The URL can be used to link to this page

Home My WebLink AboutPlanning and Zoning Commission Minutes 2025 07-09-25APPROVED 8/13/25 PLANNING & ZONING COMMISSION City Council Chambers 651 Prairie Pointe Drive, Yorkville, IL Wednesday, July 9, 2025 7:00pm Meeting Called to Order Chairman Richard Vinyard called the meeting to order at 7:00pm, roll was called and a quorum was established. Roll Call Ryan Forristall-yes, Michael Crouch -yes, Chad Green -yes, Marge Linnane-yes, Richard Vinyard - yes Absent: Danny Williams, Seaver Tarulis City Staff Bart Olson, City Administrator Krysti Barksdale -Noble, Community Development Director Sara Mendez, Plannerl David Hansen, Senior Planner Kathleen Field Orr, City Attorney Lynn Dubajic Kellogg, City Consultant Katelyn Gregory, Community Engagement & Marketing Coordinator Brad Sanderson, City Engineer John Burner, Administrative Intern Alexandria Sandoval, Intern Other Guests Chris Vitosh, Vitosh Reporting Service Dale Konicek Larry's I -pad, via Zoom Shannon Westberg Sean R. , via Zoom Bernie Weiler/Cardinal/Mickey, Wilson Matt McCarron, Pioneer Development Keith Landovitz Clayton Marker Kitty Moore Christine Anderson, Prairie Meadows Patrick Winninger, Fox Haven Carl J. Jadczak, Bristol Bay Dave Silverman/Mahoney, Silverman & Cross Mike Konicek Jen Rakas, via Zoom Nathan Sevener, via Zoom Gary Koons, via Zoom John P. Bryan, Legacy Farms Debra Baumgartner, via Zoom Dan Kramer, Attorney Tom DeCarlo, KEOIL, LLC Grant Wilson, Mahoney, Silverman & Cross Ethan Kruser, WSPY News Brook Jadczak, Bristol Bay Previous Meeting Minutes June 11, 2025 Motion by Mr. Crouch and second by Mr. Green to approve the minutes as presented. Roll call: Forristall-yes, Crouch -yes, Green -yes, Vinyard -yes, Linnane-yes. Carried 5-0 Page 1 of 6 Citizen's Comments None Amendment to Agenda: Chairman Vinyard made a motion to move New Business items #2 and #3 after Citizen Comments and Mr. Forristall seconded. Roll call: Green -yes, Linnane-yes, Vinyard -yes, Forristall-yes, Crouch -yes. Carried 5-0. New Business: out of sequence) 2. PZC 2025-10 Greg Marker, on behalf of Marker, Inc. and Heartland Meadows West, LLC, contract purchaser, with the United City of Yorkville, property owner, is requesting Final Plat approval for an approximately 8.3-acre site. The proposed development consists of 20 single-family residential lots intended for an active adult community, along with 4 commercial outlots. The property is zoned R-2 Single -Family Traditional Residence District and B-3 General Business District and is located on Blackberry Shore Lane between Northland Lane and Cannonball Trail. Ms. Mendez said Final Plat approval is being requested for the 8.3 acre site which consists of 20 single-family lots and 4 commercial lots. She said the development reflects the approved amendment to the Kendall Marketplace PUD including the preliminary subdivision plat and the final PUD plat. An updated Final Plat was submitted based on engineering comments and they are in compliance with subdivision control ordinance standards. Upon approval, staff will establish a dormant Special Service Area. The final vote will be taken on July 22" d at City Council. Attorney Daniel Kramer was present on behalf of Marker, Inc. He said this parcel is in the Kendall Marketplace and he recalled that originally the city was going to construct a city building here. It was decided to not place a building here, the property was put up for bid and Marker, Inc. was the only bidder. Action Item Final Plat There was no discussion by the Commissioners and a motion was made by Ms. Linnane and seconded by Mr. Green to approve the petition PZC 2025-10 Heartland Meadows West. Motion read by Mr. Vinyard as follows: In consideration of the proposed Final Plat of Subdivision of Heartland Meadows West, the Planning and Zoning Commission recommends approval of the plat to the City Council as presented by the Petitioner in plans prepared by Tebrugge Engineering dated last revised 6-30-25, subject to review comments provided by the City's engineering consultant, EEI, Inc., dated June 4, 2025 and June 9, 2025. Roll call: Linnane-yes, Vinyard -yes, Forristall-yes, Crouch -yes, Green -yes. Carried 5-0. 3. PZC 2025-11 Patrick Winninger, on behalf of 1115, LLC, petitioner, has filed an application with the United City of Yorkville Kendall County, Illinois, requesting Final Plat approval for Fox Haven Subdivision, which consists of two (2) parcels. Parcel 1 consists of 17 residential buildings totaling 105 townhome units on 13.161 acres and is zoned R-4 General Multi -Family Residence District. Parcel 2 consists of 1.017 acres and is zoned B-3 General Business District for a future commercial development. The entire 14.178-acre site is located at 1115 South Bridge Street. Senior Planner David Hansen presented the details for this petition for Final Plat approval. He reported the acreage and the number of buildings and townhomes for the first parcel and also described the second parcel. He said there are two PUD-related items for the final plat --cross access easements and appearance standards. An engineering review was also completed. Upon approval, the city will establish a dormant SSA. He said a final vote will be taken at City Council on July 22"d Page 2 of 6 Action Item Final Plat There were no comments from Commissioners and a motion was made and seconded by Commissioners Crouch and Forristall, respectively, to approve the petition PZC 2025-11, Fox Haven - 1115, LLC. Motion was read by Chairman Vinyard as follows: The Planning and Zoning Commission recommends approval to the City Council of the Final Plat of Subdivision of Fox Haven, dated last revised 6-17-2025 and prepared by Spaceco Civil Engineering and Surveying, subject to review comments prepared by the City's engineering consultant, EEI, Inc., in a letter dated June 16, 2025 and any subsequent reviews related to said Final Plat of Subdivision. Roll call: Vinyard -yes, Forristall-yes, Crouch -yes, Green -yes, Linnane-yes. Carried 5-0. (return to regular order of agenda) Public Hearings Chairman Vinyard stated there was one Public Hearing for this meeting, PZC 2025-08 Pioneer Development, LLC which was continued from the June 11, 2025 PZC meeting. He swore in those who would speak. Bart Olson: Data Center Overview/Question & Answer Prior to opening the Public Hearings, City Administrator Bart Olson presented an overview of rising demand for data centers and why they want to come to Yorkville. He said a data center is a computer warehouse and businesses are renting space for cloud storage and artificial intelligence storage. The buildings represent millions of square feet. Companies desire to come to Yorkville because of nearby electric sub -stations and available land. Wind power is also used. Very high tax revenue is generated with minimal impact by not adding students in the schools. Mr. Olson listed all the interested, pending or approved projects. He said the earliest vote for Project Cardinal would be July 22" d or possibly in August at City Council. Mr. Olson said electrical utility taxes will also be generated and as much as $7.3 million could be generated annually per building. Property tax is also paid. He detailed the sizeable amount of tax generated by the Meta data centers in DeKalb and he noted the amount of square feet in Yorkville would be even larger. Due to the high taxes generated, a reduction in fees or property taxes for residents is a possibility. He said there is a 20-year buildout at 2 years per building. City staff did due diligence prior to engaging with data center builders. A sound engineering firm has been hired to do noise studies and how to orient buildings for minimal sound impacts. He discussed building height restrictions, landscape buffers and water use. He said the city has asked all developers to use only air-cooled chillers or water cooled chillers with a closed loop system in order to conserve water. He noted that these data centers would use less water than a subdivision would use on the same property. The city asked the developers to start construction farthest from residential. He said developers would be required to pay in advance for certain infrastructure items including roads. In general, Mr. Olson said ComEd is requiring the data centers, rather than residents, to pay for most of the system upgrades. Public Hearing process cont. Chairman Vinyard read rules of decorum, giving of testimony and comments for the Public Hearings. He explained the procedure that would be followed. Page 3 of 6 Mr. Vinyard entertained a motion to open the Hearings. At approximately 7:39pm a motion was made and seconded by Mr. Green and Ms. Linnane, respectively, to open the Public Hearings. Roll call: Forristall-yes, Crouch -yes, Green -yes, Linaane-yes, Vinyard -yes. Carried 5-0. 1. CONTINUED PZC 2025-08 Pioneer Development, LLC, as the petitioner and contract purchaser, along with multiple property owners, has submitted applications to the United City of Yorkville In Kendall County, Illinois, seeking rezoning, special use authorization for a Planned Unit Development (PUD), and preliminary PUD Plan approval for approximately 1,037 acres across 20 parcels. The proposal involves rezoning the land from various residential and business districts to M-2 General Manufacturing District to facilitate the development of a state-of-the-art data center campus. This project would include 14 data center buildings totaling over 17 million square feet, two electrical substations, a utility switch yard and storm water detention basins. The applicants are also requesting several deviations from the Yorkville Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) related to setbacks, parking, circulation and design standards. The property is located northwest of Route 47 and Galena Road, south of Baseline Road and east of Ashe Road. (See Court Reporter's transcript of Public Hearings) (Petitioner's Standards & Responses to be included in the Official Record) (E-mail from Lawrence & Deborah Wickter to also be included in official record) After all testimony and comments were heard in the Public Hearing, a motion was made by Mr. Crouch and seconded by Ms. Linnane at 9:12pm to close the Public Hearings. Roll call: Forristall-yes, Crouch -yes, Green -yes, Linnane-yes, Vinyard -yes. Carried 5-0. Unfinished Business None New Business 1. PZC 2025-08 Pioneer Development, LLC (see full description above) Ms. Noble gave a summary of the Pioneer Development and their requests. She said she would address items not discussed by Mr. Olson or Mr. McCarron and staff recommendations pertaining to items that were discussed tonight. She said 70% (736) of the acres were part of a previous residential development that would have added 1,600 single family and multi -family units. One of the PUD's is still active and with adoption of this plan, that existing PUD would be nullified. With proposed rezoning to M-2, 7 parcels would come in as R-1 under annexation and then be rezoned to M-2. The other parcels in the present corporate boundaries would also be rezoned to M-2. Ms. Noble said there are 4 parcels not in the annexation petition and not discussed tonight and would then bring the total to 1,050 acres. Two are unincorporated residential parcels on the south side of Baseline Rd. and two are sliver parcels along Rt. 47. The petitioners are currently negotiating with the owners, but no buildings would be constructed there. There is a 17-acre parcel south of Galena Rd. which could be used for water storage. The PUD includes a request for 13 deviations and the PUD allows some flexibility. The UDO requires that one standard be met to meet PUD standards —this development meets 2: regional utility improvements/water & sanitary services and funding for construction for public roadways. The developer has included all of the new standards just adopted by the city. Page 4 of 6 Fencing, security measures, vehicle access inside, transition zones and residential protection zones with height mitigation were noted. Ms. Noble said M-2 zoning does not have a maximum height, but the petitioner has been requested to not exceed a maximum of 70 feet within a 15 foot radius of an existing residential structure. The petitioner will only ask for relief from that requirement where necessary for noise mitigation. The Preliminary Plan has 3 access points, 2 off Galena and 1 off Baseline plus emergency access points. Parking spots needed by the developer (3,700) are far less than required by the code (5,200). Staff is also asking for 104 electric charging stations. The developer can also provide a "fee in lieu of ' to provide chargers for the downtown or other public facilities. Staff is requesting a traffic management plan for construction and a full traffic study. The developer is proposing a 100 foot wide landscape buffer. They are also asking for a deviation from pedestrian circulation and staff has asked for walkways and bike trails around the project circumference. The developer will pay for all aspects of a 10-foot wide trail for the public. An 8-foot undulating berm will also be installed. Interior landscaping, mechanical screening, rooftop mechanicals, acoustical barriers, appearance standards, street improvements and a 10-foot fence were also discussed. Ms. Noble made final recommendations based on staff research of other communities which have data centers. No nuclear energy will be allowed, a complete final noise study is required, limitations on testing hours/days for backup generators, emergency operations plan for fire suppression and other related items and working with KenCom for training and contact lists. Also recommended is battery storage outside of buildings. The Comprehensive Plan showed estate conservation residential and parks open space. This plan was done in 2016 and with a 10-year shelf life, the updating process will begin soon. There will be agreements for infrastructure and offset funding in addition to agreements for water and sanitary sewer. Due to the scope and size of the project, staff requires the developer to reach out to affected HOA's and property owners. The petitioner met with unincorporated parcel owners and also the Bristol Bay residents. Discussion by Commissioners The Commissioners had a brief discussion. Mr. Forristall asked how far back the rooftop equipment sits on the roof. Mr. Koons will provide a detailed sketch. Mr. Crouch commented that the phasing of construction seems to be an important issue and in order to be a good neighbor, he asked the developer to consider starting the construction from the center. He said right now, the first scheduled buildings are the ones nearest the residents and they will be impacted. REZONING: Ms. Noble read the standards for rezoning and the Commissioners agreed with the findings. Action Item Rezoning Chairman Vinyard asked for a motion to approve PZC 2025-08 Project Cardinal. Moved by Mr. Crouch and seconded by Mr. Forristall to approve this petition. Motion read by Mr. Vinyard as follows: In consideration of testimony presented during a Public Hearing on July 9, 2025 and Page 5 of 6 discussion of the findings of fact, the Planning and Zoning Commission recommends approval to the City Council a request for rezoning from R-1 Single -Family Suburban Residential District, R-2 Single -Family Traditional Residence District, R-3 Multi -Family Attached Residence District, and B-3 General Business District to M-2 General Manufacturing District for Project Cardinal, a proposed future data center campus, generally located northwest of Route 47 and Galena Road, south of Baseline Road, and east of Ashe Road totaling approximately 1,037 acres. Roll call: Forristall-yes, Crouch -yes, Green -yes, Vinyard -yes, Linnane-yes. Carried 5-0. SPECIAL USE Ms. Noble then read the standards for the Special Use and the Commissioners agreed with the findings with one exception. Commissioner Green commented that he did not agree that the residents on Ashe Rd. will see increased property values and other Commissioners concurred. Action Item Special Use Chairman Vinyard entertained a motion for approval of 2025-08 Project Cardinal Special Use for Planned Unit Development. So moved and seconded by Commissioners Linnane and Crouch, respectively. Motion read by Chairman Vinyard as follows: In consideration of testimony presented during a Public Hearing on July 9, 2025 and approval of the findings of fact, the Planning and Zoning Commission recommends approval to the City Council of a request for Special Use authorization of a Planned Unit Development for Project Cardinal, a data center campus, to be generally located northwest of Route 47 and Galena Road, south of Baseline Road and east of Ashe Road totaling approximately 1,037 acres, subject to the conditions enumerated in a staff memorandum dated July 3, 2025. Roll call: Crouch -yes, Green -yes, Linnane-yes, Vinyard -yes, Forristall-yes Carried 5-0. PRELIMINARY PUD PLAN Action Item Preliminary PUD Plan Motion by Ms. Linnane and second by Mr. Crouch to approve PZC 2025-08 Project Cardinal Preliminary PUD Plan. Motion read by Chairman Vinyard as follows: The Planning and Zoning Commission recommends approval to the City Council of the Project Cardinal — Preliminary PUD Site Plan prepared by Burns McDonnell, Margulies Hoelzli Architecture and 02 and dated 6-20-25. Roll call: Crouch -yes, Green -yes, Linnane-yes, Vinyard -yes, Forristall-yes. Carried 5-0. Additional Business Ms. Alexandria Sandoval presented the following information. 1. City Council Action Updates a. PZC 2025-05 Amendment for Energy Industrial Use Standards/UDO Approved by City Council b. PZC 2024-09 Daniel Gorman on Behalf of USA Energy Independence Special Use Permit for solar energy facility — Council did not object to project for 1.5 Mile Review Adiournment There was no further business and the meeting was adjourned at 10:04pm on a motion by Mr. Crouch and second by Ms. Linnane. Unanimous voice vote approval. Respectfully submitted by Marlys Young, Minute Taker Page 6 of 6 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 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public Hearing - July 9, 202 N 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 PRESENT: Mr. Rich Vinyard, Chairman, Mr. Ryan Forristall, Commissioner, Ms. Marge Linnane, Commissioner, Mr. Michael Crouch, Commissioner, Mr. Chad Green, Commissioner. ALSO PRESENT: Mr. Bart Olson, City Administrator; Ms. Krysti Barksdale -Noble, Community Development Director; Ms. Sara Mendez, Senior Planner; Mr. David Hansen, Senior Planner; Ms. Lynn Dubajic Kellogg, City Consultant; Ms. Katelyn Gregory, Community Engagement & Marketing Coordinator; Mr. Brad Sanderson, City Engineer; Mr. John Burner, Administrative Intern; Ms. Alexandria Sandoval, Intern; Ms. Marlys Young, Minute Taker. Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public Hearing - July 9, 202 1 APPEARANCES: 2 OTTOSEN, DiNOLFO, HASENBALG & CASTALDO, LTD. 3 BY: MS. KATHLEEN FIELD ORR 1804 North Naper Boulevard, Suite 350 4 Naperville, Illinois 60563 (630) 682-0085 5 appeared on behalf of the United City of 6 Yorkville; 7 MAHONEY, SILVERMAN & CROSS, LLC BY: MR. DAVID J. SILVERMAN 8 822 Infantry Drive, Suite 100 Joliet, Illinois 60435 9 (815) 730-9500 10 appeared on behalf of the Project Cardinal Development Company. 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com 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 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public Hearing - July 9, 2025 5 1 (WHEREUPON, the following 2 proceedings were had in 3 public hearing, commencing 4 at 7:11 p.m. as follows:) 5 CHAIRMAN VINYARD: There is one public 6 hearing scheduled for tonight's Planning and 7 Zoning Commission meeting, PZC 2025-08, Pioneer 8 Development, LLC, which has been continued from 9 the June llth, 2025 meeting. 10 The purpose of these hearings is to 11 invite testimony from members of the public 12 regarding the proposed requests that is -- that 13 are being considered before the Commission 14 tonight. 15 Public testimony from persons 16 present who wish to speak for -- may be for or 17 against the request, or to ask questions of the 18 petitioners regarding items being heard. 19 Once all public hearings on 20 tonight's agenda are closed, the Commission will 21 deliberate and we will vote on recommendations to 22 the City Council for each of the matters that was 23 subject of tonight's hearing. 24 Those persons wishing to testify are Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public -Hearing— July 9, 202 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 asked to speak clearly, one at a time, and state your name, who you represent. You are also asked to sign in at the podium. If you plan to speak during tonight's public hearing as a petitioner or as a member of the public, please stand, raise your right hand and repeat after me. (Witnesses sworn.) CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Please be seated. All right. Before we open public hearing, City Administrator Bart Olson would like to give a brief overview of data center developments. (A discussion was had which was not in public hearing and not reported.) ** ** ** ** ** CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Now I'd like to review a few rules to ensure an orderly and productive hearing. When speaking, please make comments focused on the matter at hand. Avoid personal attacks, unrelated topics or repeating points already made. As Chairman, I may limit repetitive remarks or redirect speakers to stay on topic. Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public -Hearing.- July 9, 202 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Any member of the public who repeatedly disrupts or interrupts any of tonight's public hearing may be asked to leave the chambers. We ask that audience members remain silent during tonight's hearing unless they are speaking at the podium. The court reporter must record tonight's testimony, and cooperation from the audience will make her job easier and the transcripts of those hearings more accurate. Commission members may ask clarifying questions at any time, and the public may direct relevant questions to the petitioner either through me or via cross-examination. Likewise, a petitioner may respond to public comments and ask for clarifying questions of public speakers. Once all public comments have been heard, I will formally close the public comment period, after which the Commission will deliberate and vote. Thanks for your cooperation and your participation. Tonight the order for receiving testimony will be as follows: We will start off with the petitioner's presentation, followed by Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public -Hearing— July 9, 2025 8 1 those who wish to speak -- wish to speak in favor 2 or in opposition of the request. 3 May I have a motion to open the 4 public hearing on petition PZC 2025-08, Pioneer 5 Development, LLC? 6 COMMISSIONER GREEN: So moved. 