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City Council Minutes 2025 06-24-251 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 City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 1 UNITED CITY OF YORKVILLE KENDALL COUNTY, ILLINOIS CITY COUNCIL MEETING PUBLIC HEARING 651 Prairie Pointe Yorkville, Illinois Tuesday, June 24, 2025 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 City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 2 PRESENT: (In-person and via Zoom) Mr. John Purcell, Mayor; Mr. Ken Koch, Alderman; Mr. Craig Soling, Alderman; Mr. Arden Joe Plocher, Alderman; Mr. Chris Funkhouser, Alderman; Mr. Matt Marek, Alderman; Mr. Rusty Hyett, Alderman; Mr. Rusty Corneils, Alderman. ALSO PRESENT: Mr. Bart Olson, City Administrator; Ms. Jori Behland, City Clerk; Ms. Erin Willrett, Assistant City Administrator; Mr. Rob Fredrickson, Finance Director; Mr. Eric Dhuse, Public Works Director; Mr. James Jensen, Chief of Police; Mr. Tim Evans, Parks and Recreation Director; Ms. Krysti Barksdale-Noble, Community Development Director; Mr. Brad Sanderson, City Engineer. 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 City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 3 APPEARANCES: OTTOSEN, DiNOLFO, HASENBALG & CASTALDO, LTD. BY: MS. KATHLEEN FIELD ORR 1804 North Naper Boulevard, Suite 350 Naperville, Illinois 60563 (630) 682-0085 appeared on behalf of the United City of Yorkville; ANCEL, GLINK, P .C . BY: MR. KURT S . ASPROOTH 140 South Dearborn Street, Suite 600 Chicago, Illinois 60603 (312) 604-9139 appeared on behalf of the Petitioner, Project Steel-Prologis. - - - - - REPORTED BY: Christine M . Vitosh Illinois C .S .R . License No. 084-002883 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 City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 4 I N D E X WITNESS: PAGE J .C . WITT 7 KURT S . ASPROOTH 9 KATIE FRASER 15 CHUCK OVERFRANK 32 WALT STAGNER 35 JOHN ROSE 37 - - - - - 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 City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 5 (WHEREUPON, the following proceedings were had in public hearing, commencing at 7 :16 p .m . as follows:) MAYOR PURCELL: 7 :16. I will open the public hearing for the Project Steel-Prologis Data Center annexation agreement. So the public hearing is now open. Were we going to have somebody do a presentation or talk a little? What's -- Krysti, tell me, please. MS. NOBLE: The petitioner is here to do their presentation. If you like I can do a -- MAYOR PURCELL: Why don't you start with whatever and then turn it over to them, and just -- the only thing we ask, you probably know this, but when you get up there, just please state your name for the record. MS. NOBLE: So the petitioner is Prologis and they are seeking to annex 16 parcels totaling about 540 acres to the City of Yorkville for a master plan high tech data center campus. In addition to annexation, 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 City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 6 petitioner, as Bart mentioned, is going to request rezoning to the M -2 District, looking for a special use for a planned unit development and approval of a preliminary PUD plan. Tonight's meeting, the data center campus plan, has been revised from the initial one presented. The revised plan shows a phased development plan of 18 two-story buildings totaling about 6 .8 million square feet. The petitioner is here tonight to overview their project, and we can also talk about the draft annexation agreement, which is attached to the packet as well. MAYOR PURCELL: Krysti? MS. NOBLE: Yes. MAYOR PURCELL: How many square feet did you say? MS. NOBLE: 6 .8 million square feet. MAYOR PURCELL: With all the buildings? MS. NOBLE: Correct. MAYOR PURCELL: Thank you very much. Okay. Please step up there. We run this a little informal, where you give your 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 City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 7 presentation, we are going to ask questions, sometimes members of the public might have questions. If you are able to answer those, go ahead. Okay? MR. WITT: Perfect. MAYOR PURCELL: Thank you. J .C . WITT, testified before the City Council as follows: MR. WITT: Good evening, and thank you for the time. My name is J .C . Witt. I run investments for Prologis in the greater Chicago area around data centers, and I am here today to give a little intro on who Prologis is, and I am joined by Clare Chandler, and then Katie Fraser is also dialed in here. So Prologis is a company, global real estate company we like to say with local presence. We own about 1 .3 billion square feet of industrial and data center space across the globe. We have been building data centers since 1999 and we have currently about 30 data centers in our portfolio across the United States. 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 City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 8 We have a pipeline of about -- that number is a little outdated, but two and a half billion in data centers right now that are under construction to add to our portfolio, and A rated company, been around for the better part of 40 years doing construction, owning it and leasing it to tenants. We have a local presence in the greater Chicago area that -- in that bottom I 55 number is wrong, we had a fat finger there with an extra three, but we have an aggregate total inventory of about 83,000,000 square feet of predominantly industrial with a sprinkling of data center, mainly around the O 'Hare Airport submarket. We are an active member in all the communities we invest in. We have active volunteering for Toys for Tots, Boy Scouts for America. We do have an impact day every year. And this is a picture from us doing a feed at the food bank in the greater Chicago area, and I 'll pass it over to here to Kurt to get into some of the details of the project. MAYOR PURCELL: Thank you very much. 