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PLANNING & ZONING COMMISSION
City Council Chambers
651 Prairie Pointe Drive, Yorkville, IL
Wednesday, January 14, 2026 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
Wally Werderich-yes, Michael Crouch-yes, Chad Green-yes, Marge Linnane-yes, Richard
Vinyard-yes, Danny Williams-yes
Absent: Ryan Forristall
City Staff
Krysti Barksdale-Noble, Community Development Director
Sara Mendez, Senior Planner
David Hansen, Senior Planner
Thian Dim, Planner 1
Megan Lamb, City Attorney
Lynn Dubajic Kellogg, City Consultant
Katelyn Gregory, Economic Development Coordinator
Alderman Ken Koch via Zoom
Other Guests
Chris Vitosh, Vitosh Reporting Service Lorie Teska, Corneils Rd.
Matt Gilbert, Green Door Capital Brittany & Jacob Struett, Caledonia
Julie D'Amore, Whispering Meadows Pat Braun, Bristol Ridge
Mark & Barb Gilmour, Woodworth Andy Egner, Caledonia
Ryan Zupancic, Zupancic Enterprises, LLC Gregg Weinstock, Caledonia
Jeff Bock, Prairie Meadows Carl & Robin Longnecker
James Beck Sean Reynolds, JLC
Gene Wilberg, Garden Circle Jen Bruni
Alice May Michael Ganger, White Oak Estates
Richard Daehnke, Fox Lawn Nancy & Tim Bennett, Caledonia
Patrick Callahan, Studio GC Matt Zediker, Yorkville School #115
Carol Gardner Rick Gardner
Mark Martin Cidney Smith, Montgomery
Jessica Bautz, Yorkville Shannon Westberg, Green Door Capital
Sam Dunkin, JLC Frank Yattoni, Kylyn Ridge
Joyce Yattoni, Kylyn Ridge Aetna Felit
(and many others who arrived after start of meeting)
Via Zoom:
Ruth Enright, Allison Saidat, Kerry Pipal, John, Angela Egner, Sidney's iPhone, Alyson Luse,
Kim Kaskel, Chuck Kasper, iPad, Allison Sass, Alex, Alice Dehm, Brandon and others
(total of 33 persons)
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Previous Meeting Minutes November 12, 2025
Motion by Mr. Werderich and second by Mr. Crouch to approve the minutes as presented. Roll
call: Werderich-yes, Crouch-yes, Green-yes, Linnane-yes, Vinyard-yes, Williams-yes. Carried
6-0.
Citizen’s Comments None
Public Hearings
Chairman Vinyard explained the procedure to be followed and the taking of testimony. He
swore in those who would speak and also made a statement about decorum and order for the
meeting.
Chairman Vinyard entertained a motion to open the Hearing. At 7:04pm a motion was made and
seconded by Mr. Williams and Ms. Linnane, respectively and the Public Hearing was opened at
approximately 7:04pm. Roll call: Crouch-yes, Green-yes, Linnane-yes, Vinyard-yes, Williams-
yes, Werderich-yes. Carried 6-0.
The Public Hearings were read by Chairman Vinyard:
1. PZC 2025-13 Matt Gilbert, petitioner, on behalf of Yorkville Nexus V LLC, property
owner, has filed an application with the United City of Yorkville, Kendall County,
Illinois, requesting rezoning classification. The request seeks to rezone three (3) parcels
totaling approximately 130-acres into two (2) separate zoning districts. The two (2)
western parcels (PINS: 02-18-200-004, 02-17-100-004) totaling approximately 91-acres
are proposed to be rezoned from the R-4 General Multi-Family Residence District to the
M-2 General Manufacturing District for a future data center or other specified land uses,
while the one (1) eastern parcel (PIN: 02-17-100-010) totaling approximately 37-acres is
proposed to be rezoned from the R-4 General Multi-Family Residence District to the A-1
Agricultural District and remain an agricultural land use.
2. PZC 2025-14 Heather DiVerde, has filed an application with the United City of
Yorkville, Kendall County, Illinois, requesting rezoning classification, on behalf of the
Yorkville School District 115. The real property consists of three (3) parcels totaling
approximately 155-acres and is generally located north of River Road, west of Game
Farm Road and east of Eldamain Road. The petitioner is seeking to rezone the property
from the R-1 Single-Family Suburban Residence District to the PI Public Institutional
District to accommodate public school facilities.
(See Court Reporter's transcript of Public Hearings)
(Both Petitioners' Standards & Responses to be included in the Official Record)
The Public Hearing was closed at approximately 9:13pm a motion by Mr. Crouch and second by
Mr. Williams. Roll call: Green-yes, Linnane-yes, Vinyard-yes, Williams-yes, Werderich-yes,
Crouch-yes. Carried 6-0.
Unfinished Business None
New Business:
1. PZC 2025-13 Matt Gilbert (see full description above)
Ms. Mendez summarized the petition to rezone 130 acres into 2 separate zones. The 2 western
parcels are proposed to be rezoned from R-4 to M-2 and the eastern 37-acre parcel from R-4 to
A-1 and remain as an agriculture use. She listed the permitted uses if no data center is built. She
noted that a community meeting had been held by the petitioner on January 7. Staff was first
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opposed to rezoning of all 3 parcels to M-2. After 2 other meetings, staff recommended the
eastern parcel be rezoned to A-1. With this rezoning, staff is generally supportive. This will
move to the City Council on February 10.
Ms. Mendez then read the standards for the proposed M-2 zoning and the Commissioners offered
comments. Mr. Williams said the parcels to the west are consistent with other projects along
Eldamain, but not the east parcel. Mr. Werderich opined that the public looks at the 2016
Comprehensive Plan and the Commissioners should also. It becomes sensitive when the projects
begin to encroach on residential and the fact that the zoning is being changed to manufacturing.
Mr. Crouch also noted that when the last parcel on Kylyn's Ridge was voted against, it was for
the same reason. He added that the residents in the area must be protected, but change will occur.
Mr. Green said Rob Roy Creek has been used as a dividing line, however, it does not run straight
south, but rather moves to the east. He also said nearby property values would likely decrease. It
was also noted that the property had been vacant since 2005. Referring to the Comp Plan, Mr.
Werderich said this property is not zoned for data centers.
After discussion of the standards, Commissioners had agreed with standards 1,4, 5 and 7 and
disagreed with standards 2, 3, and 6.
Action Item
Rezone
Chairman Vinyard entertained a motion to approve PZC 2025-13, Meyer, Rezoning Parcels
#02-18-200-004 and #02-17-100-004. So moved by Mr. Williams and seconded by Mr. Green.
Motion read by Mr. Williams as follows: In consideration of testimony presented during a Public
Hearing on January 14, 2026 and discussion of findings of fact, the Planning and Zoning
Commission recommends approval to the City Council a request for rezoning from R-4 General
Multi-Family Residence District to the M-2 General Manufacturing District of a proposed future
data center, for two (2) parcels totaling approximately 91 acres and generally located south of
Corneils Road and east of Beecher Road, subject to recommendations in a staff memorandum
dated January 6, 2026.
Roll call: Linnane-no, Vinyard-no, Williams-no, Werderich-no, Crouch-no, Green-no. Motion
failed -- 6-0.
At this time, Ms. Mendez reviewed the application and standards for Parcel #02-17-100-010
which is currently zoned R-4. The Commissioners agreed with all the standards.
Action Item
Rezone
Chairman Vinyard entertained a motion to approve PZC 2025-13 Meyer Parcel #02-17-100-010.
So moved by Mr. Williams and seconded by Mr. Green. Motion read by Mr. Williams as
follows: In consideration of testimony presented during a Public Hearing on January 14, 2026
and discussion of findings of fact, the Planning and Zoning Commission recommends approval to
the City Council a request for rezoning from R-4 General Multi-Family Residence District to the
A-1 Agricultural District, for one (1) parcel totaling approximately 37 acres and generally located
south of Corneils Road and east of Beecher Road, subject to recommendations in a staff
memorandum dated January 6, 2026.
Roll call: Vinyard-yes, Williams-no, Werderich-no, Crouch-yes, Green-no, Linnane-yes.
Motion fails -- 3-yes and 3 no.
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2. PZC 2025-14 Heather DiVerde (see full description above)
The details of this petition were presented by Ms. Mendez. It is an application for annexation and
rezoning for school district #115 to annex a total of 155 acres. The rezoning would be from R-1
to PI to accommodate school facilities due to student population reaching about 7,000. The
rezoning request for PI is for all 3 properties. She discussed the Comp Plan in relation to the
petition. There are no plans to connect Beecher Rd. to River Road. Ms. Mendez reviewed the
applicable standards and the Commission agreed with all. Staff supports this petition and a
Public Hearing was held January 13 at City Council and and a final vote will be taken February
10 by the Council.
Action Item
Rezone
Chairman Vinyard entertained a motion to approve PZC 2025-14 YSD #115 rezoning request.
So moved by Mr. Green and seconded by Mr. Williams. Mr. Williams read the motion as
follows: In consideration of testimony presented during a Public Hearing on January 14, 2026
and discussion of findings of fact, the Planning and Zoning Commission recommend approval to
the City Council a request for rezoning from the R-1 Single-Family Suburban Residence District
to the PI – Public Institutional District, to accommodate public school facilities for Yorkville
School District 115, for three (3) parcels totaling approximately 155 acres (PINS #02-30-400-
006, #02-31-226-002 and #02-29-300-002), generally located north of River Road, west of Game
Farm Road and east of Eldamain Road.
Roll call: Williams-yes, Werderich-yes, Crouch-yes, Green-yes, Linnane-yes, Vinyard-yes.
Carried 6-0.
Additional Business
1. Introduction of New Planner I – Thian Dim
Ms. Noble introduced a new Planner I, Thian Dim, in the Community Development Department.
Ms. Dim started January 7th and has a degree in Urban Studies from Wheaton College. The
Commissioners welcomed her.
2. City Council Action Updates
a. PZC 2025-12 Ms. Noble said the south receiving station rezoning petition was
approved. The property is being rezoned from B-3 to PI to accommodate the
development of a building, standpipe and metering building as part of the Lake Michigan
water project.
Adjournment
There was no further business and the meeting was adjourned at 10:15pm on a motion by Mr.
Green and second by Mr. Williams. Unanimous voice vote approval.
Respectfully submitted by Marlys Young, Minute Taker
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UNITED CITY OF YORKVILLE
YORKVILLE, ILLINOIS
PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION
PUBLIC HEARING
651 Prairie Pointe Drive
Yorkville, Illinois
Wednesday, January 14, 2026
7 :00 p .m .
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PRESENT:
Mr. Rich Vinyard, Chairman,
Mr. Danny Williams, Commissioner,
Ms. Marge Linnane, Commissioner,
Mr. Michael Crouch, Commissioner,
Mr. Chad Green, Commissioner,
Mr. Wally Werderich, Commissioner.
ALSO PRESENT:
Ms. Krysti Barksdale-Noble, Community
Development Director;
Ms. Sara Mendez, Senior Planner;
Mr. David Hansen, Senior Planner;
Ms. Thiam Dim, Planner;
Ms. Marlys Young, Minute Taker.
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Reported by: Christine M . Vitosh
Illinois CSR No. 084-002883
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APPEARANCES:
OTTOSEN, DiNOLFO, HASENBALG & CASTALDO,
LTD.
BY: MS. MEGAN LAMB
1804 North Naper Boulevard, Suite 350
Naperville, Illinois 60563
(630) 682-0085
appeared on behalf of the United City of
Yorkville.
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INDEX
WITNESS:PAGE:
MATT GILBERT 10
KEVIN CROWLEY 30
MATILDA SAUCEDO (phonetic)33
CAROLYN McCREE 35
ASTRA FELIX 37
JACOB STRUETT 42
DYLAN LUSE 46
LEESA POSS 49
LORIE TESKA 50
MARY SLAVIK 52
DAVID McCURDY 53
JEREMIAH TEUSINK 55
ABRAHAM GALLEGOS 58
LYDIA BATTAGLIA 60
RICH DAEHNKE 67
RON REAM 68
ANGELIE VILLA (phonetic)71
TIM BENNETT 81
MARK GILMOUR 87
LUCY GALLEGOS (phonetic)89
DEBBIE COUNTNEY (phonetic)91
RICHARD TOPOROWSKI 92
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MARICELA GALLEGOS (phonetic)95
ASTRA FELIX 97
JENNIFER DELATORRE 100
ANGELA EGNER 103
MATT ZEDIKER 106
ALICE MAY 109
FRED DAVIS 112
GERARDO MACEDO 116
CARL LONGNECKER 120
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(WHEREUPON, the following
proceedings were had in public
hearing, commencing at 7 :03 p .m . as
follows:)
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: There are two public
hearings scheduled f or tonight's Planning and
Zoning Commission meeting.
The purpose of these hearings is to
invite testimony from members of the public
regarding the proposed requests that are being
considered before this commission.
Public testimony from persons
present who wish to speak may be for or against
or just to ask questions of the petitioner
regarding the request being heard.
Once all public hearings on
tonight's agenda are closed, the Commission will
deliberate and vote on the recommendation to the
City Council for each of the matters that are
subject of tonight's hearing.
Those persons wishing to testify are
asked to speak clearly, one at a time, and state
your name and who you represent. You are also
asked to sign in at the podium over there.
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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. If you guys are
planning to speak tonight, you have to take the
oath.
MS. LAMB: This is your time.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Oh, we're organized,
I see.
(Witnesses sworn.)
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Please be seated.
Thank you. All right. So before we begin
tonight's meeting, I 'd like to review a couple
rules to make sure that we have an orderly and
productive hearing tonight.
When speaking, please make the
comments focused on the matter at hand. Avoid
personal attacks, unrelated topics or repetitive
points already made.
As Chairman I may limit the
repetitive remarks or redirect the speakers to
stay on topic.
Any member of the public who
repeatedly disrupts or interrupts any of
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tonight's hearings may be asked to leave the
chambers.
We ask that audience members remain
silent at tonight's hearings unless they are
speaking at the podium.
The court reporter must transcribe
tonight's testimony, and cooperation from the
audience will make her job much easier and the
transcript of these hearings be more accurate.
Commission members may ask
clarifying questions at any time and the public
may direct relevant questions to the petitioner
either through myself or via direct
cross-examination; likewise, the petitioner may
respond to public comments and ask clarifying
questions.
Once all public comments have been
heard, I will formally close the public comment
period, after which the Commission will
deliberate and vote.
Thank you for your cooperation and
participation tonight.
So the order for receiving testimony
will be as follows: The petitioner presentation,
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followed by those that wish to speak in favor or
opposition of the request.
May I have a motion to open the
public hearing on Petition number PZC 2025-13,
Matt Gilbert on behalf of Nexus V , LLC,
requesting rezoning, and PZC 2025-14, Heather
DiVerde on behalf of Yorkville School District
1 15 rezoning request?
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: So moved.
COMMISSIONER LINNANE: I 'll second.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Roll call vote on the
motion, please.
MS. YOUNG: Yes. Crouch.
COMMISSIONER CROUCH: Yes.
MS. YOUNG: Green.
COMMISSIONER GREEN: Yes.
MS. YOUNG: Linnane.
COMMISSIONER LINNANE: Yes.
MS. YOUNG: Vinyard.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Yes.
MS. YOUNG: Williams.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Yes.
MS. YOUNG: And Werderich.
COMMISSIONER WERDERICH: Yes.
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CHAIRMAN VINYARD: All right. The first
public hearing tonight is PZC 2025-13, Matt
Gilbert, the petitioner, on behalf of Yorkville
Nexus V , LLC, property owner, is requesting
rezoning classification for three parcels
totaling approximately 130 acres into two
separate zoning districts.
The two western parcels, totaling
approximately 91 acres, are proposed to be
rezoned from the R -4 General Multi-Family
Residence District to the M -2 General
Manufacturing District for future data center or
specified land use, while the one eastern parcel
totaling approximately 37 acres is proposed to be
rezoned from an R -4 General Multi-Family
Residence District to the A -1 Agricultural
District and remain an agricultural land use.
Is the petitioner present and
prepared to make your presentation?
MR. GILBERT: Yes.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Very good.
MATT GILBERT,
having been first duly sworn, testified from the
podium as follows:
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MR. GILBERT: Is there a clicker for the
slides or --
MS. NOBLE: You can just ask us to
advance.
MR. GILBERT: Okay.
MS. NOBLE: Before we start, if there
are people standing, there is extra chairs in the
overflow room. You can sit there or you can
bring a chair out so you can have a seat, and
there is a couple of empty seats up front.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Go ahead, sir.
MS. LAMB: Can I also --
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Yes.
MS. LAMB: Gentle reminder to everyone,
make sure when you are speaking you move all the
way into your microphone.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Okay. Go ahead, sir.
MR. GILBERT: Okay. Thank you. Hello.
My name is Matt Gilbert. I am here on behalf of
Green Door Capital. We are the owners of the
130-acre parcel.
First off I want to state that we
are aware of the different views in the community
surrounding the data center development in
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general on this site and development in general
on the site.
We are cognizant of the fact that
our 130 acres is located right in between one of
the key substations in the state of Illinois in a
thriving residential area.
While I know several residents have
expressed a desire for this land to remain
farmland, all three parcels, totaling 130 acres,
all 130 acres have been targeted by the City for
development for the last 20 to 25 years.
In fact, the current agricultural
use on the site is only allowed under the
existing zoning code as a legal non-conforming
use.
I want to be clear that we are not a
data center user and any future user for the site
will have to come back in front of City Council
with a planned unit development or PUD for
approval prior to -- for any development to be
allowed.
The City's write-up on the proposed
rezoning in the packet tonight did mention the
zoning history of the site, which included M -1 ,
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which was approved in the year 2000, which is
after construction of many of the nearby homes.
The M -1 zoning would have allowed a wide range of
industrial uses, including both light and heavy
manufacturing.
In 200 5 the whole 130-acre site was
rezoned to R -4 , which would include not just
single-family homes like the Caledonia
neighborhood, but also more dense multi-family
residential apartments or condo buildings, which
could potentially mean taller structures up to
80 feet, smaller setbacks, light -- you know,
lighted parking lots, and higher -- certainly a
higher impact on traffic as well as the school
district resources due to added student numbers.
Again, I do understand that the
residents are accustomed to empty farmland and
want to reiterate that the agriculture use has
not been the intended use by the City for quite
some time and development has long been a
question of if -- not if, but when.
We have listened to the City's
concerns on behalf of the residents and adjusted
to down-zone the 37 acres closest to the
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residential area to the east. That's actually
the second rezoning request tonight, is the
down-zoning.
So that site, the 37 acres closest
to the Caledonia neighborhood, would remain
solely agricultural, A -1 use farmland, and then
there is also an additional about 13 acres
between Rob Roy Creek and that 37 acres which
would have a very limited use, if any, related to
a development to the west of the site.
That amounts to about 50 acres in
total, which would serve as a buffer between the
Caledonia neighborhood and any future development
west of the creek.
Additionally, we are limiting the --
to limiting this -- we are limiting the size of
the developable land by about 50 acres of the 1 30
and limiting the uses to about nine specific uses
as suggested by the City.
We do understand the concern about
the data center use nearby and the lack -- and
want to be clear that the lack of a concurrent
PUD request means we do not have a final plan and
any PUD that would come in would be accompanied
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by specific studies on noise, traffic, water and
utility use, that would precede any development
on this site.
So if you can go back to the first
page. Our presentation -- please. Our
presentation tonight is focused on the seven
standards per Section 10-8 -12 of the UDO Code,
Zoning Code, to be reviewed by City Council, the
Zoning Commission, the mayor, and this committee,
the Planning and Zoning Commission.
So with that I will start here on
the slides, just we want to walk through a few
things. You can go to the next slide, please.
Green Door is really a small firm,
really have been focused on industrial-type
buildings, value add development. We have been
working with the City for about four and a half
years to develop the land primarily along
Eldamain Road coming to this -- the Meyer site.
So up here we have the seven -- can
you -- yeah, so the seven map amendment review
standards. So just to be clear, the map
amendment is really the rezoning. So these are
the seven standards by which, as I said, the
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zoning committee, this committee, the mayor and
City Council are supposed to review these
standards to -- when considering the rezoning.
So next slide, please.
So standards number one, three and
four are pretty similar in use, so if you go to
the -- so does the map amendment, is it
consistent with the Comprehensive Plan, is the
proposed map amendment compatible with the
existing and planned uses, and number four, the
proposed map amendment will not result in
individual parcels zoned in one district that is
not shared by adjacent parcels. So if you go to
the next slide, please.
So this is the zoning in this area
of Yorkville, thank you for -- the hand there is
pointing out the parcel that we are talking
about.
So as you can see, to the north,
south and east is -- the purple is M -2
Manufacturing, which includes data centers, there
is a PUD up there in the light blue along
Eldamain Road, which is the greenhouse, and then
in between the brown, our parcel and that hand,
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is the ComEd substation with overhead power lines
going to the north, east, west through the site
below our brown site, and then up to the north
and then suggested or proposed M -2 zoning for
Project Steel, Project Cardinal to the north.
So, again, answering map amendment
standards one, two and four are met -- sorry, are
met -- So let me address, the Comprehensive Plan
is in the process of being updated to include M -2
zoning.
The surrounding areas do include
M -2 , commercial PUD, the greenhouse, the
substations and the overhead lines, and for
number four, no zoning would be on, say,
standalone parcels or zoning islands so to speak.
If you can go to the next slide.
So map amendment standards number
three and five are pretty similar, where you are
to evaluate whether the proposed zoning is
suitable and meets setback and frontage
requirements per the UDO, and in short it does,
but if you will go to the next slide, we will get
into some details on the site.
So, again, this is the entire
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130 acres. Okay, next slide. This -- go ahead,
if you want to clear that. Okay. So this is --
can you go back to the -- yeah, to this slide.
So, again, this is the -- this is
the zoning request to be down-zoned from R -4
Residential to A -1 , a very limited use, a
recommendation by the City, so it would be
literally farmland and farmland alone. Next
slide, please.
So this is an outline of the two
parcels that are being requested totaling
93 acres for the M -2 -- M -2 zoning. Again, they
would be subject to a PUD. Any development over
four acres per the City's code is subject to come
back in to City Council for a PUD.
Listed below are the nine uses
suggested by the City that would be allowed by
the current zoning; anything else would be
subject to coming back in for a special zoning
permit or an update to the zoning. Next slide,
please.
So, again, on the 37-acre down-zone,
there is a 650-foot lot-to-lot setback on the --
sorry. The M -2 zoning setback for data centers
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is 500 feet. Lot-to-lot would be 6 50,
structure-to-structure would be different, which
we'll get to in a minute.
On this slide here it says 6 50 to
about the middle of Rob Roy Creek would be about
1100 feet. Again, just creating an extra buffer
from the residential area. Next slide, please.
We wanted to share just an
example-type development plan -- sorry, a site
plan or use plan. Again, I want to be clear that
we are not a data center user, we are not
proposing this site plan specifically.
Based on experts in the field we
kind of developed a blocking plan to share with
City Council and residents what a site plan could
conceptually look like.
Again, to be clear, anything that
came back in would have to go through a PUD
process.
This plan would include two
buildings, each having a connected administrative
building, they would be two stories, the
footprint would be about 693,000 square feet with
total development of about 1 .3 million square
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feet.
I want to highlight here the setback
from the Caledonia residents is about 1500 east
to west -- sorry, from the development going to
the east would be about 1500 feet; to the north
there is a required 500-foot setback; and then to
the northeast there is another 500-foot setback
from the -- like a proposed substation,
electrical substation, on site. Next slide,
please.
So we just want to highlight how the
City of Yorkville through their UDO adjustments
has addressed the distance between development
with berms, berms and setbacks for residential.
There is a 500-foot setback. There
is a 1500-foot setback from a residential
structure. There is a height maximum of 70 feet
inside that 1500 feet, including mechanical
equipment. There would be a 100-foot minimum
landscape buffer, which would include in various
areas an eight-foot tall berm with -- around
residential subdivisions. Next slide, please.
Moving on to number six on the map
amendment review standards, the community's need
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for the proposed use. Next slide, please.
So, again, this kind of comes back
to why Yorkville. So Illinois and Yorkville is
well positioned for future energy supply growth.
As everyone is aware, there has been a demand for
data centers with the growing demand for, you
know, online uses, A I . Illinois is well suited
to grow their supply in the future.
Yorkville specifically is adjacent
to one of the largest ComEd substations in the
region, and the undeveloped land around that
substation allows for appropriate buffers to the
surrounding communities. Next slide, please.
Just wanted to highlight -- this is
from J L L , the real estate group -- a little bit
about the difference between data centers, data
center builders, data center developers wanting
more data centers, versus the end users, why data
centers are needed.
So just to highlight here, over --
you know, that left half of the box is all of the
stuff, the day-to-day. We're all probably guilty
of using these online services on a daily basis,
that's why the growth is there. We're continuing
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to be online more and more.
We just thought this was interesting
for people to see. It's not necessarily data
centers asking for more data center, data center
users, it's actual online services that are
requiring more and more data centers. Next
slide, please.
Again, the 93 acres, we just want to
be transparent that the 93-acre redevelopment and
this rezoning would enable these -- I believe
there is nine -- eight, nine -- or sorry, nine,
ten uses up there that would be specifically
allowed, not the 50 uses that are in the M -2
zoning. Next slide, please.
So these are some impacts that we
wanted to highlight on Yorkville and the
surrounding neighbors. I want to be clear that
there are two separate tax revenues, it's not
just property taxes that, you know, everyone is
aware that the -- well, if you are not aware, I
want to be clear the 93 acres is in the Plano
school district, so increased property taxes on
the school side of the property tax would inure
to Plano.
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The bigger and more beneficial tax
revenue to Yorkville is a utility tax, a utility
tax, I call it a rebate, but when the data
centers are using, you know, power, gas, water,
there is a utility tax that goes on top of that.
Yorkville receives a portion of
those taxes back to it, so the, you know,
proposed plan that we show, about a million,
three total square feet, about 2 50 or so
megawatts, would equal -- per ComEd would equal
about $5 .9 million back to Yorkville on an annual
basis, and again, that is a conservative estimate
provided by ComEd to us.