7 COMMISSIONER LINNANE: Second. 8 CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Roll call vote on the 9 motion, please. 10 MS. YOUNG: Yes. Forristall. 11 COMMISSIONER FORRISTALL: Yes. 12 MS. YOUNG: Crouch. 13 COMMISSIONER CROUCH: Yes. 14 MS. YOUNG: Green. 15 COMMISSIONER GREEN: Yes. 16 MS. YOUNG: Linnane. 17 COMMISSIONER LINNANE: Yes. 18 MS. YOUNG: And Vinyard. 19 CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Yes. 20 Is the petitioner present and 21 prepared to make its presentation of the proposed 22 request? 23 MR. McCARRON: Yes. 24 CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Please. Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public Hearing - July 9, 202 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 MATT McCARRON, having been first duly sworn, testified before the Planning and Zoning Commission as follows: MR. McCARRON: Hi. My name is Matt McCarron. I am here tonight representing Pioneer Development, who is a lead sponsor of Project Cardinal, and we also have our project manager from Burns & McDonnell who has dialed in, Gary Koons, and our zoning attorney, Dave Silverman, as well. Additionally, for people that don't know this, Burns & McDonnell is our engineer of record, MHA is doing the design work, along with 02 Landscaping Work, and all of these are national leaders in mission critical infrastructure and large-scale data center campus delivery. Additionally, we are working on the utility interconnection and vertical development strategy, there being an advance in direct coordination with the national EPC contractor, nationally recognized development firm and investor and a nationally recognized data center operator, each with a track record of delivering Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public Hearing - July 9, 2025 10 1 some of the largest developments in North 2 America. 3 The project itself is fully 4 privately funded. There will be no city or 5 taxpayer exposure at any stage of the project. 6 Tonight we're going to be requesting 7 annexation for seven parcels and two rezoning, a 8 special use PUD and preliminary plan approval for 9 our approximately 1,050-acre data center campus, 10 and then full entitlement and technical due 11 diligence is in the process of being completed. 12 Most of it has been done, and we 13 have been working in direct cooperation with City 14 staff for about a year now. Next slide, please. 15 Go to the next slide. I'm sorry, back one. 16 So the site itself is, again, 17 approximately 1,050 acres. It's in the northwest 18 corner of Yorkville on the border of Sugar Grove. 19 It's positioned in a very low 20 traffic area, which we think is ideal because it 21 can be buffered from the rest of the city. The 22 location was selected in direct coordination with 23 the city infrastructure and growth objectives. 24 At full build -out over the next Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public Hearing - July 9, 2025 11 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 decade, the campus will support approximately 14 two-story data center buildings delivered in phases. It will not be a speculative or short-term industrial park. Every phase is strictly demand driven, no building will be constructed without a committed user in place, and all investment risk is fully private. Our approach is long-term, measured and fully aligned with Yorkville's strategic plan for growth. Again, there will be no public cost or public risk at any stage of the project. Next slide, please. Here is a high-level overview of the site. So as you can see, it's bordered by Base Line, Illinois 47, Galena and Ashe Road. We are envisioning, again, 14 buildings over roughly a ten-year build -out schedule. And next slide, please. So, again, as I mentioned earlier, we are seeking four formal approvals, annexation of seven parcels, approximately 305 acres that are unincorporated currently, bringing the entire 1,050-acre site into Yorkville under a binding Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public -Hearing— July 9, 2025 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 agreement that spells out every condition and safeguard as an enforceable contract. We'd like to rezone every parcel to M-2, general manufacturing. This is the only district that allows a data center campus and substations by right, which is what we require, and it directly supports the City's corridor vision for this area. We are also looking for a special use PUD overlay so we can create a unified master plan for the entire campus. This would allow for 13 targeted, and what we believe are justified deviations, some of which include multiple buildings per lot, private internal roads and custom internal setbacks. All of these are tied to enhancing, buffering and operational needs as we will get to further in the presentation. And, finally, preliminary PUD plan approval. We need to lock in the full site layout, 14 buildings on pads, two substations, one utility switchyard, stormwater basins, berm work and buffers, and, again, these would be phased in approximately over a decade. Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public Hearing - July 9, 2025 13 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Final engineering for each phase would return to the City staff before any final permits are issued. And then all approvals and mitigations are binding and enforced through the annexation agreement and PUD agreement that we are currently negotiating. These four approvals would enable the project and every buffer and operational safeguard and public benefit for that matter to be locked in. Phasing, enforcement and public protection are going to be fully built into this process from day one. Next slide, please. So we are seeking to do a phased build -out. The campus itself would be developed in three major phases over approximately a decade. Each phase starts only when actual user demand is confirmed. There is no speculative or all -at -once construction. Every building or group is matched to a committed requirement and all capital at risk is private. There would be orderly and Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public Hearing - July 9, 2025 14 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 predictable construction. Berms and buffer plantings are installed and maturing long before any construction on any shell approaches a property line. That gives years for neighbors and the City to adapt to the project. There will be no abrupt surges or sudden changes in our plan. Dust and noise mitigation measures will be implemented during construction, and all construction hours will supply with City code. The sequencing. So after initial earth work is completed, there will be in-depth landscaping, and then the first focus will be on core power and utility infrastructure before the buildings expand outward. No shell will be built before landscape buffers are fully established as well. All access through the site will be either through Galena or Base Line, never through neighborhood streets, and any needed road or intersection improvements, whether it be turn lanes, signals or widening, are paid for by the project and coordinated with the City and city engineers. Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public -Hearing— July 9, 2025 15 1 The site itself is much more low 2 traffic than typical industrial developments. 3 Once operational, there is very minimal daily 4 traffic and far fewer trips than a logistics 5 warehouse. 6 There will be no truck fleets, there 7 is no commuter peaks, and all parking and 8 circulation is internal to the project, so there 9 will be no risk of backups or spillover onto the 10 local streets. 11 Right now we are working on the 12 utility entitlement with ComEd and PJM. All 13 phasing and construction is fully coordinated 14 with those utility entitlements. 15 This is really the main gain factor 16 for the project outside of the approval that we 17 are seeking tonight, and we are working closely, 18 again, with ComEd and technical partners to 19 secure the necessary approvals and needed 20 infrastructure capacity. 21 No building will go forward until we 22 have the utility entitlement and a contractually 23 binding agreement. And why this matters, so this 24 is standard practice for data center campuses, Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public Hearing - July 9, 2025 16 1 but really it protects both the City here and 2 developer. There is, again, no speculative or 3 unfinished buildings, and all growth is tied 4 directly to confirmed utility delivery from 5 ComEd. 6 So, again, so all core 7 infrastructure, power, substations, roads, water, 8 it's all going to be engineered and privately 9 funded from day one. There will be no public 10 funding and no city risk at any stage, and we are 11 hoping that this is going to enable measured, 12 stable growth, and alongside the full buffer of 13 protection that we are going to be installing, 14 it's going to be a lasting benefit to both the 15 site and the community. Next slide, please. 16 So here is a preliminary phasing 17 rendering. So we first start with the 18 landscaping, dirt work and berm work, and then 19 focus on Phase 1, which is closest to the west 20 side of the property, before focusing on Phase 2 21 that's on the southeast corner before tackling 22 the last phase to the north. 23 All of this is pending potential 24 adjustment, but this is what we are targeting at Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public -Hearing— July 9, 2025 17 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 present. Next slide, please. So our campus, compared to some of the other developments in Yorkville and the other communities near here, are going to have extraordinary setbacks. Every building is set back at least 500 feet from the nearest property line, with most setbacks ranging from 1,000 to 1500 feet. These distances are multiples above City code and well beyond standards for data center campuses. This separation ensures that no structure is ever close to a home, school or existing business, and it's the strongest physical buffer that we can provide. The entire perimeter will be ringed with engineered berms and buffering where appropriate that are undulating and six to eight feet high alongside a 100-foot wide landscaped buffer that will be densely planted with native trees, grasses and wildflowers. These landscaping adjustments block direct sight lines, absorb sound and create a thick, natural green belt. In sensitive locations as well, Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public -Hearing.- July 9, 2025 18 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 although our sound study just came back, and we will get to that in a minute, we can add a third layer of sound walls behind berms and trees if needed. Wide greenbelts, stormwater basins and the berm land safe system will permanently separate buildings from adjacent areas in the community. These features are installed and matured before any construction nears the edges. The buildings themselves, so all buildings are going to be two commercial stories. The roof lines are at 55 feet. We are going to be asking for a variance for 78 feet so we can screen mechanicals on the rooftops so there can be less noise pollution. All rooftop equipment will be fully concealed behind parapets or never exposed or building edges. These structures are lower and more visually recessive than most comparable industrial developments. Architecturally everything is intentionally subdued. There is neutral tones, there is non -reflective materials, there is vegetative screening wherever possible. Again, Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public -Hearing— July 9, 2025 19 1 all rooftop equipment is screened. 2 The goal basically is to eliminate 3 any massing effect. Combined with the dense 4 landscape buffer, the campus essentially 5 disappears into the greenbelt as the plantings 6 mature over the next few years, and neighbors and 7 passersby will see green, not buildings. 8 Initially we weren't envisioning 9 planting trees on the interior of the project 10 given we were going to be building out a buffer, 11 but we have made an adjustment based on City 12 feedback and we are now going to be planting more 13 than 4600 new trees across the campus. 14 We think this is going to be a 15 significant ecological and visual transformation 16 at the City's edge given there is about 12 trees 17 on a thousand acres currently. 18 We will have a new public trail that 19 will run along the campus perimeter. It will be 20 fully separated from the data center operations 21 and buffered by landscaping. 22 The trail is going to be coordinated 23 with the City and park staff and it will be a 24 permanent amenity for recreation and connectivity Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public Hearing - July 9, 2025 20 1 around the site. 2 So, in summary, the setbacks, 3 greenbelts, berm work, visual screening, combined 4 with low, unobtrusive architecture compared to 5 some other data center campuses, ensure that the 6 campus is as visually and acoustically 7 unobtrusive as technically possible. 8 At full maturity, neighbors will see 9 and hear virtually nothing, and we think this is 10 going to set a high standard -- a higher standard 11 and code and raise the bar for community 12 sensitive commercial development. Next slide, 13 please. 14 So here is a cut-out of what one of 15 the buildings could potentially look like, and as 16 you can see, it's kind of hard for the scale 17 here, but it's 55 feet tall, there is a lot of 18 glazing and metal work that make it, you know, 19 not like a monotonous concrete structure. And 20 the next slide, please. 21 So here is a cut -away of what the 22 site will look like or what one of the buildings 23 will look like from the parking lot level if you 24 are on -site, even though the site will be secure Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public Hearing - July 9, 2025 21 1 and closed off. 2 So as you can see, even though we 3 are asking for a variance of up to 78 feet for 4 mechanical equipment, you cannot see that from 5 the parking lot level, even when you are, you 6 know, less than 100 feet away from the building 7 itself. Next slide, please. 8 Here is our updated landscape plan. 9 So as you can see, there is a lot more trees here 10 than there was in prior plans, so there is 11 roughly 987 conifers and 3600 deciduous trees and 12 about 18 different varieties across the site. 13 Next slide, please. 14 Here is a cut-out of what one of the 15 parking lots will look like that's adjacent to 16 the actual data center shell. As you can see, 17 there will be multiple trees and it will 18 basically be blending in with the surroundings 19 and create a buffer as well for anyone that has a 20 sight line to the actual data center shell. And 21 next slide, please. 22 Here is an image from what it looks 23 like from Route 47 from what someone walking on 24 to the to -be -installed trail would see, so Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public Hearing - July 9, 2025 22 1 basically they will be looking directly into 2 landscaped berm work with natural prairie 3 vegetation, and there is trees on top of that. 4 Again, the actual buffer itself is 5 about 100 feet wide, and then the top height in 6 that rendering is 100 feet. We are going to be 7 hitting 55 feet, so it's going to be nowhere near 8 there, so really the tree lines, once the 9 landscape is more fully matured, will be blocking 10 out almost everything. Next slide, please. 11 So all campus lighting is engineered 12 to exceed dark sky standards. There will be no 13 light pole that exceeds 35 feet, and every 14 fixture is fully shielded and downward directed. 15 The light source is never visible from outside 16 the property. 17 All exterior lighting uses modern 18 LED fixtures with full cut-off shields. There 19 will be no flood lights, no high mast fixtures, 20 and no light pollution spill -over into 21 neighboring properties. 22 There will be zero upward facing 23 lightings, no sky beam effects, no decorative or 24 advertising lighting, no rooftop lighting except Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public Hearing - July 9, 2025 23 1 for required FAA beacons, which are low 2 intensity, red and not visible except directly 3 overhead, and every window and entry lighting 4 will be shielded to prevent any off -site glare. 5 The campus itself will have smart 6 control systems, so there will be motion sensors, 7 timers, zone security systems to keep 8 illumination at a minimum whenever possible. 9 The objective here really is for the 10 site to be operated in quote, unquote, stealth 11 mode and have lights only active for security 12 reasons. 13 The result of all this is basically 14 going to be a zero off -site light trespass zone 15 with no sky glow and no impact to wildlife or the 16 rural character of Yorkville. Even at full 17 operation, the campus is going to be visually 18 absent at nighttime. And next slide, please. 19 So this is a rendering of one of the 20 shells and, as you can see, in the top right 21 corner there is an illuminance scale, and so 22 that's what the actual lights in the buildings, 23 if everything is on for security reason, would 24 look like and as you can see, everything is Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public -Hearing.- July 9, 2025 24 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 shielded and there is no light pollution outside of the actual building footprint. Next slide, please. The project anticipates that every source of operational and emergency -- The project anticipates every source of operational emergency noise. As Bart talked about, Yorkville limits are 50 dBA at property line at night and 60 decibels a day, but our engineering targets are stricter. We want to be below 50 decibels at all boundaries at all times, including generator testing. Our initial modeling confirms that our actual levels are going to be below code at the nearest property line and quieter than a typical suburban nighttime background. All buildings are set back 500 to 1500 feet from the property line for maximum sound dissipation. The campus perimeter includes, again, substantial berm work and a hundred -foot wide densely landscaped buffer to deflect and absorb any sounds. Generators are always going to be Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public Hearing - July 9, 2025 25 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 centrally located and never at the site edge. All major mechanicals, fans, chillers and generators are going to be specified for no tonal hum or low frequency vibration output. Generators themselves are going to be in attenuated enclosures with industrial grade mufflers, and typically as well the generator testing -- or generators are only used in emergency purposes. For most of these campuses, they are really never used outside of testing. And given the tentative power redundancy we're going to have from ComEd, the testing is only going to occur once or twice a year, and it will never be on nights, early mornings, weekdays or holidays. Additionally, there is going to be 24/7 perimeter noise monitoring with real time reporting by City staff -- or to City staff. Any compliance issue triggers immediate correction, not just reporting. This is going to be a binding PUD condition; it's not going to be a discretionary process where we just do the fines. And then I have a data point, this Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public Hearing - July 9, 2025 26 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 came up in one of our prior meetings, so what could happen to home values that are nearby data center campuses. So as Bart was talking about Loudoun County earlier, so the center is in Ashburn, Virginia, and homes within 500 feet of data center campuses in Ashburn have been appreciated by approximately 70 percent over the last decade, so annualized rates of roughly seven percent, matching the broader market. There is no market evidence of general home value loss or discounted sales due to data center proximity. Prices and turnover rates have been consistent with the rest of Ashburn. Independent studies show only one real risk can end up suppressing values, and that's usually by single -digit percentages nonetheless, and that's persistent, unmitigated noise, and that's something we're going to be completely solving here. Additionally, legacy Ashburn data center campuses are built as close as a hundred, 130 feet from residential property lines. We're committing to a minimum 500-foot setback, Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public Hearing - July 9, 2025 27 1 exceeding historic Ashburn standards. 2 If you add in our berm work, 3 continuous noise monitoring and strict decibel 4 limits, we are going to be substantially under 5 those values. 6 So the bottom line is that neighbors 7 are not going to hear this campus. They are not 8 going to hear it during operation, they are not 9 going to hear it during generator testing. The 10 facility is engineered to be quiet and 11 unobtrusive by design, an enforceable operational 12 commitment to Yorkville. 13 As equipment is upgraded as well the 14 campus will only get quieter. There has been 15 amazing gains in equipment over the last few 16 years. Next slide, please. 17 So here is one of the initial slides 18 we received from our sound study that Burns & 19 McDonnell performed. They did an independent 20 acoustic analysis using real equipment data for 21 our proposed site plan, and their modeling 22 confirmed that our design will consistently meet 23 and in most cases significantly out -perform 24 Yorkville's strict sound level limits, even in Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public -Hearing.- July 9, 2025 28 1 worst case conditions. 2 With low -noise chillers on rooftops 3 and precast concrete buffers around them, 4 projected operational sound levels at the 5 property line will be below 50 decibels, even 6 when using conservative source data. 7 And as an example, our chiller that 8 we tentatively selected for this, even though I 9 think our decibel rating will actually be under, 10 it was 91 decibels at the source results, and at 11 this boundary it's less than 50 at 500 feet, and 12 obviously it gets significantly better from that, 13 and this is in part due to our setback, our 14 berms, placing the chillers on the rooftops and 15 encompassing sound walls. 16 And we feel that combining equipment 17 choice, thoughtful layout and physical barriers 18 as we have been designing this site from day one 19 to take this into consideration, will deliver not 20 just code compliance, but real world, enforceable 21 noise protection for everybody in Yorkville. 22 Next slide, please. 