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 City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 9 KURT S . ASPROOTH, testified before the City Council as follows: MR. ASPROOTH: Thanks J .C . My name is Kurt Asprooth, I am an attorney with the law firm of Ancel, Glink, I represent Prologis, and we are excited to be here tonight to introduce Project Steel. We are going to give kind of just a very high level overview; obviously this is kind of the start of our process. As we've heard, there's going to be several more hearings as we go through here. Try not to be too redundant. The staff memo, your packet, is very comprehensive as well. I won't try to cover all of that here in this kind of high level overview. So the property in question is about 540 acres, it's highlighted in orange on this slide here, generally bounded by Galena Road on the north, Corneils Road on the south and Eldamain on the west. Currently the property is generally farmland. It's bisected by ComEd transmission lines that feed into that subsection there south 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 City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 10 of Corneils Road, which is highlighted in blue. So for the overall site plan, Prologis is proposing 18 data center buildings; build this in three phases, six buildings for each phase. Each phase will have its own electrical substation. Each phase is also going to be independent, it's going to have its own public improvements, retention ponds, roads and things of that nature. To deliver this value, this level of investment in the City of Yorkville, United City of Yorkville here, we are seeking to annex all of that property into the center. As was mentioned, we are seeking to rezone that to the M -2 district, along with a planned unit development and a preliminary plan as well. So generally we believe this is consistent with the City's Comprehensive Plan. This whole corridor along Eldamain has been designated as kind of an industrial M -2 corridor here, and as Council has heard from other presentations, there is other data center 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 City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 11 interest in this same area with the Project Cardinal project to the north and CyrusOne project to the south, so this kind of fits in with that general corridor along Eldamain here that is developing as kind of a data center corridor overall. This is kind of the first elevation here, just kind of a conceptual rendering of what that campus is going to look like. Each data center building would be two stories tall between 6 0 and 7 0 feet in height. They are primarily going to be used -- built using concrete, tilt-up concrete panels, metal panels, materials that are very consistent in data centers across the country. There is going to be some enhancements along some of those frontages there, and Eldamain, Corneils Road, to make sure that we are complying with the City's enhanced -- I believe it's the gateway area there, so that we make sure this looks nice for those important rights-of-way that the city has along this area. You can see there's also going to be internal access drives for each building, along 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 City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 12 with some equipment yards adjacent to the building, and then we'll have rooftop mechanical on the east that's going to be fully screened there to the full height. This is just another elevation, it's going to show what the proposed data center buildings would look like from kind of eye level here. You can see we are going to have landscaping around the outside of the building and through the parking areas. The goal here is to make sure that this looks attractive if anybody is going to be looking at it from any of those roads. We are really committed to making this kind of an architecturally and aesthetically pleasing development. That's kind of a high level overview. We are certainly happy to answer any questions. Look forward to any feedback from the Council. We look forward to working with -- continuing to work with the City on this project. MAYOR PURCELL: Thank you. Anyone else from your group have anything to offer? MR. ASPROOTH: That's all we have. 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 City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 13 MAYOR PURCELL: Okay. Questions, comments, from the Council? Mr. Funkhouser? ALDERMAN FUNKHOUSER: Why are you looking at me? MAYOR PURCELL: Well, you looked at me. ALDERMAN FUNKHOUSER: Just a couple of quick questions. So I note that the -- part of Beecher is being -- MAYOR PURCELL: Make sure you talk into the mic, please. ALDERMAN FUNKHOUSER: Part of Beecher is being vacated per your plan, you are looking to have Beecher on the far east side of the property. That's the only road that you would have that is part of our comprehensive planning of transportation connecting this corridor, is the realigned Beecher Road. Is that -- Would that be fully approved by the plan with the realignment that's being proposed? MR. ASPROOTH: Yes. ALDERMAN FUNKHOUSER: Okay. And then we have imposed hundred foot landscape buffers 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 City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 14 around perimeters of other developments that have come in for data centers. It doesn't appear that there is a hundred foot, maybe 60-foot buffer, around perimeters. Would you be looking at doing the hundred foot as has been imposed on the other projects as well? MR. WITT: Yes, Chris. I haven't looked at it in detail, but yes, we would be fine with being in align with the other projects that have been -- MAYOR PURCELL: So can I ask a question? If you are going to answer, could you step to the mic, please? MR. ASPROOTH: Sorry. MR. WITT: Sorry. MAYOR PURCELL: Sorry, just want to make sure. MR. ASPROOTH: Of course. Of course. MAYOR PURCELL: The attorney understands. MR. WITT: Yes. So to your question, yeah, our idea would be to be in line with 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 City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 15 other projects that have been approved. I couldn't tell you in detail looking at t he plan where specifically you are saying we are inside the hundred feet, but we can look at those specific areas. ALDERMAN FUNKHOUSER: So the perimeter berming, landscape and hundred foot, you would look to -- MR. WITT: Yes. ALDERMAN FUNKHOUSER: And staff would work with you. Okay. And then issues of building height. The restriction within the 1500 foot of residential, the 70 foot, you are good being compliant, or will be compliant with that, or is that an issue for you moving forward? MR. WITT: I am -- Katie, I know you are on the phone. I know you have been more in the weeds on that. Do you mind? KATIE FRASER, testified before the City Council as follows: MS. FRASER: Yes. And to answer the first -- to reiterate the first question on landscaping, we have the hundred foot buffer 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 City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 16 we are more than happy to provide that, and for what would be -- what was the next one? The building height. So yeah, for the building height, for all mechanical equipment, all 70 feet that's been requested by City staff. ALDERMAN FUNKHOUSER: And then your buildings, are you primarily using air-cooled technology, or what is the type of methodology you are using for that? MR. WITT: Yeah, great question, and I know there was some preliminary questions, too, about there being an end customer, and so I would think both of those are linked. The way we -- the way we think these projects are most successful is kind of creating a site plan and a design that is most flexible to those customers to come in and create kind of what they have and their specific design needs, and so at this point in time, the actual cooling design has not been finalized for the buildings, and that gets kind of more refined as we move further along in the process and we get a lot more closer feedback to some of those end use customers. 