So, again, there is two -- there is
not just real estate taxes, of which some
would -- some would still stay in Yorkville and
then the utility tax is the bigger tax revenue
back to Yorkville. Next slide, please.
Other impacts to Yorkville. As
compared to residential and industrial, there
would be significantly lower traffic counts, and,
again, we say residential because the site is
currently zoned as R -4 , dense multi-family
residential, and the -- Let's see.
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Industrial also would have higher
impact on the streets in terms of truck traffic,
et cetera.
So data centers would also have a
lower impact on municipal services, such as
police, fire, again, as compared to residential,
the current zoning, industrial, office.
And then construction would be a --
really a massive boon to skilled workers, union
labor. And just by example, the site plan that
we illustrated before has about -- would -- the
2 50 megawatt, 1 .3 million square feet development
would cost in total about $3 billion to develop.
Of that it's estimated about
40 percent of that cost would be labor, which
would equate to about $1 .2 billion of labor here
in Yorkville. Next slide, please.
The last and final standard for
review on the map amendment is the length of time
the property has been vacant as zoned and
considered -- as considered in context for the
development in the area. So if you go to the
next slide.
So, again, we talked a little about
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this in my opening remarks, but the current --
the zoning in 2000 was changed to M -1
Manufacturing for both light and heavy
manufacturing; in 200 5 it was changed to the
current zoning of residential, which would
include multi-family, townhomes, condos, again,
apartment buildings up to 80 feet high.
The land has remained undeveloped
since, you know, obviously in its eternity, and
the City has been targeting this site for
development for the past 25 years, so they have
been trying to get something done here. Next
slide, please.
So, again, in order to address some
of the community's concerns specific to data
centers, just want to be clear that, you know, I
think the City has done a good job of listening
to the concerns on noise, building height,
building -- building exterior features, you know,
essentially the aesthetics of the building, the
water consumption, traffic, so not only will the
City's UDO address all these features, we wanted
to highlight a few things here.
So any -- the distance, there would
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be a buffer of at least 1100 feet, likely more.
1100 feet would put it right in the middle of the
creek. It likely would be more.
The appearance would be buffered by
the berms and the trees, the tree -- the
landscaping buffers. There is a 70-foot height
foot restriction inside of 1 500 feet.
The noise would be within the City's
code of 6 0 decibels during the daytime, 50 at
night.
And I do want to -- Jumping down to
the generator testing line, Governor Pritzker
just last week signed a bill on January 8 th that
all generators for noise would have to meet the
tier four -- Sean, help me out --
MR. REYNOLDS: Emissions levels.
MR. GILBERT: Yes. So not only is it
going to, you know, filter out pollutants, it's
going to buffer noise.
The water, the City is requiring
closed loop systems, they're not allowing for
water cooling, so these data centers aren't going
to be using, you know, all of the City's
consumptions. I will come back to the power
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bills.
On traffic, again, counts will be
lower than alternative users.
There's been a question on the
number of buildings. We are projecting about two
buildings here for this site with this shrunken
down 93-acre site.
Another question that we've gotten
quite a bit of is the timing of the development.
So right now ComEd is saying it's at least
36 months from the approval of a request for new
power.
So, again, we're not a user. If we
were to go in tomorrow and apply for new power,
it would take three to six months to get approved
for any power, if they had any to give, right,
and from there it would take about 36 months, so
any development to start on here is at least 36
to probably more like 48 months out, just to be
clear.
The tax revenues, again, we have
talked about the two different revenues, both
property taxes and the utility taxes, which are
the bigger benefit inuring entirely to
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Yorkville.
Coming back to the ComEd, people are
concerned about bills going up, and I just kind
of want to be clear on how ComEd works. ComEd is
part of the J -- PMJ 13-state system, so price
increases are across all 13 states, so because a
data center happens here doesn't necessarily mean
local rates are going up. Everything is kind of
spread across that 13-state region. Next slide,
please.
So that's all I had for the
committee. If there are any questions by the
committee, happy to address it while I 'm up here.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Commissioners, do you
guys have anything? I think this has been a
pretty standard presentation on what we have been
seeing for these. We agree?
COMMISSIONER CROUCH: Yes.
COMMISSIONER WERDERICH: I 've got one
quick question, and I just missed this number.
You said that the $5 .9 million utility tax
estimate, that was based upon what was the energy
usage?
MR. GILBERT: So that's a fully
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developed -- fully developed campus that we put
up there, about 2 50 megawatts.
COMMISSIONER WERDERICH: Okay.
MR. GILBERT: Again, two buildings of
1 .3 million square feet.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Any other questions?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Commissioners,
nothing?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Very good, sir.
Thank you.
MR. GILBERT: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: All right. Is there
anyone present who wishes to speak in favor or
opposition of this request? This is the only
time you guys get to speak tonight, please.
MS. LAMB: And I would like to just
say --
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Go ahead, Megan.
MS. LAMB: -- for those who came in
late, please inform us if you came in late and
did not give the oath at the outset of the
meeting so you can do so at the podium. Thank
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CHAIRMAN VINYARD: So what she's saying
is if you want to speak tonight, we have to swear
you in, so if you came late after I did that, I
will have to re-swear you in when it comes time
to speak. Everyone understand?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Beautiful. Sir, you
may start.
KEVIN CROWLEY,
having been first duly sworn, testified from the
podium as follows:
MR. CROWLEY: Thank you. My name is
Kevin Crowley, I live in the Heartland division
of Yorkville, and for this I am against, maybe
not for the reasons -- I 'm not going to get
specific about, you know, water usage or any of
that.
I have been in construction, low
voltage construction, for -- in the union for
27 years, and the one thing that I 've heard from
both sides, I don't know that there is a general
plan of what is really happening.
It's almost like here we go,
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five years previous the state says we're going
to -- we can zone this area for a data center
usage and all of a sudden everybody wants to buy
land and start building.
With me I see the problem is we've
got a ton of energy that's going to be coming out
of here, there's going to be a ton of water
usage. What real effects does it have for this
community? And is this community ready for that?
I mean, the numbers sound great, oh,
yeah, they're going to pay us all this money, but
the bottom line, it's not here yet on this --
even for this site. Three years to get power.
It takes some 18 months to do --
let's say it takes them 18 months to do a
building. What if along the way -- I was in
construction back in Y 2 K , I worked on the Lucent
buildings and the Tellabs buildings. They didn't
finish any of them.
The Lucent buildings were supposed
to be built the same way in different places
across the country. They didn't even finish the
first two before they went bankrupt and they
decided to go out of business.
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Tellabs was the same way. When we
were working in there trying to finish those
buildings, they were laying people off. That's
not a good feeling. And I think this is way more
massive than anything that those were.
We need a little more involvement
from both sides, the community and the City
working together to come up with a plan that
works for everybody and not just the people that
come in that want to build these things.
There is -- I worked out in DeKalb
and I also worked in Aurora in these data
centers. Just for the worker's side of it, the
minute you're saying you're working for, let's
say, Facebook or Microsoft, you know, foremen on
the job think they're like -- it's like this
blow-up thing and their head blows up, they're
bigger than they really are, you know?
We are there to just do the job and
it's the same like any other job, but with these
things coming in, hey, Facebook, whoever is going
to be using these things, they can't just come
into this community and just dec ide that they're
going to run rampant on us.
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We need to find out from both sides
what exactly is going to happen and not wish that
we're going to get $6 ,000,000 a year from a site.
So thank you.
(Applause.)
MS. SAUCEDO: Hi. I didn't take the
oath at the beginning.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: All right.
MATILDA SAUCEDO,
having been first duly sworn, testified from the
podium as follows:
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Floor is yours.
MS. SAUCEDO: Okay. So I have studied
data centers and I understand and I know the true
resource use behind them. The figures that they
say about how much electricity they're going to
use is only one portion of the total electricity
use and water use.
The sheer amount of electricity that
data centers use requires so much water to even
process the majority of those fossil fuels that
are providing the electricity and polluting
communities here and far away.
Also, the price increase that will
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happen from the grid was -- is in large part
being driven by the demand from data centers, so
the gentleman earlier who said that -- was going
to explain how bills worked, I didn't really see
that explanation.
Bills are confusing. We all pay
bills. We all know all the prices and costs that
get added to that, and we all saw electricity
bills go up in May, 2023.
I can tell you that was driven by
something called a capacity charge, which is what
the grid called PJM has to charge all of us when
they plan electricity reserves for the future,
and the fact that all these data centers are
coming online is making it so hard to plan for
that future and the growth is so exponential that
those costs do fall back on us, so do not think
for a second that you are not paying for it
because everybody uses the grid. I do and so do
all those data centers, so you are not being
spared from bearing the burden and the cost of
that.
And yes, the grid called PJM does
service 13 states. Think about that. PJM is a
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massive grad. Imagine all the data centers
coming online onto that grid. That is impacting
all of us, and PJM is riddled with a number of
other issues that are causing interconnection
issues.
They have queues of renewable
electricity waiting to go online, yet we can't
fix the problems we have with our current
infrastructure. Why are we adding more data
centers to an already broken system when we can't
even guarantee that electricity bills are not
going to go up for the average person?
So I 'm really concerned with seeing
this back home and I hope you are, too.
(Applause.)
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Thank you. Next
person.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Come on, somebody
else wants to talk, I know you do.
CAROLINE McCREE,
having been first duly sworn, testified from the
podium as follows:
MS. McCREE: Hi. My name is Caroline
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McCree, I live in Yorkville. I am concerned
about the energy mostly. Obviously the closed
loop cooling will help with the water usage
locally, but the electricity, I feel like he's
saying that your rates may go up regardless of
whether a data center opens here or in another
state, but I feel like that's kind of putting off
the main problem, which is why can't these data
centers contribute to the electricity production?
Just because we all share and it
could go up if we have another data center in
another state, that doesn't mean that you can't
do something to mitigate the over-usage of
electricity in our state, in our city, anywhere.
It doesn't make any sense where
they're not even contributing to any kind of
renewable resource.
I know obviously like our wind and
solar isn't going to be enough to generate enough
electricity for these places, but it seems like
there should be some other solution or they
should contribute at least a little bit.
The -- sorry, I 'm forgetting what
else I was going to say. That was my main -- my
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main concern as far as the electricity goes.
They need to -- There needs to be some kind of
requirement where they are contributing to try to
prevent our prices from going up.
I know I had another point, but I
can't think of it right now, so thank you, guys.
(Applause.)
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Thank you. Next
person.
ASTRA FELIX,
having been first duly sworn, testified from the
podium as follows:
MS. FELIX: Hi. My name is Astra Felix.
I spoke at last night's meeting and I spoke at
the meeting before that. I don't know as many of
you sitting here today as I knew yesterday
sitting up at our City Council.
For those of you that don't know me,
I used to run the farmer's market for years as a
volunteer. I also am a small organic farmer, and
so doing that you meet lots of community members .
So after I started speaking out
about this, those community members that I met
over a decade started reaching out to me.
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MS. LAMB: Ma'am, I apologize for
interrupting. I 'm sorry. Would you just please
speak into the microphone a little bit more?
MS. FELIX: Oh, can you not hear me?
MS. LAMB: Thank you so much. That's
better. Thank you.
MS. FELIX: Do you want me to start
over?
MS. LAMB: No, you are okay, that's
good.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: You're okay.
MS. FELIX: So like I was saying, many
of those community members started reaching out
to me and then more of them and then more and
more and more of them, so many that I can't even
answer all of the messages that I want to right
now. As I was coming here today, more and more
were coming in.
A very common phrase that I kept
hearing from a lot of small business owners in
our town was, Go, Astra, thanks for what you're
doing. I wish I didn't have to play nice.
This word play nice kept coming up
over and over and over again. Why should our
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small business owners have to play nice? When it
comes to protecting their families, their small
businesses, this is not going to be good for
their small businesses.
I had a conversation with the
attorney that is representing John Bryan in t his
lawsuit and he said that the -- if we didn't put
a data center there, it could be a car
dealership. I don't know about you, but I 'd
rather have a car dealership there.
I 'm not going to bring up all these
messages I have been receiving, but I am going to
read one of them to you. I 'm going to keep her
name anonymous because she wants to play nice.
Good morning, Astra. I 've been
following your posts on data centers lately. I
can't even put into words how losing my home to
these greedy pieces of you-know-what -- they told
us we couldn't swear in here yesterday, but by
our legal freedom and rights we can swear in
here, just to let you know, but I won't , I 'm
going to be respectful to you guys.
She said these greedy pieces of
you-know-what politicians have impacted my life.
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Everyone kept telling me there's nothing you can
do, you can't beat them. It's already happened.
Pritzker wants this in Illinois. Blah, blah,
blah.
The b est was take the money and move
on with your life, a bunch of crying emojis. It
was never about the money for me, and to be
honest, it wasn't that much money for how much
this forced move impacted my mental health and my
future. I loved my home, I felt safe in my home,
until I didn't , until the politicians and
CyrusOne saw my property as a land grab. They
were going to box me and my neighbor in, meaning
data centers on all four sides of us, killing our
property values and not to mention the
environmental impact on our -- or building
impact.
In the field across the street from
my old house was a small cluster of trees. I
would sit on my porch or even on my front door
steps and watch the eagle feed its babies that
had nested in those trees.
Every morning and every night I had
the gift of seeing God's art, God's masterpiece,
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the sunrise and sunset. My house, my house sat
east to west, and that art -- that art was
nothing short of watching a miracle every single
day.
When I tell you this shattered my
soul, broke my belief in humanity at my local
level, well, that would be putting it mildly.
The depression is real, the
heartbreaking tears in the middle of the night
are real, and all I can do was take a little bit
of money and walk away.
I am not sure that I will ever make
peace with the Yorkville City government and what
they have allowed.
I own a successful business in
Yorkville, so I have to play nice, which is just
sick, a sick thing to feel and to know.
The residents of Yorkville deserve
better, the children of Yorkville deserve better,
the young couple who is just starting out in
Yorkville deserves better and the old timers who
spent their whole lives in Yorkville deserve
better.
The financial impact and the tax and
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energy cost increase the residents are about to
get sucker-punched with is no joke. It's already
so hard for people and it's only going to get
harder.
Thank you. It might be too late for
me and my neighbor, but thank you for fighting
for those who are still impacted. They don't
know what they don't know, and how can anyone
fight that? Oh, but that's right, they post
these notices in the Beacon newspaper, so that's
sufficient enough, right?
Thank you.
(Applause.)
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Just another reminder
for you standing, there are seats in here, you
can grab a chair and pull it out if it makes it
more comfortable.
Go ahead, sir.
JACOB STRUETT,
having been first duly sworn, testified from the
podium as follows:
MR. STRUETT: Sorry, I am tall. I have
to move this up. Hello. My name is Jacob
Struett, I live in the Caledonia neighborhood,
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and, more specifically, I back up to the
cornfields that will have the data center right
in my backyard.
Of course we all know that there is
a lot that can be said, so I wrote what I want to
say here so I don't ramble too much.
Good evening, members of the
Commission, neighbors and friends. I already
said that, my name is Jacob Struett, yada yada,
right?
I sit here not to oppose progress,
but to protect the health, safety and long-term
evolving of our community.
First, health and air quality.
Research shows communities living within about
one mile of EPA-regulated data centers face
higher burdens of nitrogen, dioxide and diesel
particulate matter compared with the national
median, and those burdens fall disproportionately
on nearby ozones.
Data centers commonly rely on diesel
backup generators that emit particulate matter,
nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide when they are
on, pollutants known to worsen respiratory and
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cardiovascular health.
Second, the human cost. Long-term
exposure to combustion-related pollutants has
been linked to increased risk of cardiovascular
mortality and other serious outcomes.
Analysis of the data center boon
bore an immeasurable public health cost, and
fossil-fueled backup power and hybrid demand
continue unchecked.
Long-term nitrogen dioxide exposure
has also been estimated to contribute tens of
thousands of current pediatric asthma cases
nationally, increasing the risk to our children's
lungs.
Third, jobs and local benefit.
While a data center can create many short-term
construction jobs, the permanent work force is
typically small, security personnel and a handful
of on-site technicians, so the long-term local
employment and economic benefits are limited
compared with other land uses that sustain
year-round job and local spending.
Fourth, grid reliability and safety.
These facilities place heavy demands on the
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electric system and depend on backup generation
during outages.
As we have all experienced even
without data centers in our backyard, countless
power outages and blips occur. When grids fail
under stress, consequences can be severe.
Experts warn that rapid concentrated growth in
power hungry facilities increases community
vulnerability during extreme weather or system
failures, such as the 202 1 winter power shortage
in Texas where an estimated 246 people died.
Neighbors like retirees on fixed
incomes already feel energy pressure. Any
increase in local demand or instability can
translate into higher bills and greater hardship
for the most vulnerable among us.
So tonight I respectfully ask the
township to deny the M -2 rezoning. We can
welcome responsible development without
sacrificing our children's health, our air, or
the quiet, agricultural character that defines
this neighborhood.
Thank you for listening.
(Applause.)
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CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Next.
DYLAN LUSE,
having been first duly sworn, testified from the
podium as follows:
MR. LOOSE: Hi. My name is Dylan Luse,
I am a resident in the Caledonia neighborhood
that this proposed rezoning will back up to.
Members of the board, thank you. I
implore you just for a minute to stop thinking
like officials and maybe think about this as
citizens and parents.
In my house and the houses around me
with children, real children, not theoretical
ideas of children somewhere else, but your
neighbor's children who sleep with their bedroom
windows facing the land you are about to rezone.
Children who ride bikes on our streets, play in
our yards and parks, who trust the adults around
them to make decisions that will protect them.
Tonight you're going to make a
suggestion to the City on whether their home
stays a neighborhood or becomes the edge of an
industrial zone.
We did not move in next to a data
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center, a data center is being moved in next to
us. Our kids will be the ones who live with the
consequences of this vote. They will be the ones
who grow up with the constant noise, the bright
lights and massive industrial facility towering
over the place they were supposed to feel the
safest. They didn't choose this. They didn't
get to vote, but they will pay the price.
As parents we're supposed to protect
our children. As a community we're supposed to
protect our own. That's at least what it used to
mean before greed and industry began tearing it
apart thread-by-thread, house-by-house until it
became -- until it began to come apart.
Tonight we're begging you, we're
begging you to do the same and think about it.
I am here speaking to you because this is the
last bit of power I have left to make a
difference and to protect my children. I am here
so that my children can know that their dad did
everything he could.
This isn't about abstract growth or
future revenue, this is about families being told
that their peace, their investment and their
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sense of safety are expendable.
It's about being forced to explain
to our children why the place they call home
suddenly feels different and why the people in
charge allowed it to happen.
When you approve tonight -- What you
approve tonight -- or what you suggest tonight
cannot be undone. Once this is built, the quiet
is gone, the trust is broken, and for some
families the ability to stay here will be gone.
Ask yourselves this: If this were
your home, your kids, your backyard, would you
want it? Would you accept this? Because if you
wouldn't , you shouldn't ask us to.
Please do not sacrifice our
children's quality of life for a project that
does not belong this close to where families
live.
This vote will define how this town
treats its people. It will define whether we
truly live in a town with a government that
represents its people and their interests, and it
will define your legacy. It will define the
future or our children. Please choose them.
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Thank you.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Thank you.
(Applause.)
MS. POSS: I need to be sworn in.
(Witness sworn.)
LEESA POSS,
having been first duly sworn, testified from the
podium as follows:
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Thank you, ma'am.
MS. POSS: I didn't write anything
because I 'm going to speak from my heart. You
people don't understand what you're doing to the
children in the community.
I have two kids, six grandkids. My
son and his family live in Caledonia, back up to
Corneils. My daughter and her family live on
Corneils. They have now had to do the lettuce
farm; the data centers are going to come all
around them. They're changing Beecher Road to
come right next to their property line. That's
just ludicrous.
There are three boys there and they
like to be outside to play. They are going to
have the noise pollution, the air pollution.
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And you guys sit up here. You have
our lives in your hands. Think about that.
Listen to those words. Do you understand? You
have the children's future in your hands. Think
about what they need and what they deserve.
Besides all the rising costs of everything that's
going up. It's ridiculous.
I don't know who thinks this is a
good idea, but somebody clearly does because
we're at this point, so I 'm just begging you to
look at what you have.
If you had your children and
grandchildren living next door to the data
center, would that be okay with you? Probably
not. So that's what I want you to think about.
That's my whole family living there.
My whole family. My kids, my grandkids. Think
about that. That's all I have to say.
(Applause.)
LORIE TESKA,
having been first duly sworn, testified from the
podium as follows:
MS. TESKA: My name is Lorie Teska. My
family has a home on Corneils. We are one of
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five homes in the Plano -- our address is Plano.
We are getting this shoved down our throats from
Yorkville. We got nothing.
And it's not just this data center.
We have a data center to the south, a data center
to the west, and Project Cardinal going to the
north, and we got nothing.
It's five homes between Beecher and
the -- and the creek and nobody cares. I don't
know what you're thinking. I would gladly take
5 ,000 homes and be a community. We didn't know
43 years ago --
(Applause.)
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Please hold your
a pplause. Thanks.
MS. TESKA: We didn't know 43 years ago
when we bought this house in the family that we
were going to be in the middle, an island in an
industrial park. Five homes surrounded by this.
You just don't get it.
(Applause.)
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Thank you.
MS. SLAVIK: I have to be sworn in.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Raise your right
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hand.
(Witness sworn.)
MARY SLAVIK,
having been first duly sworn, testified from the
podium as follows:
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: What's your last name
again?
MS. SLAVIK: Slavik. I am not in one of
the communities that are around there, but my
question just is how many data centers do we
need?
You have one up here that he has
talked about, but this -- every time they put up
a data center it's going to have the same hit on
our community. How much is the revenue worth?
I mean, how many different streams
are coming in to ruin a neighborhood as these
people have said?
I just -- Like I said, I 'm not in
the area, Yorkville, I 'm out in, you know,
unincorporated, but how much is enough? How many
data centers do we actually need that we have to
make these people's lives ruined because of this?
I just -- I just don't understand the greed. And
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that's all I have to say.
(Applause.)
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Thank you. Go ahead,
sir.
DAVID McCURDY,
having been first duly sworn, testified from the
podium as follows:
MR. McCURDY: Hi, there. My name is
David McCurdy, I live in Caledonia as well. I
will keep this short. I have nothing prepared.
I think it's pretty obvious to
everybody this whole idea just sucks. It's
awful. I have talked over the past few months to
dozens of friends and family here in Yorkville
and throughout the country actually, and every
time I bring up a data center, people usually --
they laugh and say so when are you moving,
because data centers are fricking awful.
I don't care what the gentleman put
up there with the presentation, but I don't know
if you guys could really tell, there is a lot of
uncertainty in that.
You know, words like part of and
things like that, and there is a few numbers, but
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you can't really tell what the context is.
The one thing that jumped out at me
was the decibels. Well, decibels where? At the
data center or in the neighborhood next to it?
There is a huge difference. Is it 50 decibels
right there in the parking lot or at my house?
That's a big difference.
So there is a lot of uncertainty. I
don't know if you guys could really see through
that or not, but I think there is a lot of
unanswered questions.
And in talking to people in the
neighborhood, 100 percent of them that I talked
to wants to get the hell out. Everyone wants to
move. And the one thing that hasn't been brought
up tonight are property values. Our property
values are going to tank.
UNIDENTIFIED AUDIENCE MEMBER: They
already have.
MR. McCURDY: Yeah, they already have.
So you've got us by the you-know-what. I don't
see who is in favor of this. It seems like the
City is just trying to whore out the land.
There is no other explanation for it. There
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is -- What's the upside? I don't see it. So
that's all I have.
Thank you.
(Applause.)
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Thank you.
MR. TEUSINK: I need to be sworn in.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Raise your right
hand.
(Witness sworn.)
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Mic is yours, sir.
What was the last name again?
MR. TEUSINK: Teusink.
JEREMIAH TEUSINK,
having been first duly sworn, testified from the
podium as follows:
MR. TEUSINK: My in-laws were up here
earlier speaking. I live in the house across the
street from where this data center is going to be
put in.
You guys talk about power, sound. I
hear the ComEd humming at night. You talk about
pollution, light pollution. Green Thumb -- or
the lettuce farm down the road, that lights up
the sky, it looks like aliens are coming in.
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Noise pollution. It's going to be
loud, I can tell you that. I already hear, and
the ComEd area is way down the -- a mile down the
road from me.
I also work for a large corporation
here in town, and you're saying that these data
centers are only going to take megawatts. The
one I work for uses gigajoules. These buildings
that they're building are triple the size of the
building I work for square footage-wise. That's
just the ground, not height and everything.
In the summer we have to go shut
down our air conditioning, chillers, to help the
grid because the grid can't handle it. You're
going to bring in one of these, multiple of
these, data centers?
The grid already can't handle it.
How are we going to put more on? That's the
electrical side of it, all right?
Water consumption side of it. Yeah,
we're talking about bringing in water from the
Great Lakes because our aquifers already can't
handle it.
Putting in a greenhouse down there
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by the -- that used our aquifer, I have to change
out my water filter every month now, I had to
upsize it and I have to use charcoal just because
of the smell in my water, now you have a well.
They did put the water line in, the
city water line across the street now, but can we
sustain that? They put in the drainage, too, the
sewer drain. That's another aspect of it. Can
our City handle that? We are already at
capacity.
The company I work for, we have to
haul off our water because the City can't handle
it. The company across the street has to do the
same. You guys lured them in here for it and
then you can't sustain i t . Our grid does not
have it. Can't do it.
There was another other point I was
going to talk about, but I don't remember right
now. I didn't write down notes, I wasn't sure if
I was going to talk today, but hearing all the --
seeing his presentation -- Oh, that's what it
was, in his presentation.
He mentioned that the land over
there is Plano land, right? My house is Plano.
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The Caledonia houses, you guys are getting
1500 feet. My house, I got 500 feet. You don't
care about the people in Plano? Communities?
