:24,
46:19, 47:3, 67:2,
67:7
values [9] - 16:9,
29:24, 30:5, 30:8,
46:16, 47:16, 60:1,
66:24, 67:18
Variance [1] - 5:18
variance [12] - 5:21,
6:20, 7:5, 7:12, 7:21,
16:12, 17:1, 17:5,
65:8, 65:14, 68:1,
68:2
various [1] - 9:20
vegetation [1] - 34:4
vegetative [4] - 14:14,
23:14, 57:4, 57:15
Velazquez [3] - 14:7,
17:24, 26:1
versus [3] - 35:17,
36:9, 37:10
vicinity [1] - 67:19
video [1] - 11:24
view [7] - 23:23,
24:10, 26:8, 46:11,
57:2, 57:5, 57:14
viewshed [1] - 30:23
village [1] - 27:23
Vinyard [3] - 2:4, 6:3,
69:3
VINYARD [4] - 5:23,
6:4, 68:15, 69:4
visibility [6] - 14:15,
14:20, 23:15, 24:2,
24:9, 58:1
visual [2] - 36:8, 37:2
visualization [1] -
22:24
visually [1] - 16:21
Vitosh [2] - 70:3,
70:20
voltage [2] - 14:1,
25:14
volume [1] - 35:21
vote [3] - 5:9, 6:1,
68:16
W
walk [1] - 9:12
walking [1] - 26:18
wall [1] - 16:24
wandered [1] - 25:10
wants [1] - 11:17
warm [1] - 29:19
water [25] - 15:22,
22:10, 34:23, 36:10,
36:18, 36:20, 44:17,
49:8, 49:11, 49:13,
49:17, 49:21, 49:23,
50:3, 50:4, 50:6,
50:9, 50:10, 50:14,
50:18, 50:22, 51:5,
53:6, 61:10
ways [2] - 42:17,
45:13
Wednesday [1] - 1:21
weed [1] - 31:13
weeds [6] - 19:12,
31:10, 31:11, 31:16,
47:19, 47:20
week [1] - 24:24
weeks [1] - 31:7
welfare [2] - 66:8,
66:11
wells [1] - 49:20
west [7] - 14:19,
18:11, 18:12, 26:2,
34:5, 55:15
western [1] - 18:14
wetland [3] - 18:5,
23:6, 33:18
whatsoever [1] - 41:5
WHEREUPON [1] -
4:1
white [2] - 28:12,
44:20
White [1] - 15:9
whole [3] - 31:19,
44:19, 61:14
wildlife [1] - 35:1
wind [5] - 10:21, 17:2,
40:8, 41:3, 43:22
window [5] - 26:18,
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
10
27:11, 63:17, 64:7
windows [1] - 59:12
winters [1] - 40:3
wire [1] - 57:18
wires [1] - 17:13
wish [1] - 4:13
wishes [6] - 5:2,
32:18, 38:24, 39:4,
62:4, 62:8
wishing [1] - 4:16
WITNESS [1] - 3:3
Witness [1] - 55:9
witness [3] - 9:3, 9:6,
9:9
Witnesses [1] - 5:4
witnesses [1] - 9:3
woman [1] - 44:20
wondering [1] - 22:2
works [2] - 37:9, 64:1
worried [1] - 17:24
worry [1] - 49:6
write [1] - 13:9
written [2] - 16:17,
17:22
Y
yard [3] - 30:17, 33:16,
33:17
year [9] - 10:12, 11:18,
13:4, 21:4, 24:22,
24:23, 28:2, 57:14,
57:23
years [12] - 10:14,
10:15, 15:14, 15:20,
28:9, 40:6, 40:7,
44:1, 47:6, 49:14,
53:2, 58:11
YMCA [1] - 55:19
YORKVILLE [2] - 1:6,
1:7
Yorkville [10] - 1:18,
6:18, 7:10, 34:17,
37:15, 37:20, 39:18,
41:24, 50:13, 51:14
YOUNG [11] - 6:3, 6:5,
6:7, 6:9, 6:11, 6:13,
68:18, 68:20, 68:22,
69:1, 69:3
Young [1] - 2:11
yourself [1] - 67:16
Yuma [1] - 40:9
Z
ZONING [1] - 1:10
Zoning [1] - 4:7
zoning [3] - 7:20,
Vitosh Reporting Service
815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com
PZC - Public Hearings - May 10, 2023
11
13:20, 38:1