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 City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 17 ALDERMAN FUNKHOUSER: And that's a good point you have made, is you are not the end user, you are basically just a landlord to say for the users that are going to be leasing your space within the buildings . MR. WITT: That's correct. Yep, yep. Just like all of our industrial, we will buy the land, build the building, and building the building could come all the way down to the server rack on these data centers, and then we will lease that to these users for long-term leases and stay on as the owner. ALDERMAN FUNKHOUSER: And for this site, as I look at it, I do think it is a very dense site for the amount of buildings, amount of square footage, on this one. Looking at the access, the private drives that are through this, have you had conversations with the fire department, or does the staff know, have we had those conversations, are they comfortable with building separation, drive access, et cetera, even through the private facilities? MS. NOBLE: We have. They were part 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 City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 18 a planning council review and they had not expressed any concerns . ALDERMAN FUNKHOUSER: That's it for now. MAYOR PURCELL: I want to follow up if I could. The question regarding the cooling systems, are we including in our ordinance that they should be air cooled versus water cooled? MS. NOBLE: No, we do not have a requirement from the land planning aspect on the technology of air cooled versus water cooled. Brad can talk to you more from the engineering perspective. MR. SANDERSON: It's our understanding that a lower intensity water use is being presented, so the exact technology probably is still to be determined, but it's not a water intensive cooling system that's being proposed , and I believe it will be in one of the agreements, but perhaps not in the annexation agreement. MR. WITT: Yes, I can make a comment on that. MAYOR PURCELL: Please. MR. WITT: So throwing air cooled 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 City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 19 water cooled around kind of is a very broad brush statement for the cooling system. So I could say we're doing water cooling here, we would actually be using less -- we could be using less water than an air cooled system because they have closed loop water systems where it stays in one loop and doesn't evaporate at all, where the air cooled systems use some evaporation, so it just -- they all depend on the specifics of those buildings and the design, but to Brad's point, we are going to work within the confines of the actual water availability, and it's not a heavy water usage. MAYOR PURCELL: Okay. Well -- ALDERMAN FUNKHOUSER: That would clarify. My intent was it's a lesser intense water use. MR. WITT: Yes, yes. ALDERMAN KOCH: And is that water in the cooling or is that a glycol-type thing? MAYOR PURCELL: Ken, talk into your mic, please. ALDERMAN KOCH: Is that a glycol-type system or is it water, purely water? 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 City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 20 MR. WITT: Just purely water, yep. MAYOR PURCELL: Okay. MR. WITT: It gets treated for demineralization, but it's just water. MAYOR PURCELL: Okay. Thank you on that. And then, Chris, you -- and I am not trying to pick a battle here, but you said you thought it was an intense -- not for the water, but just a higher density or more square footage? I did 6 .8 million on whatever my math is, 23 and a half million square feet. Is that what 5 40 acres is, 23 and a half million, is it 43 540 per acre? Yeah, so I mean that's -- I don't know, that doesn't seem real -- ALDERMAN FUNKHOUSER: I 'm just looking at, you know, the other two data centers that have brought plans forward and the percentage of open space that is on those two plans. This one doesn't have -- If you just take the square footage, it's not an actual apples to apples because that's gross square footage, that's not your actual land square footage that you are taking up, so that's kind of a hard number to just take that 6 .7 mil -- or 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 City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 21 6 .8 -- MAYOR PURCELL: Eight. ALDERMAN FUNKHOUSER: -- million and then the 17 million, you have to take the actual open space. MAYOR PURCELL: Okay. ALDERMAN FUNKHOUSER: And just looking at -- So that's where your number -- I understand where you are coming from -- MAYOR PURCELL: Yeah. ALDERMAN FUNKHOUSER: -- just taking the square footage of the buildings, but it's the footprint on the site. MAYOR PURCELL: Okay. ALDERMAN FUNKHOUSER: I am looking at impervious to pervious types of uses on the site. MAYOR PURCELL: Okay. Thank you. Other Aldermen have questions? (No response.) MAYOR PURCELL: I have a couple more. Do you have a decommissioning plan? MR. WITT: Not at this time, but we will as part of the process. MAYOR PURCELL: Okay. I brought this up 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 City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 22 at the previous hearing, I know you weren't necessarily here, maybe you were paying attention, maybe you weren't , doesn't really matter, but I asked the same question there. I just think that as the technology changes, no different way than the way solar fields have decommissioning plans, I think it's important, so I appreciate that. What do you plan on doing if this is not built out here in 15 or 20 years? MR. WITT: If the -- Like if we only built out part of the -- MAYOR PURCELL: Yeah, let's say you built out a third of it. A s the technology changes, you know, all the time. MR. WITT: So I don't -- So we hear this a lot, technology changing. I think that the -- what the core value here is the -- is the existing power infrastructure, which isn't going to change. You know, there could be a world, to your point, that you don't need as many buildings to utilize the same amount of