23 As Bart mentioned, the project will 24 not use evaporative or open loop water cooling Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public Hearing - July 9, 2025 29 1 for data halls, and this is a huge, major 2 differentiator for sites of this scale. 3 Most data centers still rely on 4 cooling towers, like Equinix is tackling in 5 Minooka, and it draws a significant amount of 6 water. We will not use evaporative cooling 7 towers. 8 Our per -acre water demand is far 9 below typical residential development, it cuts it 10 in about half actually on a per -acre basis. 11 All stormwater from the campus is 12 detained on -site in engineered basins and 13 naturalized areas. These systems are designed to 14 ensure post -development run-off does not exceed 15 pre -development rates. 16 It will be fully developed within 17 city and county standards. Water quality 18 controls remove sediment and contaminants before 19 any water leaves the site. The primary goal is 20 strict compliance, protection for neighbors and 21 city infrastructure. 22 And then as far as our generators, 23 all backup generators meet Tier 4 final EPA 24 standards, and what this means is basically Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public -Hearing.- July 9, 2025 30 1 90 percent lower particulate and NOx emissions 2 compared to legacy equipment that some sites use. 3 Again, generators only run for 4 periodic testing or extremely rare grid 5 outages. I've actually never seen one in 6 non -continuous operation. There are no 7 breaching, air emission or hazardous waste under 8 normal conditions from our site. 9 Then renewable energy. The campus 10 will be fully compatible with renewable energy 11 procurement and credit programs. 12 Actual sourcing will reflect 13 whatever the available grid mix is from ComEd and 14 PJM at the time of operation, but our approach, 15 as is Illinois' and most of the major 16 hydroscalers, is to support removal adoption when 17 possible and maintain a reliable and resilient 18 service. Next slide, please. 19 So every required improvement from 20 power to water to sewer to road upgrades is 21 100 percent funded by the project. The City pays 22 nothing. There are no special assessments to 23 residents. 24 This includes the two on -site Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public Hearing - July 9, 2025 31 1 substations, the new and extended water mains and 2 sewers we will be developing, lift stations if 3 needed, and permanent upgrades like the Galena 4 Road reconstruction and intersection 5 improvements. 6 All obligations are going to be 7 secured by a formal development agreement that we 8 are in the process of negotiating with Yorkville. 9 All utility extensions and upgrades 10 are purposeful and isolated for the data center. 11 The new substations themselves are going to 12 reinforce the transmission lines and they are 13 going to be engineered for our needs with no draw 14 on the City's existing electrical systems. 15 The water and sewer lines serve only 16 the campus, but given our low water usage on a 17 per -acre basis, there will be borderline no 18 reduction in supply, pressure or reliability for 19 any other customers in Yorkville, and our waste 20 water discharge will be extremely minimal. 21 Every utility interconnection is 22 designed specifically, you know, for this campus 23 itself. That's going to eliminate the risk of 24 any brownouts, water pressure drops or any hidden Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public Hearing - July 9, 2025 32 1 congestion for Yorkville customers, both now and 2 in the future. 3 And, again, I know I've said this, I 4 am like a broken record here, but there will be 5 no fiscal impact, no hidden cost and no future 6 tax liability to the city. Everything is going 7 to be privately funded. 8 All utility upgrades are going to be 9 coordinated with the City agencies to ensure zero 10 disruption to existing service. 11 We are going to cover the full cost 12 of entry for the upgrades to City infrastructure 13 and shield the community from any financial risk 14 now and going forward. 15 For the City, its residents are 16 really going to receive a benefit from this 17 project, from improved roads and utilities and no 18 exposure and no cost risk there. We are really 19 going to be a self-sustaining project from day 20 one. Next slide, please. I guess it is this 21 one, sorry. 22 At full build -out, Project Cardinal 23 is going to generate substantial new annual 24 property tax revenue for the City and all local Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public Hearing - July 9, 2025 33 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 taxing bodies. This is pending our final utility entitlement that we are working on, but at full build -out, as Bart mentioned, the numbers can be very substantial. The scale of the campus is going to materially expand Yorkville's tax base and provide long-term financial stability, as confirmed by both City staff and independent fiscal analysis. Unlike residential or warehouse development, data centers create significant fiscal benefit when placing minimal due demand on public services. While the campus does increase the utility loads and all the required upgrades from power, water, sewer and road, everything is privately funded and there is not going to be any cost or operational risk to the City or its residents. The project does not add any students to schools, it does not materially increase calls for police or fire services. There is no new operational costs for public services from our project. Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public -Hearing.- July 9, 2025 34 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 The campus itself supports ongoing construction, high value technical jobs, so at full capacity, if we get our full load entitlement, there will be somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 to 800 full-time jobs, and these are high -paying, great jobs, and it's going to be really a lot of major -- a major capital investment in the community, and it should drive supplier spending in the local community and workforce development and provide sustained economic development not just to Yorkville, but to the region as a whole. And then comparable data center projects in Illinois. As Bart mentioned, Meta site in DeKalb had delivered recurring increases in local tax revenue, sometimes enabling property tax rate reductions, while imposing a minimal new burden on local services and the public. We believe that Project Cardinal is a net positive for City finances. It delivers new revenue, economic growth and jobs without increasing the service or utility burden for Yorkville or its residents. And, again, all campus Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public -Hearing— July 9, 2025 35 1 infrastructure is going to be privately funded 2 and purpose built, ensuring that the community 3 reaps all the benefits without incurring any 4 hidden costs. And next slide, please. 5 Project Cardinal directly implements 6 Yorkville's adopted income strategy. It brings 7 next generation high value data center 8 infrastructure to the City's targeted tech 9 corridor, delivering the type of investment 10 envisioned in the Comprehensive Plan of regional 11 growth priorities. 12 The campus is fully compatible with 13 surrounding industrial, tech and open space uses. 14 All major impacts from noise, light and traffic 15 are mitigated with extraordinary setbacks, 16 engineered berms, sound walls where appropriate, 17 and upgraded infrastructure going well beyond 18 code minimums. The result is going to be a 19 buffered, unobtrusive community phasing project. 20 Every utility, road and offset 21 improvement, whether it be power, water, sewer, 22 or roads, is going to be 100 percent developer 23 funded, built and maintained. There is zero cost 24 or fiscal risk to the City or its residents, and Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public Hearing - July 9, 2025 36 1 all these obligations are going to be formalized 2 in the binding annexation and PUD agreements. 3 The project itself expands 4 Yorkville's tax base, delivers recurring revenue 5 for public services, creates quality jobs and 6 supports local work force development. 7 The residents of the city budget are 8 going to benefit directly from this long-term 9 investment. Our application meets or exceeds 10 every core PUD and zoning requirement. 11 Any requested deviation or variance 12 we believe is fully justified, narrowly tailored, 13 and tied to operational need or enhanced 14 buffering. 15 All of our findings have been 16 documented in the petition and on public record. 17 There has been no compromise to health, safety, 18 welfare or neighborhood character. 19 All operational and mitigation 20 commitments are going to be enforceable 21 conditions within the PUD, and I'd imagine 22 periodic compliance with these are going to be 23 conducted in coordination with City staff. 24 The project itself again is neither Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public Hearing - July 9, 2025 37 1 speculative or temporary, it's going to be 2 anchored in Yorkville for the long-term with 3 every mitigation, benefit and standard codified 4 and enforceable in the PUD and annexation 5 agreement. 6 We are not leaving anything to good 7 faith. The City is going to retain full control 8 and enforcement over the project. The last 9 slide, please. 10 So this has been our project 11 objective from day one: We are not trying to 12 redefine Yorkville. We understand that we are a 13 guest in your community and we are trying to 14 become a full-time member of it. 15 Every standard, finding and City 16 requirement has been fully met or exceeded 17 throughout this process. All project impacts, 18 whether it be visual, noise, traffic or water, 19 have been comprehensively mitigated, with every 20 commitment formalized as a binding, enforceable 21 condition in the PUD and annexation agreements. 22 Project Cardinal will strengthen 23 Yorkville's economy, tax base and infrastructure 24 for decades to come while preserving community Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public Hearing - July 9, 2025 38 1 character and quality of life. 2 And I want to thank you all for your 3 time and consideration tonight, and we are going 4 to be available for any questions you may have. 5 CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Thank you. Do the 6 Commissioners have any questions? 7 COMMISSIONER CROUCH: No. 8 COMMISSIONER GREEN: No. 9 CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Okay. Very good. 10 Thank you. 11 MR. McCARRON: Thank you. 12 CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Is there anyone 13 present who wishes to speak in favor or 14 opposition of the request? 15 I will remind you this is the only 16 time during tonight's hearing where you will be 17 allowed to speak. 18 BERNIE WEILER, 19 having been first duly sworn, testified before 20 the Planning and Zoning Commission as follows: 21 MR. WEILER: My name is Bernie Weiler. 22 I am an attorney licensed to practice law in the 23 state of Illinois, and as Mr. Kramer said, 24 specifically in Yorkville. Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public -Hearing— July 9, 2025 39 1 I represent the homeowner's 2 association of the development that is along Ashe 3 Road directly across from the western edge of 4 the -- the western section of the -- this 5 proposed development. 6 It would be disingenuous of me to 7 suggest that concerns that have been raised since 8 we initiated our interest in this project have 9 not been addressed by either the developer or by 10 staff. Many of the concerns that we have 11 addressed have, in fact, been addressed. 12 When we were last here, we addressed 13 the issue with regard to the reforestation of 14 significant portions of the community that will 15 not -- where there will not be any kind of 16 communication from one portion of the community 17 to the other because this will be a closed site. 18 That has been addressed since we 19 have last been here with the landscape plan that 20 has been presented that says there are 4,000 21 trees that are being developed -- or that are 22 planned. 23 Now, when those are going to be 24 planted will be an issue because the planting is Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public -Hearing— July 9, 2025 40 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 not going to occur until the construction has been done on various issues. But one of the things that -- also one of the concerns that our residents have had are not only the decibel level that will be generated, which is being addressed by staff, and, of course, by the promises that have been made by the developer, but also the low tonal, uninterrupted humming noise that is generated by these issues. That was also addressed in the presentation that was made. However, one of the things that has been specifically addressed by Bart and by the developer themselves, is the phasing of the development. In Bart's presentation on three separate occasions he has expressed the caveat as to what happens in the event that the bubble bursts or that this development does not take place as predicted. The developer has also told you tonight that nothing is going to be built until they have a commitment from a specific user. We have also heard tonight that Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public -Hearing.- July 9, 2025 41 1 there is competition for the placement for those 2 users to come to a community or a specific site. 3 Bart had specifically indicated that 4 Yorkville was in a competition with DeKalb for 5 one of these sites. All of the incentives that 6 have been expressed are of interest to all of the 7 communities. 8 In fact, Yorkville itself is 9 planning four of these developments that are 10 going to compete with each other, so the 11 long-term effect of this is we need to look at 12 what is the effect should this competition and 13 should the need for these things reduce the rate 14 at which this development is going to go forward, 15 and so one of the issues that is of greatest 16 concern to us -- and once again I would be 17 disingenuous to suggest that these concerns are 18 not being addressed -- but the phasing of this 19 development. 20 The most intensive use and the least 21 screened use is on the western edge of this 22 development, and as you can see, when you look at 23 the landscaping plans, you will see that what 24 they plan, what the developer plans as the -- and Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public Hearing - July 9, 2025 42 1 if you could go to the slide that shows the 2 development with the -- with the detention, that 3 would show it. 4 So if you look at the far west 5 portion, and if we develop from west to east, we 6 find that the development immediately across Ashe 7 Road will be the first to be impacted at a time 8 when the landscaping is the least mature. 9 You will also show that although the 10 trees in the landscape plan shows that there are 11 4,000 trees that are within the interior, there 12 is a very thin layer of rim around the entire 13 development, and with regard to the interior 14 trees, which I think are very generously applied, 15 will -- there are areas in every other area of 16 the development between the buildings and the 17 landscaping screening. 18 With regard to what's happening on 19 the west, there is the detention pond which 20 provides no screening and there is no space for 21 screening between the western edge of those 22 buildings and that subdivision. 23 So in the event that we -- that the 24 only users that this development has is in the Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public -Hearing.- July 9, 2025 43 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 western side, this development to the west of Ashe Road is going to be the most affected and will be the most affected and will be permanently affected in the event that this development fails or does not get built out. So the better idea would be to develop this on the areas which are least impacted, which would be either along Route 47 would be least impacted by residential use or on the southeast sections along Galena Road, which would be an extension of the industrial uses that are going up Eldamain Road. So I think if we are to invest our confidence in what Bart and his staff had done in researching this, we do really need to listen to the caveats of what happens should -- should even our own other developments compete with this development for users. So we would -- we would like to -- that's really one of the most -- one of the principal concerns. The other thing is that we need to look at what this really looks like. We are saying that this is two-story buildings; well, Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public Hearing - July 9, 2025 44 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 the height of these two-story buildings are 70 feet, and -- which really equates to a five -story building, so it's important to look at what the effect is for the residents who are going to have to look at that, particularly in the event that the benefits and the, you know, the redistribution of the tax base is not -- is not satisfied. So that's one of the biggest concerns, and so because this would be a special use, one of the conditions of the special use could be the phasing of the development. Now, one of the reasons that was given by the developer as to why they have to go from west to east is that Commonwealth Edison, who is the 800-pound gorilla on the block, and one of the comments was made that nobody tells Commonwealth Edison what to do. However, if the -- if the horizon for revenues for the city is a hundred million dollars, we need to look at how that -- how that looks from an economic standpoint from the people who are interested in that development. That hundred million dollars is a Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public Hearing - July 9, 2025 45 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 very small percentage of the actual revenues that are generated by this, so that Commonwealth Edison has a very big interest in creating the power applications for this use, so there is a huge economic development and the fact that Commonwealth Edison would like to build on the west side, they can be encouraged -- they can be encouraged to build in a different phased way. And if they say we don't want to do that because we can't guarantee that this is going to be developed, well, we ought to have the same consideration and concern. We have other people that will iterate some other concerns, but we do have a lot of trust in the staff, who have addressed all of our concerns and have redefined some of the -- some of the issues in the actual ordinance that will be controlling this. So -- but that's one -- that's one of our biggest concerns, and we need to understand that this is 3,000 acres which is being dedicated to this use, and this is a radical departure from the zoning and the Comprehensive Plan that the residents depended on Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public -Hearing— July 9, 2025 46 1 when they -- you know, when they built their 2 houses, so -- and when they located here, so I 3 think concern needs to be directed to them and 4 that -- and that their concerns need to be 5 listened to and accommodated. 6 Thank you. 7 CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Would anyone else 8 like to speak? Would the developer, would you 9 like to get on to any of his concerns, both the 10 City or the developer? 11 MR. McCARRON: Now? 12 CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Yeah, would you like 13 to address some of it real quickly? 14 MR. SILVERMAN: You want to wait until 15 the end? 16 MR. McCARRON: Wait until the end. 17 CHAIRMAN VINYARD: That's fine. 18 JOHN P. BRYAN, 19 having been first duly sworn, testified before 20 the Planning and Zoning Commission as follows: 21 MR. BRYAN: I appreciate the time to 22 address y'all on this project. I'm going to try 23 and not duplicate anything that Mr. Weiler said. 24 I may, and I am not doing it on purpose, but I Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public -Hearing— July 9, 2025 47 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 just want to -- you know, just kind of a little background of me. My name is John P. Bryan. I have been a Kendall County resident now for 18 years. I have owned property at Legacy Farms for 20. I have some other property in the area, but I don't live there, I live in Legacy Farms. I bought my lot 20 years ago, and one of the reasons I bought the lot was that parcel was rezoned residential. It was Del Webb Pulte. The owners of the farm got a nice down payment for the property, and the great recession hit and they pulled the pin, so it remains to this day still residential, and, you know, maybe I am foolish, but I figured, you know, once it's residential, who changes it -- who changes it to industrial? It's residential. So I built my -- I built my house. I was the second house on the property. I put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into that house. I love it. I am probably never going to move regardless if this lobotomy goes on of our farmland, but, you know, I expected homes, and I Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public Hearing - July 9, 2025 48 1 don't have a problems with homes, I think that's 2 what it should be, but to reverse that is just 3 kind of in my book dirty pool. 4 I looked -- in my former life I was 5 with a paving contractor, and I looked at 6 Eldamain. Eldamain Road is a 40-year concrete 7 pavement. It is built for industrial use. 8 Menards moved in there; what was 9 Sugar Grove's loss was Yorkville's gain, and I 10 knew that that part of Yorkville slash Kendall 11 County would be industrial and I didn't have a 12 problem with that. Why would I? 13 I also know that Ashe Road is posted 14 for no trucks and as is part of Base Line Road, 15 and Base Line Road, the United City of Yorkville 16 took over the -- took over Base Line Road, I 17 don't know, a couple, five years ago maybe, and 18 rebuilt it last year to a -- probably a 20 to 19 25-year pavement out of asphalt, fold -up asphalt. 20 Very nice. What it was beforehand was awful. 21 And so like I'm, you know, well, 22 great, this is always going to stay a rural area, 23 maybe with houses because that's in the 24 Comprehensive Plan of the United City of Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public Hearing - July 9, 2025 49 1 Yorkville, not -- it's not the united city of 2 data centers, it's the United City of Yorkville. 3 And I was always aware of a ComEd 4 substation. I mean, I've known it since I was a 5 little kid. My job -- as I got longer into my 6 job, I traveled a lot, I did a lot of paving in 7 Kendall County, Kane County and various -- and I 8 always saw that, and then 20 -- and then 9/11 hit 9 and everybody thought of -- everybody was told if 10 you see something, say something, right? 