I would much rather look at houses
across the street than -- yeah, you're going to
have a tree with berms. You're going to see
through those trees. The berm is not going to be
that high. It's a 70-foot tall building, 500
feet ain't going to cover it. No berm is going
to cover that. Winter, there is no -- there is
no leaves on the trees to hide it.
All these fixes that the guys put
for it, it makes no sense in the long run if you
really sit there and look at it, think it
through. That's all I have.
(Applause.)
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Thank you.
MR. GALLEGOS: I have not been sworn in.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Raise your right
hand.
(Witness sworn.)
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Thank you.
ABRAHAM GALLEGOS,
having been first duly sworn, testified from the
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podium as follows:
MR. GALLEGOS: I 'll be honest, I didn't
really come with much to say. I didn't come here
today planning to say anything, and honestly I
didn't even know that this was happening until
today, but, honestly, being here, hearing what is
going on, a lot flew by really.
The only thing that stuck with me
was numbers. So you told me 36 to 48 months for
this to be like an actual like thing that has
power and everything, you said that's going to
bring in $5 million a year, and then I also heard
$3 billion going into the data center.
Can we imagine what $3 billion would
do to this community if we put that there instead
of in some big block that's just running numbers
all day?
It doesn't make sense. It's not
something that is for us, it's for other people
that we will never see, that we will never meet.
It's not something that we're ever going to see
anything good coming from. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Thank you.
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CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Anybody else?
LYDIA BATTAGLIA,
having been first duly sworn, testified from the
podium as follows:
MS. BATTAGLIA: Good evening. My name
is Lydia Battaglia. Good evening, United City of
Yorkville. United City of Yorkville. That's our
name. And this city is anything but united when
it comes to the rezoning and has been with all of
these rezonings to bring in data centers because
it might be better for our community. Our
community, the United City of Yorkville, is not
united in this.
Before I go on tonight, I have a few
questions for the board, and I promise I have a
point. Could you please explain to everyone in
detail what your job is?
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: That --
MS. LAMB: Ma'am, I apologize.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: That's not how this
works. Yeah.
MS. LAMB: You can ask questions of the
petitioner, but not of the board.
MS. BATTAGLIA: Okay.
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CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Continue.
MS. BATTAGLIA: Your job. Okay. We all
know what their job is. Who do you work for?
They can't answer that, but who do they work for?
Who does this board work for?
UNIDENTIFIED AUDIENCE MEMBER: Us.
UNIDENTIFIED AUDIENCE MEMBER: The
people.
MS. BATTAGLIA: What is the United City
of Yorkville vision's statement? The United City
of Yorkville's vision statement for our
community, for all of us, to live united.
I feel as if I could stand here and
talk about these data centers, their
environmental impact, their noise, light
pollution, the health concerns, both mentally,
physically, the accurate job stability, the
higher utilities, so forth and so on and so on.
I 'm actually going to just let you
guys all talk about that. We all know that. You
can Google it. I actually want to talk about
something else.
Edmund Burke said those who do not
know history are doomed to repeat it.
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March 3 1 st, 190 9 , Harlan and Wolff
Shipyard, Belfast, Ireland. The Titanic began.
It was going to be grand. It was going to be the
most luxurious passenger liner on the sea. The
White Star Line Management was going to give what
they thought we needed: Bigger, faster, shinier,
and an easier life. Sound familiar?
White Star Management said oh, cargo
shipping regulations don't apply to us, we need
more deck space, not frumpy life boats, believing
the ship's engineering advancement, water tight
compartments, wireless technology, made it safer.
Sound familiar? They were above anybody and
everything. They were so much smarter.
April 10th, 1912, the unsinkable
Titanic set sail. Four days, four days, into her
voyage, the SS Mesaba and SS Californian sent
warning signs to the Titanic, there is packed
ice, there is icebergs.
They were ignored and they were told
to get off the line. They were too busy sending
messages for the wealthy passengers. The
Titanic's reply? We'll show them. We are
mighty. We're speeding up.
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Cyril Evans on the SS Californian
tried to warn the Titanic again that they were
surrounded by ice. Jack Phillips, the Titanic's
operator, snapped back. His exact words, keep
out. Shut up. Shut up. And he shut off the
radio.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Ma'am --
MS. BATTAGLIA: Moments later --
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Can we get this on
topic of the data center, please?
MS. BATTAGLIA: I am almost there.
Thank you.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Thank you.
MS. BATTAGLIA: And then it happened
moments later, a young sailor, Frederick Fleet,
screamed out, iceberg dead ahead on the right.
It was too late. 11:40 p .m . the Titanic was no
longer the most advanced engineered, biggest,
most secure, fastest, safest vessel on the sea.
Two hours and 40 minutes later, she was gone.
1500 people died that night.
That is my entire neighborhood, and
then some. The warnings were there. They
promised peace and stability and it was gone.
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We can look through history.
Hurricane Katrina, the levees that broke, simple
engineering students predicted that was going to
happen years before until the 2 ,000 people that
drowned because those levees failed.
This one hits a little bit closer to
home and this does have to do with the
environmental impact these data centers could
potentially have.
I am from Ohio. February 3 rd, 2023,
hammer down was the response from a train
engineer's supervisor when the train's conductor
reported that he had overheated bearings. Those
warnings that were put in place to keep people
safe, ignore them. Ignore them.
The highly explosive deadly
chemicals to date have killed seven people. The
EPA is being sued for their botched cleanup and
their lies and their false documentation.
That town is destroyed. The cancer
that is riddled through there, the hair loss, the
unexplained nosebleeds, and so forth and so on.
I briefly lived near a data center.
I do have that experience and I can speak of it.
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It's no joke. They're disgusting.
I live in the Caledonia subdivision
and I hear a lot of banter back and forth between
City Council, zoning, people. It would be
better, oh, it would be better if we had these
data centers because you don't want a car
dealership, you don't want apartment buildings,
you don't want houses.
Yes, we do. Those are people. And,
in fact, have we not approved, have you guys not
patted yourself on the back for going into some
of these subdivisions that have empty lots,
bringing in developers, building homes, right?
Do you want homes and people or do you want data
centers?
My home -- and I hope -- and I hope
and I pray that every single person in here, when
they walk in their home, it's a place of safety
where they can relax, put down their shoulders,
feel comfortable, recharge.
That's not what data centers do in
your backyard. Communities do that. Neighbors
do that. Having a hard day, they're there for
you. We do not want manufacturing in our
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backyards.
And I 'm really sad that we're so
blind by these hypothetical -- and the gentleman
that came up here and said hey, these are all --
it's are all hypothetical. What if these go
bankrupt, right? Historically two out of three
Lotto winners go bankrupt. We didn't hit the
lottery by these data centers.
And, Matt , I 'm sorry with your
presentation, you just don't understand our
community. We do want homes. We want children,
we want better, safer communities, better
schools.
My particular part of the
subdivision is the new one, and almost every
single person that has moved in there has moved
out of the city, out of other extremely congested
areas to raise their families.
And now we are all seeing the
effects. We moved in, hey, surprise, data
centers. We have already seen home values
plummet in our neighborhood. Who is paying me
for my home loss? And it's not just money,
because I can care less about money.
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I ask you, before you guys vote on
this, last time you voted to rezone something and
you went through every single thing, there was a
lot of like um, yeah, it kind of fits that, but
it just doesn't 100 percent. So then the vote is
no.
We do not want it. It is not best
for Yorkville. It is not best for the homes
around this proposed area. Those of you that are
going to vote, who cares who is sitting beside
you. Do you want -- do you like that you pull in
your driveway and your neighbors are like those
are the guys that are voting this crap in? Do
you like that? That's horrible. I 'd rather
invite you over for pizza.
Who cares? We care. We're affected
by it every single day. We are asking you to
vote no. We do not want this to be rezoned for
manufacturing.
Thank you.
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RICH DAEHNKE,
having been first duly sworn, testified from the
podium as follows:
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CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Christine, are you
doing ok?
THE REPORTER: Yes.
MR. DAEHNKE: Hi, my name is Rich
Daehnke, I live here in Yorkville, and I came
here with a pretty open mind tonight. I wanted
to hear what would be said, and in this hour or
hour and a half, however long it's been, I
haven't heard any positives. None. Zero.
So that kind of tells me why would
you see it any different? You are going to make
the decision tonight for our community, so think
hard about it and make a good decision. That's
it.
(Applause.)
MR. REAM: Hello. My name is Ron Ream,
I need to take the oath.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Raise your right
hand.
(Witness sworn.)
RON REAM,
having been first duly sworn, testified from the
podium as follows:
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Mic is yours, sir.
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What's your name again?
MR. REAM: I didn't plan -- Pardon?
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: What's the last name
again?
MR. REAM: Ream, R -E -A -M . I have lived
in Yorkville since like 199 0 , actually between
Yorkville and Plano, so I 've had a pretty good
view of this whole development. It's been very
good. Very good.
And as far as this particular
situation, the one thing that struck a cord with
me is the noise abatement program. I was part of
the team that built the Wrigley factory on 47 and
there was not a lot of investigation about noise
abatement and consequently we had put millions
into a huge factory and we were ready to go and
we flipped the switch.
The millions were already invested,
the people were already living all around us, and
I get a call, Ron, would you please take care of
this neighbor? He has a problem.
So I arrive at the neighbor's front
yard. He says can you come back at 12:30? So
12:30 at night I am standing in his front yard
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and I 'm vibrating from this plant that we already
had millions of dollars in. So this is a real
world situation.
And I hear the numbers 40, 50
decibels. We heard those numbers, too, but there
is nothing like what is generating those decibels
and how many it's multiplied by the number of
units.
So I had to go back to the plant,
meet the engineers. We had to totally rebuild
the whole noise generation part with large
planks of Styrofoam at considerable expense, and
finally we arrived at a point that the neighbors
could sleep at night and not vibrate out of their
beds.
So this is just one area in which I
had concrete information. This all happened in
the late 90's , and it's a fact, I was standing in
the front yard vibrating. I wish we'd have
known. Thanks.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Thank you, sir.
(Applause.)
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Would anybody else
like to speak?
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ANJELIE VILLA,
having been first duly sworn, testified from the
podium as follows:
MS. VILLA: Hello. Can you guys hear
me?
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Yes.
MS. VILLA: My name is Anjelie Villa, I
live in the tip of Montgomery right next to
Bristol Bay. My three children are a part of the
Yorkville school district.
And what prompted me today to come
was that I had an ignorant trust in the City
Council that, you know, surely they did their
research on why it's so critical not to have this
in our community, but at yesterday's hearing
there was a question asked if anybody on the
panel had done any independent research on this
matter and literally no one raised their hand, so
that is very concerning. So let's go.
So members of the City Council and
fellow residents, thank you -- thank you for the
opportunity to speak this evening. I stand
before you not in opposition to technology,
progress or economic growth, but in defense of
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careless decision making that prioritizes
convenience, speed and outside pressure over the
safety, sustainability and future over the very
community that you were elected to serve.
I -- Whew. Take a breath. The
decision before you regarding data centers is not
merely a zoning or infrastructure question; it is
a moral and generational one. Once approved,
these facilities will shape our environment, our
economy and our quality of life for decades.
I ask that we pause and consider
these critical reasons why data centers as
currently proposed and unregulated pose serious
harm to our community.
The approval of data centers is not
a routine administrative matter, it is a decision
with irreversible consequences for our water, our
power grid, our environment, our neighborhoods
and our children. It deserves far more scrutiny
than it has received.
Let's chat about some of these
things that most of us have chatted about tonight
so we can all learn together about the risks that
this poses.
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First, as we mentioned, the extreme
strain on water resources. Data centers consume
vast quantities of water for cooling, often
millions of gallons per day.
This is water permanently removed
from local systems, especially during heat waves
and droughts, when residents and farmers are
already being asked to conserve.
We must ask ourselves, are we
prepared to prioritize corporate server cooling
over drinking water, agriculture and firefighter
capacity?
What happens when our wells run dry,
our rivers drop, and our children are told that
conservation is required except for the large,
industrial servers? This is not sustainable and
it is not reversible.
Second, unsustainable energy demand
and grid risk. Data centers are among the most
energy intensive facilities on Earth. Their
constant, around-the-clock demand strains
electrical grids, increases the likelihood of
outages, and often prolongs dependence on fossil
fuels.
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This raises another painful
question. Excuse me. When the power goes out
during extreme heat or winter storms, who will be
protected first, our residents or corporate data
operations?
Runny nose. Anybody got a tissue?
Okay. And what will mean -- And what will it
mean --
COMMISSIONER CROUCH: Ma'am?
MS. VILLA: Oh, thank you. Can I go
over there?
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Yes. Absolutely.
MS. VILLA: Thank you so much.
And what will it mean for families
struggling with rising utility bills while energy
is diverted to facilities that employ relatively
few local people?
We are not strengthening our
infrastructure, we are burdening it.
Third, minimal local economic
belief -- benefit, excuse me. Minimal local
economic benefit. Despite promises of economic
growth, data centers create surprisingly very few
permanent jobs once built. Most profits leave
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the community while the burden on infrastructure,
roads, utilities, emergency services, remains
with the taxpayers.
We must ask is it responsible
governance to permanently alter our landscape and
resources for facilities that often -- offer
limited employment and little long-term economic
resilience?
Are we selling our community's
future too cheaply? The profits leave, the
consequences stay. This is not economic
development. It is resource extraction.
(Applause.)
MS. VILLA: Fourth. Environmental and
health impacts. Data centers bring constant
industrial noise, air pollution from backup
generators, increased traffic, and the risk of
chemical leaks.
These impacts disproportionately
impact nearby neighborhoods, lowering property
values and increasing health risks, which we all
have talked about tonight.
Council members, I ask you directly,
would you want your own children next to these
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facilities listening to generators through the
night, breathing the exhaust and inheriting the
consequences of our decisions today?
These impacts are not evenly
distributed. They fall on families who did not
consent and who often have the least power to
move away. No community should be asked to
quietly absorb harm for the convenience of global
corporations.
Fifth, loss of community control and
long-term flexibility. Once built, data centers
are nearly impossible to remove or repurpose.
They lock communities into decades-long land use
decisions while technology, climate realities and
economic needs continue to evolve.
So here we must ask: What happens
if water becomes scarcer, energy costs rise or
climate conditions worsen? Will future councils
curse our shortsightedness, wondering why we
traded adaptability and resilience for short-term
approval?
My closing questions for reflection.
Members of the council, before this is final, I
urge you to ask yourselves not as officials, but
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as parents, grandparents, neighbors and stewards
of the city whom you serve, how is it possible
that no one, at least from yesterday that we
know, has conducted serious independent research
into the documented environmental infrastructure
and public health impacts of data centers before
moving toward approval? How have we gotten to
this point?
Do you understand how appalling and
frightening it is to this community that
decisions of this magnitude are being considered
without demonstrated knowledge of their
consequences?
In the gentleman's slide from
earlier in the benefits to Yorkville there was
two, maybe three bullet points. One, two, three.
Uno, dos, tres. Not one said the benefits for
the community. Not one.
(Applause.)
MS. VILLA: How do you --
MS. LAMB: Guys, guys, guys, you have to
save your applause until the end, okay?
MS. VILLA: How dangerous is it to hold
power to permanently alter a community while
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failing to enter the community -- failing to
center the community in your decision making when
protecting its well-being is your primary duty?
Would you accept this level of risk,
noise pollution and resource depletion of these
facilities who are proposed next to your home as
many of us have already been asked?
And when future residents ask who
allowed this water supply to be depleted, their
air quality degraded and their infrastructure
strained, will you be able to say with a proud
voice that you acted in due diligence or only
that you acted quickly and merely just for
profits that line a few pockets?
Power without responsibility is
reckless, authority without research is
dangerous, and progress without conscience is not
progress at all. You were elected to protect
this community, not to gamble with it.
Thank you for your time.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Thank you.
(Applause.)
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Would it be -- Would
it be safe to say that everyone's main concern is
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water, electric costs, housing values,
pollution --
COMMISSIONER CROUCH: Noise.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: -- noise pollution --
UNIDENTIFIED AUDIENCE MEMBER: Quality
of life.
UNIDENTIFIED AUDIENCE MEMBER: Safety,
quality of life.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Hold on, hold on,
hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
MS. LAMB: Folks, folks, folks, just let
him speak.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: I am trying to get
this down. If anybody else has anything other
than what we have constantly recycled tonight,
we've had 16 people talk, everyone brought up the
same point.
In an effort to make sure that
everyone is heard, if you're going to come up I
ask that you bring up something outside of those
topics that have been constantly brought up.
That's the only thing we ask of you.
UNIDENTIFIED AUDIENCE MEMBER: Isn't
that enough?
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UNIDENTIFIED AUDIENCE MEMBER: You are
tired of hearing it?
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: We concede all of
those issues. We understand that. I hear you.
UNIDENTIFIED AUDIENCE MEMBER: Do you
hear them?
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: I hear you. I hear
you.
UNIDENTIFIED AUDIENCE MEMBER: I don't
think so.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Ma'am, this isn't how
we are doing this. I 'm asking you guys a
question: Do you have anything other than what
we have heard from the last 16 people, being
noise, light pollution, water, sewer,
infrastructure, all those other things? That's
what I 'm just pointing out.
In an effort to keep this moving
forward without constantly recycling the same
things, I ask that you focus on those when you
come back up.
Do you understand?
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MS. NOBLE: There are also people on
Zoom waiting to talk.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: All right. I also
have people in Zoomland that would like to speak
as well. We have probably five or six right now,
so continuing now with the next person who would
like to come up, I would appreciate it.
TIM BENNETT,
having been first duly sworn, testified from the
podium as follows:
MR. BENNETT: Hi. My name is Tim
Bennett and I live in Caledonia. I just had one
quick question, it's a little bit different I
guess.
With the A -1 property, the berm
there, I know they are talking about that being
agricultural, and my concern is, you know, it's
A -1 now, but he mentioned at a previous meeting
to us that that would stay that way for 20 years
possibly and then it could be switched.
What's the guarantee of keeping that
as a protected berm for our community there if,
you know, over a long period of time -- that's my
other concern is, you know, first of all, the
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M -2 , they are focusing on just data center. Why
can't it be something else other than a data
center, you know, that would be, you know, houses
or something else or even the greenhouse,
something else different, but the A -2 , where is
the guarantee that that's going to always remain
a buffer for our community in Caledonia to
protect us? Because that's another important
factor as well, too.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Any change for that
one specific property, the A -1 , would have to
come back before Planning and Zoning, the City
Council, and then that would also factor into
setbacks and already -- like the setbacks from --
you can't put houses there if we've already put a
data center there, so that 1500 setback, it's
limiting what they can do with it.
MS. NOBLE: It's 500.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Five. I 'm sorry.
I 'm sorry. So that would have to come back
through this entire process.
MR. BENNETT: My other question I guess
with that as well, too, is if it's A -1 , could
they put a solar field in that area as well?
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MS. NOBLE: That's a special use.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Yeah, that's a --
that would have to be a special use permit.
That, again, would have to come in front.
MR. BENNETT: But that's a possibility,
correct?
UNIDENTIFIED AUDIENCE MEMBER: Yes.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Yeah, if somebody
would want to put it there.
MR. BENNETT: Okay. But then again
that's --
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Yeah, that comes --
Yeah.
MR. BENNETT: -- a buffer in that area.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Yeah, that comes back
there. That limits what you're -- what's built
on that area.
MR. BENNETT: Okay. That's just my
concern, because as a parent, you know, we're
going to be able to still see -- an eight-foot
berm is just a very low berm.
When I lived in Plainfield, for
example, we had a Wal-Mart built right behind us
and they went with a 12-foot berm and then they
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put an eight-foot fence on top of that to give us
a height of 20-foot protective zone, and they
even lowered the lights and -- so that we
wouldn't have the noise and pollution.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: When they say the
eight-foot berm, that's just the mound of dirt,
then they have the four seasons trees and stuff
on that.
MS. NOBLE: Fencing.
MR. BENNETT: Correct. Correct.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Fencing and
screening.
MS. BENNETT: Correct, but it was -- but
it was higher. But it was higher --
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Correct.
MR. BENNETT: -- in that -- in that
zoning is what I 'm saying.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: That's the minimal.
MR. BENNETT: Right. I 'm just looking
that, you know, we're still going to be able to
see what we're going to be able to see even with
what's being proposed, and also there is a chance
of it not being there is my concern as well, too.
But still having something different
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than a data center is something that I would love
to have there. Like we were all saying, homes
would be much better.
When they put the 6 1 or how many
homes recently, the new -- the new phase three,
those were sold so quickly. It just tells you
what -- how much of a community people want to
be.
I am from Michigan originally and
the reason I moved to Yorkville was this was so
similar to where I grew up and where I lived and
that sense of community, and that's why we moved
here, is that beauty of that community and a
sense of, you know, somewhere safe where my -- my
daughter could be raised, and I think that's why
these other folks moved into this area, too, and
now that's changing and now I 've got possibly a
data center where as opposed I could have other
homes and other families and other opportunities
for more community to be in that place, so I hope
that maybe you will reflect on that as well, too,
so thank you.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Sir, real -- real
quick before you go --
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MR. BENNETT: Yes.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: -- I have a proposed
data center in my backyard as well, so if you
guys think that I haven't done my research on
this or not trusted everybody else, I understand
how you feel. I have this. I know what it is.
You guys aren't by yourselves.
MR. BENNETT: I think our other concern,
too, is this is not just one, but we have one to
the north, we have this one right to the west, we
have another one that's on the proposal coming
out, so we have one -- you know, so we're not
talking about noise --
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Sure.
MR. BENNETT: -- from one site, we're
talking about noise from one, two, three,
possibly four, so we're getting that quadruple
effect --
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Understood.
MR. BENNETT: -- surrounding Caledonia
and other of our other neighboring sites --
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Yeah.
MR. BENNETT: -- that have talked to you
tonight, too, and that's -- we're getting
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multiple hits.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: I understand.
MR. BENNETT: And that is just very much
overwhelming --
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Sure.
MR. BENNETT: -- to a lot of us and
unexpected from us that we weren't expecting
when -- you know, it's not that it's just
farmland, you know, that's beautiful obviously,
but seeing more homes would be a better
alternative, and it's not -- I understand they
bought the property and they want to maximize
what they want out of it, capitalism, I get that,
but there's got to be a better solution. So
thank you.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Thank you.
(Applause.)
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Anybody else in the
audience?
MARK GILMOUR,
having been first duly sworn, testified from the
podium as follows:
MR. GILMOUR: Hello, my name is Mark
Gilmour. I don't have anything prepared, but
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I 've got some thoughts about it.
Actually in the 70's I worked with
Ellie Meyers that built that power station there,
so I know all about the area, I have lived here
for 50 years.
I know that this is all started in
Washington with somebody that's pushing this
through, and wherever there is a substation I
know that it's going to be very hard to override
that because I know what's coming from there.
So do people want to accelerate
bondage and getting themselves identified faster
and more than they already are by, you know,
digital IDs and everything that's going to come
from this, TikTok, Facebook? That's a shell
game.
The big picture to me is the
identity theft and everything else, all that
that's coming down the road, so that's all I 've
got.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Thank you.
(Applause.)
MS. GALLEGOS: I need to be sworn in.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Oh. Raise your right
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hand.
LUCY GALLEGOS,
having been first duly sworn, testified from the
podium as follows:
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Go ahead, ma'am.
MS. GALLEGOS: I have lived in
Montgomery for the majority of my life, we moved
here from Aurora, and honestly, I love
Montgomery. I love the rural area here. I love
that you can see the Aurora borealis here just
literally outside of your background backyard.
So the fact that -- we already have
A I data centers around us and then you're
planning to put more, and then the fact that like
oh, it's in my backyard, too, you're trying to
also act like you're not against us in this as
well, so I just don't understand where we're
supposed to be a community and you're supposed to
be I guess hearing us out and then you're saying
do we have anything else to contribute other than
we all agree that this sucks and that this plan
probably should not happen?
I mean, where is going to be the end
of it? If you're going to continue to do this
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one and we're going to be seeing revenue, okay,
great, six billion, whatever you say that it's
going to be, contributing to our community here
every single year, then I just fear you're going
to want to put more and more and more and where
is going to be the end of it.
Everyone is going to move out of
Yorkville, where I feel like we have been doing
great as a community, we got that new Costco.
Everything is moving more towards a
community-bound environment.
And then the 50 decibels that we're
going to be hearing, also your dogs are going to
be hearing it, too, and they are going to be
extremely stressed out, extremely. They hear a
negative 15 decibels, all right? So we're not
the only ones that are going to be affected. Our
white tailed deer as well, everything in our
environment and in our community, so just take
that into mind.
Thank you.
(Applause.)
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Anybody else before
we go to the Zoom people?
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CHAIRMAN VINYARD: We've got one more.
Is there anyone else that's going to want to
speak after her?
MR. TOPOROWSKI: I 'll go.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: I 'm just trying to
manage Zoom, too. You will, too?
MR. TOPOROWSKI: Yes.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: All right. Thank
you, sir. Go ahead, ma'am.
DEBBIE COUNTNEY,
having been first duly sworn, testified from the
podium as follows:
MS. COUNTNEY: Hi. I 'm Debbie Countney
and I live in the Whispering Meadows subdivision
and we have been here about 18 years, and I had
something more prepared, but I 'm not going to --
I 'll spare you because it does reiterate a lot of
the things that people have already said, but I
just -- it kind of boils down to we don't want
the legacy of this city to be data centers. We
want farms, children playing. And what do you
want your legacy to be when you make this
decision?
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You listened to us in 2007 when we
fought against the landfill and you heard us.
Please hear us. We do not want this.
Thank you.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Thank you.
(Applause.)
RICHARD TOPOROWSKI,
having been first duly sworn, testified from the
podium as follows:
MR. TOPOROWSKI: My name is Richard
Toporowski, I also live in Caledonia. I happen
to be on Lauren Drive on the west side, so my
property, my backyard, is facing the proposed
site, and like you said before, we have all
heard, you know, the lessons, we've all heard
presentations , studies and charts, so I 'm sure
everyone here is an expert in data centers, so
I 'm not going to do that.
What I did want to mention that I
haven't heard at any of these meetings before is
when it comes to the noise decibels, we've seen
studies from each individual data center. What
we haven't seen is a combined study.