power, and in that case, to Chris's question, you would want to say 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 City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 23 have just a less dense site, but in our world, like when we're actually leasing these buildings, we are doing it kind of on a power perspective, not necessarily on a building square foot perspective, so we're getting to kind of similar economics by utilizing that power, maybe not utilizing the whole footprint. MAYOR PURCELL: Okay. But -- go ahead. MR. WITT: Maybe to answer the question, another question, we don't have an alternate use for the site. MAYOR PURCELL: Okay. MR. WITT: Yeah. MAYOR PURCELL: Okay. If you didn't fill it out in 20 years, would you consider donating the remainder of the land to the city? MR. WITT: Yeah, I think if we utilize all the power and then there is excess -- excess land, I think that's definitely something we could look into. MAYOR PURCELL: Okay. I don't know that I will be here. You will probably be doing this, you look pretty young, but I don't know that I will be here. 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 City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 24 MR. WITT: Yeah. MAYOR PURCELL: But okay. And then I think maybe Bart has asked this of you, but I would strongly, strongly encourage that your first phase be in the Yorkville School District. I think that would be more favorably received by myself, I can't speak for the Aldermen, but definitely by myself and my community, so just keep that in the back of your minds , please. And then any -- maybe you're not public with this or not, but if this were fully built out, what kind of dollar value do you put on this project? MR. WITT: It's in the billions, and it depends on what you are measuring. So the users themselves are probably going to be investing, you know, it could be upwards of a billion per building depending on what they are putting in the building, so -- MAYOR PURCELL: Okay. MR. WITT: -- it's a sizable number. MAYOR PURCELL: Okay. MR. WITT: And we will get -- again, as 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 City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 25 we refine this and get closer , we will give you all some estimates on tax projections, too. MAYOR PURCELL: Okay. So you don't have those yet then? MR. WITT: I don't . No, we don't . MAYOR PURCELL: Okay. For the property taxes, and also will you have them for your projected utility taxes, too? MR. WITT: Yes. MAYOR PURCELL: Okay. MR. WITT: Yeah, we can include that, yeah. MAYOR PURCELL: Okay. And when did -- You said three phases. When would you expect construction to begin on the first phase? MR. WITT: About two years. MAYOR PURCELL: About two years from approval? MR. WITT: Yeah. MAYOR PURCELL: And what is it, a two-year process? MR. WITT: It's not as much a two-year process, it's about a two-year lead time to get the equipment to actually be i nstalling. 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 City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 26 Most of the equipment you're going to install, first of all, the electrical equipment and getting an interconnection with ComEd, and so that's going to drive a lot of the process. We don't want to -- you don't want to do any site mass grading and have erosion issues when you are not going to use it for, you know, a year or so after, and so you want to make sure that's lined up with when you're actually going to land the energization of the on-site substation and, therefore, the buildings. MAYOR PURCELL: Okay. And then once you start the -- So if -- let's say this gets approved January 1 , if it gets approved, I know we have some things to discuss still, from then it's two years before you start construction? MR. WITT: Before you -- yeah, before you have trucks out there doing a lot of mass grading, yeah. MAYOR PURCELL: And then from the point you start construction, approximately how long until one of these facilities would be open? MR. WITT: Year, 18 months. 18, 20 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 City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 27 months, yeah. MAYOR PURCELL: Okay. So four years out, something like that? MR. WITT: Yeah. Yeah. MAYOR PURCELL: Okay. And this was asked at the last meeting, and I don't understand the rules with the state, but one of the members I think on Zoom asked do you work with organized labor on this and the unions, do you get some type of agreement with them? MR. WITT: It's a good question. I don't know the answer to that. I can get that for you. MAYOR PURCELL: Okay. Because I have been asked that several times. We've got some good union people in the area -- MR. WITT: Yeah. MAYOR PURCELL: -- a lot right here in the community -- MR. WITT: Yeah. MAYOR PURCELL: They're -- some of them are actually looking forward to working on these projects -- MR. WITT: Yeah. 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 City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 28 MAYOR PURCELL: -- so I 'd like to make sure. Okay. MR. WITT: So all of our work -- To my knowledge, all of our work existing in the greater Chicago area has had union labor on the projects, so -- MAYOR PURCELL: Okay. That's -- That's fantastic. MR. WITT: But I will get that answer for you. I don't know. MAYOR PURCELL: No, I appreciate it. I just -- These are things I hear from the public and I ask. And then the other thing that is important to me and I guess, therefore, the city as well, we have a real challenge with our school system, and it's a positive thing, our schools are growing because the community is growing, and I would rather be growing than dying like Chicago, for example, but with growth comes the need for future buildings and expansions , so I would like you to consider having a negotiation with the school district, and we would like to be involved with those conversations and have you 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 City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 29 write an upfront check to the school district to help pay for their building expansions. MR. WITT: Okay. Understood. MAYOR PURCELL: So it's very important to me. I cannot express that enough. I have been here my whole life, I 've seen this before, where the town grows and there is need for schools, and I want the school system to be able to get it right, and I think this is an opportunity for you. You talk about how you give back to the community, this is a great opportunity. MR. WITT: Yeah. MAYOR PURCELL: So, Aldermen, any Aldermen have other questions? (No response.) MAYOR PURCELL: Okay. I am going to open it up to anyone in the public. First anyone here in the meeting, anyone have any questions? If you do, please step forward to the microphone and ask away. (No response.) MAYOR PURCELL: Nobody here at the meeting? 