11 And I'm like wow, that is a huge 12 soft target for terrorism. It really is. 13 I never in my wildest imagination 14 thought that that substation would actually be 15 the terrorist, because that substation is 16 creating ecoterrorism. 17 You are destroying the farmland and 18 you are destroying the look of Yorkville with -- 19 The thing is about that picture is it doesn't 20 give you a scope of how big these buildings are. 21 Drive down I-88 and you will see one 22 of these data centers going up. They are huge. 23 And you just don't get a feel for just how big 24 they are. It's two miles from Ashe to Route 47, Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public Hearing - July 9, 2025 50 1 and that is completely out of the ordinary from 2 what I thought Yorkville was going to be. 3 One of the things I am wondering, 4 too, with Illinois Route 47 right there, we know 5 that it's going to be expanded, the Phase 2 6 engineering is complete, I think they are waiting 7 for utility relocation right now. 8 I think in front of Bristol Bay they 9 are relocating telephone poles right now, or 10 ComEd poles or whatever they are, and I think 11 once the utilities are relocated, it will go out 12 for bid and I'm guessing that's going to be a 60 13 to $70 million project. 14 Why in the world would you not have 15 ingress and egress off of 47 for this project? I 16 don't care -- You definitely should start in the 17 middle, but why not have the access road go all 18 the way back to the middle and have the 19 ingress/egress out to Route 47, okay? 20 You've got to mess with the Rob Roy 21 drainage ditch, okay, they've got -- they've got 22 boxes for that. And what would that cost? 23 Deceleration lanes, a box culvert probably a 24 thousand feet long maybe, depends what IDOT would Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public Hearing - July 9, 2025 51 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 require. IDOT would definitely give a permit for this. Might cost $10,000,000. For the scope of this project, that's like you and me flushing a toilet, so why in the world are we going off of rural roads when we can go off Illinois Route 47? That's what it's built for. It's going to be a four -lane highway into Yorkville. Why would you not have the ingress and egress coming off of Illinois Route 47? It really -- it surprises me. I was a little surprised, you know, I've been to quite a few of these meetings, I was at a Kane County Board meeting yesterday, I was at the Yorkville Board meeting yesterday also, and they gave the pledge of allegiance. We pledge allegiance to the republic for which it stands. The republic. What is the difference between a republic and a democracy? A republic, the founding forefathers created a republic so that the minority would not be squashed. Why do we have the U.S. Senate? Every state has two senators. Illinois has two senators. Wyoming, which is where Pioneer Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public -Hearing— July 9, 2025 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 Development is from, has two senators. Why? So that the minority doesn't get squashed. The people in Legacy Farms are the minority, and it feels to me we are getting squashed. That is not in the true sense of the republic for which it stands. I personally think I would describe them as carpetbaggers. They are coming into our state, they are coming into our community, they're going to make not millions, not tens of millions, not hundreds of millions, billions of dollars. Billions of dollars. On whose backs? Well, in my book the people in Legacy Farms. We were -- yes. If I build next to an airport, shame on me if I'm going to complain about the planes. Shame on me. But I built next to a farm field, not 14 data centers. 14. There's been talk about -- well, okay. Pioneer Development over and over and over has said two or three times that you don't have -- you're not -- it's not going to cost the United City of Yorkville a dime for any infrastructure improvements. Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public -Hearing— July 9, 2025 53 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 I have participated in hundreds, hundreds, of developments in and around Kane, DuPage and Kendall County, and even a little into Will. Not one single developer that I knew didn't pay for every single infrastructure improvement. I know that because in 2007 and 8 when the markets crashed, a lot of my fellow competitors lost a lot of money because they built the infrastructure, and the way it works in Illinois unfortunately -- and I tried to get it changed in Springfield, but no luck -- is that you only have to -- you only have to put a performance bond down for a development, which means it's not a contract bond. So that means there is not -- they are not guaranteed payment, the contractors. Many a contractor built roads, built sewers, built, you know, electric, et cetera, et cetera, that were left hung out to dry because there was no -- there was no contract bond, and, of course, there was no payment bond. So every single development I have ever been on, and like I said, I did hundreds of Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public -Hearing— July 9, 2025 54 1 them, the developer pays for the infrastructure. 2 I am so sick and tired of Pioneer Development 3 telling you people we're going to pay for 4 everything. 5 What -- that's not different than 6 any other development than I've ever seen, so I 7 am just a little -- I am just a little tired of 8 them telling this board that you don't have to 9 worry about it, we are going to have to pay for 10 everything. How is it different than any other 11 development? So it's not. So just put that 12 checkmark off because that's great, I mean, it's 13 nothing different. 14 ComEd. I know that Bernie talked 15 about it, and they said in the last meeting that 16 ComEd requires that you have to start from west 17 and then move east, and you can't -- you can't 18 tell the utilities what to do. 19 Number one, tell that to IDOT, 20 right? IDOT, as I just said, is having all the 21 utilities relocated on 47 so it can be expanded 22 to four lanes and ComEd does not pay for that -- 23 or, I mean, I'm sorry, IDOT does not pay for 24 that. ComEd does. Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public -Hearing.- July 9, 2025 55 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 And last I checked, ComEd and the state of Illinois doesn't have the greatest reputation in the world right now. Ask the man that's going to prison for seven and a half years for colluding with ComEd, Mr. Michael J. Madigan. CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Can we just stick to the facts of the argument for this and not get into -- MR. BRYAN: Well, okay. All right. CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Thank you. MR. BRYAN: I'm sorry. Well, it's all kind of -- CHAIRMAN VINYARD: I understand. MR. BRYAN: I understand. CHAIRMAN VINYARD: I got you. MR. BRYAN: I understand that there is no stress on the schools, I understand that there is no stress on the fire department. I did talk to the fire department. But I also remember back in the day that you had impact fees and these developers had to pay impact fees to try and make up for some of the stress of the city services. You know, I look at these things and Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public -Hearing— July 9, 2025 56 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 I look at my phone and how many times do I get spam calls? They are all generated from AI. Where is that AI? Who needs to get ready for medicare A and B, are you ready for -- you know, your car warranty is expired, you need a business loan, you get an AI call. Well, you know what? That's all coming from those things, and I know, I understand they are going to build them somewhere, but do I need them in my backyard? But they are. I mean -- I mean, it's crazy. I am concerned. I do know that there is a lot of power. For the old people like me that remember 1988 with the rolling blackouts in -- rolling blackouts in New York, the rolling brownouts in Chicago, the rolling brownouts in New York and the East Coast. Our infrastructure, electric infrastructure, is not set up for all this power. I know a lot of electrical contractors. I am curious when this thing is completely built, say there is a problem, say we have another heat wave like 1988 when hundreds died in Chicago. Who is going to get the power, the data centers or Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public -Hearing— July 9, 2025 57 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Grandma's nursing home? I know that once those things don't have power, I think they are going to have a lot of data loss, but, I mean, that's something to consider. Now, we've got -- I am going to talk a little bit about the economic impact. I get it, Yorkville is going to have a huge windfall, $7.5 million a building is what Pioneer has told us just tonight when they are done, but, I mean, for us at Legacy, we are not -- we are not -- we are not residents of Yorkville. So you can say that the property taxes cannot go down, they have -- Pioneer has said that, because if the property taxes go down, their property taxes also go down, and that will put a dent in, you know, the money that's going to come to the United City of Yorkville. They -- Pioneer has said that home values will increase, and they have gone up 70 percent in the last ten years. I think we had a thing called a pandemic. Didn't everyone's home value skyrocket, and especially in Illinois right now where the -- the real estate market is Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public -Hearing— July 9, 202 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 so tight because there is just no inventory, so everybody's price of their homes has gone up. We have -- we have studies and we have realtor information that shows that within -- within the close proximity of data centers the home values will fall between five and 15 percent. I can't believe they're -- I mean, who really thinks that your home value is going to go up when you are looking at a concrete jungle? We saw the pictures, they said it's not going to be all, you know, concrete walls. They showed you the front, the sides and the back; they're all concrete. It's not pleasant to look at. The trees will block the view. When? 30 years from now? I'll be dead. I will be dead. So they're not going to block the view. Speaking of views. What about the cranes? I mean, so we've got to look at cranes that -- those cranes, if you're building -- if you're putting something on a 50-foot tall building, those cranes are going to be a hundred Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public Hearing - July 9, 2025 59 1 to 150-foot high. 2 I mean, that's -- that's in 3 violation of the code, but you've got to build 4 them, so no tree in the world is going to block 5 that. 6 The trees in Legacy are upwards of 7 90 to 100 feet high for the -- for the very 8 mature ones, so think about that. It still won't 9 block the cranes, they are still going to be 10 there and we're going to have to look at them. 11 I will ask again. I am a little 12 confused when Mr. Olson says that it's a 20-year 13 build -out and then Pioneer Development says it's 14 a ten-year build -out. Can somebody toll me which 15 one it is? 16 20 years I will be 82. Ten years I 17 will be 72. You know, I built there as my -- my 18 dream house. My dream spot. I am close to 19 everything, but still rural, for a while. 20 And speaking of rural, isn't it in 21 Yorkville's Comprehensive Plan to remain a rural 22 community? If that's rural, I am definitely 23 confused on what the definition of that is 24 because that is far from rural. Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public -Hearing.- July 9, 2025 60 1 The local businesses, okay, you 2 know, I have tried to look at some research on 3 how many people these buildings really employ. I 4 haven't got -- he says it's going to employ 500 5 people, okay? I've heard other people tell me, 6 you know, it's going to be six to ten people per 7 building because they are all automated. They 8 are run by computers, that are the computers. 9 What's that doing for the businesses 10 in Yorkville? If you put homes in there, the 11 businesses will thrive, but these aren't -- these 12 are -- these are employees supposedly, we don't 13 really know the number, but it's going to be for, 14 you know, 20 years before it's built out, or 15 ten years. The businesses in the United City of 16 Yorkville are not going to see any benefits from 17 this program. They just won't. 18 The noise. So everybody wants to 19 talk about the -- you know, the noise and it's 20 going to be great, it's going to be quiet when 21 it's done after ten years, 20 years, I don't know 22 which it is, but back-up alarms are not quiet. 23 They are designed to be safety protection for the 24 people on the ground. Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public -Hearing— July 9, 2025 61 1 The amount of concrete trucks, the 2 precast drywall or -- or the precast concrete 3 walls, those all come in on trucks. They're 4 loud, they're going to be loud, and they are 5 going to generate dust. 6 Could you imagine this year with no 7 rain, the dust? I am curious to see what the 8 dust control is going to be. 9 And when, you know, if you go by the 10 one in Yorkville, and I have a picture -- it 11 doesn't do me any good, it's for like a 31-acre 12 site, and the amount of -- there is six cranes on 13 this 31-acre site and dozens and dozens of 14 vehicles for the trades. Dozens. 15 So the traffic will not be -- it 16 will be there. When they are done it won't be, 17 but that's ten or 20 years, so I don't want to 18 hear this either that there won't be any 19 increased traffic, because there will be, because 20 you've got to get the building materials and 21 you've got to get the men to be there. 22 So that's another really kind of -- 23 a lot of these things that are being told by 24 Pioneer is when it's done, but it's not going to Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public Hearing - July 9, 2025 62 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 be done for a long time. Site remediation. We were told in another prior meeting that these things have a 75-year useful life. How many of you have ever heard of a data center before five years ago? Anybody? Not me. I mean, there's a good chance -- everybody knows what lithium is now, right? It fuels our -- that's the batteries that we put in our electric cars, but lithium may be gone in ten years because, you know what, someone is going to come up with another. Might be hydrogen. How do we know 75 years from now the technology right now that is moving at breakneck speed -- I mean, Elon Musk lands a -- lands a booster rocket in a set of chopsticks. I mean, who would have thought that was possible ten years ago? So you are going to tell me that this really has a 75-year useful life? I mean, I am curious to see what's going to happen with the wifi buildings, you know, because they've got one purpose, these buildings are one purpose, and if Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public -Hearing— July 9, 2025 63 1 this technology changes, you're going to have -- 2 you're going to have urban blight right in my 3 backyard. 4 So I am thinking, you know, if you 5 do approve this project, I would like -- and not 6 a bond. I would like to see an escrow, a very 7 large escrow, for demolition and clean up. 8 I think that's something that the 9 Planning Committee should really, really think 10 about, and you should do it per building, just -- 11 and like I said, not a bond, because a bonding 12 company is going to fight it. Going to fight it. 13 CHAIRMAN VINYARD: I understand. 14 MR. BRYAN: So, okay, my final thoughts, 15 I know you guys are getting antsy. Like I said, 16 this project goes totally against Yorkville's 17 Comprehensive Plan. 18 They are right, they said they are 19 going to redefine Yorkville. Well, you are right 20 because the Comprehensive Plan is going right out 21 the window. It really, really is. 22 Central Park. We all know Central 23 Park in New York. You know how many acres 24 Central Park is? 890. This thing is bigger than Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public Hearing - July 9, 2025 64 1 Central Park. 2 We in Legacy Farms are not residents 3 of Yorkville, so we won't -- I call this taxation 4 without representation. Why? Because we are 5 being taxed and tax isn't just money, tax is a 6 burden. 7 We are going to be burdened with 8 dust, noise and ugliness for ten years, and we 9 have no say so because we're not -- we don't live 10 in Yorkville. 11 We're not going to see any of these 12 grandioso, you know, fee reductions, and we will 13 see -- the only economic benefit we will get is 14 we will lose money on our houses. That's it. I 15 mean, this is pure and simple taxation without 16 representation. 17 My last statement, the bottom line 18 is this land was zoned residential. It was zoned 19 residential, and you are going to change it to 20 M-2 industrial. 21 It's not fair to me, it's not fair 22 to my neighbors, and it's not fair to anyone that 23 drives down that road, you know. 24 I will quote a late great actor, Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public -Hearing— July 9, 2025 65 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Patrick Swayze. Why am I so -- why am I so -- just so angry about this project? Because I live here. Thank you. CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Thank you. Would anyone else like to speak? Preferably on topics that haven't been addressed with either of the last two. KEITH LANDOVITZ, having been first duly sworn, testified before the Planning and Zoning Commission as follows: MR. LANDOVITZ: Good evening. Keith Landovitz, 275 Ashe Road. My wife and I live immediately to the west of the subject property. We are immediately -- we are adjacent to, but not part of, the Estates at Legacy Farms subdivision, residential subdivision, so although I've come very much to respect Mr. Weiler, he -- the homeowner's association that he represents doesn't cover my wife and me. I'm going to try -- some of my concerns are tangentially the same. I am going to try to raise only points that are specific and Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public -Hearing— July 9, 2025 66 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 haven't been specifically said before. CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Thank you. MR. LANDOVITZ: I won't succeed in that a hundred percent, but I will do the best I can to respect your time. So first I do want to acknowledge, as Mr. Weiler did, some good things that have happened in the course of planning this. Particularly I see that the most recent site plan -- and I thank the petitioner and the City staff for putting some newer documents on the website recently, I think within the last week, the most current site plan doesn't show entrance or exit along Ashe Road, so I think that's great. I still wish the two residential driveways, including mine, were on the plan. My access to Ashe Road is not part of the Leg -- the residential subdivision road network, so there is a separate, and there are two now separate residential driveways. I think that's all material to the overall transportation planning, so it should be part of the record, but -- and I believe I heard the petitioner say this also tonight, that the Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public -Hearing— July 9, 2025 67 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 access to the site would be just along Base Line and Galena, so that's great, I want to see that continue as part of the PUD agreement. But then some concerns, and with reference specifically to the more recently published documents, the sound study, I think there are some inconsistencies between the published document and some of the things the petitioner said this evening in his testimony. The document does not allude to the lower thresholds for tonal sound, and, again, I applaud Yorkville for I think that was an enlightened act to enact those lower standards, right, recognizing that tonal sound punches above its weight, right, in terms of nuisance impact, but I don't think that's acknowledged in the study, so I would want to see that updated, and I would want to see assurance that, in fact, the sound will be below -- below those thresholds in the appropriate categories for atonal versus tonal sound. The -- and tonal sound, I think even as good as the Yorkville thresholds are, tonal sound is a real concern, right, particularly with Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public -Hearing.- July 9, 2025 68 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 industrial zoning as opposed to residential or other uses, even commercial, right, because the idiosyncratic industrial uses generate their own particular tonal sounds. Mr. Bryan gave what to me is the paradigmatic example of the thousand hertz back-up alert thing, but, you know, I don't expect data centers to have much of that, although I would love to see that, a prohibition against any of that in the special use, right, but there may be, and this may be an opportunity if Yorkville is trying to benefit from lessons learned from other places that have done these data centers, understanding what kind of tonal noise they generate and having specific requirements in the -- in the special use or the general zoning ordinance for that I think would be good. I know the sound study also alluded -- and I think petitioner did in testimony this evening -- to possibly ordering equipment designed not to generate tonal noise. I don't know if that's -- you know, I could put out an RFP for equipment that -- for Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public Hearing - July 9, 2025 69 1 a chiller that's shaped like a giraffe. I don't 2 know if anybody actually makes that, right? 3 So whether these things are actually 4 made with different sound profiles and are 5 available in the market, I don't know if that's 6 hypothetical or proved, but, in any case, I think 7 that warrants a little more work tightening up 8 the sound study and getting better assurance that 9 both the sound levels will be below the 10 appropriate thresholds both for tonal and atonal. 11 In terms of light, the photometric 12 study -- and I understand the way these are 13 typically done, right, for a couple of things. 