If we -- if I 'm in my backyard and I
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have Project Cardinal, Project Steel, I have both
phases from CyrusOne, and now let's say this
proposed data center, that's five data centers.
Where is the study of the combined decibels?
Because noise decibels do stack and they do go
up, so I have not seen that anywhere, and I think
the residents here would love to see --
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Sure.
MR. TOPOROWSKI: -- something like that
in the future.
The other thing is, my other
question is, when do you guys say enough is
enough? I know someone mentioned that. I just
mentioned five different data centers. Do we
need eight, do we need 16 to offset whatever tax
benefits that we're looking for?
And, you know, seeing from what
happened in the past with the previous data
centers, it seems like the transparency -- you
guys say you are transparent, but I don't see it.
I just wish I could come here
tonight and someone say you know what, this is
happening, this is what we have planned, there is
nothing you can do or say right now that will
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stop this.
If that was the case, I 'm going to
go home tonight, put a for-sale sign in my yard,
I 'm a realtor, and I 'm out of here. Thank you.
Thank you for being transparent.
I keep coming here month after month
and I get the same spiel, we get the same
presentations, and I 'm still unsure what is
happening.
Recently, you know, you guys passed
the Cardinal one. I 'm not sure, I 've never heard
of the Steel passing. I know CyrusOne was
already done. So it seems like everything is
falling together. If that is the case, then yes,
I , like many other people that I speak in my
subdivision to, they don't want that in our
backyard.
I don't want my children to play,
you know, five years from now because I didn't --
I wasn't sure what's happening and now they're
built and the noises stacked together are humming
out their laughter. I don't want that. I 'd
rather have transparency and say you know what, I
think it's better for my family to move and leave
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this area than stay and see what happens.
That's it.
Thank you.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Fair enough. Thank
you, sir.
(Applause.)
MS. GALLEGOS: I have not been sworn in.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Raise your right
hand.
(Witness sworn.)
MARICELA GALLEGOS,
having been first duly sworn, testified from the
podium as follows:
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Please.
MS. GALLEGOS: Because you guys don't
want us to talk about the environmental issues or
whatever, reiterate things that have already been
said, I won't , but you have said at your -- at
previous meetings that you are in support of
this.
You are coming here and you're
saying that, you know, it's in my backyard, too,
so I totally get it, but you don't because you
said you are in support of it, and literally
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everyone in the room isn't , so I ask you guys to
just hear the people that --
UNIDENTIFIED AUDIENCE MEMBER: You work
for us.
MS. GALLEGOS: Exactly. Exactly. You
work for us basically, and then people yesterday,
too, ignorance in something that they already
have unanimously voted in is ridiculous, so
listen to the people that are in the room that
took the time out of their day to come here.
To say that they have concerns about
this is watering it down. They are not happy
with it, nobody is, and it generally -- I can't
understand how you guys are.
It's greed, it's -- I don't know
what it is, but from the bottom of my heart,
consider other people besides yourself.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Thank you.
(Applause.)
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Anybody else?
MS. FELIX: I just want to say one more
thing if that's okay?
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: All right?
MS. LAMB: If you're okay with it,
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Chairman.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Yeah.
MS. LAMB: As long as it's --
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Yeah. Keep it --
MS. LAMB: -- not repeating a previous
point.
ASTRA FELIX,
having been previously duly sworn, testified from
the podium as follows:
MS. FELIX: There is something I didn't
mention about some of the due diligence I 'm doing
right now, and I just want you guys to be aware
of it because it doesn't seem like you are very
educated on this and I know --
THE REPORTER: Can you state your name,
please?
MS. FELIX: Astra Felix.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: All right.
MS. FELIX: And I know --
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Ma'am --
MS. FELIX: -- you're saying you're --
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Ma'am --
MS. FELIX: -- educated on this
matter --
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CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Ma'am --
MS. FELIX: -- because you live by
one --
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Ma'am, we're not
taking -- We're not taking personal attacks
against us. Please --
MS. FELIX: Oh, i t 's not a personal
attack. Last night they told us that they didn't
do their research on their own.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: That was them.
That's not us.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Well, that's --
that's last night.
MS. FELIX: Mayor John Purcell was asked
if there was a n environmental study that was done
and his answer was no.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: That's last night.
This isn't tonight.
UNIDENTIFIED AUDIENCE MEMBER: Let her
talk.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: This is a totally
different board.
MS. FELIX: Okay. Well, I contacted the
fish and wildlife department, they sent me to the
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Army Corps of Engineers. The Army Corps of
Engineers told me there was no permit or anything
filed with them regarding any endangered species.
Rob Roy Creek does, in fact, have
endangered species near it and some of the other
areas. They are looking into those now.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: That happens during
the building permit time.
MS. FELIX: Well --
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: It -- it happens, I 'm
just letting you know.
MS. FELIX: Well, they weren't notified
at all.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: They would be
notified during the building permit time. There
has been --
MS. FELIX: Okay. Well, I 'm just --
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: -- no final approval.
MS. FELIX: -- letting everybody know
that's not the only agency I 've reached out to,
and they can make their unanimous decision today
again, but we can appeal that.
We might not have time on the last
decision that was made, but we definitely have
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time to appeal this one.
Thank you.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: You are welcome.
(Applause.)
MS. DELATORRE: I 'm sorry, I 'm not sworn
in.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: That's okay, I 'm
getting good at this.
(Witness sworn.)
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Last name again?
MS. DELATORRE: Delatorre.
JENNIFER DELATORRE,
having been first duly sworn, testified from the
podium as follows:
MS. DELATORRE: I 'm really nervous, I
should not be up here. I 'm not going to look at
anyone. You're all in your underwear right now.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Take your time, talk
to us.
MS. DELATORRE: I just have one thing to
say because Yorkville -- I grew up in Plano, you
know, I used to drive those back roads. There is
everything every where now, from Menards and
Costco and all these crazy big built places, but
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they are places where families go, where we get
things that we need and that we can find some --
it's all right to look at, you know, Costco is
kind of cool, whatever, but we just -- we have
this beautiful town that we say is historic.
Look at the mural we painted down there. Look at
our town, it's gorgeous. I love Yorkville, and
the country is beautiful and our homes are spread
out and homes are beautiful. We care about our
homes.
And I 'm sorry, but what's pretty
about this data center that's going to go in. I
just -- I can't see anything beautiful and
historic and American and I just can't see it.
And that's it.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Thank you.
MS. DELATORRE: I just want you all to
think about what you're saying we want to build
that we're going to look at, that our kids are
going to look at forever.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Thank you.
MS. DELATORRE: Thank you for your time.
Good night.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Thank you.
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(Applause.)
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Would anyone else
like to speak before we move on to the Zoom?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Okay. Anyone on the
Zoom?
MR. HANSEN: I haven't seen any.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Nothing? We had a
few.
MS. MENDEZ: Probably.
MR. HANSEN: We had one or two at one
time.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Did they back off?
MS. LAMB: Did you tell them to raise
their little hand?
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Yeah, there were --
okay. Hold on. We're putting some out --
MS. MENDEZ: If you would --
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: The one logged off.
MS. MENDEZ: If you're in Zoom and you
would like to make a public comment, please just
let us know in the chat so we can unmute you.
Thank you.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: You've got one
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raised hand.
MS. NOBLE: All right, Angela, you can
speak.
ANGELA EGNER,
having been first duly sworn, testified from the
podium as follows:
MS. EGNER: Hi, everybody. My name is
Angela Egner. I 'm sorry if you can hear my
children screaming in the background. My husband
is in the room there tonight. We live in the
Caledonia neighborhood.
I did swear in. I can do it again
if you would like to, but --
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: No, that's okay, I
trust you.
MS. EGNER: Okay. Thank you. My only
comment tonight really is that the biggest thing
for me with this particular data center is it
just doesn't make sense to have it there with all
of the money, the taxes and everything, going to
Plano, and I understand they say $5 .8 million is
going to come to Yorkville every year, but we all
know that we have already had one of these
developers come back and say oh, we don't know
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how much it actually is going to be. It could be
ten percent of that, it could be even less.
And if we're not even getting the
property taxes from it, it just really seems like
a real big detriment to our community, so I just
wanted to add that.
Thank you.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Thank you.
(Applause.)
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Do you have any -- Is
that a separate hand now or --
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: No, that's the
first one.
MS. NOBLE: That's the same one.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: That was the first
one?
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Yeah.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: All right. Going
last, anyone else?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Okay. Would the
petitioner like to have your responses of the
standards entered into the record?
MR. GILBERT: Say that again? Sorry.
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CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Would you like your
responses to the standards entered into the
record?
MR. GILBERT: Sure. Yes.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Yes. All right. All
right. Next public hearing is PZC 2025-14,
Heather DiVerde on behalf of the Yorkville School
District 115 is requesting rezoning
classification.
The real property consists of three
parcels totaling approximately 155 acres and is
generally located north of River Road, west of
Game Farm Road and east of Eldamain Road.
The petitioner is seeking to rezone
the property from R -1 Single Family Suburban
Residential District to the PI Public
Institutional District to accommodate public
school facilities.
Are you ready to present?
MR. ZEDIKER: I am. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Please, sir, go
ahead.
MS. NOBLE: We need to get his -- there
we go.
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CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Please.
MATT ZEDIKER,
having been first duly sworn, testified from the
podium as follows:
MR. ZEDIKER: My name is Matt Zediker,
Superintendent, District 1 15. I appreciate the
time and opportunity to go through this
presentation, it's a fairly quick presentation,
and then certainly taking questions that we have
from the board. Next slide, please.
The Yorkville School District 115 is
requesting the rezoning and annexation of three
parcels of land collectively totaling 155 acres.
Two of the parcels are situated on River Road and
the third is located on Game Farm Road. Next
slide, please.
Due to Yorkville's growing
population, these three parcels are critical to
provide adequate space for students within the
school district's facilities.
Just for context, in 2 0 0 2 the
student population of District 1 15 was just over
2400 students and currently we are over 7100
students.
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The last time a school building was
built in the district was 2009, and at that point
we had a student population right around 5200
students.
Here you can see the three parcels:
The two parcels that there butt up against River
Road there to the south and then up to the north
where Beecher Road ends, and then over -- the
third parcel, where our current high school
campus sits, and then just to the west and to the
south of that campus, part of our campus actually
that is existing is not in the City of Yorkville
at this time.
So this property was purchased in
June -- on June 24th, 2024. It is 110 acres
located in unincorporated Kendall County.
Currently the zoning classifications within the
county are A -1 Agricultural. Within the City of
Yorkville it would be R -1 Single Family for
suburban residence.
We are requesting to rezone this to
PI for Public Institution to accommodate public
school facilities.
To add just a little context to this
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parcel, we have been questioned about a full
detailed plan. We do not have that yet because
we, as most of you know, are headed to referendum
in March to decide, the community to decide, on
our final facility master plan, but we do have it
scoped out right now for two school buildings
that would be to the northern part of that piece
of property and we would not be utilizing the
southern probably third at this point, and we
have no plans to run Beecher Road all the way to
River Road. We want to use that south half,
whether that's for continued farming for a farmer
who rents it currently, or other potential uses.
This piece of property here is what
the school district currently owns. It is 45
acres located in unincorporated Kendall County.
Again, this is currently zoned A -1
Agricultural through the county, R -1 through the
City of Yorkville, and we are requesting to
reclassify this to PI for Public Institution.
And, again, this is to accommodate
public school facilities. As you can again see,
some of our campus that is currently there, some
resides in unincorporated Kendall County, some in
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Yorkville. This would incorporate all of our
campus into the City of Yorkville.
And that is my presentation with any
questions that anyone has.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Commissioners, do you
have any questions for him?
(No response.)
COMMISSIONER WERDERICH: No.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: This will all be
contingent on you guys with the referendum then?
MR. ZEDIKER: Absolutely. We would
still like the zoning because if this referendum
isn't successful, then we will have to look at a
different because we are out of room for
children.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Understood. Thank
you. Is there anyone present who wishes to speak
in favor or opposition of this request?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Do you have a
question? If you have a question, go up to the
podium, he can answer them for you.
ALICE MAY,
having been first duly sworn, testified from the
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podium as follows:
MS. MAY: My name is Alice May. I live
straight across on River Road from this property.
You're saying that you are not going to use the
farmland on the south side of the property?
MR. ZEDIKER: Right now our plans are
not to use the bottom half to bottom third of
that property. That's the current design.
MS. MAY: Okay. With the schools going
in, are you going to be running water to those
schools?
MR. ZEDIKER: Yes.
MS. MAY: Is it going to be on River
Road or is it going to be further in?
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Ma'am, that will be
done during engineering.
MR. ZEDIKER: It will come from the
north.
MS. MAY: It will come from the north.
MR. ZEDIKER: Yes.
MS. MAY: So I 'm on the south side. Do
I have to worry about my well or anything else
right now?
MR. ZEDIKER: Not to my knowledge.
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MS. MAY: Is the building going to start
in '26 for those schools if this goes through?
MR. ZEDIKER: That would be my hope,
yes.
MS. MAY: And all the building would be
on the north?
MR. ZEDIKER: Correct. That's the
design.
MS. MAY: So it shouldn't hurt my -- my
existing well or anything like that.
MR. ZEDIKER: Not to my knowledge, it
should not.
MS. MAY: Okay. My main concern is a
road coming out from there onto River Road.
MR. ZEDIKER: Sure.
MS. MAY: I 've had a car on fire in my
front yard in the last year, both my neighbors
have had their mailboxes taken out.
It's the only straightaway on River
Road except for down at the other end where
the -- where there is a straightaway, and the
cars do fly.
I 've got semis going by. Instead of
going Eldamain and the new bridge, they're
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turning and coming down River Road into
Yorkville.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Ma'am --
MS. MAY: I don't know if the police can
do anything about it, but it's a constant,
everyday thing.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Ma'am, all of those
questions will be answered at a later time once
they -- At this point once they get an annexation
agreement, they'll have to come with all the
development agreements, studies. You'll be
notified again for that.
I get it completely with the trucks
down Eldamain Road, I 've seen it myself. I 've
gotten stuck behind a few.
But at this point I don't think he
is going to have 100 percent concrete answers for
those of your questions.
MS. MAY: I am glad to hear the schools
are going to be on the north side. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Thank you, ma'am.
FRED DAVIS,
having been first duly sworn, testified from the
podium as follows,
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MR. DAVIS: Good evening. My name is
Fred Davis. Thank you, Doctor, for coming in and
speaking to us.
MR. ZEDIKER: Welcome.
MR. DAVIS: I just have a few points
that I wanted to throw out and document for this,
but I 'm glad to hear they're not coming down
River Road. That's great. Unfortunately River
Road is a -- technically it's the old historic
wagon trail from Chicago, so what even that road
is built on currently now, who knows.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Your guess is as good
as mine.
MR. DAVIS: I think they put layers on
top of it.
The concern also with going forward
even if they decided at a later date to expand on
River Road is there's got to be at least 50
natural springs that run under that road and go
to the river, so I don't know if they did a later
date, not so much the school district, but even
the City for that matter or anybody else,
development-wise, it's just unfortunately not a
great option.
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I spoke with another land owner
that's next to us, he owns the farm ground also,
and if you looked at the map that they had up a
minute ago that had the 02-4000 0 6 or 0 0 8 up there
I think --
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: The thin strip.
MR. DAVIS: Yeah.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Yep.
MR. DAVIS: The school's property.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Yes, sir.
MR. DAVIS: But if you go about halfway
north in their property and look directly west
you will see Schaefer Road, if there weren't
leaves, right, and we just wanted to put it out
there, in discussion with the other land owners
and ourselves, we would definitely be interested
in sitting down for a future development
conversation with the City or the school if, in
fact, it does get to a point where the density,
the events, whatever it may be there, needs to
have better access in and out.
I know they have a great plan for
the north side coming in and out, which I think
that should be sufficient for a while, but maybe
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go to some of these school and events, it's seven
different towns there and everybody is trying to
get out of there in a hurry, so that adds to
the -- or adds to the need for that additional
outflow.
Also doing a little bit of research
on the building construction side of things, to
alter that road and make it -- it would probably
have to be three lanes to make it sufficient, the
cost of that far exceeds trying to rejuvenate a
road that's really not a great location to begin
with, without deducting people's values on their
homes.
The cost difference is almost three
to five times greater to rejuvenate that road
versus if they ran a new road, including the
purchase price of the land.
So thank you very much taking your
time. I am excited to hear that they are not
running down River Road at the moment, but I just
wanted to make sure we documented that that's
something that's potentially an option for future
development.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: It was Davis, right?
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MR. DAVIS: Yes, sir. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Okay.
GERARDO MACEDO,
having been first duly sworn, testified from the
podium as follows:
MR. MACEDO: My name is Gerardo Macedo,
I live on River Road. I have an understanding
that there is supposed to be a fire department
that is going to be built in that area they're
saying, or is that like not what I heard?
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Nothing has been -- I
can't speak for what Bristol-Kendall is doing for
that at this point.
MR. MACEDO: So to extent of your
knowledge do you know that you're going to stay
away from the south side of that property?
MR. ZEDIKER: To my knowledge I am
pretty confident.
MR. MACEDO: Let's say that's this year.
Will there be future plans to extend to the south
side?
MR. ZEDIKER: I wouldn't be able to
speak to that now, but I know the facility master
plan we are looking for the next 10 to 15 years;
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that is not anything that is in our plans
whatsoever.
MR. MACEDO: But you don't know -- You
basically don't know how far or how much you are
going to get into it, correct? Not at this
current moment, right?
MR. ZEDIKER: I wouldn't be able to say
25 years from now, no.
MR. MACEDO: But you want people in the
community to agree to an annexation and rezoning
without any plans available for everybody to
understand what they are a greeing to, correct?
MR. ZEDIKER: Well, we will have plans.
MR. MACEDO: You will have plans?
MR. ZEDIKER: We will have detailed
plans, yes.
MR. MACEDO: Before the vote on the
annexation, correct?
MR. ZEDIKER: No. The vote on the
annexation would come first.
MR. MACEDO: So it is going to be the
same thing then, you want somebody to agree to
something that they don't know what's going to
happen, yes or no? Am I confused or --
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MR. ZEDIKER: I can tell you what I
know, and I know right now --
MR. MACEDO: What you know is --
MR. ZEDIKER: -- we do not have plans to
go south to River Road.
MR. MACEDO: Yes, but you don't know and
nobody else is going to know until everybody else
says yeah, that's fine, go ahead, build it.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: At which time they
would have to come back and start this process
all over again, so --
MR. MACEDO: So --
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: -- you would also --
MR. MACEDO: But the annexation is going
to be once --
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: The annexation gives
them the property, but if they were going to do
anything else, that comes to a public hearing
again, correct.
MR. MACEDO: And when does that vote
come into it? Because yesterday they were saying
it's in February and then they said again in
March.
MS. NOBLE: The --
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CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Krysti will be --
MS. NOBLE: Sorry. The annexation, the
request to just be incorporated into the City, is
what they're asking for.
MR. MACEDO: Yeah, I understand.
MS. NOBLE: So it wouldn 't change the
land plan, so that vote is going to City Council
on February 10th.
MR. MACEDO: So there is nothing else as
to information of how it's going to affect the
neighborhood in that area, like property taxes or
anything like that?
MS. NOBLE: So we don't deal in property
tax valuation, that's at the county level.
MR. MACEDO: So it's just for the
annexation.
MS. NOBLE: It's just to bring the land
on paper into our corporate boundaries, that's
all they're doing. No development at this time.
MR. MACEDO: All right. At this moment
then.
MS. NOBLE: Correct.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Correct.
MR. MACEDO: Okay. All right. That's
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what I wanted to know.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Thank you. Anybody?
CARL LONGNECKER,
having been first duly sworn, testified from the
podium as follows:
MR. LONGNECKER: Hi, I am Carl
Longnecker and I live on River Road. Just also
directing some -- just some thoughts to you and
based on Alice's concerns as well in terms of we
see at one point in time we had -- we had signs
called low shoulders up there, so we get a lot of
run-off from up there.
Just trying to understand what that
would look like in terms of retention ponds, you
know, I mean, because obviously as you start to
move land, it's going to push water our way as
well, and we get a ton coming down towards the
river, so just want to know if you have any
thoughts to that at this point in time.
MR. ZEDIKER: We have thought about
that, we have engaged our architect and other
engineers to make sure that we have proper
retention as -- we've already had that land
surveyed before we purchased it, so we're aware
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of the way that it slides, and so within
construction, again, those construction plans
will be incorporated with retention and where
that needs to sit to properly so it doesn't run
off to neighbors and other farms.
MR. LONGNECKER: So, yeah, that's good
to hear because, like I said, it's a concern now.
It's been a concern especially as it would freeze
on that road and it causes -- causes big pileups
that we have seen many times, right, Alice, on
this as well, so no, I appreciate that.
Yeah, as far as the southern
one-third not in use, I know you said that is not
part of it in scope at this point in time, so
that is also good to hear from our perspective as
well. Would like to keep it natural. That's why
we came here, that's why we have it on our -- you
know, our emblem as well.
And then once again the whole --
which I know is not part of you, and to the board
as well, looking in terms of fire department, I
don't know where this had come up, but that would
also really, really be detrimental to our habitat
on River Road as well.
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We enjoy it. We moved here because
of nature. We get to see it on a daily basis,
it's beautiful, and we would like to not deter
that any time in the future as well.
Sirens. And we talked about 50
decibels based on the -- you know, the big box
that we were talking before, but it would be over
100 decibels when you start talking about fire
and so on and so forth.
So other than that, that's all I
have. Once again, thank you, and it's good to
know River Road will stay intact for at least at
this present moment. So thank you.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Thank you. Would
anyone else like to speak?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Petitioner --
MS. NOBLE: We have a Zoom.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Oops, do we have a
Zoom? I don't see a hand. Hold on.
MR. LONGNECKER: Can I say one more
point, sorry, just real quick?
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Yeah. We're trying
to figure this --
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MR. LONGNECKER: Yeah. One second. I
just thought about this now as I sit here and
digest my raising property taxes consistently at
a rate over the last five years at 25 percent
over the last five years, and been -- so as far
as if we get annexed into the City of Yorkville,
what is that, because currently we have a Plano
address even though we reside in the City of
Yorkville.
What will that look in terms of
taxes? Because I am at my breaking point in
terms of taxes in the City for -- and just in the
state of Illinois, for that matter.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: We need some revenue
coming in, don't we?
MR. LONGNECKER: Yeah, we do, but that's
a whole different point. We don't want that.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: The school.
UNIDENTIFIED AUDIENCE MEMBERS: Boo.
MS. LAMB: Hey, hey. Folks, folks.
Folks.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: I 'm talking the
school.
MR. LONGNECKER: But in a different
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manner. I don't think that was your intention.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Yeah, yeah, the
school needs revenue.
MR. LONGNECKER: I don't think that was
his intention.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Yeah.
MR. LONGNECKER: Yeah, that was probably
not great in terms of the atmosphere, yeah.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Yeah.
MR. LONGNECKER: In terms of what we
were talking about earlier, so, yes, that's
always what we need, right, to sustain a viable
community --
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Good schools, yeah.
MR. LONGNECKER: But, yeah, as far as
that's concerned, that's very concerning for us
as well that now I am a part of Yorkville and now
I 'm paying those taxes as well. Once again, it's
just keeps going, going, going. So, yeah,
looking for some understanding of that as well.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Sure.
MR. LONGNECKER: Thank you.
MS. LAMB: Krysti, I -- it's just the
school district property that's being annexed?
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MS. NOBLE: It's just the school
district, right, right.
MS. LAMB: Sir, you would still be
unincorporated.
MS. NOBLE: Sir, we're not annexing --
we're not annexing your property.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Yeah, we're not
annexing you.
MS. NOBLE: Just the school district's
property.
MR. LONGNECKER: Okay.
MS. NOBLE: Yeah.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Yeah.
MR. LONGNECKER: I didn't know if we
were going to get --
MS. NOBLE: No, no.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: No, you would have to
ask for that specifically.
MR. LONGNECKER: -- into that as well.
MS. NOBLE: No. It's a voluntary
request for annexation, so --
MR. LONGNECKER: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: That's why you
confused me.
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MS. NOBLE: Right.
MR. LONGNECKER: I guess I was confused.
I apologize.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Do we have the Zoom
people?
MR. HANSEN: No one answered for Zoom.
Did we get a white one for -- sorry.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Okay.
MR. LONGNECKER: We were highlighted on
there, that's why.
MS. NOBLE: That was a question about
they felt that they were highlighted on a map.
MS. LAMB: Oh, okay. Yeah. Just to
make clear to everyone here, what's happening is
called a voluntary annexation, and that's when
the school district or any property owner comes
to the City and says my property is right next to
the City, will you bring me in?
When that happens, it only involves
the property that's asking to be brought into the
City, so if you're on River Road and you're not
on the school district's property, you are not
being annexed in.
MR. LONGNECKER: Okay. Thank you.
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CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Thanks for the
clarification. All right.
Petitioner, would you like to have
your responses to the standards entered into the
public record?
MR. ZEDIKER: Yes.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: All right. Very
good. All right. Since all public testimony
regarding this petition has been taken, may I
have a motion to close the taking of testimony in
this public hearing?
COMMISSIONER CROUCH: So moved.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Second.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: May I have a roll
call vote on the motion?
MS. YOUNG: Green.
COMMISSIONER GREEN: Yes.
MS. YOUNG: Linnane. To close.
COMMISSIONER LINNANE: Yes.
MS. YOUNG: Thank you. Vinyard.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Yes.
MS. YOUNG: Williams.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Yes.
MS. NOBLE: Oh. There is --
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MR. HANSEN: This is about the first
item.
MS. NOBLE: Someone -- Oh, it's about
the first item?
MR. HANSEN: Yeah.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Oh, that's too --
MR. HANSEN: They decided way after
the --
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: That's too late.
MS. NOBLE: It's too late. Yeah.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: Continue.
MS. YOUNG: Yes. Werderich.
COMMISSIONER WERDERICH: Yes.
MS. YOUNG: And Crouch.
COMMISSIONER CROUCH: Yes.