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 City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 30 (No response.) MAYOR PURCELL: Okay. How about -- Oh, Mr. Koch. ALDERMAN KOCH: Just one more. So the process, once it's a pproved from us, what do you factor for getting the agreement with ComEd? MR. WITT: Yeah, good question. We are in -- ComEd is doing cluster studies now to organize some of their approval process. We are in the third cluster with them. We have been in that cluster for the better part of like three, four months now. We expect an initial feedback from them at the -- in the fall, so October-ish timeline, and they are going to give us more directive at that time as to what's -- what the next milestone timeline is going to be. ALDERMAN KOCH: So for my education then, is each data center project like on its own or are they all in that same kind of cluster? MR. WITT: The way they're doing it is they are doing -- they are grouping them by clusters of area, because they are looking at grade improvements for how they impact each 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 City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 31 other, because it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to look at one when one is happening right next door and you are not reviewing that in your grade improvement, so they are clustering them together and looking at all those and how they impact the grid and what the cost is going to be per project to get them up and running. ALDERMAN KOCH: Thank you. MAYOR PURCELL: Other questions from Aldermen? (No response.) MAYOR PURCELL: Craig, did you have something? Please. ALDERMAN SOLING: As far as your water discharge goes to the sanitary district, I asked the question last time, too, and I just want to reiterate, there is no heavy metals, there is no glycol, there is no -- nothing that neighbors really need to be concerned about, correct? MR. WITT: No. No. ALDERMAN SOLING: And do you have an idea of what your discharge is per building roughly? MR. WITT: I don't have that number 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 City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 32 front of me. Katie, I know you are in the front, I don't know if you maybe have that number. MS. FRASER: No, I don't have that handy at the moment, but we can get back to you on that and get a more final answer. ALDERMAN SOLING: Thank you. MAYOR PURCELL: Thank you, Craig. I 'm just looking over my notes here. Are there any questions from anyone on Zoom? (No response.) MAYOR PURCELL: No? Any other Aldermen? I have another question, but any other Aldermen have questions? ALDERMAN KOCH: John. MAYOR PURCELL: Oh, I 'm sorry. Please step to the microphone. I 'm sorry, I didn't see you there. MR. OVERFRANK: Sorry, I was just thinking about this. MAYOR PURCELL: That's what I 'm doing, too. I 'm thinking as we're going. CHUCK OVERFRANK, testified before the City Council as follows: 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 City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 33 MR. OVERFRANK: Chuck Overfrank (phonetic), I 'm a resident of Yorkville. I was curious, in one of the pictures, it looks like you might have a battery storage system; is that correct? MR. WITT: I can answer that. No battery storage system. What you might have seen is a contained generator unit, looks kind of like a battery from a far, but it's actually a contained -- enclosure around a generator. MR. OVERFRANK: There is a series of -- MR. WITT: Yep, there is a series of those generators running alongside the building, yeah. No batteries. ALDERMEN KOCH: Couple more. MAYOR PURCELL: Go ahead. ALDERMAN KOCH: So to follow up on that, so as technology gets better, if the battery systems would become, you know, a good thing to have, would you guys be able to add them to these, or is once your project is built, it's not really possible? MR. WITT: You mean for the backup generation? 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 City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 34 ALDERMAN KOCH: Yeah, if you want to put some sort of battery system in. MR. WITT: Yeah, you could. You could easily switch out those generators. I mean, the area they sit in, you could easily take out those bays for a battery unit. The battery technology is pretty far off from what they would need for a long-term viability of generation at this point. I mean, those generators will last you about three days; if you have a battery the same size it will last you about an hour, so I mean, it's a pretty big gap right now. ALDERMAN KOCH: No, I knew that -- MR. WITT: Yeah. ALDERMAN KOCH: -- I 'm just wondering, because going forward I think you might see -- MR. WITT: Hopefully. ALDERMAN KOCH: -- a lot of research and development into that. MR. WITT: Yeah. ALDERMAN SOLING: One more at the end of that, are those diesel generators or are they natural gas? 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 City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 35 MR. WITT: Yes, they are diesel. Yes. MAYOR PURCELL: Other questions? (No response.) MAYOR PURCELL: So I have a couple more. Oh. Step forward, please, to the microphone, and, again, just state your name and ask the question. WALT STAGNER, testified before the City Council as follows: MR. STAGNER: My name is Walt Stagner. I live here in Yorkville. I 've got a couple questions. Will these buildings, the data centers, be isolated somehow from the power grid? How does the power grid that these buildings use interface to everything else? And what happens if the grid goes down, do these buildings go down, too, or are you on a separate power situation? MR. WITT: Good question. So the buildings are connected to the grid and then the diesel generators that we were discussing a minute ago would be what would come in place if the grid goes down. 