14 First, I think in the published 15 documents it was really just showing one 16 building, and I am assuming that's because the 17 theory is that all the buildings are going to be 18 the same. 19 I think ideally that's not really as 20 good as having a full lighting plan, which I 21 think would be better, but even just working from 22 that study, right, what a photometric study 23 typically shows is -- I think the proper 24 engineering term would be luminous flux. That's Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public -Hearing— July 9, 2025 70 1 the thing that's measured in lumens or foot 2 candles. 3 I think in layman's terms that kind 4 of translates into like ambient brightness, so 5 that's like when you think of light pollution, 6 that's what you think of, it's just light going 7 in all directions, right, and how much, how 8 intense is that omnidirectional light. That's 9 not the same thing. 10 So saying the photometric study 11 shows that a certain distance from the buildings 12 there will be zero foot candles of light -- of 13 luminous flux, right, that's not the same as 14 saying, as I think the petitioner did this 15 evening, and I'll ask him to beg my pardon if I 16 am misquoting him, that the buildings would for 17 all intents and purposes be invisible. 18 In fact, the whole principle by 19 which ornamental lighting works -- and I know we 20 are not having ornamental lighting here -- but 21 ornamental lighting is low intensity, right, the 22 overall light output is low, but you see it. You 23 can't read by it, but it makes an impression. 24 My concern, to put this in concrete Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public Hearing - July 9, 2025 71 1 terms, is that we are going to have something 2 here that looks like the Martians landed their 3 UFO in the neighboring farmer's field, or their 4 whole fleet of UFOs, right, if there are 14 5 buildings. 6 Now, if none of those -- and I'm not 7 sure, I think the -- the photometric study I 8 think said 25 feet up for the luminaires, I think 9 the M-2 would be 35 feet, I think it's 20 feet 10 for residential, if I remember the zoning code 11 correctly, so I would love to see not more than 12 20 feet, but what I really care about is that the 13 lights just not be visible from the outside of 14 this thing, so that you're not looking up at 15 buildings and seeing this row of lights, right, 16 and, again, other than if they are not blinking, 17 you know, it kind of looks like a UFO landed in 18 the field, right? 19 Even if the lights are not very 20 bright, that's something -- it's kind of the same 21 thing as tonal noise in that it has an aesthetic 22 impact that punches above its weight, right, in 23 terms of just the energy output. So those were 24 some specific concerns with the revised Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public -Hearing— July 9, 2025 72 1 documents. 2 I think my biggest concern, and 3 forgive me here, I do have to repeat a bit of 4 what was said before, but the planned -- the 5 phased planning building from west to east, 6 right, of course I am another person that lives 7 in the west, to the west, I, you know, share the 8 concern about disproportionate impact on people 9 who are not residents of Yorkville, right, who 10 live in an unincorporated area and, therefore, 11 the equal protection implications of that. 12 I would very much like to see, and 13 think it would be more equitable for the entire 14 community, a plan that builds out from the 15 center, right, particularly given how long this 16 development may take and the possibility that it 17 may not be fully realized. 18 And I know, again, forgive me here 19 for repeating a bit, but my wife and I had an 20 experience similar to Mr. Bryan's, we haven't 21 owned our property for 20 years, it's been about 22 six years, living here for five, but when we 23 moved here, we could tell Eldamain was -- the 24 Eldamain corridor was going to be industrial, Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public -Hearing— July 9, 2025 73 1 right, you could see that from the road 2 improvements, you could see that from looking at 3 both Yorkville, Kendall County and Plano zoning 4 maps, comprehensive plans, right? Didn't think 5 that industrial would go north of Galena. 6 Now, that's not to say that it 7 shouldn't or can't. I understand these 8 comprehensive plans get updated. On the whole my 9 objections are not to the data center development 10 as a use, but I would like to see better 11 transition to other land uses, right, and really 12 the principles from the Yorkville development 13 guidelines, right, the principles are preserving 14 rural character, and transition between land uses 15 I think could be done a little bit better here. 16 Part of that would be not building -- not having 17 the development start in the west. 18 So with that, I think that in terms 19 of the specific matters that the petition 20 comprises, right, and my prayer to the Commission 21 regarding the annexation, my plea is to recommend 22 against that unless and until the phasing is 23 revised because the only part that needs to be 24 annexed is the part that would be Phase 1, right, Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public Hearing - July 9, 2025 74 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 and the annexation specifically enables that phasing from west to east, so that's why -- I have no other objection to the annexation, but obviously leverage for a phasing that I would view as more favorable to my interests is undermined by the annexation. In terms of the M-2 zoning, I would prefer to see it -- particularly given the other developments happening along the Eldamain corridor, I would prefer to see a data center district zoning rather than the general manufacturing zoning. I understand pros and cons of going with the special use versus that specific zoning, but I think given all the specialist considerations around the data center use and given the amount of territory that will likely be zoned for that use, that is something for which I would plead. Regarding the special use overlay, that's part -- that's a part where I think it's all great, everything that I saw that was done all seemed favorable in terms of lessening the impact, so no concerns about any of that. Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public Hearing - July 9, 2025 75 1 And then, finally, in terms of the 2 annexation agreements and the PUD agreement, 3 right, obviously I have talked about the 4 annexation, PUD agreement, similar issue with the 5 phasing, and also I think the general idea that 6 we -- you know, if this is going to go for 10 or 7 20 years, however long it's going to be, right, 8 saying this is -- we have all these hearings, 9 right, and state law mandates a certain process 10 and our zoning ordinances mandate a certain 11 process, but once that's all done and a PUD 12 agreement is signed, a lot of things that 13 materially affect the impact of a development, 14 particularly one this size, can happen in the 15 life of that development, and I would hope that 16 the PUD agreement would include requirements, 17 procedural requirements, above and beyond what 18 the state law and the existing local ordinances 19 require, to allow for checkpoints or toll gates 20 in the course of this development to help course 21 correct, both for things that may be adverse to 22 people who live in the area and also for other 23 general developments because nobody knows what's 24 going to happen over the course of 20 years. Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public Hearing - July 9, 2025 76 1 I understand that developers need to 2 lock in certain parameters upfront, but I'd like 3 to see some procedural safeguards over the life 4 of the development. 5 My final point is my wife and I came 6 here as refuge -- came to Kendall County as 7 refugees from poorly planned development in Will 8 County. 9 I mean, already I see things being 10 done a thousand times better here in the way the 11 whole process is unfolding and the nature of the 12 development being planned, so I am very gratified 13 to see that, but I think there is still room for 14 improvement in terms of those -- you know, 15 setting up these gargantuan districts and then 16 the quality of transition, right? 17 A buffer is not a transition. I 18 know the plan has already gotten better since its 19 inception in terms of buffering, but I don't 20 think that's a substitute for better transition 21 to adjacent land uses. 22 So thank you for your time. 23 CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Thank you. Would 24 one else like to speak? Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public -Hearing— July 9, 202 77 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 (No response.) CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Would anyone joining in on Zoom tonight like to speak? (No response.) CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Seeing as there is none -- All right. MS. BAUMGARTNER: Hello? CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Yes. DEBRA BAUMGARTNER, having been first duly sworn, testified before the Planning and Zoning Commission as follows: MS. BAUMGARTNER: Hi. This is Debra Baumgartner. My family owns the farm property across the road on Base Line that is bounded by Base Line, Miguel and Ashe Roads, so I actually had some questions for either the City or the petitioner. My first question is in relation to the roads, Base Line and Ashe Road. The report says that those are going to have a hundred feet total planned corridor, and I am just wondering is the right-of-way dedication all coming from the Pioneer Development or will you be seeking easements from the land owners on the other sides Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public -Hearing— July 9, 2025 78 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 of Base Line and Ashe? CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Okay. MS. NOBLE: Um -- CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Go ahead. MS. NOBLE: Oh. CHAIRMAN VINYARD: You're good, if you can answer, help. MS. NOBLE: Sure. The petitioner will be required to dedicate roadway on their side of the land. I am not sure if it would require any other easements on anybody else's property. The City engineer just left the room, so when he comes back, he will be able to address that comment. MS. BAUMGARTNER: Okay. Another question involving easements. The plan shows a future utility corridor, it's also referred to as a future utility easement, that is 300 feet wide. That is the length of a football field. That's huge. I am wondering, it runs north/south just east of Phase 1. Is that utility corridor -- Well, what is going to be in it for one thing, and is there going to be an easement Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public -Hearing— July 9, 2025 79 1 sought for my farm, which is directly to the 2 north of that, which aligns with the easement 3 shown on the plan? 4 MS. NOBLE: That easement is an existing 5 ComEd easement, utility easement. ComEd would be 6 the one that would reach out if there is any 7 acquisition needed, not the City or in response 8 to the development. 9 MS. BAUMGARTNER: So do you know 10 anything about what is to be built on that? 11 MS. NOBLE: If the developer is willing 12 to respond. 13 MR. McCARRON: Hi, Deborah, nice to meet 14 you. So that 300-foot wide easement, currently 15 it's actually ComEd-owned acreage that runs 16 through our property. It dead ends at Base Line 17 Road. It will not be going north through there. 18 The lines actually end in the middle 19 of our property and then take a hard 90-degree 20 turn before going east, and we're not going to be 21 building lines north of your property. 22 MS. BAUMGARTNER: Okay. Thank you. Do 23 you know anything about the road right-of-ways, 24 my previous question? Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public Hearing - July 9, 2025 80 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 MS. NOBLE: Our engineer is back, Brad Sanderson, can address that question for you. MR. SANDERSON: Yeah, I'm sorry, had to take a break, but what was the question in regards to the road right-of-ways? MS. BAUMGARTNER: I was asking if Base Line and Ashe Roads, which the information says they are going to be widened, and I wondered if the entire right-of-way dedication would come from the Pioneer project development or if you were going to be seeking right-of-way easements from any of the property owners on the north side of Base Line or the west side of Ashe Road. MR. SANDERSON: Yeah, still to be determined, but most likely on Base Line Road we would try to obtain right-of-way from both sides of the roadway and keep the roadway basically where it is, but still to be determined. Those details won't be planned for quite some time. MS. BAUMGARTNER: And I had one more question for the petitioner. How many data center projects has Pioneer Development completed? MR. McCARRON: That's confidential, but Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public -Hearing— July 9, 2025 81 1 I think this will be collectively our fifth. 2 MS. BAUMGARTNER: Anything of this 3 scale? 4 MR. McCARRON: On a megawatt basis, this 5 is on the larger side of campuses. 6 MS. BAUMGARTNER: And is it the largest 7 that you have been involved with? 8 MR. McCARRON: It is the largest campus 9 I have been involved with. 10 MS. BAUMGARTNER: Thank you. 11 CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Does that conclude 12 your questions? 13 MS. BAUMGARTNER: Yes. Thank you. 14 CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Thank you. Would 15 anyone else in Zoom land like to speak? Speak 16 now or forever hold your peace. 17 (No response.) 18 CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Okay. Would the 19 petitioner like the testimony -- Would the 20 petitioner like to have their responses to the 21 standards entered into the public record? 22 MR. McCARRON: So just some high level 23 things. So thank you, Debra, Keith and John for 24 your comments, everybody as well. We appreciate Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public -Hearing— July 9, 2025 82 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 working with you guys, too, and trying to make this project more harmonious for you. So as far as the sound study goes for no tonal noise, I saw before this meeting, it hasn't been included yet, we have an updated preliminary sound study based upon feedback from Soundscape that have been going back and forth with their engineers, so there will be no tonal noise. Additionally, as far as Keith, your comment about wanting to see a full photometric plan, but also noting that there is no light pollution necessarily from our snapshot of the building, so given that there is not going to be any light pollution from a single building, there is not going to be collective light pollution either, so I'm not sure how that would be different. And then as far as lighting goes, everything is going to be motion activated, so it's not like all these parking lots are going to be illuminated at night, and hopefully that was made clear in the presentation, so from a distance, especially given the berm work, the Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public Hearing - July 9, 2025 83 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 hundred feet landscape buffer and the trees once they are more mature, you are not going to really see anything. As far as the phasing issue, it is at ComEd's discretion to a degree as well as PJM and FERC. Our site plan for phasing has already been submitted to them, so we can't really tell them what to do. And then for the comment that they are adjusting poles along Route 47 right now, so why can't we adjust ours, that is power at the distribution level, it's not at the transmission level. It's a totally different regulatory body. The actual building heights that I would like to reassert are 55 feet, they are not 70 feet, even though there is I believe an ordinance now that we can build up to 70 feet. What we are asking for is a 78-foot variance for mechanical equipment that will be inset from the building edges substantially. You will never see that. And I know it's hard to see from the site plan that was up during some of these questions, but it's a hundred feet wide of Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public -Hearing.- July 9, 2025 84 1 buffer, which is massive. It's a third of a 2 football field. 3 So it's really hard to tell from the 4 scale, but it's an unbelievable amount of 5 landscaping, and it really is going to contain 6 the site and make sure it's obstructed from 7 any -- the shells are obstructed from view as 8 much as possible, once everything is fully built 9 out. 10 And then one point, Pioneer 11 Development is an Illinois LLC, it is not a 12 Wyoming LLC. We are an Illinois -based company. 13 All of our partners on the project are 14 Illinois -based. 15 And then as far as us being a 16 nuisance or potentially causing curtailment on 17 the grid for residential customers, that is 18 impossible. ComEd would never allow it. 19 We are paying for all grid 20 infrastructure upgrades to serve the site, and if 21 it's curtailed in an emergency, we would be 22 curtailed first and we would have backup 23 generators. We are not going to cause a 24 brownout. Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public -Hearing— July 9, 2025 85 1 And I understand Legacy Farms is 2 also not pleased that they are not going to see 3 any of the benefits here on a tax basis for 4 potential tax revenue going down. Potentially 5 maybe Legacy Farms should be annexed into 6 Yorkville and they can see some of the tax 7 benefits. 8 That's it. Thank you. 9 CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Thank you. 10 MR. SILVERMAN: Mr. Chairman, we would 11 like those entered into the record. 12 CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Very good. I am also 13 going to add into the public record a memo -- I'm 14 sorry, email sent on July 7th from Lawrence D. 15 Wickter and Deborah Wickter discussing the 16 development and the property -- possible property 17 losses. This will be added into the record. I 18 believe you have been given that as well. Very 19 good. 20 Okay. So we are going to conclude 21 the public hearing. Since all public testimony 22 regarding this petition has been taken, may I 23 have a motion to close the taking of testimony in 24 this public hearing? Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public -Hearing— July 9, 202 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 COMMISSIONER CROUCH: So moved. COMMISSIONER LINNANE: Second. CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Roll call vote, please. MS. YOUNG: Yes. Forristall. COMMISSIONER FORRISTALL: Yes. MS. YOUNG: Crouch. COMMISSIONER CROUCH: Yes. MS. YOUNG: Green. COMMISSIONER GREEN: Yes. MS. YOUNG: Linnane. COMMISSIONER LINNANE: Yes. MS. YOUNG: And Vinyard. CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Yes. The public hearing portion of tonight's meeting is now closed. (Which were all the proceedings had in the public hearing, concluding at 9:13 p.m.) ---000--- Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com PZC - Public Hearing - July 9, 2025 87 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 STATE OF ILLINOIS ) ) SS. COUNTY OF LASALLE ) I, CHRISTINE M. VITOSH, a Certified Shorthand Reporter of the State of Illinois, do hereby certify: That the foregoing public hearing transcript, Pages 1 through 88, was reported stenographically by me by means of machine shorthand, was simultaneously reduced to typewriting via computer -aided transcription under my personal direction, and constitutes a true record of the testimony given and the proceedings had; That the said public hearing was taken before me at the time and place specified; That I am not a relative or employee or attorney or counsel, nor a relative or employee of such attorney or counsel for any of the parties hereto, nor interested directly or indirectly in the outcome of this action. I further certify that my certificate attached hereto applies to the original transcript and copies thereof signed and certified under my hand only. I assume no Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com 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 cros.vitosh@gmail.com 1 $10,000,000 [1] - 51:3 $70 [1] - 50:13 /s[1]-88:8 0 084-02883 [1] - 88:10 1 1 [4] - 16:19, 73:24, 78:22, 87:7 1,000 [1] - 17:8 1,050 [1] - 10:17 1,050-acre [2] - 10:9, 11:24 10[1]-75:6 100 p] - 3:8, 21:6, 22:5, 22:6, 30:21, 35:22, 59:7 100-foot [1] - 17:18 11th[1]-5:9 12 [1] - 19:16 13 [1] - 12:12 130 [1] - 26:23 14 [6] - 11:1, 11:17, 12:21, 52:17, 52:18, 71:4 15[1]-58:7 150-foot [1] - 59:1 1500 [2] - 17:8, 24:19 18 [2] - 21:12, 47:4 1804 [1] - 3:3 1988 [2] - 56:14, 56:23 K 2 [2] - 16:20, 50:5 20 [13] - 47:5, 47:8, 48:18, 49:8, 59:16, 60:14, 60:21, 61:17, 71:9, 71:12, 72:21, 75:7, 75:24 20-year[1] - 59:12 2007 [1] - 53:7 2025 [3] - 1:21, 5:9, 88:5 2025-08 [2] - 5:7, 8:4 24/7 [1] - 25:17 25[1]-71:8 25-year[1] - 48:19 -PZC - Public 275 [1] - 65:13 28th [1] - 88:4 3 3,000 [1] - 45:21 30 [1] - 58:18 300 [1] - 78:18 300-foot [1] - 79:14 305 [1] - 11:22 31-acre [2] - 61:11, 61:13 35 [2] - 22:13, 71:9 350 [1] - 3:3 3600 [1] - 21:11 38[1]-4:4 4 4 [1] - 29:23 4,000 [2] - 39:20, 42:11 40-year[1] - 48:6 46[1]-4:5 4600 [1] - 19:13 47 [ill- 11:16, 21:23, 43:8, 49:24, 50:4, 50:15, 50:19, 51:7, 51:10, 54:21, 83:10 5 50 [4] - 24:9, 24:11, 28:5, 28:11 50-foot [1] - 58:23 500 [6] - 17:7, 24:18, 26:5, 28:11, 34:5, 60:4 500-foot [1] - 26:24 55 [4] - 18:12, 20:17, 22:7, 83:15 6 60 [2] - 24:10, 50:12 60435 [1] - 3:8 60563 [1] - 3:4 630 [1] - 3:4 65[1]-4:6 651[1]-1:17 682-0085 [1] - 3:4 7.5 [1] - 57:9 70 [5] - 26:7, 44:2, Hearing - 57:21, 83:16, 83:17 72 [2] - 4:7, 59:17 730-9500 [1] - 3:9 75 [1] - 62:14 75-year[2] - 62:4, 62:21 78 [2] - 18:13, 21:3 78-foot [1] - 83:18 7:00 [1] - 1:22 7:11 [1] - 5:4 7th [1] - 85:14 8[1]-53:7 800 [1] - 34:5 800-pound [1] - 44:16 815 [1] - 3:9 82 [1] - 59:16 822 [1] - 3:8 88[1]-87:7 890 [1] - 63:24 0 9[2]-1:21,4:3 9/11 [1] - 49:8 90 [2] - 30:1, 59:7 90-degree [1] - 79:19 91 [1] - 28:10 987 [1] - 21:11 9:13[1]-86:19 A able [1] - 78:13 abrupt [1] - 14:6 absent [1] - 23:18 absorb [2] - 17:22, 24:23 access [4] - 14:18, 50:17, 66:17, 67:1 accommodated [1] - 46:5 accuracy[11 - 88:1 accurate [1] - 7:9 acknowledge [1] - 66:6 acknowledged [1] - 67:16 acoustic [1] - 27:20 acoustically [1] - 20:6 acquisition [1] - 79:7 acre [3] - 29:8, 29:10, 31:17 acreage [1] - 79:15 acres [5] - 10:17, July 9, 2025- 11:22, 19:17, 45:21, 63:23 act [1] - 67:13 action [1] - 87:20 activated [1] - 82:20 active [1] - 23:11 actor [1] - 64:24 actual [11] - 13:18, 21:16, 21:20, 22:4, 23:22, 24:2, 24:15, 30:12, 45:1, 45:17, 83:14 adapt [1] - 14:5 add [4] - 18:2, 27:2, 33:20, 85:13 added [1] - 85:17 additionally[5] - 9:11, 9:18, 25:16, 26:21, 82:10 address [4] - 46:13, 46:22, 78:14, 80:2 addressed [11] - 39:9, 39:11, 39:12, 39:18, 