MS. YOUNG: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN VINYARD: All right. The
public hearing of tonight's meeting is now
closed.
(Which were all the proceedings had
in the public hearing, concluding
at 9 :15 p .m .)
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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 130, 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
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responsibility for the accuracy of any reproduced
copies not made under my control or direction.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I do hereunto set my
hand at Leland, Illinois, this 2 nd day of
February, 2026.
/s / Christine M . Vitosh
CHRISTINE M . VITOSH,
Illinois C .S .R . Certificate
No. 084-02883
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1 [1] - 129:7
1.2 [1] - 24:16
1.3 [3] - 19:24, 24:12,
29:5
10 [2] - 4:3, 116:24
10-8-12 [1] - 15:7
100 [5] - 5:3, 54:13,
67:5, 112:17, 122:8
100-foot [1] - 20:19
103 [1] - 5:4
106 [1] - 5:5
109 [1] - 5:6
10th [2] - 62:15, 119:8
110 [1] - 107:15
1100 [3] - 19:6, 26:1,
26:2
112 [1] - 5:7
115 [5] - 9:8, 105:8,
106:6, 106:11,
106:22
116 [1] - 5:8
11:40 [1] - 63:17
12-foot [1] - 83:24
120 [1] - 5:9
12:30 [2] - 69:23,
69:24
13 [3] - 14:7, 28:6,
34:24
13-state [2] - 28:5,
28:9
130 [7] - 10:6, 12:4,
12:9, 12:10, 14:17,
18:1, 129:7
130-acre [2] - 11:21,
13:6
14 [1] - 1:21
15 [2] - 90:16, 116:24
1500 [7] - 20:3, 20:5,
20:18, 26:7, 58:2,
63:21, 82:16
1500-foot [1] - 20:16
155 [2] - 105:11,
106:13
16 [3] - 79:16, 80:14,
93:15
18 [3] - 31:14, 31:15,
91:16
1804 [1] - 3:3
1909 [1] - 62:1
1912 [1] - 62:15
1990 [1] - 69:6
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2,000 [1] - 64:4
20 [2] - 12:11, 81:19
20-foot [1] - 84:2
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2002 [1] - 106:21
2005 [2] - 13:6, 25:4
2007 [1] - 92:1
2009 [1] - 107:2
2021 [1] - 45:10
2023 [2] - 34:9, 64:10
2024 [1] - 107:15
2025-13 [2] - 9:4, 10:2
2025-14 [2] - 9:6,
105:6
2026 [2] - 1:21, 130:5
2400 [1] - 106:23
246 [1] - 45:11
24th [1] - 107:15
25 [4] - 12:11, 25:11,
117:8, 123:4
250 [3] - 23:9, 24:12,
29:2
27 [1] - 30:21
2nd [1] - 130:4
3
3 [3] - 24:13, 59:13,
59:14
30 [1] - 4:4
31st [1] - 62:1
33 [1] - 4:5
35 [1] - 4:6
350 [1] - 3:3
36 [4] - 27:11, 27:17,
27:18, 59:9
37 [5] - 4:7, 10:14,
13:24, 14:4, 14:8
37-acre [1] - 18:22
3rd [1] - 64:10
4
40 [3] - 24:15, 63:20,
70:4
42 [1] - 4:8
43 [2] - 51:12, 51:16
45 [1] - 108:15
46 [1] - 4:9
47 [1] - 69:13
48 [2] - 27:19, 59:9
49 [1] - 4:10
5
5 [1] - 59:12
5,000 [1] - 51:11
5.8 [1] - 103:21
5.9 [2] - 23:11, 28:21
50 [11] - 4:11, 14:11,
14:17, 22:13, 26:9,
54:5, 70:4, 88:5,
90:12, 113:18, 122:5
500 [4] - 19:1, 58:2,
58:8, 82:18
500-foot [3] - 20:6,
20:7, 20:15
52 [1] - 4:12
5200 [1] - 107:3
53 [1] - 4:13
55 [1] - 4:14
58 [1] - 4:15
6
60 [2] - 4:16, 26:9
60563 [1] - 3:4
61 [1] - 85:4
630 [1] - 3:4
650 [2] - 19:1, 19:4
650-foot [1] - 18:23
651 [1] - 1:17
67 [1] - 4:17
68 [1] - 4:18
682-0085 [1] - 3:4
693,000 [1] - 19:23
7
70 [1] - 20:17
70's [1] - 88:2
70-foot [2] - 26:6, 58:8
71 [1] - 4:19
7100 [1] - 106:23
7:00 [1] - 1:22
7:03 [1] - 6:3
8
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81 [1] - 4:20
87 [1] - 4:21
89 [1] - 4:22
8th [1] - 26:13
9
90's [1] - 70:18
91 [2] - 4:23, 10:9
92 [1] - 4:24
93 [3] - 18:12, 22:8,
22:21
93-acre [2] - 22:9, 27:7
95 [1] - 5:1
97 [1] - 5:2
9:15 [1] - 128:22
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A-1 [9] - 10:16, 14:6,
18:6, 81:15, 81:18,
82:11, 82:23,
107:18, 108:17
A-2 [1] - 82:5
abatement [2] - 69:12,
69:15
ability [1] - 48:10
able [6] - 78:11, 83:20,
84:20, 84:21,
116:22, 117:7
ABRAHAM [2] - 4:15,
58:23
absolutely [1] -
109:11
Absolutely [1] - 74:12
absorb [1] - 76:8
abstract [1] - 47:22
accelerate [1] - 88:11
accept [2] - 48:13,
78:4
access [1] - 114:21
accommodate [3] -
105:17, 107:22,
108:21
accompanied [1] -
14:24
accuracy [1] - 130:1
accurate [2] - 8:9,
61:17
accustomed [1] -
13:17
acres [21] - 10:6, 10:9,
10:14, 12:4, 12:9,
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18:14, 22:8, 22:21,
105:11, 106:13,
107:15, 108:16
act [1] - 89:16
acted [2] - 78:12,
78:13
action [1] - 129:20
actual [2] - 22:5, 59:10
adaptability [1] -
76:20
add [3] - 15:16, 104:6,
107:24
added [2] - 13:15,
34:8
adding [1] - 35:9
additional [2] - 14:7,
115:4
additionally [1] -
14:15
address [6] - 17:8,
25:14, 25:22, 28:13,
51:1, 123:8
addressed [1] - 20:13
adds [2] - 115:3, 115:4
adequate [1] - 106:19
adjacent [2] - 16:13,
21:9
adjusted [1] - 13:23
adjustments [1] -
20:12
administrative [2] -
19:21, 72:16
adults [1] - 46:18
advance [1] - 11:4
advanced [1] - 63:18
advancement [1] -
62:11
aesthetics [1] - 25:20
affect [1] - 119:10
affected [2] - 67:16,
90:17
agency [1] - 99:20
agenda [1] - 6:17
ago [3] - 51:12, 51:16,
114:4
agree [4] - 28:17,
89:21, 117:10,
117:22
agreeing [1] - 117:12
agreement [1] -
112:10
agreements [1] -
112:11
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108:18
agricultural [5] -
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45:21, 81:17
agriculture [2] -
13:18, 73:11
ahead [11] - 11:11,
11:17, 18:1, 29:20,
42:18, 53:3, 63:16,
89:5, 91:10, 105:22,
118:8
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aided [1] - 129:10
ain't [1] - 58:9
air [6] - 43:14, 45:20,
49:24, 56:13, 75:16,
78:10
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121:10
ALICE [2] - 5:6,
109:23
Alice's [1] - 120:9
aliens [1] - 55:24
allowed [8] - 12:13,
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22:13, 41:14, 48:5,
78:9
allowing [1] - 26:21
allows [1] - 21:12
almost [4] - 30:24,
63:11, 66:15, 115:14
alone [1] - 18:8
ALSO [1] - 2:9
alter [3] - 75:5, 77:24,
115:8
alternative [2] - 27:3,
87:11
amendment [9] -
15:21, 15:23, 16:7,
16:9, 16:11, 17:6,
17:17, 20:24, 24:19
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amount [1] - 33:19
amounts [1] - 14:11
analysis [1] - 44:6
AND [1] - 1:10
Angela [2] - 103:2,
103:8
ANGELA [2] - 5:4,
103:4
ANGELIE [1] - 4:19
ANJELIE [1] - 71:1
Anjelie [1] - 71:7
annexation [11] -
106:12, 112:9,
117:10, 117:18,
117:20, 118:14,
118:16, 119:2,
119:16, 125:21,
126:15
annexed [3] - 123:6,
124:24, 126:23
annexing [3] - 125:5,
125:6, 125:8
annual [1] - 23:11
anonymous [1] -
39:14
answer [4] - 38:16,
61:4, 98:16, 109:22
answered [2] - 112:8,
126:6
answering [1] - 17:6
answers [1] - 112:17
apart [2] - 47:13,
47:14
apartment [2] - 25:7,
65:7
apartments [1] - 13:10
apologize [3] - 38:1,
60:19, 126:3
appalling [1] - 77:9
appeal [2] - 99:22,
100:1
appearance [1] - 26:4
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3:1
appeared [1] - 3:5
applause [7] - 37:7,
51:15, 68:15, 77:22,
87:17, 96:19, 104:9
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35:15, 42:13, 45:24,
49:3, 50:19, 51:13,
51:21, 53:2, 55:4,
58:16, 59:24, 67:21,
70:22, 75:13, 77:19,
78:22, 88:22, 90:22,
92:6, 95:6, 100:4,
102:1
applies [1] - 129:22
apply [2] - 27:14, 62:9
appreciate [3] - 81:7,
106:6, 121:11
appropriate [1] -
21:12
approval [6] - 12:20,
27:11, 72:15, 76:21,
77:7, 99:18
approve [2] - 48:6,
48:7
approved [4] - 13:1,
27:15, 65:10, 72:8
April [1] - 62:15
aquifer [1] - 57:1
aquifers [1] - 56:22
architect [1] - 120:21
area [19] - 12:6, 14:1,
16:15, 19:7, 24:22,
31:2, 52:20, 56:3,
67:9, 70:16, 82:24,
83:14, 83:17, 85:16,
88:4, 89:9, 95:1,
116:9, 119:11
areas [4] - 17:11,
20:21, 66:18, 99:6
Army [2] - 99:1
around-the-clock [1] -
73:21
arrive [1] - 69:22
arrived [1] - 70:13
art [3] - 40:24, 41:2
aspect [1] - 57:8
assume [1] - 129:24
asthma [1] - 44:12
ASTRA [4] - 4:7, 5:2,
37:10, 97:7
Astra [4] - 37:13,
38:21, 39:15, 97:17
atmosphere [1] -
124:8
attached [1] - 129:22
attack [1] - 98:8
attacks [2] - 7:18, 98:5
attorney [3] - 39:6,
129:17, 129:18
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54:18, 61:6, 61:7,
79:5, 79:7, 79:23,
80:1, 80:5, 80:9,
83:7, 96:3, 98:19,
123:19
audience [3] - 8:3,
8:8, 87:19
Aurora [3] - 32:12,
89:8, 89:10
authority [1] - 78:16
available [1] - 117:11
average [1] - 35:12
avoid [1] - 7:17
aware [6] - 11:23,
21:5, 22:20, 97:12,
120:24
awful [2] - 53:13,
53:18
B
babies [1] - 40:21
background [2] -
89:11, 103:9
backup [4] - 43:22,
44:8, 45:1, 75:16
backyard [11] - 43:3,
45:4, 48:12, 65:22,
86:3, 89:11, 89:15,
92:13, 92:24, 94:17,
95:22
backyards [1] - 66:1
bankrupt [3] - 31:23,
66:6, 66:7
banter [1] - 65:3
Barksdale [1] - 2:10
Barksdale-Noble [1] -
2:10
based [4] - 19:13,
28:22, 120:9, 122:6
basis [3] - 21:23,
23:12, 122:2
Battaglia [1] - 60:6
BATTAGLIA [9] - 4:16,
60:2, 60:5, 60:24,
61:2, 61:9, 63:8,
63:11, 63:14
Bay [1] - 71:9
Beacon [1] - 42:10
bearing [1] - 34:21
bearings [1] - 64:13
beat [1] - 40:2
beautiful [7] - 30:8,
87:9, 101:5, 101:8,
101:9, 101:13, 122:3
beauty [1] - 85:13
became [1] - 47:14
becomes [2] - 46:22,
76:17
bedroom [1] - 46:15
beds [1] - 70:15
Beecher [4] - 49:19,
51:8, 107:8, 108:10
began [3] - 47:12,
47:14, 62:2
begging [3] - 47:15,
47:16, 50:10
begin [2] - 7:12,
115:11
beginning [1] - 33:7
behalf [7] - 3:5, 9:5,
9:7, 10:3, 11:19,
13:23, 105:7
behind [3] - 33:15,
83:23, 112:15
Belfast [1] - 62:2
belief [2] - 41:6, 74:21
belong [1] - 48:17
below [2] - 17:3, 18:16
beneficial [1] - 23:1
benefit [4] - 27:24,
44:15, 74:21, 74:22
benefits [4] - 44:20,
77:15, 77:17, 93:16
BENNETT [19] - 4:20,
81:8, 81:11, 82:22,
83:5, 83:10, 83:14,
83:18, 84:10, 84:13,
84:16, 84:19, 86:1,
86:8, 86:15, 86:20,
86:23, 87:3, 87:6
Bennett [1] - 81:12
berm [9] - 20:21, 58:7,
58:9, 81:15, 81:22,
83:21, 83:24, 84:6
berms [4] - 20:14,
26:5, 58:6
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beside [1] - 67:10
best [3] - 40:5, 67:7,
67:8
better [15] - 38:6,
41:19, 41:21, 41:23,
60:11, 65:5, 66:12,
85:3, 87:10, 87:14,
94:24, 114:21
between [9] - 12:4,
14:8, 14:12, 16:24,
20:13, 21:16, 51:8,
65:3, 69:6
big [7] - 54:7, 59:16,
88:17, 100:24,
104:5, 121:9, 122:6
bigger [5] - 23:1,
23:17, 27:24, 32:18,
62:6
biggest [2] - 63:18,
103:17
bikes [1] - 46:17
bill [1] - 26:13
billion [5] - 24:13,
24:16, 59:13, 59:14,
90:2
Bills [1] - 34:6
bills [8] - 27:1, 28:3,
34:4, 34:7, 34:9,
35:11, 45:15, 74:15
bit [9] - 21:15, 27:9,
36:22, 38:3, 41:10,
47:18, 64:6, 81:13,
115:6
blah [3] - 40:3, 40:4
blind [1] - 66:3
blips [1] - 45:5
block [1] - 59:16
blocking [1] - 19:14
blow [1] - 32:17
blow-up [1] - 32:17
blows [1] - 32:17
blue [1] - 16:22
board [7] - 46:8,
60:15, 60:23, 61:5,
98:22, 106:10,
121:20
boats [1] - 62:10
boils [1] - 91:20
bondage [1] - 88:12
Boo [1] - 123:19
boon [2] - 24:9, 44:6
bore [1] - 44:7
borealis [1] - 89:10
botched [1] - 64:18
bottom [4] - 31:12,
96:16, 110:7
bought [2] - 51:17,
87:12
Boulevard [1] - 3:3
bound [1] - 90:11
boundaries [1] -
119:18
box [3] - 21:21, 40:13,
122:6
boys [1] - 49:22
breaking [1] - 123:11
breath [1] - 72:5
breathing [1] - 76:2
bridge [1] - 111:24
briefly [1] - 64:23
bright [1] - 47:4
bring [10] - 11:9,
39:11, 53:16, 56:15,
59:12, 60:10, 75:15,
79:20, 119:17,
126:18
bringing [2] - 56:21,
65:13
Bristol [2] - 71:9,
116:12
Bristol-Kendall [1] -
116:12
broke [2] - 41:6, 64:2
broken [2] - 35:10,
48:9
brought [4] - 54:15,
79:16, 79:21, 126:20
brown [2] - 16:24,
17:3
Bryan [1] - 39:6
buffer [7] - 14:12,
19:6, 20:20, 26:1,
26:19, 82:7, 83:14
buffered [1] - 26:4
buffers [2] - 21:12,
26:6
build [3] - 32:10,
101:18, 118:8
builders [1] - 21:17
building [18] - 19:22,
25:18, 25:19, 25:20,
31:4, 31:16, 40:16,
56:9, 56:10, 58:8,
65:13, 99:8, 99:15,
107:1, 111:1, 111:5,
115:7
buildings [14] - 13:10,
15:16, 19:21, 25:7,
27:5, 27:6, 29:4,
31:18, 31:20, 32:3,
56:8, 65:7, 108:6
built [13] - 31:21, 48:8,
69:13, 74:24, 76:11,
83:16, 83:23, 88:3,
94:21, 100:24,
107:2, 113:11, 116:9
bullet [1] - 77:16
bunch [1] - 40:6
burden [2] - 34:21,
75:1
burdening [1] - 74:19
burdens [2] - 43:17,
43:19
Burke [1] - 61:23
business [4] - 31:24,
38:20, 39:1, 41:15
businesses [2] - 39:3,
39:4
busy [1] - 62:21
butt [1] - 107:6
buy [1] - 31:3
BY [1] - 3:3
C
C.S.R [1] - 130:9
Caledonia [15] - 13:8,
14:5, 14:13, 20:3,
42:24, 46:6, 49:15,
53:9, 58:1, 65:2,
81:12, 82:7, 86:20,
92:11, 103:11
Californian [2] -
62:17, 63:1
campus [6] - 29:1,
107:10, 107:11,
108:23, 109:2
cancer [1] - 64:20
cannot [1] - 48:8
capacity [3] - 34:11,
57:10, 73:12
Capital [1] - 11:20
capitalism [1] - 87:13
car [4] - 39:8, 39:10,
65:6, 111:16
Cardinal [4] - 17:5,
51:6, 93:1, 94:11
cardiovascular [2] -
44:1, 44:4
care [6] - 53:19, 58:3,
66:24, 67:16, 69:20,
101:9
careless [1] - 72:1
cares [3] - 51:9, 67:10,
67:16
cargo [1] - 62:8
Carl [1] - 120:6
CARL [2] - 5:9, 120:3
CAROLINE [1] - 35:21
Caroline [1] - 35:24
CAROLYN [1] - 4:6
cars [1] - 111:22
case [2] - 94:2, 94:14
cases [1] - 44:12
CASTALDO [1] - 3:2
causes [2] - 121:9
causing [1] - 35:4
center [41] - 10:12,
11:24, 12:17, 14:21,
19:11, 21:17, 22:4,
28:7, 31:2, 36:6,
36:11, 39:8, 43:2,
44:6, 44:16, 47:1,
50:14, 51:4, 51:5,
52:14, 53:16, 54:4,
55:18, 59:13, 63:10,
64:23, 78:2, 82:1,
82:3, 82:16, 85:1,
85:18, 86:3, 92:22,
93:3, 101:12, 103:18
centers [55] - 16:21,
18:24, 21:6, 21:16,
21:18, 21:19, 22:4,
22:6, 23:4, 24:4,
25:16, 26:22, 32:13,
33:14, 33:20, 34:2,
34:14, 34:20, 35:1,
35:10, 36:9, 39:16,
40:14, 43:16, 43:21,
45:4, 49:18, 52:10,
52:22, 53:18, 56:7,
56:16, 60:10, 61:14,
64:8, 65:6, 65:15,
65:21, 66:8, 66:21,
72:6, 72:12, 72:15,
73:2, 73:19, 74:23,
75:15, 76:11, 77:6,
89:13, 91:21, 92:17,
93:3, 93:14, 93:19
certainly [2] - 13:13,
106:9
Certificate [1] - 130:9
certificate [1] - 129:21
certified [1] - 129:24
Certified [1] - 129:3
certify [2] - 129:5,
129:21
cetera [1] - 24:3
Chad [1] - 2:6
chair [2] - 11:9, 42:16
CHAIRMAN [183] - 6:5,
7:8, 7:11, 9:11, 9:20,
10:1, 10:21, 11:11,
11:13, 11:17, 28:14,
29:6, 29:8, 29:11,
29:14, 29:20, 30:2,
30:8, 33:8, 33:12,
35:16, 35:19, 37:8,
38:11, 42:14, 46:1,
49:2, 49:9, 51:14,
51:22, 51:24, 52:6,
53:3, 55:5, 55:7,
55:10, 58:17, 58:19,
58:22, 59:23, 60:1,
60:18, 60:20, 61:1,
63:7, 63:9, 63:13,
68:1, 68:18, 68:24,
69:3, 70:21, 70:23,
71:6, 74:12, 78:21,
78:23, 79:4, 79:9,
79:13, 80:3, 80:7,
80:11, 80:24, 81:3,
82:10, 82:19, 83:2,
83:8, 83:12, 83:15,
84:5, 84:11, 84:15,
84:18, 85:23, 86:2,
86:14, 86:19, 86:22,
87:2, 87:5, 87:16,
87:18, 88:21, 88:24,
89:5, 90:23, 91:2,
91:6, 91:9, 92:5,
93:8, 95:4, 95:8,
95:14, 96:18, 96:20,
96:23, 97:2, 97:4,
97:18, 97:20, 97:22,
98:1, 98:4, 98:12,
98:17, 98:21, 99:7,
99:10, 99:14, 99:18,
100:3, 100:7,
100:10, 100:18,
101:16, 101:21,
101:24, 102:2,
102:5, 102:8,
102:13, 102:16,
102:19, 103:14,
104:8, 104:10,
104:15, 104:18,
104:21, 105:1,
105:5, 105:21,
106:1, 109:5, 109:9,
109:16, 109:20,
110:15, 112:3,
112:7, 112:21,
113:12, 114:6,
114:8, 114:10,
115:24, 116:2,
116:11, 118:9,
118:13, 118:16,
119:1, 119:23,
120:2, 122:14,
122:17, 122:19,
122:23, 123:14,
123:18, 123:22,
124:2, 124:6, 124:9,
124:14, 124:21,
125:7, 125:13,
125:17, 125:23,
126:4, 126:8, 127:1,
127:7, 127:14,
127:21, 128:6,
128:9, 128:11,
128:17
Chairman [3] - 2:2,
7:20, 97:1
chairs [1] - 11:7
chambers [1] - 8:2
chance [1] - 84:22
change [3] - 57:1,
82:10, 119:6
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changed [2] - 25:2,
25:4
changing [2] - 49:19,
85:17
character [1] - 45:21
charcoal [1] - 57:3
charge [3] - 34:11,
34:12, 48:5
charts [1] - 92:16
chat [2] - 72:21,
102:22
chatted [1] - 72:22
cheaply [1] - 75:10
chemical [1] - 75:18
chemicals [1] - 64:17
Chicago [1] - 113:10
children [22] - 41:19,
46:13, 46:14, 46:15,
46:17, 47:10, 47:19,
47:20, 48:3, 48:24,
49:13, 50:12, 66:11,
71:9, 72:19, 73:14,
75:24, 91:22, 94:18,
103:9, 109:15
children's [4] - 44:13,
45:20, 48:16, 50:4
chillers [1] - 56:13
choose [2] - 47:7,
48:24
CHRISTINE [2] -
129:3, 130:9
Christine [3] - 2:23,
68:1, 130:8
citizens [1] - 46:11
CITY [1] - 1:6
city [6] - 36:14, 57:6,
60:8, 66:17, 77:2,
91:21
City [47] - 3:5, 6:19,
12:10, 12:18, 13:19,
14:19, 15:8, 15:17,
16:2, 18:7, 18:15,
18:17, 19:15, 20:12,
25:10, 25:17, 26:20,
32:7, 37:17, 41:13,
46:21, 54:23, 57:9,
57:12, 60:6, 60:7,
60:12, 61:9, 61:10,
65:4, 71:12, 71:20,
82:12, 107:12,
107:18, 108:19,
109:2, 113:22,
114:18, 119:3,
119:7, 123:6, 123:8,
123:12, 126:17,
126:18, 126:21
City's [6] - 12:22,
13:22, 18:14, 25:22,
26:8, 26:23
clarification [1] -
127:2
clarifying [2] - 8:11,
8:15
classification [2] -
10:5, 105:9
classifications [1] -
107:17
cleanup [1] - 64:18
clear [12] - 12:16,
14:22, 15:22, 18:2,
19:10, 19:17, 22:17,
22:21, 25:16, 27:20,
28:4, 126:14
clearly [2] - 6:22, 50:9
clicker [1] - 11:1
climate [2] - 76:14,
76:18
clock [1] - 73:21
close [4] - 8:18, 48:17,
127:10, 127:18
closed [4] - 6:17,
26:21, 36:2, 128:19
closer [1] - 64:6
closest [2] - 13:24,
14:4
closing [1] - 76:22
cluster [1] - 40:19
code [3] - 12:14,
18:14, 26:9
Code [2] - 15:7, 15:8
cognizant [1] - 12:3
collectively [1] -
106:13
combined [2] - 92:23,
93:4
combustion [1] - 44:3
combustion-related
[1] - 44:3
ComEd [10] - 17:1,
21:10, 23:10, 23:13,
27:10, 28:2, 28:4,
55:21, 56:3
comfortable [2] -
42:17, 65:20
coming [25] - 15:19,
18:19, 28:2, 31:6,
32:21, 34:15, 35:2,
38:17, 38:18, 38:23,
52:17, 55:24, 59:22,
86:11, 88:10, 88:19,