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 City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 36 MR. STAGNER: And how long -- okay. So I guess that was sort of asked before. So it would run either until you run out of fuel, is that how that works? MR. WITT: Ideally the grid would come on before that, but you would then have a refueling event if it wasn't coming on within a three-day period. MR. STAGNER: And maybe I missed something, but does the City get to know who the people are that are renting the space? MR. WITT: Yes, they will. Yes. MR. STAGNER: Because I 've interfaced with some of the people that have done the data centers in DeKalb, and I 'm not sure that that's common knowledge among the people that live there, who is actually occupying the data centers, for example, besides Facebook. MR. WITT: You mean who is -- MR. STAGNER: Who the tenants are that actually have the equipment inside the data centers. MR. WITT: Yes, the City will know who that 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 City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 37 MR. STAGNER: Thank you. MR. WITT: Yep. MAYOR PURCELL: Other questions from the public? (No response.) MAYOR PURCELL: Well, I 'll ask a couple others and -- yep. Go ahead. Yeah, I will ask a couple others, so if you think of some others, that's what we are here for. MR. ROSE: The residents of Kylyn's Ridge, which is the subdivision Chris knows well, it's going to sit up against some of these properties. Curious about -- MAYOR PURCELL: Could you state your name, please? MR. ROSE: John Rose (phonetic). MAYOR PURCELL: Thank you. JOHN ROSE, testified before the City Council as follows: MR. ROSE: Concerned about Daniels North, Daniels South, Kelaka, Hamman-Kelaka, basically all the plots around the Rob Roy farm, and questions about Faxon Road, it's not built heavily enough to support truck traffic. 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 City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 38 We get a lot of trucks down High Ridge through Kylyn's Ridge, also not suitable for truck traffic, but we see a lot of it, and we are wondering how much will the traffic increase, what will be the nature of the traffic, and what should we expect in terms of when these might be built out. MR. WITT: Yeah. MAYOR PURCELL: So just a couple of things. First of all, the Council recently passed restrictions on truck traffic, I think it was last meeting, was it, or two meetings ago? MR. DHUSE: Yes. MAYOR PURCELL: For some of those roads you mentioned. The second thing is he can address traffic issues related to the Project Steel. Those other issues, if they're not related directly to this project, this is a public hearing for that project, but we have addressed -- to answer your question, we have passed just very recently restrictions on truck traffic through the subdivision. MR. ROSE: And there was also a question 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 City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 39 about staffing and how many employees would be using those roads as well. MR. WITT: Yep. Yes. So good questions. We will work with the City on what we describe -- and might have a different name, but we described it as a construction routing plan intentionally around that to make sure that the construction routing for the site makes sense for the surrounding community and wherever we are bringing in trucks. That's -- the construction routing is really where any traffic happens. The positive of these buildings are that they are large revenue for the City with very little impact on services to the community, especially, you know, revenue for the school district without any kids going into the schools, and then, again, improvements of off-site without very little traffic around. I mean, you have -- at any one point you might have only a hundred employees when this is fully built out on the site, so very minimal, minimal employee traffic. ALDERMAN KOCH: And how -- MAYOR PURCELL: Just one thing to follow 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 City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 40 up on that. For this one specific, and I can say for others, if and when they get approved, some of these haven't been approved yet, just zoning has, we would not have construction traffic going through any subdivision. I know that's come up before. We would not have construction traffic going through a subdivision, just absolutely not going to happen, so -- MR. WITT: Yeah, we wouldn't want that either, just to put that out there. ALDERMAN KOCH: So would you say like a hundred people for the whole build-out, so roughly what would that be per building, because I 'm assuming you have a crew 24/7 , right, because these don't shut down? MR. WITT: Yeah, so at any -- at any one time you could have as low as a hundred employees, so you have probably your I would say medium to high number would be about ten employees per building with three shifts, so you could say 30 employees per building running 24/7 , so if you multiply that by our 18 buildings right now, it's , yeah, 5 40 employees. 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 City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 41 MAYOR PURCELL: One per acre? MR. WITT: Yeah, exactly. MAYOR PURCELL: So just curious, Krysti, three and a half homes per acre, that's R -2 about, 3 .64 or something like that? MS. NOBLE: Yes, 3 .64. MAYOR PURCELL: Okay. God, it's amazing what I learn. I 'll forget it, though. So let's say three and a half and two cars. Holy cow, you could have seven cars per acre versus one. MR. WITT: Yeah. MAYOR PURCELL: So really the traffic -- the concern about traffic is -- I think it is way overblown. I agree, during construction we don't want traffic going through the subdivisions, understand that, but as far as just employees and traffic, that's really not a real concern. MR. WITT: Yeah. MAYOR PURCELL: Ken, did that answer your question? ALDERMAN KOCH: Yes. MAYOR PURCELL: Okay. So 30 employees per building. Interesting. This is once they are completed? 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 City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 42 MR. WITT: Yeah, once they are completed, and that's three shifts, so ten per shift. MAYOR PURCELL: Yeah, so at any one time it's -- okay. Heck, you have probably more -- more delivery trucks going down your street in a day than that. Heck, probably my house honestly. Okay. So I just want you to understand our position. We are not going to allow, you know -- if and when these many new things become fashionable, not here in Yorkville, just not going to happen, so if you've got any grand plans of that, wipe them out right now, okay? MR. WITT: We do not. Appreciate that, yeah. MAYOR PURCELL: I appreciate that, too. And the other thing, I hear about this, is with data centers come higher demand for electric, hence, supply and demand, the electric rates go up. So I am curious, if we were to tell you all we don't want you because we don't want electric rates to go up, I assume some of these 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 City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 43 would be built somewhere else, or is Yorkville the only town that people are looking because we are so awesome? MR. WITT: No, yeah. MAYOR PURCELL: No, we're not awesome? Come on now. MR. WITT: Well, you are -- you are awesome. There is two parts to that. One is so