40:6, 40:10, 40:13, 41:18, 45:15, 65:7 adjacent [4] - 18:7, 21:15, 65:16, 76:21 adjust [1] - 83:11 adjusting [1] - 83:10 adjustment [2] - 16:24, 19:11 adjustments [1] - 17:21 Administrative [1] - 2:19 Administrator[21 - 2:9, 6:11 adopted [1] - 35:6 adoption [1] - 30:16 advance [1] - 9:20 adverse [1] - 75:21 advertising [1] - 22:24 aesthetic [1] - 71:21 affect [1] - 75:13 affected [3] - 43:2, 43:3, 43:4 agencies [1] - 32:9 agenda [1] - 5:20 ago [4] - 47:8, 48:17, 62:5, 62:19 agreement[11] - 12:1, 13:6, 15:23, 31:7, 37:5, 67:3, 75:2, 75:4, 75:12, 75:16 agreements [3] - 36:2, 37:21, 75:2 ahead [1] - 78:4 Al [3] - 56:2, 56:3, 56:6 aided [1] - 87:10 air [1] - 30:7 airport [1] - 52:15 alarms [1] - 60:22 alert [1] - 68:7 Alexandria [1] - 2:20 aligned [1] - 11:10 aligns [1] - 79:2 all -at -once [1] - 13:20 allegiance [2] - 51:16, 51:17 allow [3] - 12:11, 75:19, 84:18 allowed [1] - 38:17 allows [1] - 12:5 allude [1] - 67:10 alluded [1] - 68:20 almost [1] - 22:10 alongside [2] - 16:12, 17:18 ALSO [1] - 2:8 amazing [1] - 27:15 ambient [1] - 70:4 amenity[1] - 19:24 America [1] - 10:2 amount [5] - 29:5, 61:1, 61:12, 74:17, 84:4 analysis [2] - 27:20, 33:9 anchored [1] - 37:2 AND [1] - 1:10 angry [1] - 65:2 annexation [12] - 10:7, 11:21, 13:6, 36:2, 37:4, 37:21, 73:21, 74:1, 74:3, 74:6, 75:2, 75:4 annexed [2] - 73:24, 85:5 annual [1] - 32:23 annualized [1] - 26:8 answer [1] - 78:7 anticipates [2] - 24:4, 24:6 antsy [1] - 63:15 APPEARANCES[1] - 3:1 appeared [2] - 3:5, 3:10 applaud [1] - 67:12 application [1] - 36:9 applications [1] - 45:4 applied [1] - 42:14 applies [1] - 87:22 appreciate [2] - 46:21, 81:24 appreciated [1] - 26:7 approach [2] - 11:9, 30:14 approaches [1] - 14:3 Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com 2 appropriate [4] - 17:17, 35:16, 67:20, 69:10 approval [3] - 10:8, 12:20, 15:16 approvals [4] - 11:21, 13:4, 13:8, 15:19 approve [1] - 63:5 architecturally [1] - 18:21 architecture [1] - 20:4 area [7] - 10:20, 12:8, 42:15, 47:6, 48:22, 72:10, 75:22 areas [4] - 18:7, 29:13, 42:15, 43:7 argument [1] - 55:7 Ashburn [5] - 26:5, 26:6, 26:14, 26:21, 27:1 Ashe [14] - 11:16, 39:2, 42:6, 43:2, 48:13, 49:24, 65:13, 66:14, 66:17, 77:15, 77:19, 78:1, 80:7, 80:13 asphalt [2] - 48:19 assessments [1] - 30:22 association [2] - 39:2, 65:20 assume [1] - 87:24 assuming [1] - 69:16 assurance [2] - 67:18, 69:8 atonal [2] - 67:20, 69:10 attached [1] - 87:22 attacks [1] - 6:21 attenuated [1] - 25:6 attorney [4] - 9:9, 38:22, 87:17, 87:18 audience [2] - 7:4, 7:8 automated [1] - 60:7 available [3] - 30:13, 38:4, 69:5 avoid [1] - 6:20 aware [1] - 49:3 awful [1] - 48:20 B back-up [2] - 60:22, 68:7 background [2] - 24:17, 47:2 backs [1] - 52:13 backup [2] - 29:23, 84:22 PZC - Public Hearing - July 9, 202 backups [1] - 15:9 backyard [2] - 56:10, 63:3 bar [1] - 20:11 Barksdale [1] - 2:10 Barksdale -Noble [1] - 2:10 barriers [1] - 28:17 Bart [1o] - 2:9, 6:11, 24:8, 26:3, 28:23, 33:3, 34:14, 40:13, 41:3, 43:14 Bart's [1] - 40:16 Base [14] - 11:15, 14:19, 48:14, 48:15, 48:16, 67:1, 77:14, 77:15, 77:19, 78:1, 79:16, 80:6, 80:13, 80:15 base [4] - 33:6, 36:4, 37:23, 44:7 based [4] - 19:11, 82:6, 84:12, 84:14 basins [3] - 12:22, 18:5, 29:12 basis [4] - 29:10, 31:17, 81:4, 85:3 batteries [1] - 62:9 BAUMGARTNER[13] - 4:7, 77:7, 77:9, 77:12, 78:15, 79:9, 79:22, 80:6, 80:20, 81:2, 81:6, 81:10, 81:13 Baumgartner [1] - 77:13 Bay [1] - 50:8 beacons [1] - 23:1 beam [1] - 22:23 become [1] - 37:14 beforehand [1] - 48:20 beg [1] - 70:15 behalf [2] - 3:5, 3:10 behind [2] - 18:3, 18:17 below [7] - 24:11, 24:15, 28:5, 29:9, 67:19, 69:9 belt [1] - 17:23 benefit [8] - 13:10, 16:14, 32:16, 33:12, 36:8, 37:3, 64:13, 68:12 benefits [5] - 35:3, 44:6, 60:16, 85:3, 85:7 berm [8] - 12:22, 16:18, 18:6, 20:3, 22:2, 24:21, 27:2, 82:24 berms [5] - 14:1, 17:16, 18:3, 28:14, 35:16 BERNIE [2] - 4:4, 38:18 Bernie [2] - 38:21, 54:14 best [1] - 66:4 better [9] - 28:12, 43:6, 69:8, 69:21, 73:10, 73:15, 76:10, 76:18, 76:20 between [6] - 42:16, 42:21, 51:19, 58:6, 67:7, 73:14 beyond [3] - 17:10, 35:17, 75:17 bid [1] - 50:12 big [3] - 45:3, 49:20, 49:23 bigger [1] - 63:24 biggest [3] - 44:9, 45:20, 72:2 billions [2] - 52:11, 52:12 binding [6] - 11:24, 13:5, 15:23, 25:21, 36:2, 37:20 bit [4] - 57:7, 72:3, 72:19, 73:15 blackouts [2] - 56:14, 56:15 blending [1] - 21:18 blight [1] - 63:2 blinking [1] - 71:16 block [6] - 17:21, 44:16, 58:17, 58:19, 59:4, 59:9 blocking [1] - 22:9 blood [1] - 47:21 board [1] - 54:8 Board [2] - 51:14, 51:15 bodies [1] - 33:1 body [1] - 83:13 bond [6] - 53:14, 53:15, 53:21, 53:22, 63:6, 63:11 bonding [1] - 63:11 book [2] - 48:3, 52:13 booster [1] - 62:17 border [1] - 10:18 bordered [1] - 11:15 borderline [1] - 31:17 bottom [2] - 27:6, 64:17 bought [2] - 47:8, 47:9 Boulevard [1] - 3:3 boundaries [1] - 24:12 boundary [1] - 28:11 bounded [1] - 77:14 box [1] - 50:23 boxes [1] - 50:22 Brad [2] - 2:18, 80:1 breaching [1] - 30:7 break [1] - 80:4 breakneck [11 - 62:15 brief [1] - 6:12 bright [1] - 71:20 brightness [1] - 70:4 bringing [1] - 11:23 brings [1] - 35:6 Bristol [1] - 50:8 broader [11- 26:9 broken [1] - 32:4 brownout [1] - 84:24 brownouts [3] - 31:24, 56:16 BRYAN [8] - 4:5, 46:18, 46:21, 55:9, 55:11, 55:14, 55:16, 63:14 Bryan [2] - 47:3, 68:5 Bryan's [1] - 72:20 bubble [1] - 40:18 budget [1] - 36:7 buffer [13] - 13:9, 14:1, 16:12, 17:14, 17:19, 19:4, 19:10, 21:19, 22:4, 24:22, 76:17, 83:1, 84:1 buffered [3] - 10:21, 19:21, 35:19 buffering [4] - 12:17, 17:16, 36:14, 76:19 buffers [3] - 12:23, 14:16, 28:3 build [13] - 10:24, 11:18, 13:16, 32:22, 33:3, 45:6, 45:8, 52:15, 56:9, 59:3, 59:13, 59:14, 83:17 build -out [7] - 10:24, 11:18, 13:16, 32:22, 33:3, 59:13, 59:14 building [23] - 11:6, 13:21, 15:21, 17:6, 18:18, 19:10, 21:6, 24:2, 44:3, 57:9, 58:22, 58:24, 60:7, 61:20, 63:10, 69:16, 72:5, 73:16, 79:21, 82:14, 82:15, 83:14, 83:20 buildings [27] - 11:2, 11:17, 12:14, 12:21, 14:15, 16:3, 18:7, 18:10, 18:11, 19:7, 20:15, 20:22, 23:22, 24:18, 42:16, 42:22, 43:24, 44:1, 49:20, 60:3, 62:23, 62:24, 69:17, 70:11, 70:16, 71:5, 71:15 builds [1] - 72:14 built [22] - 13:13, 14:15, 26:22, 35:2, 35:23, 40:22, 43:5, 46:1, 47:19, 48:7, 51:7, 52:17, 53:10, 53:18, 53:19, 56:21, 59:17, 60:14, 79:10, 84:8 burden [3] - 34:18, 34:22, 64:6 burdened [1] - 64:7 Burner [11 - 2:19 Burns [3] - 9:8, 9:12, 27:18 bursts [1] - 40:19 business [2] - 17:13, 56:5 businesses [4] - 60:1, 60:9, 60:11, 60:15 BY [2] - 3:3, 3:7 C C.S.R [1] - 88:9 campus [27] - 9:16, 10:9, 11:1, 12:5, 12:11, 13:16, 17:2, 19:4, 19:13, 19:19, 20:6, 22:11, 23:5, 23:17, 24:20, 27:7, 27:14, 29:11, 30:9, 31:16, 31:22, 33:5, 33:14, 34:1, 34:24, 35:12, 81:8 campuses [8] - 15:24, 17:11, 20:5, 25:9, 26:3, 26:6, 26:22, 81:5 candles [2] - 70:2, 70:12 cannot [2] - 21:4, 57:14 capacity [2] - 15:20, 34:3 capital [2] - 13:22, 34:7 car [11 - 56:5 Cardinal [6] - 3:10, 9:7, 32:22, 34:19, 35:5, 37:22 care [2] - 50:16, 71:12 carpetbaggers [1] - 52:8 Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com 3 cars [1] - 62:10 case [21- 28:1, 69:6 cases [1] - 27:23 CASTALDO [11 - 3:2 categories [1] - 67:20 causing [1] - 84:16 caveat [11- 40:17 caveats [1] - 43:16 center[261 - 6:12, 9:16, 9:23, 10:9, 11:2, 12:5, 15:24, 17:11, 19:20, 20:5, 21:16, 21:20, 26:3, 26:4, 26:6, 26:12, 26:22, 31:10, 34:13, 35:7, 62:5, 72:15, 73:9, 74:10, 74:16, 80:22 centers [91 - 29:3, 33:11, 49:2, 49:22, 52:18, 56:24, 58:6, 68:8, 68:14 Central [41 - 63:22, 63:24, 64:1 centrally [1] - 25:1 certain [41 - 70:11, 75:9, 75:10, 76:2 certificate [11- 87:21 Certificate [1] - 88:9 Certified [1] - 87:3 certified [1] - 87:24 certify [21 - 87:5, 87:21 cetera [2] - 53:19 Chad [1] - 2:6 CHAIRMAN [331 - 5:5, 6:9, 6:17, 8:8, 8:19, 8:24, 38:5, 38:9, 38:12, 46:7, 46:12, 46:17, 55:6, 55:10, 55:13, 55:15, 63:13, 65:5, 66:2, 76:23, 77:2, 77:5, 77:8, 78:2, 78:4, 78:6, 81:11, 81:14, 81:18, 85:9, 85:12, 86:3, 86:14 Chairman [31- 2:2, 6:23, 85:10 chambers [11- 7:3 chance [1] - 62:7 change [11- 64:19 changed [1] - 53:12 changes [41 - 14:7, 47:17, 47:18, 63:1 character [41 - 23:16, 36:18, 38:1, 73:14 checked [11 - 55:1 checkmark[11 - 54:12 checkpoints [1] - PZC - Publi 75:19 Chicago [21- 56:16, 56:23 chiller [21 - 28:7, 69:1 chillers [31- 25:2, 28:2, 28:14 choice [1] - 28:17 chopsticks [11- 62:17 CHRISTINE [21- 87:3, 88:9 Christine [1] - 88:8 circulation [1] - 15:8 City [12] - 10:4, 10:21, 10:23, 14:23, 16:10, 29:17, 29:21, 32:6, 36:7, 44:20, 49:1, 55:23 CITY [1] - 1:6 City [4o] - 2:9, 2:14, 2:18, 3:5, 5:22, 6:10, 10:13, 13:2, 14:5, 14:10, 14:23, 16:1, 17:10, 19:11, 19:23, 25:18, 30:21, 32:9, 32:12, 32:15, 32:24, 33:8, 33:18, 34:20, 35:24, 36:23, 37:7, 37:15, 46:10, 48:15, 48:24, 49:2, 52:23, 57:18, 60:15, 66:10, 77:16, 78:12, 79:7 City's [41- 12:7, 19:16, 31:14, 35:8 clarifying [21 - 7:11, 7:15 clean [1] - 63:7 clear[1] - 82:23 clearly [1] - 6:1 close [61 - 7:18, 17:12, 26:22, 58:5, 59:18, 85:23 closed [41 - 5:20, 21:1, 39:17, 86:16 closely [1] - 15:17 closest [1] - 16:19 Coast [1] - 56:17 code [81 - 14:10, 17:10, 20:11, 24:15, 28:20, 35:18, 59:3, 71:10 codified [1] - 37:3 collective [1] - 82:16 collectively [1] - 81:1 colluding [11 - 55:5 combined [21- 19:3, 20:3 combining [11 - 28:16 ComEd [161 - 15:12, 15:18, 16:5, 25:12, 30:13, 49:3, 50:10, c Hearing - 54:14, 54:16, 54:22, 54:24, 55:1, 55:5, 79:5, 79:15 comEd [1] - 84:18 ComEd's [11 - 83:5 ComEd-owned [1] - 79:15 coming [5] - 51:10, 52:8, 52:9, 56:8, 77:22 commencing [1] - 5:3 comment [41- 7:18, 78:14, 82:11, 83:9 comments [5] - 6:20, 7:15, 7:17, 44:17, 81:24 commercial [31 - 18:11, 20:12, 68:2 COMMISSION [1] - 1:10 commission [1] - 7:10 Commission [1o] - 5:7, 5:13, 5:20, 7:19, 9:3, 38:20, 46:20, 65:11, 73:20, 77:11 COMMISSIONER[141 - 8:6, 8:7, 8:11, 8:13, 8:15, 8:17, 38:7, 38:8, 86:1, 86:2, 86:6, 86:8, 86:10, 86:12 Commissioner [41 - 2:3, 2:4, 2:5, 2:6 Commissioners [1] - 38:6 commitment [31 - 27:12, 37:20, 40:23 commitments [11 - 36:20 committed [21- 11:7, 13:22 Committee [11- 63:9 committing [1] - 26:24 Commonwealth [4] - 44:15, 44:18, 45:2, 45:6 communication [1] - 39:16 communities [21 - 17:4, 41:7 community[161 - 16:15, 18:8, 20:11, 32:13, 34:8, 34:9, 35:2, 35:19, 37:13, 37:24, 39:14, 39:16, 41:2, 52:9, 59:22, 72:14 Community [21 - 2:10, 2:16 commuter [1] - 15:7 July 9, 202 company [21 - 63:12, 84:12 Company [1] - 3:10 comparable [21 - 18:19, 34:13 compared [31- 17:2, 20:4, 30:2 compatible [21 - 30:10, 35:12 compete [21- 41:10, 43:17 competition [31- 41:1, 41:4, 41:12 competitors [1] - 53:9 complain [1] - 52:16 complete [1] - 50:6 completed [31 - 10:11, 14:12, 80:23 completely [31 - 26:20, 50:1, 56:21 compliance [4] - 25:19, 28:20, 29:20, 36:22 comprehensive [21 - 73:4, 73:8 Comprehensive [61- 35:10, 45:24, 48:24, 59:21, 63:17, 63:20 comprehensively[11 - 37:19 comprises [1] - 73:20 compromise [1] - 36:17 computer [1] - 87:10 computer -aided [1] - 87:10 computers [2] - 60:8 concealed [11- 18:17 concern p1 - 41:16, 45:12, 46:3, 67:24, 70:24, 72:2, 72:8 concerned [1] - 56:12 concerns [151 - 39:7, 39:10, 40:4, 41:17, 43:21, 44:10, 45:14, 45:16, 45:20, 46:4, 46:9, 65:23, 67:4, 71:24, 74:24 conclude [21- 81:11, 85:20 concluding [1] - 86:18 concrete [9] - 20:19, 28:3, 48:6, 58:10, 58:13, 58:15, 61:1, 61:2, 70:24 condition [31- 12:1, 25:22, 37:21 conditions [41 - 28:1, 30:8, 36:21, 44:11 conducted [1] - 36:23 confidence [1] - 43:14 confidential [1] - 80:24 confirmed [41 - 13:19, 16:4, 27:22, 33:8 confirms [1] - 24:14 confused [21- 59:12, 59:23 congestion [11 - 32:1 conifers [1] - 21:11 connectivity [1] - 19:24 cons [1] - 74:13 conservative [11 - 28:6 consider [1] - 57:5 consideration [31 - 28:19, 38:3, 45:12 considerations [1] - 74:16 considered [1] - 5:13 consistent [1] - 26:13 consistently [1] - 27:22 constitutes [1] - 87:11 constructed [1] - 11:7 construction [91- 13:20, 14:1, 14:3, 14:9, 14:10, 15:13, 18:9, 34:2, 40:1 Consultant [1] - 2:15 contain [11- 84:5 contaminants [1] - 29:18 continue [1] - 67:3 continued [1] - 5:8 continuous [21- 27:3, 30:6 contract [31 - 12:2, 53:15, 53:21 contractor [31 - 9:21, 48:5, 53:18 contractors [21 - 53:17, 56:20 contractually [1] - 15:22 control [4] - 23:6, 37:7, 61:8, 88:2 controlling [11- 45:18 controls [1] - 29:18 cooling [31- 28:24, 29:4, 29:6 cooperation [31- 7:7, 7:20, 10:13 coordinated [41 - 14:23, 15:13, 19:22, 32:9 coordination [31 - 9:21, 10:22, 36:23 Coordinator [1] - 2:17 Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com copies [2] - 87:23, 88:2 core [3] - 14:14, 16:6, 36:10 corner [3] - 10:18, 16:21, 23:21 correct [1] - 75:21 correction [1] - 25:19 correctly [1] - 71:11 corridor p] - 12:7, 35:9, 72:24, 74:10, 77:21, 78:17, 78:23 cost [9] - 11:11, 32:5, 32:11, 32:18, 33:18, 35:23, 50:22, 51:3, 52:22 costs [2] - 33:23, 35:4 Council [1] - 5:22 counsel [2] - 87:17, 87:18 County [1o] - 26:4, 47:4, 48:11, 49:7, 51:14, 53:3, 73:31 76:6, 76:8 COUNTY[1] - 87:2 county [1] - 29:17 couple [2] - 48:17, 69:13 course [7] - 40:7, 53:21, 66:8, 72:6, 75:20, 75:24 court [1] - 7:6 cover [2] - 32:11, 65:20 cranes [6] - 58:21, 58:22, 58:24, 59:9, 61:12 crashed [1] - 53:8 crazy [1] - 56:11 create [4] - 12:10, 17:22, 21:19, 33:11 created [1] - 51:20 creates [1] - 36:5 creating [2] - 45:3, 49:16 credit [1] - 30:11 critical [1] - 9:15 CROSS [1] - 3:7 cross [1] - 7:13 cross-examination [1] - 7:13 Crouch [2] - 2:5, 8:12 CROUCH [4] - 8:13, 38:7, 86:1, 86:8 crouch [1] - 86:7 culvert [1] - 50:23 curious [3] - 56:21, 61:7, 62:22 current [1] - 66:13 curtailed [2] - 84:21, PZC - Publi< 84:22 curtailment [1] - 84:16 custom [1] - 12:15 customers [3] - 31:19, 32:1, 84:17 cut [4] - 20:14, 20:21, 21:14, 22:18 cut -away [1] - 20:21 cut-off [1] - 22:18 cut-out [2] - 20:14, 21:14 cuts [1] - 29:9 daily [1] - 15:3 dark [1] - 22:12 data [38] - 6:12, 9:16, 9:23, 10:9, 11:2, 12:5, 15:24, 17:10, 19:20, 20:5, 21:16, 21:20, 25:24, 26:2, 26:6, 26:12, 26:21, 27:20, 28:6, 29:1, 29:3, 31:10, 33:11, 34:13, 35:7, 49:2, 49:22, 52:17, 56:24, 57:4, 58:5, 62:5, 68:8, 68:14, 73:9, 74:10, 74:16, 80:21 Dave [1] - 9:9 DAVID [1] - 3:7 David [1] - 2:13 dBA[1] - 24:9 dead [3] - 58:18, 58:19, 79:16 Deborah [2] - 79:13, 85:15 DEBRA [2] - 4:7, 77:9 Debra [2] - 77:12, 81:23 decade [4] - 11:1, 12:24, 13:18, 26:8 decades [1] - 37:24 deceleration [1] - 50:23 decibel [3] - 27:3, 28:9, 40:5 decibels [4] - 24:10, 24:11, 28:5, 28:10 deciduous [1] - 21:11 decorative [1] - 22:23 dedicate [1] - 78:9 dedicated [1] - 45:22 dedication [2] - 77:22, 80:9 definitely [3] - 50:16, 51:1, 59:22 definition [1] - 59:23 Hearing deflect [1] - 24:23 degree [1] - 83:5 DeKalb [2] - 34:15, 41:4 Del [1] - 47:10 deliberate [2] - 5:21, 7:20 deliver[11 - 28:19 delivered [2] - 11:2, 34:15 delivering [2] - 9:24, 35:9 delivers [2] - 34:20, 36:4 delivery[21 - 9:17, 16:4 demand [4] - 11:6, 13:19, 29:8, 33:12 democracy [1] - 51:19 demolition [1] - 63:7 dense [1] - 19:3 densely [2] - 17:19, 24:22 dent [1] - 57:17 department [2] - 55:18, 55:19 departure [1] - 45:23 depended [1] - 45:24 depth [1] - 14:12 describe [1] - 52:7 design [3] - 9:13, 27:11, 27:22 designed [4] - 29:13, 31:22, 60:23, 68:22 designing [1] - 28:18 destroying [2] - 49:17, 49:18 details [1] - 80:19 detained [1] - 29:12 detention [2] - 42:2, 42:19 determined [2] - 80:15, 80:18 develop [2] - 42:5, 43:7 developed [4] - 13:16, 29:16, 39:21, 45:11 developer [13] - 16:2, 35:22, 39:9, 40:8, 40:14, 40:21, 41:24, 44:14, 46:8, 46:10, 53:4, 54:1, 79:11 developers [2] - 55:21, 76:1 developing [1] - 31:2 development[461 - 9:19, 9:22, 20:12, 29:9, 29:14, 29:15, 31:7, 33:11, 34:10, 34:11, 36:6, 39:2, Lily 9, 2025- 39:5, 40:15, 40:19, 41:14, 41:19, 41:22, 42:2, 42:6, 42:13, 42:16, 42:24, 43:1, 43:4, 43:18, 44:12, 44:23, 45:5, 53:14, 53:23, 54:6, 54:11, 72:16, 73:9, 73:12, 73:17, 75:13, 75:15, 75:20, 76:4, 76:7, 76:12, 79:8, 80:10, 85:16 Development [12] - 2:11,3:10,5:8,8:5, 9:6, 52:1, 52:20, 54:2, 59:13, 77:23, 80:22, 84:11 developments [1ol - 6:12, 10:1, 15:2, 17:3, 18:20, 41:9, 43:17, 53:2, 74:9, 75:23 deviation [1] - 36:11 deviations [1] - 12:13 dialed [1] - 9:8 died [1] - 56:23 difference [1] - 51:19 different [8] - 21:12, 45:8, 54:5, 54:10, 54:13, 69:4, 82:18, 83:13 differentiator[1] - 29:2 digit [1] - 26:17 diligence [1] - 10:11 dime [1] - 52:23 DiNOLFO [1] - 3:2 direct [5] - 7:12, 9:20, 10:13, 10:22, 17:21 directed [2] - 22:14, 46:3 direction [2] - 87:11, 88:2 directions [1] - 70:7 directly [9] - 12:7, 16:4, 22:1, 23:2, 35:5, 36:8, 39:3, 79:1, 87:19 Director [1] - 2:11 dirt [1] - 16:18 dirty [1] - 48:3 disappears [1] - 19:5 discharge [1] - 31:20 discounted [1] - 26:11 discretion [1] - 83:5 discretionary[11 - 25:22 discussing [1] - 85:15 discussion [1] - 6:13 disingenuous [2] - 39:6, 41:17 disproportionate [1] - 72:8 disruption [1] - 32:10 disrupts [1] - 7:1 dissipation [1] - 24:20 distance [2] - 70:11, 82:24 distances [1] - 17:9 distribution [1] - 83:12 district [2] - 12:5, 74:11 districts [1] - 76:15 ditch [1] - 50:21 document [2] - 67:8, 67:10 documented [1] - 36:16 documents [4] - 66:11, 67:6, 69:15, 72:1 dollars [4] - 44:21, 44:24, 52:12 done [14] - 10:12, 40:2, 43:14, 57:10, 60:21, 61:16, 61:24, 62:1, 68:13, 69:13, 73:15, 74:22, 75:11, 76:10 down [8] - 47:13, 49:21, 53:14, 57:14, 57:15, 57:16, 64:23, 85:4 downward [1] - 22:14 dozens [3] - 61:13, 61:14 drainage [1] - 50:21 draw [1] - 31:13 draws [1] - 29:5 dream [2] - 59:18 drive [2] - 34:8, 49:21 Drive [2] - 1:17, 3:8 driven [1] - 11:6 drives [1] - 64:23 driveways [2] - 66:16, 66:20 drops [1] - 31:24 dry [1] - 53:20 drywall [1] - 61:2 Dubajic [1] - 2:14 due [4] - 10:10, 26:11, 28:13, 33:12 duly [5] - 9:2, 38:19, 46:19, 65:10, 77:10 DuPage [1] - 53:3 duplicate [1] - 46:23 during p] - 6:4, 7:5, 14:9, 27:8, 27:9, 38:16, 83:23 Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com 5 dust [5] - 14:8, 61:5, 61:7, 61:8, 64:8 E early [11 - 25:14 earth [1] - 14:12 easement[7] - 78:18, 78:24, 79:2, 79:4, 79:5, 79:14 easements [4] - 77:24, 78:11, 78:16, 80:11 easier [11 - 7:8 East [1] - 56:17 east [7] - 42:5, 44:15, 54:17, 72:5, 74:2, 78:22, 79:20 ecological [1] - 19:15 economic [6] - 34:11, 34:21, 44:22, 45:5, 57:7, 64:13 economy [1] - 37:23 ecoterrorism [1] - 49:16 edge [5] - 19:16, 25:1, 39:3, 41:21, 42:21 edges [3] - 18:9, 18:18, 83:20 Edison [4] - 44:15, 44:18, 45:3, 45:6 effect [4] - 19:3, 41:11, 41:12, 44:4 effects [1] - 22:23 egress [2] - 50:15, 51:10 eight [1] - 17:18 either [8] - 7:13, 14:19, 39:9, 43:8, 61:18, 65:7, 77:16, 82:17 Eldamain [6] - 43:12, 48:6, 72:23, 72:24, 74:9 electric [3] - 53:19, 56:18, 62:10 electrical [2] - 31:14, 56:20 eliminate [2] - 19:2, 31:23 Elon [1] - 62:16 email [1] - 85:14 emergency [4] - 24:5, 24:7, 25:9, 84:21 emission [1] - 30:7 emissions [1] - 30:1 employ [2] - 60:3, 60:4 employee [2] - 87:16, 87:17 employees pi - 60:12 -PZC - Publi enable [2] - 13:8, 16:11 enables [1] - 74:1 enabling [1] - 34:16 enact [1] - 67:13 enclosures [1] - 25:6 encompassing [1] - 28:15 encouraged [2] - 45:7, 45:8 end [4] - 26:16, 46:15, 46:16, 79:18 ends [1] - 79:16 energy [3] - 30:9, 30:10, 71:23 enforceable [6] - 12:2, 27:11, 28:20, 36:20, 37:4, 37:20 enforced [1] - 13:5 enforcement [2] - 13:12, 37:8 Engagement [1] - 2:17 Engineer [1] - 2:18 engineer [3] - 9:12, 78:12, 80:1 engineered p] - 16:8, 17:16, 22:11, 27:10, 29:12, 31:13, 35:16 engineering [4] - 13:1, 24:10, 50:6, 69:24 engineers [2] - 14:24, 82:8 enhanced [1] - 36:13 enhancing [1] - 12:16 enlightened [1] - 67:13 ensure [4] - 6:18, 20:5, 29:14, 32:9 ensures [1] - 17:11 ensuring [1] - 35:2 entered [2] - 81:21, 85:11 entire [6] - 11:23, 12:11, 17:15, 42:12, 72:13, 80:9 entitlement [5] - 10:10, 15:12, 15:22, 33:2, 34:4 entitlements [1] - 15:14 entrance [1] - 66:13 entry [2] - 23:3, 32:12 envisioned [1] - 35:10 envisioning [2] - 11:17, 19:8 EPA [1 - 29:23 EPC [1] 9:21 equal [1] - 72:11 equates [1] - 44:2 Hearing - Equinix [1] - 29:4 equipment [11] - 18:16, 19:1, 21:4, 27:13, 27:15, 27:20, 28:16, 30:2, 68:22, 68:24, 83:19 equitable [1] - 72:13 escrow [2] - 63:6, 63:7 especially [2] - 57:23, 82:24 essentially [1] - 19:4 established [1] - 14:16 estate [1] - 57:24 Estates [1] - 65:16 et [2] - 53:19 evaporative [2] - 28:24, 29:6 evening [4] - 65:12, 67:9, 68:21, 70:15 event [4] - 40:18, 42:23, 43:4, 44:6 evidence [1] - 26:10 examination [1] - 7:13 example [2] - 28:7, 68:6 exceed [2] - 22:12, 29:14 exceeded [1] - 37:16 exceeding [1] - 27:1 exceeds [2] - 22:13, 36:9 except [2] - 22:24, 23:2 existing [5] - 17:13, 31:14, 32:10, 75:18, 79:4 exit [1] - 66:14 expand [2] - 14:15, 33:6 expanded [2] - 50:5, 54:21 expands [1] - 36:3 expect [1] - 68:8 expected [1] - 47:24 experience [1] - 72:20 expired [1] - 56:5 exposed [1] - 18:17 exposure [2] - 10:5, 32:18 expressed [2] - 40:17, 41:6 extended [1] - 31:1 extension [1] - 43:11 extensions [1] - 31:9 exterior [11- 22:17 extraordinary[21 - 17:5, 35:15 extremely[2] - 30:4, 31:20 July 9, 202 1 F FAA [1] - 23:1 facility [1] - 27:10 facing [1] - 22:22 fact [5] - 39:11, 41:8, 45:5, 67:18, 70:18 factor [1] - 15:15 facts [1] - 55:7 fails [1] - 43:4 fair [3] - 64:21, 64:22 faith [1] - 37:7 fall [1] - 58:6 family [1] - 77:13 fans [1] - 25:2 far [1o] - 15:4, 29:8, 29:22, 42:4, 59:24, 82:3, 82:10, 82:19, 83:4, 84:15 farm [4] - 47:12, 52:17, 77:13, 79:1 farmer's [1] - 71:3 farmland [2] - 47:24, 49:17 Farms [8] - 47:5, 47:7, 52:3, 52:14, 64:2, 65:17, 85:1, 85:5 favor [2] - 8:1, 38:13 favorable [2] - 74:5, 74:23 features [1] - 18:8 fee [1] - 64:12 feedback [2] - 19:12, 82:6 fees [2] - 55:21, 55:22 feet [30] - 17:7, 17:8, 17:18, 18:12, 18:13, 20:17, 21:3, 21:6, 22:5, 22:6, 22:7, 22:13, 24:19, 26:5, 26:23, 28:11, 44:2, 50:24, 59:7, 71:8, 71:9, 71:12, 77:20, 78:18, 83:1, 83:15, 83:16, 83:17, 83:24 fellow [1] - 53:8 FERC [1] - 83:6 few [4] - 6:18, 19:6, 27:15, 51:13 fewer [1] - 15:4 field [5] - 52:17, 71:3, 71:18, 78:19, 84:2 FIELD [1] - 3:3 fifth [1] - 81:1 fight [2] - 63:12 figured [1] - 47:16 final [6] - 13:1, 13:2, 29:23, 33:1, 63:14, 76:5 finally [2] - 12:19, 75:1 finances [1] - 34:20 financial [2] - 32:13, 33:7 findings [1] - 36:15 fine [1] - 46:17 fines [1] - 25:23 fire [3] - 33:22, 55:18, 55:19 firm [1] - 9:22 first [12] - 9:2, 14:13, 16:17, 38:19, 42:7, 46:19, 65:10, 66:6, 69:14, 77:10, 77:18, 84:22 fiscal [4] - 32:5, 33:9, 33:12, 35:24 five [5] - 44:3, 48:17, 58:6, 62:5, 72:22 five -story [1] - 44:3 fixture [1] - 22:14 fixtures [2] - 22:18, 22:19 fleet [1] - 71:4 fleets [1] - 15:6 flood [1] - 22:19 flushing [1] - 51:5 flux [2] - 69:24, 70:13 focus [2] - 14:13, 16:19 focused [1] - 6:20 focusing [1] - 16:20 fold [1] - 48:19 fold -up [1] - 48:19 followed [1] - 7:24 following [1] - 5:1 follows [7] - 5:4, 7:23, 9:3, 38:20, 46:20, 65:11, 77:11 foolish [1] - 47:16 foot [3] - 24:22, 70:1, 70:12 football [2] - 78:19, 84:2 footprint [1] - 24:2 force [1] - 36:6 forefathers [1] - 51:20 foregoing [1] - 87:6 forever[1] - 81:16 forgive [2] - 72:3, 72:18 formal [2] - 11:21, 31:7 formalized [2] - 36:1, 37:20 formally [1] - 7:18 former [1] - 48:4 Forristall [3] - 2:3, 8:10, 86:5 Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com I FORRISTALL[2] - 8:11, 86:6 forth [1] - 82:7 forward [31 - 15:21, 32:14, 41:14 founding [1] - 51:20 four [5] - 11:21, 13:8, 41:9, 51:8, 54:22 four -lane [1] - 51:8 frequency [1] - 25:4 front [21 - 50:8, 58:14 fuels [11 - 62:9 full [171 - 10:10, 10:24, 12:20, 16:12, 20:8, 22:18, 23:16, 32:11, 32:22, 33:2, 