94:6, 95:21, 111:14,
112:1, 113:2, 113:7,
114:23, 120:17,
123:15
commencing [1] - 6:3
comment [3] - 8:18,
102:21, 103:17
comments [3] - 7:17,
8:15, 8:17
commercial [1] -
17:12
COMMISSION [1] -
1:10
Commission [6] - 6:7,
6:17, 8:19, 15:9,
15:10, 43:8
commission [2] -
6:11, 8:10
COMMISSIONER [24]
- 9:9, 9:10, 9:14,
9:16, 9:18, 9:22,
9:24, 28:18, 28:19,
29:3, 74:9, 79:3,
98:10, 102:24,
104:12, 104:17,
109:8, 127:12,
127:13, 127:17,
127:19, 127:23,
128:13, 128:15
Commissioner [5] -
2:3, 2:4, 2:5, 2:6, 2:7
Commissioners [1] -
28:14
commissioners [2] -
29:8, 109:5
committee [5] - 15:9,
16:1, 28:12, 28:13
common [1] - 38:19
commonly [1] - 43:21
communities [8] -
21:13, 33:23, 43:15,
52:9, 58:3, 65:22,
66:12, 76:13
community [47] -
11:23, 31:9, 32:7,
32:23, 37:21, 37:23,
38:13, 43:13, 45:8,
47:10, 49:13, 51:11,
52:15, 59:15, 60:11,
60:12, 61:12, 66:11,
68:12, 71:15, 72:4,
72:14, 75:1, 76:7,
76:10, 77:10, 77:18,
77:24, 78:1, 78:2,
78:19, 81:22, 82:7,
85:7, 85:12, 85:13,
85:20, 89:18, 90:3,
90:9, 90:11, 90:19,
104:5, 108:4,
117:10, 124:13
Community [1] - 2:10
community's [3] -
20:24, 25:15, 75:9
community-bound [1]
- 90:11
company [2] - 57:11,
57:13
compared [4] - 23:20,
24:6, 43:18, 44:21
compartments [1] -
62:12
compatible [1] - 16:9
completely [1] -
112:13
Comprehensive [2] -
16:8, 17:8
computer [1] - 129:10
computer-aided [1] -
129:10
concede [1] - 80:3
concentrated [1] -
45:7
conceptually [1] -
19:16
concern [12] - 14:20,
37:1, 78:24, 81:17,
81:24, 83:19, 84:23,
86:8, 111:13,
113:16, 121:7, 121:8
concerned [4] - 28:3,
35:13, 36:1, 124:16
concerning [2] -
71:19, 124:16
concerns [6] - 13:23,
25:15, 25:18, 61:16,
96:11, 120:9
concluding [1] -
128:21
concrete [2] - 70:17,
112:17
concurrent [1] - 14:22
conditioning [1] -
56:13
conditions [1] - 76:18
condo [1] - 13:10
condos [1] - 25:6
conducted [1] - 77:4
conductor [1] - 64:12
confident [1] - 116:18
conforming [1] -
12:14
confused [3] - 117:24,
125:24, 126:2
confusing [1] - 34:6
congested [1] - 66:17
connected [1] - 19:21
conscience [1] -
78:17
consent [1] - 76:6
consequences [6] -
45:6, 47:3, 72:17,
75:11, 76:3, 77:13
consequently [1] -
69:15
conservation [1] -
73:15
conservative [1] -
23:12
conserve [1] - 73:8
consider [2] - 72:11,
96:17
considerable [1] -
70:12
considered [4] - 6:11,
24:21, 77:11
considering [1] - 16:3
consistent [1] - 16:8
consistently [1] -
123:3
consists [1] - 105:10
constant [4] - 47:4,
73:21, 75:15, 112:5
constantly [3] - 79:15,
79:21, 80:19
constitutes [1] -
129:11
construction [9] -
13:2, 24:8, 30:19,
30:20, 31:17, 44:17,
115:7, 121:2
consume [1] - 73:2
consumption [2] -
25:21, 56:20
consumptions [1] -
26:24
contacted [1] - 98:23
context [4] - 24:21,
54:1, 106:21, 107:24
contingent [1] -
109:10
continue [5] - 44:9,
61:1, 76:15, 89:24,
128:11
continued [1] - 108:12
continuing [2] - 21:24,
81:6
contribute [4] - 36:9,
36:22, 44:11, 89:20
contributing [3] -
36:16, 37:3, 90:3
control [2] - 76:10,
130:2
convenience [2] -
72:2, 76:8
conversation [2] -
39:5, 114:18
cool [1] - 101:4
cooling [4] - 26:22,
36:3, 73:3, 73:10
cooperation [2] - 8:7,
8:21
copies [2] - 129:23,
130:2
cord [1] - 69:11
Corneils [3] - 49:16,
49:17, 50:24
cornfields [1] - 43:2
corporate [3] - 73:10,
74:4, 119:18
corporation [1] - 56:5
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corporations [1] -
76:9
Corps [2] - 99:1
correct [8] - 83:6,
84:13, 111:7, 117:5,
117:12, 117:18,
118:19, 119:22
Correct [4] - 84:10,
84:15, 119:23
cost [8] - 24:13, 24:15,
34:21, 42:1, 44:2,
44:7, 115:10, 115:14
Costco [3] - 90:9,
100:24, 101:3
costs [5] - 34:7, 34:17,
50:6, 76:17, 79:1
council [1] - 76:23
Council [13] - 6:19,
12:18, 15:8, 16:2,
18:15, 19:15, 37:17,
65:4, 71:13, 71:20,
75:23, 82:13, 119:7
councils [1] - 76:18
counsel [2] - 129:17,
129:18
countless [1] - 45:4
Countney [1] - 91:14
COUNTNEY [3] - 4:23,
91:11, 91:14
country [3] - 31:22,
53:15, 101:8
counts [2] - 23:21,
27:2
County [3] - 107:16,
108:16, 108:24
COUNTY [1] - 129:2
county [3] - 107:18,
108:18, 119:14
couple [3] - 7:13,
11:10, 41:20
course [1] - 43:4
court [1] - 8:6
cover [2] - 58:9, 58:10
crap [1] - 67:13
crazy [1] - 100:24
create [2] - 44:16,
74:23
creating [1] - 19:6
Creek [3] - 14:8, 19:5,
99:4
creek [3] - 14:14, 26:3,
51:9
critical [3] - 71:14,
72:12, 106:18
cross [1] - 8:14
cross-examination [1]
- 8:14
crouch [1] - 9:13
Crouch [2] - 2:5,
128:14
CROUCH [6] - 9:14,
28:18, 74:9, 79:3,
127:12, 128:15
Crowley [1] - 30:14
CROWLEY [3] - 4:4,
30:10, 30:13
crying [1] - 40:6
CSR [1] - 2:24
current [10] - 12:12,
18:18, 24:7, 25:1,
25:5, 35:8, 44:12,
107:9, 110:8, 117:6
curse [1] - 76:19
Cyril [1] - 63:1
CyrusOne [3] - 40:12,
93:2, 94:12
D
dad [1] - 47:20
Daehnke [1] - 68:5
DAEHNKE [3] - 4:17,
67:22, 68:4
daily [2] - 21:23, 122:2
dangerous [2] - 77:23,
78:17
Danny [1] - 2:3
data [95] - 10:12,
11:24, 12:17, 14:21,
16:21, 18:24, 19:11,
21:6, 21:16, 21:17,
21:18, 22:3, 22:4,
22:6, 23:3, 24:4,
25:15, 26:22, 28:7,
31:2, 32:12, 33:14,
33:20, 34:2, 34:14,
34:20, 35:1, 35:9,
36:6, 36:8, 36:11,
39:8, 39:16, 40:14,
43:2, 43:16, 43:21,
44:6, 44:16, 45:4,
46:24, 47:1, 49:18,
50:13, 51:4, 51:5,
52:10, 52:14, 52:22,
53:16, 53:18, 54:4,
55:18, 56:6, 56:16,
59:13, 60:10, 61:14,
63:10, 64:8, 64:23,
65:6, 65:14, 65:21,
66:8, 66:20, 72:6,
72:12, 72:15, 73:19,
74:4, 74:23, 75:15,
76:11, 77:6, 82:1,
82:2, 82:16, 85:1,
85:18, 86:3, 89:13,
91:21, 92:17, 92:22,
93:3, 93:14, 93:18,
101:12, 103:18
Data [1] - 73:2
date [3] - 64:17,
113:17, 113:21
daughter [2] - 49:16,
85:15
DAVID [2] - 4:13, 53:5
David [2] - 2:13, 53:9
DAVIS [9] - 5:7,
112:22, 113:1,
113:5, 113:14,
114:7, 114:9,
114:11, 116:1
Davis [2] - 113:2,
115:24
day-to-day [1] - 21:22
days [2] - 62:16
daytime [1] - 26:9
dead [1] - 63:16
deadly [1] - 64:16
deal [1] - 119:13
dealership [3] - 39:9,
39:10, 65:7
Debbie [1] - 91:14
DEBBIE [2] - 4:23,
91:11
decade [1] - 37:24
decades [2] - 72:10,
76:13
decades-long [1] -
76:13
decibels [13] - 26:9,
54:3, 54:5, 70:5,
70:6, 90:12, 90:16,
92:21, 93:4, 93:5,
122:6, 122:8
decide [3] - 32:23,
108:4
decided [3] - 31:24,
113:17, 128:7
decision [9] - 68:12,
68:13, 72:1, 72:6,
72:16, 78:2, 91:24,
99:21, 99:24
decisions [4] - 46:19,
76:3, 76:14, 77:11
deck [1] - 62:10
deducting [1] - 115:12
deer [1] - 90:18
defense [1] - 71:24
define [4] - 48:19,
48:20, 48:23
defines [1] - 45:21
definitely [2] - 99:24,
114:16
degraded [1] - 78:10
DeKalb [1] - 32:11
Delatorre [1] - 100:11
DELATORRE [8] - 5:3,
100:5, 100:11,
100:12, 100:15,
100:20, 101:17,
101:22
deliberate [2] - 6:18,
8:20
demand [7] - 21:5,
21:6, 34:2, 44:8,
45:14, 73:18, 73:21
demands [1] - 44:24
demonstrated [1] -
77:12
dense [2] - 13:9, 23:23
density [1] - 114:19
deny [1] - 45:18
department [3] -
98:24, 116:8, 121:21
dependence [1] -
73:23
depleted [1] - 78:9
depletion [1] - 78:5
depression [1] - 41:8
deserve [4] - 41:18,
41:19, 41:22, 50:5
deserves [2] - 41:21,
72:19
design [2] - 110:8,
111:8
desire [1] - 12:8
despite [1] - 74:22
destroyed [1] - 64:20
detail [1] - 60:17
detailed [2] - 108:2,
117:15
details [1] - 17:23
deter [1] - 122:3
detriment [1] - 104:5
detrimental [1] -
121:23
develop [2] - 15:18,
24:13
developable [1] -
14:17
developed [3] - 19:14,
29:1
developers [3] -
21:17, 65:13, 103:24
Development [1] -
2:11
development [28] -
11:24, 12:1, 12:11,
12:19, 12:20, 13:20,
14:10, 14:13, 15:2,
15:16, 18:13, 19:9,
19:24, 20:4, 20:13,
24:12, 24:22, 25:11,
27:9, 27:18, 45:19,
69:8, 75:12, 112:11,
113:23, 114:17,
115:23, 119:19
development-wise [1]
- 113:23
died [2] - 45:11, 63:21
diesel [2] - 43:17,
43:21
difference [5] - 21:16,
47:19, 54:5, 54:7,
115:14
different [16] - 11:23,
19:2, 27:22, 31:21,
48:4, 52:16, 68:11,
81:13, 82:5, 84:24,
93:14, 98:22,
109:14, 115:2,
123:17, 123:24
digest [1] - 123:3
digital [1] - 88:14
diligence [2] - 78:12,
97:11
Dim [1] - 2:14
DiNOLFO [1] - 3:2
dioxide [4] - 43:17,
43:23, 44:10
direct [2] - 8:12, 8:13
directing [1] - 120:8
direction [2] - 129:11,
130:2
directly [3] - 75:23,
114:12, 129:19
Director [1] - 2:11
dirt [1] - 84:6
discussion [1] -
114:15
disgusting [1] - 65:1
disproportionately [2]
- 43:19, 75:19
disrupts [1] - 7:24
distance [2] - 20:13,
25:24
distributed [1] - 76:5
District [11] - 9:7,
10:11, 10:12, 10:16,
10:17, 105:8,
105:16, 105:17,
106:6, 106:11,
106:22
district [10] - 13:15,
16:12, 22:22, 71:10,
107:2, 108:15,
113:21, 124:24,
125:2, 126:16
district's [3] - 106:20,
125:9, 126:22
districts [1] - 10:7
DiVerde [2] - 9:7,
105:7
diverted [1] - 74:16
division [1] - 30:14
Doctor [1] - 113:2
document [1] - 113:6
documentation [1] -
64:19
documented [2] -
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77:5, 115:21
dogs [1] - 90:13
dollars [1] - 70:2
done [7] - 25:12,
25:17, 71:17, 86:4,
94:13, 98:15, 110:16
doomed [1] - 61:24
door [2] - 40:20, 50:13
Door [2] - 11:20, 15:14
dos [1] - 77:17
down [27] - 13:24,
14:3, 18:5, 18:22,
26:11, 27:7, 51:2,
55:23, 56:3, 56:13,
56:24, 57:19, 64:11,
65:19, 79:14, 88:19,
91:20, 96:12, 101:6,
111:20, 112:1,
112:14, 113:7,
114:17, 115:20,
120:17
down-zone [2] -
13:24, 18:22
down-zoned [1] - 18:5
down-zoning [1] -
14:3
dozens [1] - 53:14
drain [1] - 57:8
drainage [1] - 57:7
drinking [1] - 73:11
Drive [2] - 1:17, 92:12
drive [1] - 100:22
driven [2] - 34:2,
34:10
driveway [1] - 67:12
drop [1] - 73:14
droughts [1] - 73:7
drowned [1] - 64:5
dry [1] - 73:13
due [4] - 13:15, 78:12,
97:11, 106:17
duly [31] - 10:23,
30:11, 33:10, 35:22,
37:11, 42:20, 46:3,
49:7, 50:21, 52:4,
53:6, 55:14, 58:24,
60:3, 67:23, 68:22,
71:2, 81:9, 87:21,
89:3, 91:12, 92:8,
95:12, 97:8, 100:13,
103:5, 106:3,
109:24, 112:23,
116:4, 120:4
during [9] - 7:1, 26:9,
45:2, 45:9, 73:6,
74:3, 99:7, 99:15,
110:16
duty [1] - 78:3
DYLAN [2] - 4:9, 46:2
Dylan [1] - 46:5
E
eagle [1] - 40:21
Earth [1] - 73:20
easier [2] - 8:8, 62:7
east [7] - 14:1, 16:20,
17:2, 20:3, 20:5,
41:2, 105:13
eastern [1] - 10:13
economic [8] - 44:20,
71:24, 74:20, 74:22,
75:7, 75:11, 76:15
economy [1] - 72:10
edge [1] - 46:22
Edmund [1] - 61:23
educated [2] - 97:14,
97:23
effect [1] - 86:18
effects [2] - 31:8,
66:20
effort [2] - 79:18,
80:18
EGNER [4] - 5:4,
103:4, 103:7, 103:16
Egner [1] - 103:8
eight [6] - 20:21,
22:11, 83:20, 84:1,
84:6, 93:15
eight-foot [4] - 20:21,
83:20, 84:1, 84:6
either [1] - 8:13
Eldamain [5] - 15:19,
16:23, 105:13,
111:24, 112:14
elected [2] - 72:4,
78:18
electric [2] - 45:1,
79:1
electrical [3] - 20:9,
56:19, 73:22
electricity [13] - 33:16,
33:17, 33:19, 33:22,
34:8, 34:13, 35:7,
35:11, 36:4, 36:9,
36:14, 36:20, 37:1
Ellie [1] - 88:3
emblem [1] - 121:18
emergency [1] - 75:2
emissions [1] - 26:16
emit [1] - 43:22
emojis [1] - 40:6
employ [1] - 74:16
employee [2] - 129:16,
129:17
employment [2] -
44:20, 75:7
empty [3] - 11:10,
13:17, 65:12
enable [1] - 22:10
end [5] - 21:18, 77:22,
89:23, 90:6, 111:20
endangered [2] - 99:3,
99:5
ends [1] - 107:8
energy [10] - 21:4,
28:22, 31:6, 36:2,
42:1, 45:13, 73:18,
73:20, 74:15, 76:17
engaged [1] - 120:21
engineer's [1] - 64:12
engineered [1] - 63:18
engineering [3] -
62:11, 64:3, 110:16
engineers [2] - 70:10,
120:22
Engineers [2] - 99:1,
99:2
enjoy [1] - 122:1
enter [1] - 78:1
entered [3] - 104:23,
105:2, 127:4
entire [3] - 17:24,
63:22, 82:21
entirely [1] - 27:24
environment [4] -
72:9, 72:18, 90:11,
90:19
environmental [7] -
40:16, 61:15, 64:8,
75:14, 77:5, 95:16,
98:15
EPA [2] - 43:16, 64:18
EPA-regulated [1] -
43:16
equal [2] - 23:10
equate [1] - 24:16
equipment [1] - 20:19
especially [2] - 73:6,
121:8
essentially [1] - 25:20
estate [2] - 21:15,
23:15
estimate [2] - 23:12,
28:22
estimated [3] - 24:14,
44:11, 45:11
et [1] - 24:3
eternity [1] - 25:9
evaluate [1] - 17:19
Evans [1] - 63:1
evening [5] - 43:7,
60:5, 60:6, 71:22,
113:1
evenly [1] - 76:4
events [2] - 114:20,
115:1
everyday [1] - 112:6
everywhere [1] -
100:23
evolve [1] - 76:15
evolving [1] - 43:13
exact [1] - 63:4
exactly [2] - 33:2, 96:5
Exactly [1] - 96:5
examination [1] - 8:14
example [3] - 19:9,
24:10, 83:23
example-type [1] -
19:9
exceeds [1] - 115:10
except [2] - 73:15,
111:20
excited [1] - 115:19
excuse [2] - 74:2,
74:21
exhaust [1] - 76:2
existing [4] - 12:14,
16:10, 107:12,
111:10
expand [1] - 113:17
expecting [1] - 87:7
expendable [1] - 48:1
expense [1] - 70:12
experience [1] - 64:24
experienced [1] - 45:3
expert [1] - 92:17
Experts [1] - 45:7
experts [1] - 19:13
explain [3] - 34:4,
48:2, 60:16
explanation [2] - 34:5,
54:24
explosive [1] - 64:16
exponential [1] -
34:16
exposure [2] - 44:3,
44:10
expressed [1] - 12:8
extend [1] - 116:20
extent [1] - 116:14
exterior [1] - 25:19
extra [2] - 11:7, 19:6
extraction [1] - 75:12
extreme [3] - 45:9,
73:1, 74:3
extremely [3] - 66:17,
90:15
F
face [1] - 43:16
Facebook [3] - 32:15,
32:21, 88:15
facilities [12] - 44:24,
45:8, 72:9, 73:20,
74:16, 75:6, 76:1,
78:6, 105:18,
106:20, 107:23,
108:22
facility [3] - 47:5,
108:5, 116:23
facing [2] - 46:16,
92:13
fact [9] - 12:3, 12:12,
34:14, 65:10, 70:18,
89:12, 89:14, 99:4,
114:19
factor [2] - 82:9, 82:13
factory [2] - 69:13,
69:16
fail [1] - 45:5
failed [1] - 64:5
failing [2] - 78:1
failures [1] - 45:10
fair [1] - 95:4
fairly [1] - 106:8
fall [3] - 34:17, 43:19,
76:5
falling [1] - 94:14
false [1] - 64:19
familiar [2] - 62:7,
62:13
families [9] - 39:2,
47:23, 48:10, 48:17,
66:18, 74:14, 76:5,
85:19, 101:1
family [12] - 13:8,
13:9, 23:23, 25:6,
49:15, 49:16, 50:16,
50:17, 50:24, 51:17,
53:14, 94:24
Family [4] - 10:10,
10:15, 105:15,
107:19
far [9] - 33:23, 37:1,
69:10, 72:19,
115:10, 117:4,
121:12, 123:5,
124:15
farm [3] - 49:18,
55:23, 114:2
Farm [2] - 105:13,
106:15
farmer [2] - 37:20,
108:12
farmer's [1] - 37:19
farmers [1] - 73:7
farming [1] - 108:12
farmland [7] - 12:9,
13:17, 14:6, 18:8,
87:9, 110:5
farms [2] - 91:22,
121:5
faster [2] - 62:6, 88:12
fastest [1] - 63:19
favor [4] - 9:1, 29:15,
54:22, 109:18
fear [1] - 90:4
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features [2] - 25:19,
25:22
February [4] - 64:10,
118:22, 119:8, 130:5
feed [1] - 40:21
feet [18] - 13:12, 19:1,
19:6, 19:23, 20:1,
20:5, 20:17, 20:18,
23:9, 24:12, 25:7,
26:1, 26:2, 26:7,
29:5, 58:2, 58:9
Felix [2] - 37:13, 97:17
FELIX [22] - 4:7, 5:2,
37:10, 37:13, 38:4,
38:7, 38:12, 96:21,
97:7, 97:10, 97:17,
97:19, 97:21, 97:23,
98:2, 98:7, 98:14,
98:23, 99:9, 99:12,
99:17, 99:19
fellow [1] - 71:21
felt [2] - 40:10, 126:12
fence [1] - 84:1
fencing [2] - 84:9,
84:11
few [11] - 15:12, 25:23,
53:13, 53:24, 60:14,
74:17, 74:23, 78:14,
102:9, 112:15, 113:5
field [3] - 19:13, 40:18,
82:24
Fifth [1] - 76:10
fight [1] - 42:9
fighting [1] - 42:6
figure [1] - 122:24
figures [1] - 33:15
filed [1] - 99:3
filter [2] - 26:18, 57:2
final [5] - 14:23, 24:18,
76:23, 99:18, 108:5
finally [1] - 70:13
financial [1] - 41:24
fine [1] - 118:8
finish [3] - 31:19,
31:22, 32:2
fire [5] - 24:6, 111:16,
116:8, 121:21, 122:8
firefighter [1] - 73:11
firm [1] - 15:14
first [43] - 10:1, 10:23,
11:22, 15:4, 30:11,
31:23, 33:10, 35:22,
37:11, 42:20, 43:14,
46:3, 49:7, 50:21,
52:4, 53:6, 55:14,
58:24, 60:3, 67:23,
68:22, 71:2, 73:1,
74:4, 81:9, 81:24,
87:21, 89:3, 91:12,
92:8, 95:12, 100:13,
103:5, 104:13,
104:15, 106:3,
109:24, 112:23,
116:4, 117:20,
120:4, 128:1, 128:4
fish [1] - 98:24
fits [1] - 67:4
five [13] - 17:18, 31:1,
51:1, 51:8, 51:19,
81:5, 82:19, 93:3,
93:14, 94:19,
115:15, 123:4, 123:5
fix [1] - 35:8
fixed [1] - 45:12
fixes [1] - 58:12
Fleet [1] - 63:15
flew [1] - 59:7
flexibility [1] - 76:11
flipped [1] - 69:17
floor [1] - 33:12
fly [1] - 111:22
focus [1] - 80:20
focused [3] - 7:17,
15:6, 15:15
focusing [1] - 82:1
Folks [1] - 123:21
folks [6] - 79:11,
85:16, 123:20
followed [1] - 9:1
following [2] - 6:1,
39:16
follows [33] - 6:4,
8:24, 10:24, 30:12,
33:11, 35:23, 37:12,
42:21, 46:4, 49:8,
50:22, 52:5, 53:7,
55:15, 59:1, 60:4,
67:24, 68:23, 71:3,
81:10, 87:22, 89:4,
91:13, 92:9, 95:13,
97:9, 100:14, 103:6,
106:4, 110:1,
112:24, 116:5, 120:5
foot [5] - 20:21, 26:7,
83:20, 84:1, 84:6
footage [1] - 56:10
footage-wise [1] -
56:10
footprint [1] - 19:23
for-sale [1] - 94:3
force [1] - 44:17
forced [2] - 40:9, 48:2
foregoing [1] - 129:6
foremen [1] - 32:15
forever [1] - 101:20
forgetting [1] - 36:23
formally [1] - 8:18
forth [4] - 61:18,
64:22, 65:3, 122:9
forward [2] - 80:19,
113:16
fossil [3] - 33:21, 44:8,
73:23
fossil-fueled [1] - 44:8
fought [1] - 92:2
four [11] - 15:17, 16:6,
16:10, 17:7, 17:14,
18:14, 26:15, 40:14,
62:16, 84:7, 86:17
Four [1] - 62:16
fourth [2] - 44:23,
75:14
Fred [1] - 113:2
FRED [2] - 5:7, 112:22
Frederick [1] - 63:15
freedom [1] - 39:20
freeze [1] - 121:8
fricking [1] - 53:18
friends [2] - 43:8,
53:14
frightening [1] - 77:10
front [8] - 11:10,
12:18, 40:20, 69:22,
69:24, 70:19, 83:4,
111:17
frontage [1] - 17:20
frumpy [1] - 62:10
fueled [1] - 44:8
fuels [2] - 33:21, 73:24
full [1] - 108:1
fully [2] - 28:24, 29:1
future [20] - 10:12,
12:17, 14:13, 21:4,
21:8, 34:13, 34:16,
40:10, 47:23, 48:24,
50:4, 72:3, 75:10,
76:18, 78:8, 93:10,
114:17, 115:22,
116:20, 122:4
G
GALLEGOS [13] -
4:15, 4:22, 5:1,
58:18, 58:23, 59:2,
88:23, 89:2, 89:6,
95:7, 95:11, 95:15,