we are working with ComEd, a lot of what they are doing and studying is figuring out what our cost to the system is going to be, so we have to pay that cost upfront, as an upfront payment to them, for them to commit to then do those improvements for the grid. Then there is a second part of that, which is that this area, ComEd, is a part of a larger utility network, and to your point, any data center going anywhere in that utility network is buying wholesale from that network's pricing and, therefore, moving prices up and down. It's not binary, this area is getting a data center and, therefore, you know, the immediate radius has a rate increase, 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 City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 44 part of that whole network. MAYOR PURCELL: So eventually, whether it's a year or five, ten years, there is going to be more demand for electricity, unless these things become super efficient and they run on a nine volt battery, maybe they could someday, but as demand goes up, it's going to affect the whole region whether or not these are in Yorkville, is that what I 'm hearing you say? MR. WITT: That's correct, yeah. MAYOR PURCELL: Okay. No, that's important because I get that a lot, people say, oh, your rates are going to go way up, it's all because the city is evil people, and I 'm not going to say I 'm a not bad person, but I don't think I 'm going to make the electric rates go up by myself, so okay. Other questions or comments from the Council? (No response.) MAYOR PURCELL: Anyone else in the public? I don't want to miss somebody raising their hand last minute here. (No response.) 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 City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 45 MAYOR PURCELL: Okay. Zoomland, anyone in Zoomland? One more chance. (No response.) MAYOR PURCELL: Okay. Anything else you want to add, anybody? MR. WITT: No, appreciate the time. Thanks for the great questions. MAYOR PURCELL: All right. I will close the public hearing at 7 :5 2 p .m . Thank you very much. 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Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 4 43:7, 44:10, 45:6 MS [11] - 3:3, 5:12, 5:19, 6:15, 6:18, 6:20, 15:22, 17:24, 18:8, 32:3, 41:6 multiply [1] - 40:23 N name [7] - 5:18, 7:10, 9:3, 35:6, 35:10, 37:15, 39:5 Naper [1] - 3:3 Naperville [1] - 3:4 natural [1] - 34:24 nature [2] - 10:10, 38:5 necessarily [2] - 22:2, 23:4 need [5] - 22:22, 28:21, 29:8, 31:19, 34:8 needs [1] - 16:18 negotiation [1] - 28:22 neighbors [1] - 31:18 network [3] - 43:17, 43:19, 44:1 network's [1] - 43:19 new [1] - 42:10 next [3] - 16:2, 30:17, 31:3 nice [1] - 11:21 nine [1] - 44:6 NOBLE [8] - 5:12, 5:19, 6:15, 6:18, 6:20, 17:24, 18:8, 41:6 Noble [1] - 2:20 nobody [1] - 29:23 North [2] - 3:3, 37:21 north [2] - 9:20, 11:2 note [1] - 13:7 notes [1] - 32:8 nothing [1] - 31:18 number [8] - 8:2, 8:10, 20:24, 21:8, 24:22, 31:24, 32:2, 40:20 O O'Hare [1] - 8:14 obviously [1] - 9:9 occupying [1] - 36:17 October [1] - 30:14 October-ish [1] - 30:14 OF [3] - 1:6, 46:1, 46:2 off-site [1] - 39:17 offer [1] - 12:23 Olson [1] - 2:11 on-site [1] - 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2:5 plots [1] - 37:22 point [8] - 16:19, 17:2, 19:11, 22:22, 26:21, 34:9, 39:19, 43:17 Pointe [1] - 1:16 Police [1] - 2:17 ponds [1] - 10:9 portfolio [2] - 7:23, 8:4 position [1] - 42:9 positive [2] - 28:17, 39:12 possible [1] - 33:22 power [8] - 22:19, 22:23, 23:3, 23:6, 23:18, 35:14, 35:15, 35:18 Prairie [1] - 1:16 predominantly [1] - 8:13 preliminary [3] - 6:4, 10:17, 16:11 presence [2] - 7:18, 8:8 PRESENT [2] - 2:1, 2:10 presentation [3] - 5:10, 5:13, 7:1 presentations [1] - 10:24 presented [2] - 6:7, 18:15 pretty [3] - 23:23, 34:7, 34:12 previous [1] - 22:1 prices [1] - 43:20 pricing [1] - 43:20 primarily [2] - 11:12, 16:7 private [2] - 17:17, 17:22 proceedings [3] - 5:2, 45:11, 46:13 process [8] - 9:10, 16:22, 21:23, 25:21, 25:23, 26:5, 30:5, 30:9 project [11] - 6:11, 8:23, 11:2, 11:3, 12:21, 24:14, 30:19, 31:7, 33:21, 38:19, 38:20 Project [5] - 3:10, 5:6, 9:6, 11:1, 38:16 projected [1] - 25:8 projections [1] - 25:2 projects [6] - 14:8, 14:11, 15:1, 16:15, 27:23, 28:6 Prologis [8] - 3:10, 5:6, 5:20, 7:11, 7:13, 7:16, 9:5, 10:3 properties [1] - 37:13 property [5] - 9:17, 9:22, 10:14, 13:14, 25:6 proposed [3] - 12:6, 13:21, 18:17 proposing [1] - 10:3 provide [1] - 16:1 public [15] - 5:2, 5:6, 5:7, 7:2, 10:8, 24:12, 28:12, 29:18, 37:4, 38:20, 44:22, 45:9, 45:12, 46:6, 46:14 PUBLIC [1] - 1:10 Public [1] - 2:16 PUD [1] - 6:4 PURCELL [88] - 5:5, 5:14, 6:14, 6:16, 6:19, 6:21, 7:6, 8:24, 12:22, 13:1, 13:5, 13:9, 14:13, 14:18, 14:21, 18:4, 18:23, 19:14, 19:21, 20:2, 20:5, 21:2, 21:6, 21:10, 21:14, 21:17, 21:20, 21:24, 22:13, 23:8, 23:12, 23:14, 23:21, 24:2, 24:21, 24:23, 25:3, 25:6, 25:10, 25:13, 25:17, 25:20, 26:13, 26:21, 27:2, 27:5, 27:14, 27:18, 27:21, 28:1, 28:7, 28:11, 29:4, 29:14, 29:17, 29:23, 30:2, 31:9, 31:12, 32:7, 32:12, 32:16, 32:21, 33:16, 35:2, 35:4, 37:3, 37:6, 37:14, 37:17, 38:9, 38:14, 39:24, 41:1, 41:3, 41:7, 41:12, 41:19, 41:22, 42:4, 42:17, 43:5, 44:2, 44:11, 44:21, 45:1, 45:4, 45:8 Purcell [1] - 2:2 purely [2] - 19:24, 20:1 put [3] - 24:13, 34:1, 40:11 putting [1] - 24:19 Q questions [19] - 7:1, 7:3, 12:19, 13:1, 13:7, 16:11, 21:18, 29:15, 29:19, 31:9, 32:9, 32:14, 35:2, Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 5 35:12, 37:3, 37:23, 39:4, 44:18, 45:7 quick [1] - 13:7 R R-2 [1] - 41:4 rack [1] - 17:10 radius [1] - 43:24 raising [1] - 44:22 rate [1] - 43:24 rated [1] - 8:4 rates [4] - 42:20, 42:24, 44:13, 44:16 rather [1] - 28:19 real [4] - 7:17, 20:14, 28:16, 41:17 realigned [1] - 13:18 realignment [1] - 13:20 really [7] - 12:14, 22:3, 31:19, 33:22, 39:11, 41:12, 41:17 received [1] - 24:7 recently [2] - 38:10, 38:22 record [2] - 5:18, 46:12 Recreation [1] - 2:18 reduced [1] - 46:9 redundant [1] - 9:13 refine [1] - 25:1 refined [1] - 16:21 refueling [1] - 36:7 regarding [1] - 18:5 region [1] - 44:8 reiterate [2] - 15:23, 31:17 related [2] - 38:16, 38:19 relative [2] - 46:16, 46:17 remainder [1] - 23:16 rendering [1] - 11:8 renting [1] - 36:11 reported [1] - 46:7 REPORTED [1] - 3:23 Reporter [1] - 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2:22 sanitary [1] - 31:15 School [1] - 24:5 school [5] - 28:16, 28:23, 29:1, 29:8, 39:15 schools [3] - 28:17, 29:8, 39:16 Scouts [1] - 8:18 screened [1] - 12:3 second [2] - 38:15, 43:15 see [5] - 11:23, 12:8, 32:17, 34:17, 38:3 seeking [3] - 5:20, 10:13, 10:15 seem [1] - 20:14 sense [2] - 31:2, 39:8 separate [1] - 35:18 separation [1] - 17:21 series [2] - 33:11, 33:12 server [1] - 17:10 services [1] - 39:14 set [1] - 47:3 seven [1] - 41:10 several [2] - 9:11, 27:15 shift [1] - 42:3 shifts [2] - 40:21, 42:2 Shorthand [1] - 46:4 