34:3, 34:5, 37:7, 37:14, 69:20, 82:11 full-time [21 - 34:5, 37:14 fully [171 - 10:3, 11:8, 11:10, 13:13, 14:16, 15:13, 18:16, 19:20, 22:9, 22:14, 29:16, 30:10, 35:12, 36:12, 37:16, 72:17, 84:8 funded p] - 10:4, 16:9, 30:21, 32:7, 33:17, 35:1, 35:23 funding [11 - 16:10 future [4] - 32:2, 32:5, 78:17, 78:18 L gain [21 - 15:15, 48:9 gains [1] - 27:15 Galena [6] - 11:16, 14:19, 31:3, 43:10, 67:2, 73:5 gargantuan [1] - 76:15 Gary [1] - 9:8 gates [11 - 75:19 general [61 - 12:4, 26:11, 68:17, 74:11, 75:5, 75:23 generate [51 - 32:23, 61:5, 68:3, 68:15, 68:22 generated [4] - 40:6, 40:9, 45:2, 56:2 generation [1] - 35:7 generator [31 - 24:12, 25:7, 27:9 generators [81 - 24:24, 25:3, 25:5, 25:8, 29:22, 29:23, 30:3, 84:23 PZC - Public Hearing - July 9, 202 generously [1] - 42:14 giraffe [11- 69:1 given [13] - 19:10, 19:16, 25:11, 31:16, 44:14, 72:15, 74:8, 74:15, 74:17, 82:14, 82:24, 85:18, 87:12 glare [1] - 23:4 glazing [1] - 20:18 glow [11 - 23:15 goal [21 - 19:2, 29:19 gorilla [1] - 44:16 grade [1] - 25:6 grandioso [1] - 64:12 Grandma's [1] - 57:1 grasses [1] - 17:20 gratified [1] - 76:12 great [9] - 34:6, 47:13, 48:22, 54:12, 60:20, 64:24, 66:14, 67:2, 74:22 greatest [21 - 41:15, 55:2 GREEN [4] - 8:6, 8:15, 38:8, 86:10 Green [1] - 2:6 green [4] - 8:14, 17:23, 19:7, 86:9 greenbelt [1] - 19:5 greenbelts [21 - 18:5, 20:3 Gregory [11- 2:16 grid [4] - 30:4, 30:13, 84:17, 84:19 ground [1] - 60:24 group [11 - 13:21 Grove [1] - 10:18 Grove's [1] - 48:9 growth [6] - 10:23, 11:11, 16:3, 16:12, 34:21, 35:11 guarantee [11- 45:10 guaranteed [1] - 53:17 guess [1] - 32:20 guessing [1] - 50:12 guest [11 - 37:13 guidelines [1] - 73:13 guys [21 - 63:15, 82:1 H half [2] - 29:10, 55:4 halls [1] - 29:1 hand [41 - 6:7, 6:20, 87:24, 88:4 Hansen [1] - 2:13 hard [4] - 20:16, 79:19, 83:22, 84:3 harmonious [1] - 82:2 HASENBALG [1] - 3:2 hazardous [1] - 30:7 health [1] - 36:17 hear [51 - 20:9, 27:7, 27:8, 27:9, 61:18 heard [6] - 5:18, 7:18, 40:24, 60:5, 62:5, 66:23 HEARING [11 - 1:11 hearing [171 - 5:3, 5:6, 5:23, 6:5, 6:10, 6:14, 6:19, 7:2, 7:5, 8:4, 38:16, 85:21, 85:24, 86:15, 86:18, 87:6, 87:14 hearings [4] - 5:10, 5:19, 7:9, 75:8 heat [1] - 56:22 height [21 - 22:5, 44:1 heights [11- 83:14 hello [1] - 77:7 help [21 - 75:20, 78:7 hereby [1] - 87:5 hereto [21- 87:19, 87:22 hereunto [1] - 88:3 hertz [1] - 68:6 Hi[11-79:13 hi [2] - 9:4, 77:12 hidden [3] - 31:24, 32:5, 35:4 high [10] - 11:14, 17:18, 20:10, 22:19, 34:2, 34:6, 35:7, 59:1, 59:7, 81:22 high-level [1] - 11:14 high -paying [11- 34:6 higher [1] - 20:10 highway [1] - 51:8 historic [1] - 27:1 hit [21 - 47:14, 49:8 hitting [1] - 22:7 hold [1] - 81:16 holidays [11 - 25:15 home [8] - 17:12, 26:2, 26:11, 57:1, 57:19, 57:23, 58:6, 58:9 homeowner's [21 - 39:1, 65:19 homes [5] - 26:5, 47:24, 48:1, 58:2, 60:10 hope [1] - 75:15 hopefully [11 - 82:22 hoping [11 horizon [11 - 44:19 hours [11- 14:10 house [4] - 47:19, 47:20, 47:21, 59:18 houses [3] - 46:2, 48:23, 64:14 huge [61 - 29:1, 45:5, 49:11, 49:22, 57:8, 78:20 hum [1] - 25:4 humming [1] - 40:9 hundred [9] - 24:22, 26:22, 44:20, 44:24, 58:24, 66:4, 77:20, 83:1, 83:24 hundred -foot [1] - 24:22 hundreds [51 - 52:11, 53:1, 53:2, 53:24, 56:23 hung [1] - 53:20 hydrogen [1] - 62:13 hydroscalers [11 - 30:16 hypothetical [1] - 69:6 1-88 [1] - 49:21 idea [21 - 43:6, 75:5 ideal [1] - 10:20 ideally [1] - 69:19 idiosyncratic [1] - 68:3 [DOT [5] - 50:24, 51:1, 54:19, 54:20, 54:23 ILLINOIS [2] - 1:7, 87:1 Illinois [19] - 1:18, 3:4, 3:8, 11:16, 34:14, 38:23, 50:4, 51:7, 51:10, 51:23, 53:11, 55:2, 57:23, 84:11, 84:12, 84:14, 87:4, 88:4, 88:9 Illinois' [1] - 30:15 Illinois -based [21 - 84:12, 84:14 illuminance [1] - 23:21 illuminated [1] - 82:22 illumination [11- 23:8 image [1] - 21:22 imagination [1] - 49:13 imagine [2] - 36:21, 61:6 immediate [1] - 25:19 immediately [31 - 42:6, 65:14, 65:15 impact [1o] - 23:15, 32:5, 55:21, 55:22, 57:7, 67:15, 71:22, 72:8, 74:24, 75:13 impacted [3] - 42:7, 43:8, 43:9 impacts [21 - 35:14, 37:17 implemented [1] - 14:9 implements [11 - 35:5 implications [1] - 72:11 important [1] - 44:3 imposing [1] - 34:17 impossible [1] - 84:18 impression [1] - 70:23 improved [1] - 32:17 improvement [4] - 30:19, 35:21, 53:6, 76:14 improvements [4] - 14:21, 31:5, 52:24, 73:2 IN[11-88:3 in-depth [11 - 14:12 incentives [1] - 41:5 inception [1] - 76:19 include [2] - 12:13, 75:16 included [1] - 82:5 includes [21 - 24:21, 30:24 including [2] - 24:12, 66:16 income [11- 35:6 inconsistencies [1] - 67:7 increase [31 - 33:14, 33:22, 57:20 increased [1] - 61:19 increases [11 - 34:15 increasing [1] - 34:22 incurring [1] - 35:3 independent [31 - 26:15, 27:19, 33:8 indicated [1] - 41:3 indirectly [1] - 87:20 industrial [14] - 11:5, 15:2, 18:20, 25:6, 35:13, 43:11, 47:18, 48:7, 48:11, 64:20, 68:1, 68:3, 72:24, 73:5 Infantry [1] - 3:8 information [2] - 58:4, 80:7 infrastructure [181 - 9:16, 10:23, 14:14, 15:20, 16:7, 29:21, 32:12, 35:1, 35:8, 35:17, 37:23, 52:24, 53:5, 53:10, 54:1, Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com 56:18, 56:19, 84:20 ingress [2] - 50:15, 51:9 ingress/egress [1] - 50:19 initial [3] - 14:11, 24:14, 27:17 initiated [1] - 39:8 inset [1] - 83:20 installed [3] - 14:2, 18:8, 21:24 installing [1] - 16:13 intense [1] - 70:8 intensity [2] - 23:2, 70:21 intensive [1] - 41:20 intentionally [1] - 18:22 intents [1] - 70:17 interconnection [2] - 9:19, 31:21 interest [3] - 39:8, 41:6, 45:3 interested [2] - 44:23, 87:19 interests [1] - 74:5 interior[3] - 19:9, 42:11, 42:13 Intern [2] - 2:19, 2:20 internal [3] - 12:14, 12:15, 15:8 interrupts [1] - 7:2 intersection [2] - 14:21, 31:4 inventory [11- 58:1 invest [1] - 43:13 investment[41 - 11:8, 34:8, 35:9, 36:9 investor[1] - 9:23 invisible [1] - 70:17 invite [1] - 5:11 involved [2] - 81:7, 81:9 involving [1] - 78:16 isolated [1] - 31:10 issue [5] - 25:19, 39:13, 39:24, 75:4, 83:4 issued [1] - 13:3 issues [4] - 40:2, 40:10, 41:15, 45:17 items [1] - 5:18 iterate [1] - 45:14 itself [12] - 10:3, 10:16, 13:16, 15:1, 21:7, 22:4, 23:5, 31:23, 34:1, 36:3, 36:24, 41:8 PZC - Public job [3] - 7:8, 49:5, 49:6 jobs [5] - 34:2, 34:5, 34:6, 34:21, 36:5 John [3] - 2:19, 47:3, 81:23 JOHN [2] - 4:5, 46:18 joining [1] - 77:2 Joliet [1] - 3:8 July [3] - 1:21, 85:14, 88:4 June [1] - 5:9 jungle [1] - 58:11 justified [2] - 12:12, 36:12 2 Kane [3] - 49:7, 51:14, 53:2 Katelyn [1] - 2:16 KATHLEEN [1] - 3:3 keep [2] - 23:7, 80:17 Keith [3] - 65:12, 81:23, 82:10 KEITH [2] - 4:6, 65:9 Kellogg [1] - 2:14 Kendall [6] - 47:4, 48:10, 49:7, 53:3, 73:3, 76:6 kid [1] - 49:5 kind pol - 20:16, 39:15, 47:1, 48:3, 55:12, 61:22, 68:14, 70:3, 71:17, 71:20 known [1] - 49:4 knows [2] - 62:8, 75:23 Koons [1] - 9:9 Kramer[11 - 38:23 Krysti [1] - 2:10 L land [8] - 18:6, 64:18, 73:11, 73:14, 76:21, 77:24, 78:10, 81:15 landed [2] - 71:2, 71:17 LANDOVITZ[4] - 4:6, 65:9, 65:12, 66:3 Landovitz [1] - 65:13 lands [2] - 62:16 landscape [7] - 14:16, 19:4, 21:8, 22:9, 39:19, 42:10, 83:1 landscaped [3] - Hearing - 17:19, 22:2, 24:22 Landscaping [1] - 9:14 landscaping [8] - 14:13, 16:18, 17:21, 19:21, 41:23, 42:8, 42:17, 84:5 lane [1] - 51:8 lanes [3] - 14:22, 50:23, 54:22 large [2] - 9:16, 63:7 large-scale [1] - 9:16 larger [1] - 81:5 largest[31 - 10:1, 81:6, 81:8 LASALLE [1] - 87:2 last [13] - 16:22, 26:8, 27:15, 37:8, 39:12, 39:19, 48:18, 54:15, 55:1, 57:21, 64:17, 65:8, 66:12 lasting [1] - 16:14 late [1] - 64:24 law [3] - 38:22, 75:9, 75:18 Lawrence [1] - 85:14 layer[21 - 18:3, 42:12 layman's [1] - 70:3 layout [2] - 12:21, 28:17 lead [1] - 9:6 leaders [1] - 9:15 learned [1] - 68:13 least [5] - 17:6, 41:20, 42:8, 43:7, 43:9 leave [1] - 7:3 leaves [1] - 29:19 leaving [1] - 37:6 LED [1] - 22:18 left [2] - 53:20, 78:12 Leg [1] - 66:17 legacy [2] - 26:21, 30:2 Legacy [1 of - 47:5, 47:7, 52:3, 52:14, 57:11, 59:6, 64:2, 65:17, 85:1, 85:5 Leland [1] - 88:4 length [1] - 78:19 less [3] - 18:15, 21:6, 28:11 lessening [1] - 74:23 lessons [1] - 68:12 level [8] - 11:14, 20:23, 21:5, 27:24, 40:5, 81:22, 83:12, 83:13 levels [3] - 24:15, 28:4, 69:9 leverage [1] - 74:4 my 9, 2025 liability [1] - 32:6 licensed [1] - 38:22 life [6] - 38:1, 48:4, 62:4, 62:21, 75:15, 76:3 lift [1] - 31:2 light [15] - 22:13, 22:15, 22:20, 23:14, 24:1, 35:14, 69:11, 70:5, 70:6, 70:8, 70:12, 70:22, 82:12, 82:15, 82:16 lighting [1o] - 22:11, 22:17, 22:24, 23:3, 69:20, 70:19, 70:20, 70:21, 82:19 Iightings [1] - 22:23 lights [6] - 22:19, 23:11, 23:22, 71:13, 71:15, 71:19 likely [2] - 74:17, 80:15 likewise [1] - 7:14 limit [1] - 6:23 limits [3] - 24:9, 27:4, 27:24 line [9] - 14:4, 17:7, 21:20, 24:9, 24:16, 24:19, 27:6, 28:5, 64:17 Line [14] - 11:16, 14:19, 48:14, 48:15, 48:16, 67:1, 77:14, 77:15, 77:19, 78:1, 79:16, 80:7, 80:13, 80:15 lines [8] - 17:22, 18:12, 22:8, 26:23, 31:12, 31:15, 79:18, 79:21 Linnane [3] - 2:4, 8:16, 86:11 LINNANE [4] - 8:7, 8:17, 86:2, 86:12 listen [1] - 43:15 listened [1] - 46:5 lithium [2] - 62:8, 62:10 live p] - 47:7, 64:9, 65:2, 65:13, 72:10, 75:22 lives [1] - 72:6 living [1] - 72:22 LLC [5] - 3:7, 5:8, 8:5, 84:11, 84:12 load [1] - 34:3 loads [1] - 33:15 loan [1] - 56:6 lobotomy [1] - 47:23 local [8] - 15:10, 32:24, 34:9, 34:16, 34:18, 36:6, 60:1, 75:18 located [2] - 25:1, 46:2 location [1] - 10:22 locations [1] - 17:24 lock [21 - 12:20, 76:2 locked [1] - 13:11 logistics [1] - 15:4 long-term [5] - 11:9, 33:7, 36:8, 37:2, 41:11 look [19] - 20:15, 20:22, 20:23, 21:15, 23:24, 41:11, 41:22, 42:4, 43:23, 44:3, 44:5, 44:21, 49:18, 55:24, 56:1, 58:16, 58:21, 59:10, 60:2 looked [2] - 48:4, 48:5 looking [5] - 12:9, 22:1, 58:10, 71:14, 73:2 looks [5] - 21:22, 43:23, 44:22, 71:2, 71:17 loop [1] - 28:24 lose [1] - 64:14 loss [3] - 26:11, 48:9, 57:4 losses [1] - 85:17 lost [1] - 53:9 loud [2] - 61:4 Loudoun [1] - 26:4 love [3] - 47:22, 68:9, 71:11 low [1o] - 10:19, 15:1, 20:4, 23:1, 25:4, 28:2, 31:16, 40:8, 70:21, 70:22 low -noise [1] - 28:2 lower [4] - 18:18, 30:1, 67:11, 67:13 LTD [1] - 3:2 luck [1] - 53:12 lumens [1] - 70:1 luminaires [1] - 71:8 luminous [2] - 69:24, 70:13 Lynn [1] - 2:14 M M-2 [4] - 12:4, 64:20, 71:9, 74:7 machine [1] - 87:8 Madigan [1] - 55:5 MAHONEY[1] - 3:7 Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com S main [1] - 15:15 mains [1] - 31:1 maintain [1] - 30:17 maintained [1] - 35:23 major [7] - 13:17, 25:2, 29:1, 30:15, 34:7, 35:14 man [1] - 55:3 manager [1] - 9:7 mandate [1] - 75:10 mandates [1] - 75:9 manufacturing [2] - 12:4, 74:12 maps [1] - 73:4 Marge [1] - 2:4 market [4] - 26:9, 26:10, 57:24, 69:5 Marketing [1] - 2:17 markets [1] - 53:8 Marlys [1] - 2:21 Martians [1] - 71:2 massing [1] - 19:3 massive [1] - 84:1 mast [1] - 22:19 master [1] - 12:10 matched [1] - 13:21 matching [1] - 26:9 material [1] - 66:21 materially [3] - 33:6, 33:21, 75:13 materials [2] - 18:23, 61:20 Matt [1] - 9:4 MATT [2] - 4:3, 9:1 matter [2] - 6:20, 13:10 matters [3] - 5:22, 15:23, 73:19 mature [4] - 19:6, 42:8, 59:8, 83:2 matured [2] - 18:9, 22:9 maturing [1] - 14:2 maturity [1] - 20:8 maximum [1] - 24:19 McCarron [13] - 4:3, 8:23, 9:1, 9:4, 9:5, 38:11, 46:11, 46:16, 79:13, 80:24, 81:4, 81:8, 81:22 McDonnell [3] - 9:8, 9:12, 27:19 mean [16] - 49:4, 54:12, 54:23, 56:11, 57:4, 57:10, 58:8, 58:21, 59:2, 62:7, 62:16, 62:17, 62:21, 64:15, 76:9 means [4] - 29:24, 53:15, 53:16, 87:8 -PZC - Public measured [3] - 11:9, 16:11, 70:1 measures [1] - 14:8 mechanical [2] - 21:4, 83:19 mechanicals [2] - 18:14, 25:2 medicare [1] - 56:4 meet [3] - 27:22, 29:23, 79:13 meeting [8] - 5:7, 5:9, 51:14, 51:15, 54:15, 62:3, 82:4, 86:16 meetings [2] - 26:1, 51:13 meets [1] - 36:9 megawatt [1] - 81:4 member[3] - 6:6, 7:1, 37:14 members [3] - 5:11, 7:4, 7:10 memo [1] - 85:13 men [1] - 61:21 Menards [1] - 48:8 Mendez [1] - 2:12 mentioned [4] - 11:20, 28:23, 33:3, 34:14 mess [1] - 50:20 met [1] - 37:16 Meta [1] - 34:14 metal [1] - 20:18 MHA[1] - 9:13 Michael [2] - 2:5, 55:5 middle [3] - 50:17, 50:18, 79:18 might [2] - 51:3, 62:12 Miguel [1] - 77:15 miles [1] - 49:24 million [4] - 44:20, 44:24, 50:13, 57:9 millions [3] - 52:10, 52:11 mine [1] - 66:16 minimal [4] - 15:3, 31:20, 33:12, 34:17 minimum [2] - 23:8, 26:24 minimums [1] - 35:18 Minooka [1] - 29:5 minority[3] - 51:21, 52:2, 52:4 minute [1] - 18:2 Minute [1] - 2:21 misquoting [1] - 70:16 mission [1] - 9:15 mitigated [2] - 35:15, 37:19 mitigation [3] - 14:8, 36:19, 37:3 Hearing mitigations [1] - 13:5 mix [1] - 30:13 mode [1] - 23:11 modeling [2] - 24:14, 27:21 modern [1] - 22:17 money [4] - 53:9, 57:17, 64:5, 64:14 monitoring [2] - 25:17, 27:3 monotonous [1] - 20:19 mornings [1] - 25:14 most [14] - 10:12, 17:8, 18:19, 25:9, 27:23, 29:3, 30:15, 41:20, 43:2, 43:3, 43:20, 66:9, 66:13, 80:15 motion [5] - 8:3, 8:9, 23:6, 82:20, 85:23 move [2] - 47:22, 54:17 moved [4] - 8:6, 48:8, 72:23, 86:1 moving [1] - 62:15 MR [24] - 3:7, 8:23, 9:4, 38:11, 38:21, 46:11, 46:14, 46:16, 46:21, 55:9, 55:11, 55:14, 55:16, 63:14, 65:12, 66:3, 79:13, 80:3, 80:14, 80:24, 81:4, 81:8, 81:22, 85:10 MS [28] - 3:3, 8:10, 8:12, 8:14, 8:16, 8:18, 77:7, 77:12, 78:3, 78:5, 78:8, 78:15, 79:4, 79:9, 79:11, 79:22, 80:1, 80:6, 80:20, 81:2, 81:6, 81:10, 81:13, 86:5, 86:7, 86:9, 86:11, 86:13 mufflers [1] - 25:7 multiple [2] - 12:13, 21:17 multiples [1] - 17:9 Musk [1] - 62:16 must [1] - 7:6 N name [4] - 6:2, 9:4, 38:21, 47:3 Naper [1] - 3:3 Naperville [1] - 3:4 narrowly [1] - 36:12 July 9, 2025- national [2] - 9:15, 9:21 nationally [2] - 9:22, 9:23 native [1] - 17:20 natural [2] - 17:22, 22:2 naturalized [1] - 29:13 nature [1] - 76:11 near [2] - 17:4, 22:7 nearby [1] - 26:2 nearest[2] - 17:7, 24:16 nears [1] - 18:9 necessarily[1] - 82:13 necessary[1] - 15:19 need [12] - 12:20, 36:13, 41:11, 41:13, 43:15, 43:22, 44:21, 45:20, 46:4, 56:5, 56:10, 76:1 needed [5] - 14:20, 15:19, 18:4, 31:3, 79:7 needs [5] - 12:17, 31:13, 46:3, 56:3, 73:23 negotiating [2] - 13:7, 31:8 neighborhood [3] - 14:20, 34:5, 36:18 neighboring [2] - 22:21, 71:3 neighbors [6] - 14:4, 19:6, 20:8, 27:6, 29:20, 64:22 net [1] - 34:20 network [1] - 66:18 neutral [1] - 18:22 never[11] - 14:19, 18:17, 22:15, 25:1, 25:10, 25:14, 30:5, 47:22, 49:13, 83:21, 84:18 new [8] - 19:13, 19:18, 31:1, 31:11, 32:23, 33:23, 34:17, 34:21 New [3] - 56:15, 56:17, 63:23 newer [1] - 66:11 Next [1] - 22:10 next [24] - 10:14, 10:15, 10:24, 11:12, 11:18, 13:14, 16:15, 17:1, 19:6, 20:12, 20:20, 21:7, 21:13, 21:21, 23:18, 24:2, 27:16, 28:22, 30:18, 32:20, 35:4, 35:7, 52:15, 52:17 nice [3] - 47:12, 48:20, 79:13 night [2] - 24:9, 82:22 nights [1] - 25:14 nighttime [2] - 23:18, 24:17 Noble [1] - 2:10 NOBLE [6] - 78:3, 78:5, 78:8, 79:4, 79:11, 80:1 nobody [2] - 44:17, 75:23 noise [19] - 14:8, 18:15, 24:7, 25:17, 26:19, 27:3, 28:2, 28:21, 35:14, 37:18, 40:9, 60:18, 60:19, 64:8, 68:15, 68:22, 71:21, 82:4, 82:9 non [2] - 18:23, 30:6 non -continuous [1] - 30:6 non -reflective [1] - 18:23 none [2] - 71:6, 77:6 nonetheless [1] - 26:18 normal [1] - 30:8 North [2] - 3:3, 10:1 north [6] - 16:22, 73:5, 79:2, 79:17, 79:21, 80:12 north/south [1] - 78:21 northwest [1] - 10:17 nothing [4] - 20:9, 30:22, 40:22, 54:13 noting [1] - 82:12 nowhere [1] - 22:7 NOx [1] - 30:1 nuisance [2] - 67:15, 84:16 number [2] - 54:19, 60:13 numbers [1] - 33:3 nursing [1] - 57:1 U 02[1]-9:14 objection [1] - 74:3 objections [1] - 73:9 objective [2] - 23:9, 37:11 objectives [1] - 10:23 obligations [2] - 31:6, 36:1 obstructed [2] - 84:6, 84:7 Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com I obtain [1] - 80:16 obviously [31 - 28:12, 74:4, 75:3 occasions [1] - 40:17 occur[2[ - 25:13, 40:1 OF [31 - 1:6, 87:1, 87:2 off -site [21- 23:4, 23:14 offset [1[ - 35:20 old [1[ - 56:13 Olson [31- 2:9, 6:11, 59:12 omnidirectional [1] - 70:8 on -site [3] - 20:24, 29:12, 30:24 once [131- 5:19, 7:17, 13:20, 15:3, 22:8, 25:13, 41:16, 47:17, 50:11, 57:2, 75:11, 83:1, 84:8 one [471 - 5:5, 6:1, 10:15, 12:22, 13:14, 16:9, 20:14, 20:22, 21:14, 23:19, 26:1, 26:15, 27:17, 28:18, 30:5, 32:20, 32:21, 37:11, 39:16, 40:3, 40:4, 40:12, 41:5, 41:15, 43:20, 44:9, 44:11, 44:13, 44:17, 45:19, 47:9, 49:21, 50:3, 53:4, 54:19, 59:15, 61:10, 62:23, 62:24, 69:15, 75:14, 78:24, 79:6, 80:20, 84:10 ones [11 - 59:8 ongoing [1] - 34:1 open [41 - 6:10, 8:3, 28:24, 35:13 operated [1] - 23:10 operation [41 - 23:17, 27:8, 30:6, 30:14 operational [11] - 12:17, 13:9, 15:3, 24:5, 24:6, 27:11, 28:4, 33:18, 33:23, 36:13, 36:19 operations [1] - 19:20 operator [11 - 9:24 opportunity [11 - 68:11 opposed [1] - 68:1 opposition [21- 8:2, 38:14 order[1] - 7:22 ordering [1] - 68:21 orderly [21 - 6:18, 13:24 or 68:17, 83:17 ordinances [21 - 75:10, 75:18 ordinary [1] - 50:1 original [11 - 87:22 ornamental [3] - 70:19, 70:20, 70:21 ORR [1] - 3:3 OTTOSEN [1] - 3:2 ought [1] - 45:11 out -perform [1] - 27:23 outages [11- 30:5 outcome [11 - 87:20 output [31 - 25:4, 70:22, 71:23 outside [51 - 15:16, 22:15, 24:1, 25:10, 71:13 outward [1] - 14:15 overall [2] - 66:22, 70:22 overhead [1] - 23:3 overlay [2] - 12:10, 74:20 overview [21- 6:12, 11:14 own [21- 43:17, 68:3 owned [3] - 47:5, 72:21, 79:15 owners [31- 47:12, 77:24, 80:12 owns [11 - 77:13 I p.m [31 - 1:22, 5:4, 86:19 pads [11 - 12:21 PAGE [11- 4:2 Pages [11 - 87:7 paid [11 - 14:22 pandemic [1] - 57:22 paradigmatic [11 - 68:6 parameters [1] - 76:2 parapets [1] - 18:17 parcel [21 - 12:3, 47:10 parcels [21 - 10:7, 11:22 pardon [1] - 70:15 park [21 - 11:5, 19:23 Park [41 - 63:22, 63:23, 63:24, 64:1 parking [51 - 15:7, 20:23, 21:5, 21:15, 82:21 PZC - Public Hearing - July 9, 202 dinance [31- 45:17. I part [12i - 28:13 1 31:3 48:10, 48:14, 65:16, 66:17, 66:23, 67:3, 73:16, 73:23, 73:24, 74:21 participated [1] - 53:1 participation [1] - 7:21 particular [1] - 68:4 particularly [61 - 44:5, 66:9, 67:24, 72:15, 74:8, 75:14 particulate [1] - 30:1 parties [11 - 87:19 partners [21- 15:18, 84:13 passersby[1] - 19:7 Patrick [1[ - 65:1 pavement [21 - 48:7, 48:19 paving [21 - 48:5, 49:6 pay [61 - 53:5, 54:3, 54:9, 54:22, 54:23, 55:22 paying [21- 34:6, 84:19 payment [31 - 47:13, 53:17, 53:22 pays [21 - 30:21, 54:1 peace [1] - 81:16 peaks [1] - 15:7 pending [21- 16:23, 33:1 people [141 - 9:11, 44:22, 45:13, 52:3, 52:14, 54:3, 56:13, 60:3, 60:5, 60:6, 60:24, 72:8, 75:22 per [61 - 12:14, 29:8, 29:10, 31:17, 60:6, 63:10 per -acre [3[ - 29:8, 29:10, 31:17 percent [81 - 26:7, 26:9, 30:1, 30:21, 35:22, 57:21, 58:7, 66:4 percentage [1] - 45:1 percentages [1i - 26:17 perform [1] - 27:23 performance [1] - 53:14 performed [1] - 27:19 perimeter [4] - 17:15, 19:19, 24:20, 25:17 period [1] - 7:19 periodic [2] - 30:4, 36:22 permanent [21- 19:24, permanently [21 - 18:6, 43:3 permit [11- 51:1 permits [1] - 13:3 persistent [11- 26:18 person [1] - 72:6 personal [21- 6:21, 87:11 personally [1i - 52:7 persons [21- 5:15, 5:24 petition [4] - 8:4, 36:16, 73:19, 85:22 petitioner[14[ - 6:5, 7:12, 7:14, 8:20, 66:10, 66:24, 67:9, 68:20, 70:14, 77:17, 78:8, 80:21, 81:19, 81:20 petitioner's [1] - 7:24 petitioners [1] - 5:18 Phase 151 - 16:19, 16:20, 50:5, 73:24, 78:22 phase [4] - 11:5, 13:1, 13:18, 16:22 phased [4i - 12:24, 13:15, 45:8, 72:5 phases [21 - 11:3, 13:17 phasing [131- 13:12, 15:13, 16:16, 35:19, 40:14, 41:18, 44:12, 73:22, 74:2, 74:4, 75:5, 83:4, 83:6 phone [1] - 56:1 photometric [5] - 69:11, 69:22, 70:10, 71:7, 82:11 physical [21- 17:14, 28:17 picture [2] - 49:19, 61:10 pictures [1] - 58:12 pin [1[ - 47:14 Pioneer [151 - 5:7, 8:4, 9:5, 51:24, 52:20, 54:2, 57:9, 57:14, 57:19, 59:13, 61:24, 77:23, 80:10, 80:22, 84:10 PJM [31 - 15:12, 30:14, 83:5 place [31 - 11:7, 40:20, 87:15 placement [1] - 41:1 places [1] - 68:13 placing [21 - 28:14, 33:12 Plan [6[ - 35:10, 45:24, 48:24, 59:21, 63:17, 63:20 plan [221- 6:4, 10:8, 11:10, 12:11, 12:19, 14:7, 21:8, 27:21, 39:19, 41:24, 42:10, 66:10, 66:13, 66:16, 69:20, 72:14, 76:18, 78:16, 79:3, 82:12, 83:6, 83:23 planes [1[ - 52:16 planned [61- 39:22, 72:4, 76:7, 76:12, 77:21, 80:19 Planner [21- 2:12, 2:13 Planning [71 - 5:6, 9:3, 38:20, 46:20, 63:9, 65:11, 77:11 planning [41- 41:9, 66:8, 66:22, 72:5 PLANNING [1] - 1:10 Plano [1] - 73:3 plans [51 - 21:10, 41:23, 41:24, 73:4, 73:8 planted [2] - 17:19, 39:24 planting [31- 19:9, 19:12, 39:24 plantings [21- 14:2, 19:5 plea [11 - 73:21 plead [1] - 74:19 pleasant [1] - 58:15 pleased [1] - 85:2 pledge [21- 51:16, 51:17 podium [2] - 6:3, 7:6 point [31 - 25:24, 76:5, 84:10 Pointe [1] - 1:17 points [21 - 6:22, 65:24 pole [1] - 22:13 poles [31 - 50:9, 50:10, 83:10 police [1i - 33:22 pollution [71- 18:15, 22:20, 24:1, 70:5, 82:13, 82:15, 82:16 pond [1] - 42:19 pool [1] - 48:3 poorly [1] - 76:7 portion [31- 39:16, 42:5, 86:15 portions [1] - 39:14 positioned [11 - 10:19 positive [1[ - 34:20 Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com 10 possibility [1] - 72:16 possible p] - 18:24, 20:7, 23:8, 30:17, 62:18, 84:8, 85:16 possibly [1] - 68:21 post [1] - 29:14 post -development [1] - 29:14 posted [1] - 48:13 potential [2] - 16:23, 85:4 potentially [3] - 20:15, 84:16, 85:4 power [12] - 14:14, 16:7, 25:11, 30:20, 33:16, 35:21, 45:4, 56:13, 56:19, 56:24, 57:3, 83:11 practice [2] - 15:24, 38:22 Prairie [1] - 1:17 prairie [1] - 22:2 prayer[1] - 73:20 pre [1] - 29:15 pre -development [1] - 29:15 precast [3] - 28:3, 61:2 predictable [1] - 14:1 predicted [1] - 40:20 prefer[21 - 74:8, 74:10 preferably [11 - 65:6 preliminary[41 - 10:8, 12:19, 16:16, 82:6 prepared [1] - 8:21 present [4] - 5:16, 8:20, 17:1, 38:13 PRESENT[21 - 2: 1, 2:8 presentation [6] - 7:24, 8:21, 12:18, 40:11, 40:16, 82:23 presented [1] - 39:20 preserving [2] - 37:24, 73:13 pressure [2] - 31:18, 31:24 prevent [1] - 23:4 previous [1] - 79:24 price [1] - 58:2 Prices [1] - 26:12 primary [1] - 29:19 principal [1] - 43:21 principle [1] - 70:18 principles [2] - 73:12, 73:13 priorities [1] - 35:11 prison [1] - 55:4 private [3] - 11:8, 12:14, 13:23 PZC - Public privately(51 - 10:4, 16:8, 32:7, 33:17, 35:1 problem [2] - 48:12, 56:22 problems [1] - 48:1 procedural [2] - 75:17, 76:3 proceedings [3] - 5:2, 86:17, 87:13 process [8] - 10:11, 13:14, 25:23, 31:8, 37:17, 75:9, 75:11, 76:11 procurement [11 - 30:11 productive [1] - 6:19 profiles [1] - 69:4 program [1] - 60:17 programs [1] - 30:11 prohibition [1] - 68:9 project [35] - 9:7, 10:3, 10:5, 11:12, 13:9, 14:5, 14:23, 15:8, 15:16, 19:9, 24:4, 24:6, 28:23, 30:21, 32:17, 32:19, 33:20, 33:24, 35:19, 36:3, 36:24, 37:8, 37:10, 37:17, 39:8, 46:22, 50:13, 50:15, 51:4, 63:5, 63:16, 65:2, 80:10, 82:2, 84:13 Project [6] - 3:10, 9:6, 32:22, 34:19, 35:5, 37:22 projected [1] - 28:4 projects [2] - 34:14, 80:22 promises [1] - 40:7 proper [1] - 69:23 properties [1] - 22:21 property [28] - 14:4, 16:20, 17:7, 22:16, 24:9, 24:16, 24:19, 26:23, 28:5, 32:24, 34:16, 47:5, 47:6, 47:13, 47:20, 57:13, 57:15, 57:16, 65:14, 72:21, 77:13, 78:11, 79:16, 79:19, 79:21, 80:12, 85:16 proposed [4] - 5:12, 8:21, 27:21, 39:5 pros [1] - 74:13 protection [6] - 13:13, 16:13, 28:21, 29:20, 60:23, 72:11 protects [1] - 16:1 proved [1] - 69:6 Hearing provide [3] - 17:14, 33:7, 34:10 provides [1] - 42:20 proximity [21 - 26:12, 58:5 PUBLIC [1] - 1: 11 public [37] - 5:3, 5:5, 5:11, 5:15, 5:19, 6:5, 6:6, 6:10, 6:14, 7:1, 7:2, 7:11, 7:14, 7:16, 7:17, 7:18, 8:4, 11:11, 11:12, 13:10, 13:12, 16:9, 19:18, 33:13, 33:23, 34:18, 36:5, 36:16, 81:21, 85:13, 85:21, 85:24, 86:15, 86:18, 87:6, 87:14 published [3] - 67:6, 67:8, 69:14 PUD [15] - 10:8, 12:10, 12:19, 13:6, 25:21, 36:2, 36:10, 36:21, 37:4, 37:21, 67:3, 75:2, 75:4, 75:11, 75:16 pulled [1] - 47:14 