96:5
gallons [1] - 73:4
gamble [1] - 78:19
game [1] - 88:16
Game [2] - 105:13,
106:15
gas [1] - 23:4
General [3] - 10:10,
10:11, 10:15
general [3] - 12:1,
30:22
generally [2] - 96:13,
105:12
generate [1] - 36:19
generating [1] - 70:6
generation [2] - 45:1,
70:11
generational [1] - 72:8
generator [1] - 26:12
generators [4] - 26:14,
43:22, 75:17, 76:1
gentle [1] - 11:14
gentleman [3] - 34:3,
53:19, 66:3
gentleman's [1] -
77:14
GERARDO [2] - 5:8,
116:3
Gerardo [1] - 116:6
gift [1] - 40:24
gigajoules [1] - 56:8
GILBERT [12] - 4:3,
10:20, 10:22, 11:1,
11:5, 11:18, 26:17,
28:24, 29:4, 29:13,
104:24, 105:4
Gilbert [3] - 9:5, 10:3,
11:19
Gilmour [1] - 87:24
GILMOUR [3] - 4:21,
87:20, 87:23
given [1] - 129:12
glad [2] - 112:19,
113:7
gladly [1] - 51:10
global [1] - 76:8
God's [2] - 40:24
Google [1] - 61:21
gorgeous [1] - 101:7
governance [1] - 75:5
government [2] -
41:13, 48:21
Governor [1] - 26:12
grab [2] - 40:12, 42:16
grad [1] - 35:1
grand [1] - 62:3
grandchildren [1] -
50:13
grandkids [2] - 49:14,
50:17
grandparents [1] -
77:1
Great [1] - 56:22
great [8] - 31:10, 90:2,
90:9, 113:8, 113:24,
114:22, 115:11,
124:8
greater [2] - 45:15,
115:15
greed [3] - 47:12,
52:24, 96:15
greedy [2] - 39:18,
39:23
green [3] - 9:15,
55:22, 127:16
Green [3] - 2:6, 11:20,
15:14
GREEN [2] - 9:16,
127:17
greenhouse [4] -
16:23, 17:12, 56:24,
82:4
grew [2] - 85:11,
100:21
grid [12] - 34:1, 34:12,
34:19, 34:23, 35:2,
44:23, 56:14, 56:17,
57:15, 72:18, 73:19
grids [2] - 45:5, 73:22
ground [2] - 56:11,
114:2
group [1] - 21:15
grow [2] - 21:8, 47:4
growing [2] - 21:6,
106:17
growth [7] - 21:4,
21:24, 34:16, 45:7,
47:22, 71:24, 74:23
guarantee [3] - 35:11,
81:21, 82:6
guess [5] - 81:14,
82:22, 89:19,
113:12, 126:2
guilty [1] - 21:22
guys [31] - 7:4, 28:15,
29:17, 37:6, 39:22,
50:1, 53:21, 54:9,
55:20, 57:14, 58:1,
58:12, 61:20, 65:10,
67:1, 67:13, 71:4,
77:21, 80:12, 86:4,
86:7, 93:12, 93:20,
94:10, 95:15, 96:1,
96:14, 97:12, 109:10
H
habitat [1] - 121:23
hair [1] - 64:21
half [5] - 15:17, 21:21,
68:8, 108:11, 110:7
halfway [1] - 114:11
hammer [1] - 64:11
hand [17] - 7:4, 7:17,
16:16, 16:24, 52:1,
55:8, 58:20, 68:19,
71:18, 89:1, 95:9,
102:15, 103:1,
104:11, 122:20,
129:24, 130:4
handful [1] - 44:18
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handle [5] - 56:14,
56:17, 56:23, 57:9,
57:12
hands [2] - 50:2, 50:4
HANSEN [6] - 102:7,
102:11, 126:6,
128:1, 128:5, 128:7
Hansen [1] - 2:13
happy [2] - 28:13,
96:12
hard [5] - 34:15, 42:3,
65:23, 68:13, 88:9
harder [1] - 42:4
hardship [1] - 45:15
Harlan [1] - 62:1
harm [2] - 72:14, 76:8
HASENBALG [1] - 3:2
haul [1] - 57:12
head [1] - 32:17
headed [1] - 108:3
health [10] - 40:9,
43:12, 43:14, 44:1,
44:7, 45:20, 61:16,
75:15, 75:21, 77:6
hear [20] - 38:4, 55:21,
56:2, 65:3, 68:7,
70:4, 71:4, 80:4,
80:6, 80:7, 90:15,
92:3, 96:2, 103:8,
112:19, 113:7,
115:19, 121:7,
121:15
heard [14] - 6:15, 8:18,
30:21, 59:12, 68:9,
70:5, 79:19, 80:14,
92:2, 92:15, 92:20,
94:11, 116:10
HEARING [1] - 1:11
hearing [21] - 6:3,
6:20, 7:2, 7:15, 9:4,
10:2, 38:20, 57:20,
59:6, 71:15, 80:2,
89:19, 90:13, 90:14,
105:6, 118:18,
127:11, 128:18,
128:21, 129:6,
129:14
hearings [6] - 6:6, 6:8,
6:16, 8:1, 8:4, 8:9
heart [2] - 49:11,
96:16
heartbreaking [1] -
41:9
Heartland [1] - 30:14
heat [2] - 73:6, 74:3
Heather [2] - 9:6,
105:7
heavy [3] - 13:4, 25:3,
44:24
height [5] - 20:17,
25:18, 26:6, 56:11,
84:2
hell [1] - 54:14
hello [5] - 11:18,
42:23, 68:16, 71:4,
87:23
help [3] - 26:15, 36:3,
56:13
hereby [1] - 129:5
hereto [2] - 129:19,
129:22
hereunto [1] - 130:3
Hi [1] - 68:4
hi [9] - 33:6, 35:24,
37:13, 46:5, 53:8,
81:11, 91:14, 103:7,
120:6
hide [1] - 58:11
high [3] - 25:7, 58:8,
107:9
higher [8] - 13:13,
13:14, 24:1, 43:17,
45:15, 61:18, 84:14
highlight [6] - 20:2,
20:11, 21:14, 21:20,
22:16, 25:23
highlighted [2] -
126:9, 126:12
highly [1] - 64:16
historic [3] - 101:5,
101:14, 113:9
historically [1] - 66:6
history [3] - 12:24,
61:24, 64:1
hit [2] - 52:14, 66:7
hits [2] - 64:6, 87:1
Hold [2] - 79:9, 122:20
hold [9] - 51:14,
77:23, 79:9, 79:10,
102:17
home [15] - 35:14,
39:17, 40:10, 46:21,
48:3, 48:12, 50:24,
64:7, 65:16, 65:18,
66:21, 66:23, 78:6,
94:3
homes [18] - 13:2,
13:8, 51:1, 51:8,
51:11, 51:19, 65:13,
65:14, 66:11, 67:8,
85:2, 85:5, 85:19,
87:10, 101:8, 101:9,
101:10, 115:13
honest [2] - 40:8, 59:2
honestly [3] - 59:4,
59:6, 89:8
hope [5] - 35:14,
65:16, 85:20, 111:3
horrible [1] - 67:14
hour [2] - 68:7, 68:8
hours [1] - 63:20
house [11] - 40:19,
41:1, 46:12, 47:13,
51:17, 54:6, 55:17,
57:24, 58:2
house-by-house [1] -
47:13
houses [6] - 46:12,
58:1, 58:4, 65:8,
82:3, 82:15
housing [1] - 79:1
huge [2] - 54:5, 69:16
human [1] - 44:2
humanity [1] - 41:6
humming [2] - 55:21,
94:21
hungry [1] - 45:8
Hurricane [1] - 64:2
hurry [1] - 115:3
hurt [1] - 111:9
husband [1] - 103:9
hybrid [1] - 44:8
hypothetical [2] -
66:3, 66:5
I
ice [2] - 62:19, 63:3
iceberg [1] - 63:16
icebergs [1] - 62:19
idea [2] - 50:9, 53:12
ideas [1] - 46:14
identified [1] - 88:12
identity [1] - 88:18
IDs [1] - 88:14
ignorance [1] - 96:7
ignorant [1] - 71:12
ignore [2] - 64:15
ignored [1] - 62:20
ILLINOIS [2] - 1:7,
129:1
Illinois [11] - 1:18,
2:24, 3:4, 12:5, 21:3,
21:7, 40:3, 123:13,
129:4, 130:4, 130:9
illustrated [1] - 24:11
imagine [2] - 35:1,
59:14
immeasurable [1] -
44:7
impact [9] - 13:14,
24:2, 24:5, 40:16,
40:17, 41:24, 61:15,
64:8, 75:20
impacted [3] - 39:24,
40:9, 42:7
impacting [1] - 35:2
impacts [6] - 22:15,
23:19, 75:15, 75:19,
76:4, 77:6
implore [1] - 46:9
important [1] - 82:8
impossible [1] - 76:12
IN [1] - 130:3
in-laws [1] - 55:16
include [6] - 13:7,
17:9, 17:11, 19:20,
20:20, 25:6
included [1] - 12:24
includes [1] - 16:21
including [3] - 13:4,
20:18, 115:16
incomes [1] - 45:13
incorporate [1] -
109:1
incorporated [2] -
119:3, 121:3
increase [3] - 33:24,
42:1, 45:14
increased [3] - 22:22,
44:4, 75:17
increases [3] - 28:6,
45:8, 73:22
increasing [2] - 44:13,
75:21
independent [2] -
71:17, 77:4
INDEX [1] - 4:1
indirectly [1] - 129:20
individual [2] - 16:12,
92:22
industrial [10] - 13:4,
15:15, 23:20, 24:1,
24:7, 46:23, 47:5,
51:19, 73:16, 75:16
industrial-type [1] -
15:15
industry [1] - 47:12
inform [1] - 29:22
information [2] -
70:17, 119:10
infrastructure [7] -
35:9, 72:7, 74:19,
75:1, 77:5, 78:10,
80:16
inheriting [1] - 76:2
inside [2] - 20:18, 26:7
instability [1] - 45:14
instead [2] - 59:15,
111:23
Institution [2] -
107:22, 108:20
Institutional [1] -
105:17
intact [1] - 122:12
intended [1] - 13:19
intensive [1] - 73:20
intention [2] - 124:1,
124:5
interconnection [1] -
35:4
interested [2] -
114:16, 129:19
interesting [1] - 22:2
interests [1] - 48:22
interrupting [1] - 38:2
interrupts [1] - 7:24
inure [1] - 22:23
inuring [1] - 27:24
invested [1] - 69:18
investigation [1] -
69:14
investment [1] - 47:24
invite [2] - 6:9, 67:15
involvement [1] - 32:6
involves [1] - 126:19
Ireland [1] - 62:2
irreversible [1] - 72:17
island [1] - 51:18
islands [1] - 17:15
issues [4] - 35:4, 35:5,
80:4, 95:16
item [2] - 128:2, 128:4
J
jack [1] - 63:3
JACOB [2] - 4:8, 42:19
Jacob [2] - 42:23, 43:9
January [2] - 1:21,
26:13
JENNIFER [2] - 5:3,
100:12
JEREMIAH [2] - 4:14,
55:13
JLL [1] - 21:15
job [10] - 8:8, 25:17,
32:16, 32:19, 32:20,
44:22, 60:17, 61:2,
61:3, 61:17
jobs [3] - 44:15, 44:17,
74:24
John [2] - 39:6, 98:14
joke [2] - 42:2, 65:1
jumped [1] - 54:2
Jumping [1] - 26:11
June [2] - 107:15
K
Katrina [1] - 64:2
keep [7] - 39:13,
53:10, 63:4, 64:14,
80:18, 94:6, 121:16
Keep [1] - 97:4
keeping [1] - 81:21
keeps [1] - 124:19
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Kendall [4] - 107:16,
108:16, 108:24,
116:12
kept [3] - 38:19, 38:23,
40:1
KEVIN [2] - 4:4, 30:10
Kevin [1] - 30:14
key [1] - 12:5
kids [5] - 47:2, 48:12,
49:14, 50:17, 101:19
killed [1] - 64:17
killing [1] - 40:14
kind [11] - 19:14, 21:2,
28:3, 28:8, 36:7,
36:16, 37:2, 67:4,
68:10, 91:20, 101:4
knowledge [5] -
77:12, 110:24,
111:11, 116:15,
116:17
known [2] - 43:24,
70:20
knows [1] - 113:11
Krysti [3] - 2:10,
119:1, 124:23
L
labor [3] - 24:10,
24:15, 24:16
lack [2] - 14:21, 14:22
Lakes [1] - 56:22
LAMB [21] - 3:3, 7:7,
11:12, 11:14, 29:18,
29:21, 38:1, 38:5,
38:9, 60:19, 60:22,
77:21, 79:11, 96:24,
97:3, 97:5, 102:14,
123:20, 124:23,
125:3, 126:13
land [23] - 10:13,
10:17, 12:8, 14:17,
15:18, 21:11, 25:8,
31:4, 40:12, 44:21,
46:16, 54:23, 57:23,
57:24, 76:13,
106:13, 114:1,
114:15, 115:17,
119:7, 119:17,
120:16, 120:23
landfill [1] - 92:2
landscape [2] - 20:20,
75:5
landscaping [1] - 26:6
lanes [1] - 115:9
large [4] - 34:1, 56:5,
70:11, 73:15
largest [1] - 21:10
LASALLE [1] - 129:2
Last [1] - 98:8
last [19] - 12:11,
24:18, 26:13, 37:14,
47:18, 52:6, 55:11,
67:2, 69:3, 80:14,
98:13, 98:17, 99:23,
100:10, 104:19,
107:1, 111:17,
123:4, 123:5
late [8] - 29:22, 30:4,
42:5, 63:17, 70:18,
128:9, 128:10
lately [1] - 39:16
laugh [1] - 53:17
laughter [1] - 94:22
Lauren [1] - 92:12
laws [1] - 55:16
lawsuit [1] - 39:7
layers [1] - 113:14
laying [1] - 32:3
leaks [1] - 75:18
learn [1] - 72:23
least [9] - 26:1, 27:10,
27:18, 36:22, 47:11,
76:6, 77:3, 113:18,
122:12
leave [4] - 8:1, 74:24,
75:10, 94:24
leaves [2] - 58:11,
114:14
LEESA [2] - 4:10, 49:6
left [2] - 21:21, 47:18
legacy [3] - 48:23,
91:21, 91:23
legal [2] - 12:14, 39:20
Leland [1] - 130:4
length [1] - 24:19
less [2] - 66:24, 104:2
lessons [1] - 92:15
letting [2] - 99:11,
99:19
lettuce [2] - 49:17,
55:23
levees [2] - 64:2, 64:5
level [3] - 41:7, 78:4,
119:14
levels [1] - 26:16
lies [1] - 64:19
life [9] - 39:24, 40:6,
48:16, 62:7, 62:10,
72:10, 79:6, 79:8,
89:7
light [7] - 13:4, 13:12,
16:22, 25:3, 55:22,
61:15, 80:15
lighted [1] - 13:13
lights [3] - 47:5,
55:23, 84:3
likelihood [1] - 73:22
likely [2] - 26:1, 26:3
likewise [1] - 8:14
limit [1] - 7:20
limited [4] - 14:9,
18:6, 44:20, 75:7
limiting [5] - 14:15,
14:16, 14:18, 82:17
limits [1] - 83:16
Line [1] - 62:5
line [7] - 26:12, 31:12,
49:20, 57:5, 57:6,
62:21, 78:14
liner [1] - 62:4
lines [2] - 17:1, 17:13
linked [1] - 44:4
Linnane [3] - 2:4,
9:17, 127:18
LINNANE [3] - 9:10,
9:18, 127:19
listed [1] - 18:16
listen [2] - 50:3, 96:9
listened [2] - 13:22,
92:1
listening [3] - 25:17,
45:23, 76:1
literally [4] - 18:8,
71:18, 89:11, 95:24
live [22] - 30:14, 36:1,
42:24, 47:2, 48:18,
48:21, 49:15, 49:16,
53:9, 55:17, 61:12,
65:2, 68:5, 71:8,
81:12, 91:15, 92:11,
98:2, 103:10, 110:2,
116:7, 120:7
lived [6] - 64:23, 69:5,
83:22, 85:11, 88:4,
89:6
lives [3] - 41:22, 50:2,
52:23
living [4] - 43:15,
50:13, 50:16, 69:19
LLC [2] - 9:5, 10:4
local [10] - 28:8, 41:6,
44:15, 44:19, 44:22,
45:14, 73:6, 74:17,
74:20, 74:21
locally [1] - 36:4
located [5] - 12:4,
105:12, 106:15,
107:16, 108:16
location [1] - 115:11
lock [1] - 76:13
logged [1] - 102:19
long-term [6] - 43:12,
44:2, 44:10, 44:19,
75:7, 76:11
LONGNECKER [20] -
5:9, 120:3, 120:6,
121:6, 122:21,
123:1, 123:16,
123:24, 124:4,
124:7, 124:10,
124:15, 124:22,
125:11, 125:14,
125:19, 125:22,
126:2, 126:9, 126:24
Longnecker [1] -
120:7
look [15] - 19:16,
50:11, 58:4, 58:14,
64:1, 100:16, 101:3,
101:6, 101:19,
101:20, 109:13,
114:12, 120:14,
123:10
looked [1] - 114:3
looking [6] - 84:19,
93:16, 99:6, 116:24,
121:21, 124:20
looks [1] - 55:24
loop [2] - 26:21, 36:3
LOOSE [1] - 46:5
LORIE [2] - 4:11,
50:20
Lorie [1] - 50:23
losing [1] - 39:17
loss [3] - 64:21, 66:23,
76:10
lot-to-lot [2] - 18:23,
19:1
lottery [1] - 66:8
Lotto [1] - 66:7
loud [1] - 56:2
love [6] - 85:1, 89:8,
89:9, 93:7, 101:7
loved [1] - 40:10
low [3] - 30:19, 83:21,
120:11
lower [3] - 23:21, 24:5,
27:3
lowered [1] - 84:3
lowering [1] - 75:20
LTD [1] - 3:2
Lucent [2] - 31:17,
31:20
LUCY [2] - 4:22, 89:2
ludicrous [1] - 49:21
lungs [1] - 44:14
lured [1] - 57:14
Luse [1] - 46:5
LUSE [2] - 4:9, 46:2
luxurious [1] - 62:4
LYDIA [2] - 4:16, 60:2
Lydia [1] - 60:6
M
M-1 [3] - 12:24, 13:3,
25:2
M-2 [11] - 10:11,
16:20, 17:4, 17:9,
17:12, 18:12, 18:24,
22:13, 45:18, 82:1
ma'am [14] - 38:1,
49:9, 60:19, 63:7,
74:9, 80:11, 89:5,
91:10, 97:22, 98:4,
110:15, 112:3,
112:7, 112:21
Ma'am [2] - 97:20,
98:1
Macedo [1] - 116:6
MACEDO [20] - 5:8,
116:3, 116:6,
116:14, 116:19,
117:3, 117:9,
117:14, 117:17,
117:21, 118:3,
118:6, 118:12,
118:14, 118:20,
119:5, 119:9,
119:15, 119:20,
119:24
machine [1] - 129:8
magnitude [1] - 77:11
mailboxes [1] -
111:18
main [5] - 36:8, 36:24,
37:1, 78:24, 111:13
majority [2] - 33:21,
89:7
manage [1] - 91:7
Management [2] -
62:5, 62:8
manner [1] - 124:1
manufacturing [4] -
13:5, 25:4, 65:24,
67:19
Manufacturing [3] -
10:12, 16:21, 25:3
map [11] - 15:21,
15:22, 16:7, 16:9,
16:11, 17:6, 17:17,
20:23, 24:19, 114:3,
126:12
March [3] - 62:1,
108:4, 118:23
Marge [1] - 2:4
MARICELA [2] - 5:1,
95:11
Mark [1] - 87:23
MARK [2] - 4:21,
87:20
market [1] - 37:19
Marlys [1] - 2:15
Mart [1] - 83:23
MARY [2] - 4:12, 52:3
massive [4] - 24:9,
32:5, 35:1, 47:5
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master [2] - 108:5,
116:23
masterpiece [1] -
40:24
MATILDA [2] - 4:5,
33:9
Matt [5] - 9:5, 10:2,
11:19, 66:9, 106:5
MATT [4] - 4:3, 5:5,
10:22, 106:2
matter [8] - 7:17,
43:18, 43:22, 71:18,
72:16, 97:24,
113:22, 123:13
matters [1] - 6:19
maximize [1] - 87:12
maximum [1] - 20:17
MAY [14] - 5:6, 109:23,
110:2, 110:9,
110:13, 110:19,
110:21, 111:1,
111:5, 111:9,
111:13, 111:16,
112:4, 112:19
mayor [3] - 15:9, 16:1,
98:14
McCree [4] - 4:6,
35:21, 35:24, 36:1
McCurdy [5] - 4:13,
53:5, 53:8, 53:9,
54:20
Meadows [1] - 91:15
mean [11] - 13:11,
28:7, 31:10, 36:12,
47:12, 52:16, 74:7,
74:8, 74:14, 89:23,
120:15
meaning [1] - 40:13
means [2] - 14:23,
129:8
mechanical [1] -
20:18
median [1] - 43:19
meet [4] - 26:14,
37:21, 59:20, 70:10
meeting [7] - 6:7,
7:13, 29:24, 37:14,
37:15, 81:18, 128:18
meetings [2] - 92:20,
95:19
meets [1] - 17:20
Megan [1] - 29:20
MEGAN [1] - 3:3
megawatt [1] - 24:12
megawatts [3] -
23:10, 29:2, 56:7
MEMBER [12] - 54:18,
61:6, 61:7, 79:5,
79:7, 79:23, 80:1,
80:5, 80:9, 83:7,
96:3, 98:19
member [2] - 7:3, 7:23
MEMBERS [1] -
123:19
members [11] - 6:9,
8:3, 8:10, 37:21,
37:23, 38:13, 43:7,
46:8, 71:20, 75:23,
76:23
Menards [1] - 100:23
MENDEZ [3] - 102:10,
102:18, 102:20
Mendez [1] - 2:12
mental [1] - 40:9
mentally [1] - 61:16
mention [4] - 12:23,
40:15, 92:19, 97:11
mentioned [5] - 57:23,
73:1, 81:18, 93:13,
93:14
merely [2] - 72:7,
78:13
Mesaba [1] - 62:17
messages [3] - 38:16,
39:12, 62:22
met [3] - 17:7, 17:8,
37:23
Meyer [1] - 15:19
Meyers [1] - 88:3
Mic [2] - 55:10, 68:24
Michael [1] - 2:5
Michigan [1] - 85:9
microphone [2] -
11:16, 38:3
Microsoft [1] - 32:15
middle [4] - 19:5,
26:2, 41:9, 51:18
might [3] - 42:5,
60:11, 99:23
mighty [1] - 62:24
mildly [1] - 41:7
mile [2] - 43:16, 56:3
million [8] - 19:24,
23:8, 23:11, 24:12,
28:21, 29:5, 59:12,
103:21
millions [4] - 69:15,
69:18, 70:2, 73:4
mind [2] - 68:6, 90:20
mine [1] - 113:13
minimal [2] - 74:20,
84:18
Minimal [1] - 74:21
minimum [1] - 20:19
Minute [1] - 2:15
minute [4] - 19:3,
32:14, 46:9, 114:4
minutes [1] - 63:20
miracle [1] - 41:3
missed [1] - 28:20
mitigate [1] - 36:13
moment [4] - 115:20,
117:6, 119:20,
122:13
moments [2] - 63:8,
63:15
money [8] - 31:11,
40:5, 40:7, 40:8,
41:11, 66:23, 66:24,
103:20
Montgomery [3] -
71:8, 89:7, 89:9
month [3] - 57:2, 94:6
months [8] - 27:11,
27:15, 27:17, 27:19,
31:14, 31:15, 53:13,
59:9
moral [1] - 72:8
morning [2] - 39:15,
40:23
mortality [1] - 44:5
most [8] - 45:16, 62:4,
63:18, 63:19, 72:22,
73:19, 74:24, 108:3
mostly [1] - 36:2
motion [4] - 9:3, 9:12,
127:10, 127:15
mound [1] - 84:6
move [11] - 11:15,
40:5, 40:9, 42:23,
46:24, 54:15, 76:7,
90:7, 94:24, 102:3,
120:16
moved [11] - 9:9, 47:1,
66:16, 66:20, 85:10,
85:12, 85:16, 89:7,
122:1, 127:12
moving [5] - 20:23,
53:17, 77:7, 80:18,
90:10
MR [118] - 10:20, 11:1,
11:5, 11:18, 26:16,
26:17, 28:24, 29:4,
29:13, 30:13, 42:22,
46:5, 53:8, 54:20,
55:6, 55:12, 55:16,
58:18, 59:2, 68:4,
68:16, 69:2, 69:5,
81:11, 82:22, 83:5,
83:10, 83:14, 83:18,
84:10, 84:16, 84:19,
86:1, 86:8, 86:15,
86:20, 86:23, 87:3,
87:6, 87:23, 91:5,
91:8, 92:10, 93:9,
102:7, 102:11,
104:24, 105:4,
105:20, 106:5,
109:11, 110:6,
110:12, 110:17,
110:20, 110:24,
111:3, 111:7,
111:11, 111:15,
113:1, 113:4, 113:5,
113:14, 114:7,
114:9, 114:11,
116:1, 116:6,
116:14, 116:17,
116:19, 116:22,
117:3, 117:7, 117:9,
117:13, 117:14,
117:15, 117:17,
117:19, 117:21,
118:1, 118:3, 118:4,
118:6, 118:12,
118:14, 118:20,
119:5, 119:9,
119:15, 119:20,
119:24, 120:6,
120:20, 121:6,
122:21, 123:1,
123:16, 123:24,
124:4, 124:7,
124:10, 124:15,
124:22, 125:11,
125:14, 125:19,
125:22, 126:2,
126:6, 126:9,
126:24, 127:6,
128:1, 128:5, 128:7
MS [131] - 3:3, 7:7,
9:13, 9:15, 9:17,
9:19, 9:21, 9:23,
11:3, 11:6, 11:12,
11:14, 29:18, 29:21,
33:6, 33:13, 35:24,
37:13, 38:1, 38:4,
38:5, 38:7, 38:9,
38:12, 49:4, 50:23,
51:16, 51:23, 52:8,
60:5, 60:19, 60:22,
60:24, 61:2, 61:9,
63:8, 63:11, 63:14,
71:4, 71:7, 74:10,
74:13, 75:14, 77:20,
77:21, 77:23, 79:11,
81:1, 82:18, 83:1,
84:9, 84:13, 88:23,
89:6, 91:14, 95:7,
95:15, 96:5, 96:21,
96:24, 97:3, 97:5,
97:10, 97:17, 97:19,
97:21, 97:23, 98:2,
98:7, 98:14, 98:23,
99:9, 99:12, 99:17,