shorthand [1] - 46:9 show [1] - 12:6 shows [1] - 6:7 shut [1] - 40:16 side [1] - 13:13 signed [1] - 46:23 similar [1] - 23:5 simultaneously [1] - 46:9 sit [2] - 34:5, 37:12 site [13] - 10:2, 16:16, 17:13, 17:15, 21:13, 21:16, 23:1, 23:11, 26:7, 26:11, 39:8, 39:17, 39:21 situation [1] - 35:19 six [1] - 10:4 sizable [1] - 24:22 size [1] - 34:11 slide [1] - 9:19 solar [1] - 22:6 Soling [1] - 2:4 SOLING [4] - 31:14, 31:21, 32:6, 34:22 someday [1] - 44:6 sometimes [1] - 7:2 somewhere [1] - 43:1 sorry [2] - 32:16, 32:17 Sorry [4] - 14:16, 14:17, 14:18, 32:19 sort [2] - 34:2, 36:2 South [2] - 3:8, 37:21 south [3] - 9:20, 9:24, 11:3 space [5] - 7:19, 17:4, 20:18, 21:5, 36:11 special [1] - 6:3 specific [3] - 15:5, 16:18, 40:1 specifically [1] - 15:3 specifics [1] - 19:10 specified [1] - 46:15 sprinkling [1] - 8:13 square [13] - 6:9, 6:16, 6:18, 7:18, 8:12, 17:16, 20:9, 20:11, 20:20, 20:21, 20:22, 21:12, 23:4 SS [1] - 46:1 staff [4] - 9:14, 15:10, 16:5, 17:20 staffing [1] - 39:1 Stagner [1] - 35:10 STAGNER [8] - 4:8, 35:8, 35:10, 36:1, 36:9, 36:13, 36:20, 37:1 start [5] - 5:14, 9:10, 26:14, 26:17, 26:22 STATE [1] - 46:1 state [4] - 5:18, 27:7, 35:6, 37:14 State [1] - 46:4 statement [1] - 19:2 States [1] - 7:24 stay [1] - 17:12 stays [1] - 19:7 Steel [4] - 3:10, 5:6, 9:7, 38:17 Steel-Prologis [2] - 3:10, 5:6 stenographically [1] - 46:8 step [5] - 6:23, 14:14, 29:20, 32:17, 35:5 still [2] - 18:16, 26:16 storage [2] - 33:4, 33:7 stories [1] - 11:10 story [1] - 6:8 Street [1] - 3:8 street [1] - 42:6 strongly [2] - 24:4 studies [1] - 30:8 studying [1] - 43:10 subdivision [4] - 37:11, 38:23, 40:5, 40:8 subdivisions [1] - 41:15 submarket [1] - 8:15 subsection [1] - 9:24 substation [2] - 10:6, 26:12 successful [1] - 16:15 suitable [1] - 38:2 Suite [2] - 3:3, 3:8 super [1] - 44:5 supply [1] - 42:20 support [1] - 37:24 surrounding [1] - 39:9 switch [1] - 34:4 system [10] - 18:17, 19:2, 19:6, 19:24, 28:17, 29:8, 33:4, 33:7, 34:2, 43:11 systems [4] - 18:6, 19:7, 19:8, 33:19 T tall [1] - 11:10 tax [1] - 25:2 taxes [2] - 25:7, 25:8 tech [1] - 5:22 technology [8] - 16:8, 18:10, 18:15, 22:5, 22:14, 22:17, 33:18, 34:7 ten [3] - 40:20, 42:2, 44:3 tenants [2] - 8:7, 36:20 term [2] - 17:11, 34:8 terms [1] - 38:6 testified [6] - 7:8, 9:2, 15:21, 32:24, 35:9, 37:19 testimony [1] - 46:12 themselves [1] - 24:17 therefore [4] - 26:12, 28:15, 43:20, 43:23 thereof [1] - 46:23 thinking [2] - 32:20, 32:22 third [2] - 22:14, 30:10 three [10] - 8:11, 10:4, 25:14, 30:11, 34:10, 36:8, 40:21, 41:4, 41:9, 42:2 three-day [1] - 36:8 throwing [1] - 18:24 tilt [1] - 11:13 tilt-up [1] - 11:13 Tim [1] - 2:18 timeline [2] - 30:15, 30:17 today [1] - 7:12 together [1] - 31:5 tonight [2] - 6:10, 9:6 tonight's [1] - 6:5 total [1] - 8:11 totaling [2] - 5:21, 6:9 Tots [1] - 8:18 town [2] - 29:7, 43:2 Toys [1] - 8:18 traffic [16] - 37:24, Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 6 38:3, 38:4, 38:5, 38:11, 38:16, 38:23, 39:11, 39:18, 39:22, 40:4, 40:7, 41:12, 41:13, 41:15, 41:17 transcript [2] - 46:7, 46:23 transcription [1] - 46:10 transmission [1] - 9:23 transportation [1] - 13:17 treated [1] - 20:3 truck [4] - 37:24, 38:3, 38:11, 38:22 trucks [4] - 26:19, 38:1, 39:10, 42:6 true [1] - 46:12 try [2] - 9:13, 9:15 trying [1] - 20:7 Tuesday [1] - 1:20 turn [1] - 5:15 two [14] - 6:8, 8:2, 11:10, 20:16, 20:18, 25:16, 25:17, 25:21, 25:22, 25:23, 26:17, 38:12, 41:9, 43:8 two-story [1] - 6:8 two-year [3] - 25:21, 25:22, 25:23 type [4] - 16:8, 19:20, 19:23, 27:10 types [1] - 21:16 typewriting [1] - 46:10 U under [4] - 8:3, 46:11, 46:24, 47:2 understood [1] - 29:3 union [2] - 27:16, 28:5 unions [1] - 27:9 unit [4] - 6:3, 10:17, 33:8, 34:6 United [3] - 3:5, 7:23, 10:12 UNITED [1] - 1:6 unless [1] - 44:4 up [19] - 5:17, 6:23, 11:13, 18:4, 20:23, 21:24, 26:10, 29:18, 31:7, 33:17, 37:12, 40:1, 40:6, 42:21, 42:24, 43:20, 44:7, 44:13, 44:16 upfront [3] - 29:1, 43:12 upwards [1] - 24:18 usage [1] - 19:13 user [1] - 17:2 users [3] - 17:4, 17:11, 24:16 uses [1] - 21:16 utility [3] - 25:8, 43:17, 43:18 utilize [2] - 22:23, 23:17 utilizing [2] - 23:6, 23:7 V vacated [1] - 13:12 value [3] - 10:11, 22:18, 24:13 versus [3] - 18:7, 18:10, 41:10 via [2] - 2:1, 46:10 viability [1] - 34:9 VITOSH [2] - 46:3, 47:9 Vitosh [2] - 3:23, 47:8 volt [1] - 44:6 volunteering [1] - 8:18 W Walt [1] - 35:10 WALT [2] - 4:8, 35:8 water [18] - 18:7, 18:10, 18:14, 18:16, 19:1, 19:3, 19:5, 19:6, 19:12, 19:13, 19:17, 19:19, 19:24, 20:1, 20:4, 20:8, 31:14 weeds [1] - 15:19 west [1] - 9:21 WHEREOF [1] - 47:3 WHEREUPON [1] - 5:1 whole [7] - 10:21, 23:7, 29:6, 31:1, 40:13, 44:1, 44:7 wholesale [1] - 43:19 Willrett [1] - 2:13 wipe [1] - 42:13 WITNESS [2] - 4:2, 47:3 Witt [1] - 7:10 WITT [74] - 4:4, 7:5, 7:7, 7:9, 14:9, 14:17, 14:23, 15:9, 15:17, 16:10, 17:6, 18:21, 18:24, 19:18, 20:1, Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cms.vitosh@gmail.com City Council - Public Hearing - June 24, 2025 7 20:3, 21:22, 22:11, 22:16, 23:9, 23:13, 23:17, 24:1, 24:15, 24:22, 24:24, 25:5, 25:9, 25:11, 25:16, 25:19, 25:22, 26:18, 26:24, 27:4, 27:11, 27:17, 27:20, 27:24, 28:3, 28:9, 29:3, 29:13, 30:7, 30:21, 31:20, 31:24, 33:6, 33:12, 33:23, 34:3, 34:15, 34:18, 34:21, 35:1, 35:20, 36:5, 36:12, 36:19, 36:23, 37:2, 38:8, 39:3, 40:10, 40:17, 41:2, 41:11, 41:18, 42:1, 42:15, 43:4, 43:7, 44:10, 45:6 wondering [2] - 34:16, 38:4 Works [1] - 2:16 works [1] - 36:4 world [2] - 22:21, 23:1 write [1] - 29:1 Y yards [1] - 12:1 year [7] - 8:19, 25:21, 25:22, 25:23, 26:9, 26:24, 44:3 years [8] - 8:6, 22:10, 23:15, 25:16, 25:17, 26:17, 27:2, 44:3 YORKVILLE [1] - 1:6 Yorkville [11] - 1:17, 3:6, 5:22, 10:12, 10:13, 24:5, 33:2, 35:11, 42:11, 43:1, 44:8 young [1] - 23:23 Z zoning [1] - 40:3 Zoom [3] - 2:1, 27:8, 32:10 zoomland [1] - 45:1 Zoomland [1] - 45:2 Prologis Data Center Development Overview JUNE 2025 | PROJECT STEEL CONFIDENTIAL Other Americas 128 MSF 624 buildings 2,167 acres U.S. 797 MSF 3,813 buildings 8,076 acres Europe 248 MSF 1,139 buildings 2,229 acres Asia 115 MSF 290 buildings 332 acres 2 Experience + Scale 40+ years real estate and development expertise 1.3B square feet portfolio across 20 countries $198B assets under management 25+ years data center experience A3/A credit rating 30+ data centers in portfolio PROLOGIS PORTFOLIO $2B spend since 2021 on data center development 500MW data centers completed or under construction since 2021 CONFIDENTIAL MARKET 3 Chicago Market Community Involvement ABOUT US 4 Toys for Tots Support Over Stigma Smile Farms Boy Scouts of America Greater Chicago Food Depository Nourishing Hope Rise Against Hunger Project Steel – 540 Acre Site ComEd Plano Substation ComEd ROW 345 kV Line Project Steel CONFIDENTIAL KEY FEATURES 18 Data Center Buildings 3 Major Phases 3 Substations ~6.8M SF buildout 15-20 -year project timeline Proposed M2 Zoning Site Plan