Pulte [1] - 47:11 punches [2] - 67:14, 71:22 pure [1] - 64:15 purpose [5] - 5:10, 35:2, 46:24, 62:24 purposeful [1] - 31:10 purposes [2] - 25:9, 70:17 Put [8] - 47:20, 53:13, 54:11, 57:17, 60:10, 62:9, 68:24, 70:24 putting [2] - 58:23, 66:11 PZC [2] - 5:7, 8:4 L1 quality [4] - 29:17, 36:5, 38:1, 76:16 questions [9] - 5:17, 7:11, 7:12, 7:15, 38:4, 38:6, 77:16, 81:12, 83:24 quickly [1] - 46:13 quiet [3] - 27:10, 60:20, 60:22 quieter [2] - 24:16, 27:14 quite [2] - 51:13, 80:19 quote [2] - 23:10, July 9, 202 1 64:24 1:1 radical [1] - 45:23 rain [1] - 61:7 raise [3] - 6:6, 20:11, 65:24 raised [1] - 39:7 ranging [1] - 17:8 rare [1] - 30:4 rate [2] - 34:17, 41:13 rates [3] - 26:8, 26:13, 29:15 rather[1] - 74:11 rating [1] - 28:9 reach [1] - 79:6 read [1] - 70:23 ready [2] - 56:3, 56:4 real p] - 25:17, 26:16, 27:20, 28:20, 46:13, 57:24, 67:24 realized [1] - 72:17 really [31] - 15:15, 16:1, 22:8, 23:9, 25:10, 32:16, 32:18, 34:7, 43:15, 43:20, 43:23, 44:2, 49:12, 51:11, 58:9, 60:3, 60:13, 61:22, 62:21, 63:9, 63:21, 69:15, 69:19, 71:12, 73:11, 83:2, 83:7, 84:3, 84:5 realtor [1] - 58:4 reaps [1] - 35:3 reason [1] - 23:23 reasons [3] - 23:12, 44:13, 47:9 reassert[1] - 83:15 rebuilt [1] - 48:18 receive [1] - 32:16 received [1] - 27:18 receiving [1] - 7:22 recent [1] - 66:9 recently [2] - 66:12, 67:5 recession [1] - 47:14 recessive [1] - 18:19 recognized [2] - 9:22, 9:23 recognizing [1] - 67:14 recommend [1] - 73:21 recommendations [1] - 5:21 reconstruction [1] - 31:4 record [11] - 7:7, 9:13, 9:24, 32:4, 36:16, 66:23, 81:21, 85:11, 85:13, 85:17, 87:12 recreation [1] - 19:24 recurring [2] - 34:15, 36:4 red [1] - 23:2 redefine [2] - 37:12, 63:19 redefined [1] - 45:16 redirect [1] - 6:24 redistribution [1] - 44:7 reduce [1] - 41:13 reduced [1] - 87:9 reduction [1] - 31:18 reductions [2] - 34:17, 64:12 redundancy[1] - 25:11 reference [1] - 67:5 referred [1] - 78:17 reflect [1] - 30:12 reflective [1] - 18:23 reforestation [1] - 39:13 refuge [1] - 76:6 refugees [1] - 76:7 regard [3] - 39:13, 42:13, 42:18 regarding [5] - 5:12, 5:18, 73:21, 74:20, 85:22 regardless [1] - 47:23 regards [1] - 80:5 region [1] - 34:12 regional [1] - 35:10 regulatory [11 - 83:13 reinforce [1] - 31:12 relation [1] - 77:18 relative [2] - 87:16, 87:17 relevant[1] - 7:12 reliability [1] - 31:18 reliable [1] - 30:17 relocated [2] - 50:11, 54:21 relocating [1] - 50:9 relocation [1] - 50:7 rely [1] - 29:3 remain [2] - 7:4, 59:21 remains [1] - 47:15 remarks [1] - 6:24 remediation [1] - 62:2 remember[31 - 55:20, 56:14, 71:10 remind [1] - 38:15 removal [1] - 30:16 Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com 11 remove [1] - 29:18 rendering [31 - 16:17, 22:6, 23:19 renewable [2] - 30:9, 30:10 repeat [21- 6:7, 72:3 repeatedly [1i - 7:1 repeating [2[ - 6:21, 72:19 repetitive [1] - 6:23 report [1[ - 77:19 reported [2] - 6:15, 87:7 Reporter[1] - 87:4 reporter[l] - 7:6 reporting [2] - 25:18, 25:20 represent [2] - 6:2, 39:1 representation [21- 64:4, 64:16 representing [1i - 9:5 represents [1] - 65:20 reproduced [1[ - 88:1 republic [6] - 51:17, 51:18, 51:19, 51:20, 51:21, 52:6 reputation [1[ - 55:3 request [4[ - 5:17, 8:2, 8:22, 38:14 requested [1] - 36:11 requesting [1[ - 10:6 requests [1] - 5:12 require [4] - 12:6, 51:1, 75:19, 78:10 required [4[ - 23:1, 30:19, 33:15, 78:9 requirement [3[ - 13:22, 36:10, 37:16 requirements [3[ - 68:16, 75:16, 75:17 requires [1[ - 54:16 research [1[ - 60:2 researching [1[ - 43:15 resident [1] - 47:4 residential [17[ - 26:23, 29:9, 33:10, 43:9, 47:10, 47:15, 47:17, 47:18, 64:18, 64:19, 65:17, 66:15, 66:18, 66:20, 68:1, 71:10, 84:17 residents [121- 30:23, 32:15, 33:19, 34:23, 35:24, 36:7, 40:4, 44:4, 45:24, 57:12, 64:2, 72:9 resilient [1] - 30:17 respect [2[ - 65:19, PZC Public 66:5 respond [2] - 7:14, 79:12 response [4] - 77:1, 77:4, 79:7, 81:17 responses [1[ - 81:20 responsibility[1[ - 88:1 rest [2] - 10:21, 26:13 result [21- 23:13, 35:18 results [1[ - 28:10 retain [1] - 37:7 return [1[ - 13:2 revenue [5[ - 32:24, 34:16, 34:21, 36:4, 85:4 revenues [2[ - 44:20, 45:1 reverse [1[ - 48:2 review [1] - 6:18 revised [2] - 71:24, 73:23 rezone [1] - 12:3 rezoned [1] - 47:10 rezoning [1[ - 10:7 RFP [1[ - 68:24 Rich [1] - 2:2 right-of-way [4[ - 77:22, 80:9, 80:11, 80:16 right-of-ways [21- 79:23, 80:5 rim [1[ - 42:12 ringed [1[ - 17:15 risk [11[ - 11:8, 11:12, 13:23, 15:9, 16:10, 26:16, 31:23, 32:13, 32:18, 33:18, 35:24 road [11[ - 14:20, 30:20, 33:16, 35:20, 50:17, 64:23, 66:18, 73:1, 77:14, 79:23, 80:5 Road [19] - 11:16, 31:4, 39:3, 42:7, 43:2, 43:10, 43:12, 48:6, 48:13, 48:14, 48:15, 48:16, 65:13, 66:14, 66:17, 77:19, 79:17, 80:13, 80:15 roads [71- 12:14, 16:7, 32:17, 35:22, 51:6, 53:18, 77:19 Roads [2] - 77:15, 80:7 roadway [31- 78:9, 80:17 Rob [1[ - 50:20 rocket [1] - 62:17 Hearing roll [2] - 8:8, 86:3 rolling [4] - 56:14, 56:15, 56:16 roof [1[ - 18:12 rooftop [3[- 18:16, 19:1, 22:24 rooftops [3[ - 18:14, 28:2, 28:14 room [21- 76:13, 78:13 roughly [3[- 11:17, 21:11, 26:8 Route [81 - 21:23, 43:8, 49:24, 50:4, 50:19, 51:7, 51:10, 83:10 row [1]-71:15 Roy [1] - 50:20 rules [1] - 6:18 run [4[ - 19:19, 29:14, 30:3, 60:8 run-off [1] - 29:14 runs [21 - 78:21, 79:15 rural [9[ - 23:16, 48:22, 51:6, 59:19, 59:20, 59:21, 59:22, 59:24, 73:14 Ryan [1] - 2:3 S safe [1] - 18:6 safeguard [21- 12:2, 13:10 safeguards[1[ 76:3 safety [21 - 36:17, 60:23 sales [126:11 SANDERSON [2[ - 80:3, 80:14 Sanderson [2[ - 2:18, 80:2 Sandoval [1] - 2:20 Sara [1[ - 2:12 satisfied [1[ - 44:8 saw [4] - 49:8, 58:12, 74:22, 82:4 scale [7[ - 9:16, 20:16, 23:21, 29:2, 33:5, 81:3, 84:4 schedule [1] - 11:18 scheduled [1] - 5:6 school [1] - 17:12 schools [2] - 33:21, 55:17 scope [21 - 49:20, 51:4 screen [1[ - 18:14 screened [21- 19:1, 41:21 July 9, 202 screening [5[ - 18:24, 20:3, 42:17, 42:20, 42:21 seated [1[ - 6:9 second [31 - 8:7, 47:20, 86:2 section [1] - 39:4 sections [1[ - 43:10 secure [2[ - 15:19, 20:24 secured [1] - 31:7 security [31- 23:7, 23:11, 23:23 sediment [1] - 29:18 see [431 - 11:15, 19:7, 20:8, 20:16, 21:2, 21:4, 21:9, 21:16, 21:24, 23:20, 23:24, 41:22, 41:23, 49:10, 49:21, 60:16, 61:7, 62:22, 63:6, 64:11, 64:13, 66:9, 67:2, 67:17, 67:18, 68:9, 70:22, 71:11, 72:12, 73:1, 73:2, 73:10, 74:8, 74:10, 76:3, 76:9, 76:13, 82:11, 83:3, 83:21, 83:22, 85:2, 85:6 Seeing [1] - 77:5 seeing [1] - 71:15 seeking [5[- 11:21, 13:15, 15:17, 77:23, 80:11 selected [2] - 10:22, 28:8 self [1] - 32:19 self-sustaining [1[ - 32:19 Senate [1[ - 51:22 senators [31 - 51:23, 51:24, 52:1 Senior [21 - 2:12, 2:13 sense [1[ - 52:5 sensitive [21- 17:24, 20:12 sensors [1] - 23:6 sent [1] - 85:14 separate [4] - 18:7, 40:17, 66:19 separated [1] - 19:20 separation [1[ - 17:11 sequencing [1[ - 14:11 serve [2] - 31:15, 84:20 service [3] - 30:18, 32:10, 34:22 services [6[ - 33:13, 33:22, 33:24, 34:18, 36:5, 55:23 set [6[ - 17:6, 20:10, 24:18, 56:19, 62:17, 88:3 setback [21- 26:24, 28:13 setbacks [5[ - 12:15, 17:5, 17:8, 20:2, 35:15 setting [1] - 76:15 seven [4] - 10:7, 11:22, 26:9, 55:4 sewer [4] - 30:20, 31:15, 33:16, 35:21 sewers [21- 31:2, 53:18 shame [2[ - 52:15, 52:16 shaped [1] - 69:1 share [1] - 72:7 shell [4] - 14:3, 14:15, 21:16, 21:20 shells [21- 23:20, 84:7 shield [1] - 32:13 shielded [3] - 22:14, 23:4, 24:1 shields [1[ - 22:18 short [1] - 11:5 short-term [1] - 11:5 Shorthand [1] - 87:4 shorthand [1[ - 87:9 show [4] - 26:15, 42:3, 42:9, 66:13 showed [1] - 58:14 showing [1[ - 69:15 shown [1] - 79:3 shows [6[ - 42:1, 42:10, 58:4, 69:23, 70:11, 78:16 sick [1] - 54:2 side [7] - 16:20, 43:1, 45:7, 78:9, 80:12, 80:13, 81:5 sides [3[ - 58:14, 77:24, 80:16 sight [2] - 17:21, 21:20 sign [1[ - 6:3 signals [1[ - 14:22 signed [21- 75:12, 87:23 significant [4[ - 19:15, 29:5, 33:11, 39:14 significantly [2] - 27:23, 28:12 silent [1] - 7:5 SILVERMAN [4] - 3:7, 3:7, 46:14, 85:10 Silverman [1] - 9:9 similar [21 - 72:20, Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com 12 75:4 simple [1] - 64:15 simultaneously [11- 87:9 single [5] - 26:17, 53:4, 53:5, 53:23, 82:15 single -digit [1] - 26:17 site [35] - 10:16, 11:15, 11:24, 12:20, 14:18, 15:1, 16:15, 20:1, 20:22, 20:24, 21:12, 23:4, 23:10, 23:14, 25:1, 27:21, 28:18, 29:12, 29:19, 30:8, 30:24, 34:15, 39:17, 41:2, 61:12, 61:13, 62:2, 66:9, 66:13, 67:1, 83:6, 83:23, 84:6, 84:20 sites [3] - 29:2, 30:2, 41:5 six [4] - 17:17, 60:6, 61:12, 72:22 size [1] - 75:14 sky [3] - 22:12, 22:23, 23:15 skyrocket[1] - 57:23 slash [1] - 48:10 slide [22] - 10:14, 10:15, 11:13, 11:18, 13:14, 16:15, 17:1, 20:12, 20:20, 21:7, 21:13, 21:21, 22:10, 23:18, 24:2, 27:16, 28:22, 30:18, 32:20, 35:4, 37:9, 42:1 slides [1] - 27:17 small [1] - 45:1 smart [1] - 23:5 snapshot [1] - 82:13 soft [1] - 49:12 solving [1] - 26:20 someone [2] - 21:23, 62:11 sometimes [1] - 34:16 somewhere [2] - 34:4, 56:10 sorry [6] - 10:15, 32:21, 54:23, 55:11, 80:3, 85:14 sought [1] - 79:1 sound [22] - 17:22, 18:1, 18:3, 24:20, 27:18, 27:24, 28:4, 28:15, 35:16, 67:6, 67:11, 67:14, 67:19, 67:21, 67:22, 67:24, 68:19, 69:4, 69:8, 69:9, 82:3, 82:6 PZC - Public Hearing - sounds [2] - 24:23, 68:4 Soundscape [1] - 82:7 source [5] - 22:15, 24:5, 24:6, 28:6, 28:10 sourcing [1] - 30:12 southeast [2] - 16:21, 43:10 space [2] - 35:13, 42:20 spam [1] - 56:2 speakers [2] - 6:24, 7:16 speaking [4] - 6:19, 7:6, 58:20, 59:20 special [9] - 10:8, 12:9, 30:22, 44:10, 44:11, 68:10, 68:16, 74:14, 74:20 specialist [1] - 74:15 specific [7] - 40:23, 41:2, 65:24, 68:15, 71:24, 73:19, 74:14 specifically [7] - 31:22, 38:24, 40:13, 41:3, 66:1, 67:5, 74:1 specified [2] - 25:3, 87:15 speculative [4] - 11:4, 13:19, 16:2, 37:1 speed [1] - 62:16 spells [1] - 12:1 spending [1] - 34:9 spill [1] - 22:20 spill-over[1] - 22:20 spillover[1] - 15:9 sponsor [1] - 9:6 spot [1] - 59:18 Springfield [1] - 53:12 squashed [3] - 51:22, 52:2, 52:5 SS [1] - 87:1 stability [1] - 33:7 stable [1] - 16:12 staff [12] - 10:14, 13:2, 19:23, 25:18, 33:8, 36:23, 39:10, 40:6, 43:14, 45:15, 66:11 stage [3] - 10:5, 11:12, 16:10 stand [1] - 6:6 standard [5] - 15:24, 20:10, 37:3, 37:15 standards [7] - 17:10, 22:12, 27:1, 29:17, 29:24, 67:13, 81:21 standpoint [1] - 44:22 stands [2] - 51:18, 52:6 start [5] - 7:23, 16:17, 50:16, 54:16, 73:17 starts [1] - 13:18 STATE [1] - 87:1 state [7] - 6:1, 38:23, 51:23, 52:9, 55:2, 75:9, 75:18 State [1] - 87:4 statement [1] - 64:17 stations [1] - 31:2 stay [2] - 6:24, 48:22 stealth [1] - 23:10 stenographically [1] - 87:8 stick [1 55:6 still [9] - 29:3, 47:15, 59:8, 59:9, 59:19, 66:15, 76:13, 80:14, 80:18 stories [1] - 18:11 stormwater[3] - 12:22, 18:5, 29:11 story [4] - 11:2, 43:24, 44:1, 44:3 strategic [1] - 11:10 strategy [2] - 9:20, 35:6 streets [2] - 14:20, 15:10 strengthen [1] - 37:22 stress [3] - 55:17, 55:18, 55:23 strict [3] - 27:3, 27:24, 29:20 stricter[1] - 24:11 strictly [1] - 11:6 strongest [1] - 17:13 structure [2] - 17:12, 20:19 structures [1] - 18:18 students [1] - 33:21 studies [2] - 26:15, 58:3 study [13] - 18:1, 27:18, 67:6, 67:17, 68:19, 69:8, 69:12, 69:22, 70:10, 71:7, 82:3, 82:6 subdivision [4] - 42:22, 65:17, 65:18, 66:18 subdued [1] - 18:22 subject [2] - 5:23, 65:14 submitted [1] - 83:7 substantial [3] - 24:21, 32:23, 33:4 substantially [2] - 27:4, 83:20 Lily 9, 2025- substation [3] - 49:4, 49:14, 49:15 substations [5] - 12:6, 12:21, 16:7, 31:1, 31:11 substitute [1] - 76:20 suburban [1] - 24:17 succeed [1] - 66:3 sudden [1] - 14:7 Sugar [2] - 10:18, 48:9 suggest [2] - 39:7, 41:17 Suite [2] - 3:3, 3:8 summary [11- 20:2 supplier [1] - 34:9 supply [2] - 14:10, 31:18 support [2] - 11: 1, 30:16 supports [3] - 12:7, 34:1, 36:6 supposedly [1] - 60:12 suppressing [1] - 26:16 surges [1] - 14:6 surprised [1] - 51:12 surprises [1] - 51:11 surrounding [1] - 35:13 surroundings [1] - 21:18 sustained [1] - 34:10 sustaining [1] - 32:19 Swayze [1] - 65:1 sweat [1] - 47:21 switchyard [1] - 12:22 sworn [6] - 6:8, 9:2, 38:19, 46:19, 65:10, 77:10 system [1] - 18:6 systems [4] - 23:6, 23:7, 29:13, 31:14 11 tackling [2] - 16:21, 29:4 tailored [1] - 36:12 Taker[1] - 2:21 tall [2] - 20:17, 58:23 tangentially [1] - 65:23 target [1] - 49:12 targeted [2] - 12:12, 35:8 targeting [1] - 16:24 targets [1] - 24:10 tax [13] - 32:6, 32:24, 33:6, 34:16, 34:17, 36:4, 37:23, 44:7, 64:5, 85:3, 85:4, 85:6 taxation [2] - 64:3, 64:15 taxed [1] - 64:5 taxes [3] - 57:14, 57:15, 57:16 taxing [1] - 33:1 taxpayer[1] - 10:5 tears [1] - 47:21 tech [2] - 35:8, 35:13 technical [3] - 10:10, 15:18, 34:2 technically [1] - 20:7 technology [2] - 62:15, 63:1 telephone [1] - 50:9 temporary[1] - 37:1 ten [11] - 11:18, 57:21, 59:14, 59:16, 60:6, 60:15, 60:21, 61:17, 62:11, 62:18, 64:8 ten-year[2] - 11:18, 59:14 tens [1] - 52:10 tentative [1] - 25:11 tentatively[1] - 28:8 term p] - 11:5, 11:9, 33:7, 36:8, 37:2, 41:11, 69:24 terms [11] - 67:15, 69:11, 70:3, 71:1, 71:23, 73:18, 74:7, 74:23, 75:1, 76:14, 76:19 territory[1] - 74:17 terrorism [1] - 49:12 terrorist [1] - 49:15 testified [5] - 9:2, 38:19, 46:19, 65:10, 77:10 testify [1] - 5:24 testimony[1o] - 5:11, 5:15, 7:7, 7:23, 67:9, 68:21, 81:19, 85:21, 85:23, 87:12 testing [6] - 24:13, 25:8, 25:10, 25:12, 27:9, 30:4 themselves [4] - 18:10, 25:5, 31:11, 40:14 theory [1] - 69:17 therefore [1] - 72:10 thereof [1] - 87:23 they've [3] - 50:21, 62:23 thick [1] - 17:22 Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com 13 thin [1] - 42:12 thinking [1] - 63:4 thinks [1] - 58:9 third [2] - 18:2, 84:1 thoughtful [1] - 28:17 thoughts [1] - 63:14 thousand [4] - 19:17, 50:24, 68:6, 76:10 three [3] - 13:17, 40:16, 52:21 thresholds [4] - 67:11, 67:19, 67:23, 69:10 thrive [1] - 60:11 throughout [1] - 37:17 tied [3] - 12:16, 16:3, 36:13 Tier [1] - 29:23 tight [1] - 58:1 tightening [1] - 69:7 timers [1] - 23:7 tired [2] - 54:2, 54:7 to -be -installed [1] - 21:24 toilet [1] - 51:5 toll [2] - 59:14, 75:19 tonal [14] - 25:3, 40:8, 67:11, 67:14, 67:21, 67:22, 67:23, 68:4, 68:14, 68:22, 69:10, 71:21, 82:4, 82:8 tones [1] - 18:22 Tonight [1] - 10:6 tonight [1o] - 5:14, 7:22, 9:5, 15:17, 38:3, 40:22, 40:24, 57:10, 66:24, 77:3 tonight's [9] - 5:6, 5:20, 5:23, 6:5, 7:2, 7:5, 7:7, 38:16, 86:16 took [2] - 48:16 top [3] - 22:3, 22:5, 23:20 topic [1] - 6:24 topics [2] - 6:21, 65:6 total [1] - 77:21 totally [2] - 63:16, 83:13 towers [2] - 29:4, 29:7 track [1] - 9:24 trades [1] - 61:14 traffic [7] - 10:20, 15:2, 15:4, 35:14, 37:18, 61:15, 61:19 trail [3] - 19:18, 19:22, 21:24 transcript [2] - 87:7, 87:23 transcription [1] - 87:10 PZC - Public Hearing - transcripts [1] - 7:9 transformation [1] - 19:15 transition [5] - 73:11, 73:14, 76:16, 76:17 76:20 translates [1] - 70:4 transmission [2] - 31:12, 83:12 transportation [1] - 66:22 traveled [1] - 49:6 tree [2] - 22:8, 59:4 trees [16] - 17:20, 18:3, 19:9, 19:13, 19:16, 21:9, 21:11, 21:17, 22:3, 39:21, 42:10, 42:11, 42:14, 58:17, 59:6, 83:1 trespass [1] - 23:14 tried [2] - 53:11, 60:2 triggers [1] - 25:19 trips [1] - 15:4 truck [1] - 15:6 trucks [3] - 48:14, 61:1, 61:3 true [2] - 52:5, 87:12 trust [1] - 45:15 try [5] - 46:22, 55:22, 65:22, 65:24, 80:16 trying [4] - 37:11, 37:13, 68:12, 82:1 turn [2] - 14:21, 79:20 turnover[1] - 26:12 twice [1] - 25:13 two [15] - 10:7, 11:2, 12:21, 18:11, 30:24, 43:24, 44:1, 49:24, 51:23, 52:1, 52:21, 65:8, 66:15, 66:19 two-story [3] - 11:2, 43:24, 44:1 type [1] - 35:9 typewriting [1] - 87:10 typical [3] - 15:2, 24:17, 29:9 typically [3] - 25:7, 69:13, 69:23 X U.S [1] - 51:22 UFO [2] - 71:3, 71:17 UFOs [1] - 71:4 ugliness [1] - 64:8 unbelievable [1] - 84:4 under [7] - 11:24, 27:4, 28:9, 30:7, 1 87:11, 87:24, 88:2 undermined [1] - 74:6 undulating [1] - 17:17 unfinished [1] - 16:3 unfolding [1] - 76:11 unfortunately [1] - 53:11 unified [1] - 12:10 unincorporated [2] - 11:23, 72:10 uninterrupted [1] - 40:9 United [7] - 3:5, 48:15 48:24, 49:2, 52:23, 57:18, 60:15 united [1] - 49:1 UNITED [1] - 1:6 unless [2] - 7:5, 73:22 unlike [1] - 33:10 unmitigated [1] - 26:18 unobtrusive [4] - 20:4, 20:7, 27:11, 35:19 unquote [1] - 23:10 unrelated [1] - 6:21 UP [21 ] - 21:3, 26:1, 26:16, 43:12, 48:19, 49:22, 55:22, 56:19, 57:20, 58:2, 58:10, 60:22, 62:12, 63:7, 68:7, 69:7, 71:8, 71:14, 76:15, 83:17, 83:23 updated [4] - 21:8, 67:17, 73:8, 82:5 upfront [1] - 76:2 upgraded [2] - 27:13, 35:17 upgrades [7] - 30:20, 31:3, 31:9, 32:8, 32:12, 33:15, 84:20 upward [1] - 22:22 upwards [1] - 59:6 urban [1] - 63:2 usage [1] - 31:16 useful [2] - 62:4, 62:21 user [3] - 11:7, 13:18, 40:23 users [3] - 41:2, 42:24, 43:18 uses [8] - 22:17, 35:13, 43:11, 68:2, 68:3, 73:11, 73:14, 76:21 utilities [4] - 32:17, 50:11, 54:18, 54:21 utility [19] - 9:19, 12:22, 14:14, 15:12, July 9, 202` 15:14, 15:22, 16:4, 31:9, 31:21, 32:8, 33:1, 33:15, 34:22, 35:20, 50:7, 78:17, 78:18, 78:22, 79:5 V value [5] - 26:11, 34:2, 35:7, 57:23, 58:9 values [5] - 26:2, 26:16, 27:5, 57:20, 58:6 variance [4] - 18:13, 21:3, 36:11, 83:19 varieties [1] - 21:12 various [2] - 40:2, 49:7 vegetation [1] - 22:3 vegetative [1] - 18:24 vehicles [1] - 61:14 versus [2] - 67:20, 74:14 vertical [1] - 9:19 via [2] - 7:13, 87:10 vibration [1] - 25:4 view [4] - 58:17, 58:19, 74:5, 84:7 views [1] - 58:20 Vinyard [3] - 2:2, 8:18, 86:13 VINYARD [33] - 5:5, 6:9, 6:17, 8:8, 8:19, 8:24, 38:5, 38:9, 38:12, 46:7, 46:12, 46:17, 55:6, 55:10, 55:13, 55:15, 63:13, 65:5, 66:2, 76:23, 77:2, 77:5, 77:8, 78:2, 78:4, 78:6, 81:11, 81:14, 81:18, 85:9, 85:12, 86:3, 86:14 violation [1] - 59:3 Virginia [1] - 26:5 virtually [11- 20:9 visible [3] - 22:15, 23:2, 71:13 vision [1] - 12:8 visual [3] - 19:15, 20:3, 37:18 visually [3] - 18:19, 20:6, 23:17 VITOSH [2] - 87:3, 88:9 Vitosh [1] - 88:8 vote [4] - 5:21, 7:20, 8:8, 86:3 MTh wait [2] - 46:14, 46:16 waiting [1] - 50:6 walking [1] - 21:23 walls [5] - 18:3, 28:15, 35:16, 58:13, 61:3 wants [1] - 60:18 warehouse [2] - 15:5, 33:10 warrants [1] - 69:7 warranty[11 - 56:5 waste [2] - 30:7, 31:19 water [15] - 16:7, 28:24, 29:6, 29:8, 29:17, 29:19, 30:20, 31:1, 31:15, 31:16, 31:20, 31:24, 33:16, 35:21, 37:18 wave [1] - 56:22 ways [2] - 79:23, 80:5 Webb [1] - 47:10 website [1] - 66:12 Wednesday [1] - 1:21 week [1] - 66:12 weekdays [1] - 25:14 weight [2] - 67:15, 71:22 WEILER [3] - 4:4, 38:18, 38:21 Weiler[4] - 38:21, 46:23, 65:19, 66:7 welfare [1] - 36:18 west [15] - 16:19, 42:4, 42:5, 42:19, 43:1, 44:15, 45:7, 54:16, 65:14, 72:5, 72:7, 73:17, 74:2, 80:13 western [5] - 39:3, 39:4, 41:21, 42:21, 43:1 WHEREOF [1] - 88:3 WHEREUPON [1] - 5:1 whole [5] - 34:12, 70:18, 71:4, 73:8, 76:11 Wickter[2] - 85:15 wide p] - 17:18, 18:5, 22:5, 24:22, 78:18, 79:14, 83:24 widened [1] - 80:8 widening [1] - 14:22 wife [4] - 65:13, 65:21, 72:19, 76:5 wifi [1] - 62:23 wildest [1] - 49:13 wildflowers [1] - 17:20 Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com 14 wildlife [1] - 23:15 willing [11- 79:11 windfall [1] - 57:8 window [2] - 23:3, 63:21 wish [4] - 5:16, 8:1, 66:15 wishes [1] - 38:13 wishing [1] - 5:24 WITNESS [21 - 4:2, 88:3 witnesses [1] - 6:8 wondered [1] - 80:8 wondering [3[- 50:3, 77:21, 78:21 workforce [i[ - 34:10 works [21- 53:10, 70:19 world [5] - 28:20, 50:14, 51:5, 55:3, 59:4 worry[[ - 54:9 worst [11 - 28:1 wow [1] - 49:11 Wyoming [2] - 51:24, 84:12 Y y'all [1[ - 46:22 year [61 - 10:14, 11:18, 25:13, 48:18, 59:14, 61:6 years [25] - 14:4, 19:6, 27:16, 47:4, 47:8, 48:17, 55:4, 57:21, 58:18, 59:16, 60:14, 60:15, 60:21, 61:17, 62:5, 62:11, 62:14, 62:19, 64:8, 72:21, 72:22, 75:7, 75:24 yesterday [21 - 51:14, 51:15 York [3] - 56:15, 56:17, 63:23 YORKVILLE [2] - 1:6, 1:7 Yorkville [44[- 1:18, 3:6, 10:18, 11:24, 17:3, 23:16, 24:8, 27:12, 28:21, 31:8, 31:19, 32:1, 34:11, 34:23, 37:2, 37:12, 38:24, 41:4, 41:8, 48:10, 48:15, 49:1, 49:2, 49:18, 50:2, 51:9, 51:15, 52:23, 57:8, 57:12, 57:18, 60:10, 60:16, 61:10, PZC Public Hearing - July 9, 2025 63:19, 64:3, 64:10, 67:12, 67:23, 68:12, 72:9, 73:3, 73:12, 85:6 Yorkville's [9] - 11:10, 27:24, 33:6, 35:6, 36:4, 37:23, 48:9, 59:21, 63:16 Young [11- 2:21 YOUNG [1o[ - 8:10, 8:12, 8:14, 8:16, 8:18, 86:5, 86:7, 86:9, 86:11, 86:13 Z zero [51- 22:22, 23:14, 32:9, 35:23, 70:12 zone [21 - 23:7, 23:14 zoned [31 - 64:18, 74:18 zoning [12] - 9:9, 36:10, 45:23, 68:1, 68:17, 71:10, 73:3, 74:7, 74:11, 74:12, 74:14, 75:10 Zoning [6[- 5:7, 9:3, 38:20, 46:20, 65:11, 77:11 ZONING [11 - 1:10 Zoom [2] - 77:3, 81:15 Vitosh Reporting Service 815.993.2832 cros.vitosh@gmail.com Jori Behland From: Lawrence Wickter Sent: Monday, July 7, 2025 1:36 PM To: Jori Behland Subject: WRITTEN COMMENT -Cardinal Development To: City Council Meeting, July 8, 2025 Planning and Zoning Commission Meeting, July 9, 2025 From: Lawrence D. Wickter, Jr. and Deborah H. Wickter Re: City Council Agenda: Planning and Zoning Commission Discussion Item #1 Planning and Zoning Committee Agenda: Public Hearings Item #1 and New Business Item #1 We would like to express our objections to the proposed development and the related entitlement changes. The development will result in loss of property value of our residence. Contrary to assertions to the contrary by the developer/petitioner, a large commercial development of this nature on farmland in the immediate vicinity of our subdivision, will significantly impair the marketability (and, consequently, value) of all the homes in the subdivision. What was formerly a rural environment with all the associated appeal, becomes a sprawling commercial development with significant negative impacts on aesthetics, traffic, and noise (construction and operation). The appeal as a residential location is unalterably diminished; this is axiomatic. The development is contrary to the designs of the 2016 Comprehensive Plan. The Comprehensive Plan called for the Eldamain Road Corridor to be concentrated in "Estate/Conservation Residential". Now the Plan is being modified on an ex post facto basis to provide for commercial development along the entire Corridor. The entire "feel" of the west side of Yorkville is being dramatically altered in what appears to be an expedient shift towards maximizing tax revenues. Does the City budget require such a shift? The City does not appear to be undergoing the significant population growth that would require large new revenue sources or, consequently, a modification to the previous vision for a peaceful, rural environment for residential living. While the Comprehensive Plan is not binding on the City, it acts to influence decisions citizens make on whether to become part of this community. We would like the rural nature of our neighborhood to be preserved. The development is speculative. Data center development is one of the most compelling markets in commercial real estate presently. The number of proposals being presented to the City is certainly a testament to that notion. The risk of an oversupply condition developing in this product is no different than in any other development product that is "hot". While "staging" would appear to be an effective mitigant to overbuilding in this project, how would that staging be controlled or monitored by the City? If an oversupply of product interferes with full development of Cardinal, numerous complications will arise in the unwinding of the development and its redirection to other uses. Neighboring residents potentially will experience years of disruption until stability is restored to the living environment. Thank you for your consideration. Lawrence D. Wickter, Jr. Deborah H.Wickter No" E-mail: 0