99:19, 100:5,
100:11, 100:15,
100:20, 101:17,
101:22, 102:10,
102:14, 102:18,
102:20, 103:2,
103:7, 103:16,
104:14, 105:23,
110:2, 110:9,
110:13, 110:19,
110:21, 111:1,
111:5, 111:9,
111:13, 111:16,
112:4, 112:19,
118:24, 119:2,
119:6, 119:13,
119:17, 119:22,
122:18, 123:20,
124:23, 125:1,
125:3, 125:5, 125:9,
125:12, 125:16,
125:20, 126:1,
126:11, 126:13,
127:16, 127:18,
127:20, 127:22,
127:24, 128:3,
128:10, 128:12,
128:14, 128:16
multi [3] - 13:9, 23:23,
25:6
Multi [2] - 10:10, 10:15
multi-family [3] - 13:9,
23:23, 25:6
Multi-Family [2] -
10:10, 10:15
multiple [2] - 56:15,
87:1
multiplied [1] - 70:7
municipal [1] - 24:5
mural [1] - 101:6
must [4] - 8:6, 73:9,
75:4, 76:16
N
name [30] - 6:23,
11:19, 30:13, 35:24,
37:13, 39:14, 42:23,
43:9, 46:5, 50:23,
52:6, 53:8, 55:11,
60:5, 60:8, 68:4,
68:16, 69:1, 69:3,
71:7, 81:11, 87:23,
92:10, 97:15,
100:10, 103:7,
106:5, 110:2, 113:1,
116:6
Naper [1] - 3:3
Naperville [1] - 3:4
national [1] - 43:18
nationally [1] - 44:13
natural [2] - 113:19,
121:16
nature [1] - 122:2
near [2] - 64:23, 99:5
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10
nearby [4] - 13:2,
14:21, 43:20, 75:20
nearly [1] - 76:12
necessarily [2] - 22:3,
28:7
need [19] - 20:24,
32:6, 33:1, 37:2,
49:4, 50:5, 52:11,
52:22, 55:6, 62:9,
68:17, 88:23, 93:15,
101:2, 105:23,
115:4, 123:14,
124:12
needed [2] - 21:19,
62:6
needs [5] - 37:2,
76:15, 114:20,
121:4, 124:3
negative [1] - 90:16
neighbor [3] - 40:13,
42:6, 69:21
neighbor's [2] - 46:15,
69:22
neighborhood [14] -
13:9, 14:5, 14:13,
42:24, 45:22, 46:6,
46:22, 52:17, 54:4,
54:13, 63:22, 66:22,
103:11, 119:11
neighborhoods [2] -
72:18, 75:20
neighboring [1] -
86:21
neighbors [9] - 22:17,
43:8, 45:12, 65:22,
67:12, 70:13, 77:1,
111:17, 121:5
nervous [1] - 100:15
nested [1] - 40:22
never [4] - 40:7, 59:20,
94:11
new [8] - 27:11, 27:14,
66:15, 85:5, 90:9,
111:24, 115:16
newspaper [1] - 42:10
next [34] - 15:13, 16:4,
16:14, 17:16, 17:22,
18:1, 18:8, 18:20,
19:7, 20:9, 20:22,
21:1, 21:13, 22:6,
22:14, 23:18, 24:17,
24:23, 25:12, 28:9,
46:24, 47:1, 49:20,
50:13, 54:4, 71:8,
75:24, 78:6, 81:6,
105:6, 106:15,
114:2, 116:24,
126:17
Next [4] - 35:16, 37:8,
46:1, 106:10
Nexus [2] - 9:5, 10:4
nice [5] - 38:22, 38:23,
39:1, 39:14, 41:16
night [12] - 26:10,
40:23, 41:9, 55:21,
63:21, 69:24, 70:14,
76:2, 98:8, 98:13,
98:17, 101:23
night's [1] - 37:14
nine [5] - 14:18, 18:16,
22:11
nitrogen [3] - 43:17,
43:23, 44:10
NOBLE [27] - 11:3,
11:6, 81:1, 82:18,
83:1, 84:9, 103:2,
104:14, 105:23,
118:24, 119:2,
119:6, 119:13,
119:17, 119:22,
122:18, 125:1,
125:5, 125:9,
125:12, 125:16,
125:20, 126:1,
126:11, 127:24,
128:3, 128:10
Noble [1] - 2:10
nobody [3] - 51:9,
96:13, 118:7
Noise [1] - 79:3
noise [21] - 15:1,
25:18, 26:8, 26:14,
26:19, 47:4, 49:24,
56:1, 61:15, 69:12,
69:14, 70:11, 75:16,
78:5, 79:4, 80:15,
84:4, 86:13, 86:16,
92:21, 93:5
noises [1] - 94:21
non [1] - 12:14
non-conforming [1] -
12:14
none [1] - 68:9
North [1] - 3:3
north [15] - 16:19,
17:2, 17:3, 17:5,
20:5, 51:7, 86:10,
105:12, 107:7,
110:18, 110:19,
111:6, 112:20,
114:12, 114:23
northeast [1] - 20:7
northern [1] - 108:7
nose [1] - 74:6
nosebleeds [1] -
64:22
notes [1] - 57:19
nothing [11] - 29:9,
40:1, 41:3, 51:3,
51:7, 53:10, 70:6,
93:24, 102:8,
116:11, 119:9
notices [1] - 42:10
notified [3] - 99:12,
99:15, 112:12
number [10] - 9:4,
16:5, 16:10, 17:14,
17:17, 20:23, 27:5,
28:20, 35:3, 70:7
numbers [7] - 13:15,
31:10, 53:24, 59:9,
59:16, 70:4, 70:5
O
oath [4] - 7:6, 29:23,
33:7, 68:17
obvious [1] - 53:11
obviously [5] - 25:9,
36:2, 36:18, 87:9,
120:15
occur [1] - 45:5
OF [3] - 1:6, 129:1,
129:2
offer [1] - 75:6
office [1] - 24:7
officials [2] - 46:10,
76:24
offset [1] - 93:15
often [4] - 73:3, 73:23,
75:6, 76:6
Ohio [1] - 64:10
old [3] - 40:19, 41:21,
113:9
on-site [1] - 44:19
once [12] - 6:16, 8:17,
48:8, 72:8, 74:24,
76:11, 112:8, 112:9,
118:15, 121:19,
122:11, 124:18
one [59] - 6:22, 10:13,
12:4, 16:5, 16:12,
17:7, 21:10, 28:19,
30:21, 33:17, 39:13,
43:16, 50:24, 52:8,
52:12, 54:2, 54:15,
56:8, 56:15, 64:6,
66:15, 69:11, 70:16,
71:18, 72:8, 77:3,
77:16, 77:17, 77:18,
81:12, 82:11, 86:9,
86:10, 86:11, 86:12,
86:15, 86:16, 90:1,
91:2, 94:11, 96:21,
98:3, 100:1, 100:20,
102:11, 102:19,
102:24, 103:23,
104:13, 104:14,
104:16, 120:10,
121:13, 122:21,
123:1, 126:6, 126:7
one-third [1] - 121:13
ones [3] - 47:2, 47:3,
90:17
online [7] - 21:7,
21:23, 22:1, 22:5,
34:15, 35:2, 35:7
oops [1] - 122:19
open [2] - 9:3, 68:6
opening [1] - 25:1
opens [1] - 36:6
operations [1] - 74:5
operator [1] - 63:4
opportunities [1] -
85:19
opportunity [2] -
71:22, 106:7
oppose [1] - 43:11
opposed [1] - 85:18
opposition [4] - 9:2,
29:16, 71:23, 109:18
option [2] - 113:24,
115:22
order [2] - 8:23, 25:14
orderly [1] - 7:14
organic [1] - 37:20
organized [1] - 7:8
original [1] - 129:22
originally [1] - 85:9
OTTOSEN [1] - 3:2
ourselves [2] - 73:9,
114:16
outages [3] - 45:2,
45:5, 73:23
outcome [1] - 129:20
outcomes [1] - 44:5
outflow [1] - 115:5
outline [1] - 18:10
outset [1] - 29:23
outside [4] - 49:23,
72:2, 79:20, 89:11
over-usage [1] - 36:13
overflow [1] - 11:8
overhead [2] - 17:1,
17:13
overheated [1] - 64:13
override [1] - 88:9
overwhelming [1] -
87:4
own [4] - 41:15, 47:11,
75:24, 98:9
owner [3] - 10:4,
114:1, 126:16
owners [4] - 11:20,
38:20, 39:1, 114:15
owns [2] - 108:15,
114:2
ozones [1] - 43:20
P
p.m [4] - 1:22, 6:3,
63:17, 128:22
packed [1] - 62:18
packet [1] - 12:23
PAGE [1] - 4:2
page [1] - 15:5
Pages [1] - 129:7
painful [1] - 74:1
painted [1] - 101:6
panel [1] - 71:17
paper [1] - 119:18
parcel [6] - 10:13,
11:21, 16:17, 16:24,
107:9, 108:1
parcels [13] - 10:5,
10:8, 12:9, 16:12,
16:13, 17:15, 18:11,
105:11, 106:13,
106:14, 106:18,
107:5, 107:6
Pardon [1] - 69:2
parent [1] - 83:19
parents [3] - 46:11,
47:9, 77:1
park [1] - 51:19
parking [2] - 13:13,
54:6
parks [1] - 46:18
part [12] - 28:5, 34:1,
53:23, 66:14, 69:12,
70:11, 71:9, 107:11,
108:7, 121:14,
121:20, 124:17
participation [1] -
8:22
particular [3] - 66:14,
69:10, 103:18
particulate [2] - 43:18,
43:22
parties [1] - 129:19
passed [1] - 94:10
passenger [1] - 62:4
passengers [1] -
62:22
passing [1] - 94:12
past [3] - 25:11, 53:13,
93:18
patted [1] - 65:11
pause [1] - 72:11
pay [3] - 31:11, 34:6,
47:8
paying [3] - 34:18,
66:22, 124:18
peace [3] - 41:13,
47:24, 63:24
pediatric [1] - 44:12
people [41] - 11:7,
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22:3, 28:2, 32:3,
32:9, 42:3, 45:11,
48:4, 48:20, 48:22,
49:12, 52:18, 53:16,
54:12, 58:3, 59:19,
61:8, 63:21, 64:4,
64:14, 64:17, 65:4,
65:9, 65:14, 69:19,
74:17, 79:16, 80:14,
81:1, 81:4, 85:7,
88:11, 90:24, 91:19,
94:15, 96:2, 96:6,
96:9, 96:17, 117:9,
126:5
people's [2] - 52:23,
115:12
per [5] - 15:7, 17:21,
18:14, 23:10, 73:4
percent [6] - 24:15,
54:13, 67:5, 104:2,
112:17, 123:4
period [2] - 8:19,
81:23
permanent [2] - 44:17,
74:24
permanently [3] -
73:5, 75:5, 77:24
permit [5] - 18:20,
83:3, 99:2, 99:8,
99:15
person [6] - 35:12,
35:17, 37:9, 65:17,
66:16, 81:6
personal [4] - 7:18,
98:5, 98:7, 129:11
personnel [1] - 44:18
persons [2] - 6:12,
6:21
perspective [1] -
121:15
petition [1] - 127:9
Petition [1] - 9:4
petitioner [12] - 6:14,
7:2, 8:12, 8:14, 8:24,
10:3, 10:18, 60:23,
104:22, 105:14,
122:17, 127:3
phase [1] - 85:5
phases [1] - 93:2
Phillips [1] - 63:3
phonetic [5] - 4:5,
4:19, 4:22, 4:23, 5:1
phrase [1] - 38:19
physically [1] - 61:17
PI [3] - 105:16, 107:22,
108:20
picture [1] - 88:17
piece [2] - 108:7,
108:14
pieces [2] - 39:18,
39:23
pileups [1] - 121:9
pizza [1] - 67:15
PJM [4] - 34:12, 34:23,
34:24, 35:3
place [7] - 44:24, 47:6,
48:3, 64:14, 65:18,
85:20, 129:15
places [4] - 31:21,
36:20, 100:24, 101:1
Plainfield [1] - 83:22
plan [22] - 7:1, 14:23,
19:9, 19:10, 19:12,
19:14, 19:15, 19:20,
23:8, 24:10, 30:23,
32:8, 34:13, 34:15,
69:2, 89:21, 108:2,
108:5, 114:22,
116:24, 119:7
Plan [2] - 16:8, 17:8
planks [1] - 70:12
planned [3] - 12:19,
16:10, 93:23
Planner [3] - 2:12,
2:13, 2:14
Planning [3] - 6:6,
15:10, 82:12
PLANNING [1] - 1:10
planning [3] - 7:5,
59:4, 89:14
Plano [11] - 22:21,
22:24, 51:1, 57:24,
58:3, 69:7, 100:21,
103:21, 123:7
plans [10] - 108:10,
110:6, 116:20,
117:1, 117:11,
117:13, 117:14,
117:16, 118:4, 121:2
plant [2] - 70:1, 70:9
play [8] - 38:22, 38:23,
39:1, 39:14, 41:16,
46:17, 49:23, 94:18
playing [1] - 91:22
plummet [1] - 66:22
PMJ [1] - 28:5
pockets [1] - 78:14
podium [35] - 6:24,
8:5, 10:24, 29:24,
30:12, 33:11, 35:23,
37:12, 42:21, 46:4,
49:8, 50:22, 52:5,
53:7, 55:15, 59:1,
60:4, 67:24, 68:23,
71:3, 81:10, 87:22,
89:4, 91:13, 92:9,
95:13, 97:9, 100:14,
103:6, 106:4,
109:22, 110:1,
112:24, 116:5, 120:5
point [20] - 37:5,
50:10, 57:17, 60:16,
70:13, 77:8, 79:17,
97:6, 107:2, 108:9,
112:9, 112:16,
114:19, 116:13,
120:10, 120:19,
121:14, 122:22,
123:11, 123:17
Pointe [1] - 1:17
pointing [2] - 16:17,
80:17
points [3] - 7:19,
77:16, 113:5
police [2] - 24:6, 112:4
politicians [2] - 39:24,
40:11
pollutants [3] - 26:18,
43:24, 44:3
polluting [1] - 33:22
pollution [12] - 49:24,
55:22, 56:1, 61:16,
75:16, 78:5, 79:2,
79:4, 80:15, 84:4
ponds [1] - 120:14
population [3] -
106:18, 106:22,
107:3
porch [1] - 40:20
portion [2] - 23:6,
33:17
pose [1] - 72:13
poses [1] - 72:24
positioned [1] - 21:4
positives [1] - 68:9
POSS [4] - 4:10, 49:4,
49:6, 49:10
possibility [1] - 83:5
possible [1] - 77:2
possibly [3] - 81:20,
85:17, 86:17
post [1] - 42:9
posts [1] - 39:16
potential [1] - 108:13
potentially [3] - 13:11,
64:9, 115:22
power [20] - 17:1,
23:4, 26:24, 27:12,
27:14, 27:16, 31:13,
44:8, 45:5, 45:8,
45:10, 47:18, 55:20,
59:11, 72:18, 74:2,
76:6, 77:24, 78:15,
88:3
Prairie [1] - 1:17
pray [1] - 65:17
precede [1] - 15:2
predicted [1] - 64:3
prepared [5] - 10:19,
53:10, 73:10, 87:24,
91:17
PRESENT [2] - 2:1,
2:9
present [6] - 6:13,
10:18, 29:15,
105:19, 109:17,
122:13
presentation [12] -
8:24, 10:19, 15:5,
15:6, 28:16, 53:20,
57:21, 57:22, 66:10,
106:8, 109:3
presentations [2] -
92:16, 94:8
pressure [2] - 45:13,
72:2
pretty [8] - 16:6,
17:18, 28:16, 53:11,
68:6, 69:7, 101:11,
116:18
prevent [1] - 37:4
previous [5] - 31:1,
81:18, 93:18, 95:19,
97:5
previously [1] - 97:8
price [4] - 28:5, 33:24,
47:8, 115:17
prices [2] - 34:7, 37:4
primarily [1] - 15:18
primary [1] - 78:3
prioritize [1] - 73:10
prioritizes [1] - 72:1
Pritzker [2] - 26:12,
40:3
problem [3] - 31:5,
36:8, 69:21
problems [1] - 35:8
proceedings [3] - 6:2,
128:20, 129:13
process [5] - 17:9,
19:19, 33:21, 82:21,
118:10
production [1] - 36:9
productive [1] - 7:15
profits [3] - 74:24,
75:10, 78:14
program [1] - 69:12
progress [4] - 43:11,
71:24, 78:17, 78:18
project [1] - 48:16
Project [5] - 17:5,
51:6, 93:1
projecting [1] - 27:5
prolongs [1] - 73:23
promise [1] - 60:15
promised [1] - 63:24
promises [1] - 74:22
prompted [1] - 71:11
proper [1] - 120:22
properly [1] - 121:4
property [39] - 10:4,
22:19, 22:22, 22:23,
24:20, 27:23, 40:12,
40:15, 49:20, 54:16,
75:20, 81:15, 82:11,
87:12, 92:13, 104:4,
105:10, 105:15,
107:14, 108:8,
108:14, 110:3,
110:5, 110:8, 114:9,
114:12, 116:16,
118:17, 119:11,
119:13, 123:3,
124:24, 125:6,
125:10, 126:16,
126:17, 126:20,
126:22
proposal [1] - 86:11
proposed [19] - 6:10,
10:9, 10:14, 12:22,
16:9, 16:11, 17:4,
17:19, 20:8, 21:1,
23:8, 46:7, 67:9,
72:13, 78:6, 84:22,
86:2, 92:13, 93:3
proposing [1] - 19:12
protect [7] - 43:12,
46:19, 47:9, 47:11,
47:19, 78:18, 82:8
protected [2] - 74:4,
81:22
protecting [2] - 39:2,
78:3
protective [1] - 84:2
proud [1] - 78:11
provide [1] - 106:19
provided [1] - 23:13
providing [1] - 33:22
Public [3] - 105:16,
107:22, 108:20
public [29] - 6:2, 6:5,
6:9, 6:12, 6:16, 7:2,
7:3, 7:23, 8:11, 8:15,
8:17, 8:18, 9:4, 10:2,
44:7, 77:6, 102:21,
105:6, 105:17,
107:22, 108:22,
118:18, 127:5,
127:8, 127:11,
128:18, 128:21,
129:6, 129:14
PUBLIC [1] - 1:11
PUD [8] - 12:19,
14:23, 14:24, 16:22,
17:12, 18:13, 18:15,
19:18
pull [2] - 42:16, 67:11
punched [1] - 42:2
Purcell [1] - 98:14
purchase [1] - 115:17
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purchased [2] -
107:14, 120:24
purple [1] - 16:20
purpose [1] - 6:8
push [1] - 120:16
pushing [1] - 88:7
put [26] - 26:2, 29:1,
39:7, 39:17, 52:13,
53:19, 55:19, 56:18,
57:5, 57:7, 58:12,
59:15, 64:14, 65:19,
69:15, 82:15, 82:24,
83:9, 84:1, 85:4,
89:14, 90:5, 94:3,
113:14, 114:14
putting [4] - 36:7,
41:7, 56:24, 102:17
PZC [4] - 9:4, 9:6,
10:2, 105:6
Q
quadruple [1] - 86:17
quality [6] - 43:14,
48:16, 72:10, 78:10,
79:5, 79:8
quantities [1] - 73:3
questioned [1] - 108:1
questions [15] - 6:14,
8:11, 8:12, 8:16,
28:12, 29:6, 54:11,
60:15, 60:22, 76:22,
106:9, 109:4, 109:6,
112:8, 112:18
queues [1] - 35:6
quick [5] - 28:20,
81:13, 85:24, 106:8,
122:22
quickly [2] - 78:13,
85:6
quiet [2] - 45:21, 48:8
quietly [1] - 76:8
quite [2] - 13:19, 27:9
R
R-1 [3] - 105:15,
107:19, 108:18
R-4 [5] - 10:10, 10:15,
13:7, 18:5, 23:23
R-E-A-M [1] - 69:5
radio [1] - 63:6
raise [7] - 7:3, 51:24,
58:19, 66:18, 68:18,
95:8, 102:14
Raise [2] - 55:7, 88:24
raised [3] - 71:18,
85:15, 103:1
raises [1] - 74:1
raising [1] - 123:3
ramble [1] - 43:6
rampant [1] - 32:24
ran [1] - 115:16
range [1] - 13:3
rapid [1] - 45:7
rate [1] - 123:4
rates [2] - 28:8, 36:5
rather [4] - 39:10,
58:4, 67:14, 94:23
re [1] - 30:5
re-swear [1] - 30:5
reached [1] - 99:20
reaching [2] - 37:24,
38:13
read [1] - 39:13
ready [3] - 31:9, 69:16,
105:19
real [12] - 21:15,
23:15, 31:8, 41:8,
41:10, 46:13, 70:2,
85:23, 104:5,
105:10, 122:22
realities [1] - 76:14
really [21] - 15:14,
15:15, 15:23, 24:9,
30:23, 32:18, 34:4,
35:13, 53:21, 54:1,
54:9, 58:14, 59:3,
59:7, 66:2, 100:15,
103:17, 104:4,
115:11, 121:23
realtor [1] - 94:4
REAM [5] - 4:18,
68:16, 68:21, 69:2,
69:5
Ream [1] - 68:16
ream [1] - 69:5
reason [1] - 85:10
reasons [2] - 30:16,
72:12
rebate [1] - 23:3
rebuild [1] - 70:10
received [1] - 72:20
receives [1] - 23:6
receiving [2] - 8:23,
39:12
recently [2] - 85:5,
94:10
recharge [1] - 65:20
reckless [1] - 78:16
reclassify [1] - 108:20
recommendation [2] -
6:18, 18:7
record [4] - 104:23,
105:3, 127:5, 129:12
recycled [1] - 79:15
recycling [1] - 80:19
redevelopment [1] -
22:9
redirect [1] - 7:21
reduced [1] - 129:9
referendum [3] -
108:3, 109:10,
109:12
reflect [1] - 85:21
reflection [1] - 76:22
regarding [5] - 6:10,
6:15, 72:6, 99:3,
127:9
regardless [1] - 36:5
region [2] - 21:11,
28:9
regulated [1] - 43:16
regulations [1] - 62:9
reiterate [3] - 13:18,
91:18, 95:17
rejuvenate [2] -
115:10, 115:15
related [2] - 14:9, 44:3
relative [2] - 129:16,
129:17
relatively [1] - 74:16
relax [1] - 65:19
relevant [1] - 8:12
reliability [1] - 44:23
rely [1] - 43:21
remain [5] - 8:3,
10:17, 12:8, 14:5,
82:6
remained [1] - 25:8
remains [1] - 75:2
remarks [2] - 7:21,
25:1
remember [1] - 57:18
reminder [2] - 11:14,
42:14
remove [1] - 76:12
removed [1] - 73:5
renewable [2] - 35:6,
36:17
rents [1] - 108:13
repeat [2] - 7:4, 61:24
repeatedly [1] - 7:24
repeating [1] - 97:5
repetitive [2] - 7:18,
7:21
reply [1] - 62:23
reported [3] - 2:23,
64:13, 129:7
REPORTER [2] - 68:3,
97:15
reporter [1] - 8:6
Reporter [1] - 129:4
represent [1] - 6:23
representing [1] -
39:6
represents [1] - 48:22
reproduced [1] -
130:1
repurpose [1] - 76:12
request [11] - 6:15,
9:2, 9:8, 14:2, 14:23,
18:5, 27:11, 29:16,
109:18, 119:3,
125:21
requested [1] - 18:11
requesting [6] - 9:6,
10:4, 105:8, 106:12,
107:21, 108:19
requests [1] - 6:10
required [2] - 20:6,
73:15
requirement [1] - 37:3
requirements [1] -
17:21
requires [1] - 33:20
requiring [2] - 22:6,
26:20
research [8] - 43:15,
71:14, 71:17, 77:4,
78:16, 86:4, 98:9,
115:6
reserves [1] - 34:13
reside [1] - 123:8
residence [1] - 107:20
Residence [2] - 10:11,
10:16
resident [1] - 46:6
residential [12] - 12:6,
13:10, 14:1, 19:7,
20:14, 20:16, 20:22,
23:20, 23:22, 23:24,
24:6, 25:5
Residential [2] - 18:6,
105:16
residents [12] - 12:7,
13:17, 13:23, 19:15,
20:3, 41:18, 42:1,
71:21, 73:7, 74:4,
78:8, 93:7
resides [1] - 108:24
resilience [2] - 75:8,
76:20
resource [4] - 33:15,
36:17, 75:12, 78:5
resources [3] - 13:15,
73:2, 75:6
respectful [1] - 39:22
respectfully [1] -
45:17
respiratory [1] - 43:24
respond [1] - 8:15
response [12] - 29:7,
29:10, 30:7, 35:18,
64:11, 80:23, 91:1,
102:4, 104:20,
109:7, 109:19,
122:16
responses [3] -
104:22, 105:2, 127:4
responsibility [2] -
78:15, 130:1
responsible [2] -
45:19, 75:4
restriction [1] - 26:7
result [1] - 16:11
retention [3] - 120:14,
120:23, 121:3
retirees [1] - 45:12
revenue [7] - 23:2,
23:17, 47:23, 52:15,
90:1, 123:14, 124:3
revenues [3] - 22:18,
27:21, 27:22
reversible [1] - 73:17
review [5] - 7:13,
15:21, 16:2, 20:24,
24:19
reviewed [1] - 15:8
REYNOLDS [1] -
26:16
rezone [4] - 46:16,
67:2, 105:14, 107:21
rezoned [4] - 10:10,
10:15, 13:7, 67:18
rezoning [14] - 9:6,
9:8, 10:5, 12:23,
14:2, 15:23, 16:3,
22:10, 45:18, 46:7,
60:9, 105:8, 106:12,
117:10
rezonings [1] - 60:10
Rich [2] - 2:2, 68:4
RICH [2] - 4:17, 67:22
Richard [1] - 92:10
RICHARD [2] - 4:24,
92:7
riddled [2] - 35:3,
64:21
ride [1] - 46:17
ridiculous [2] - 50:7,
96:8
rights [1] - 39:20
rise [1] - 76:17
rising [2] - 50:6, 74:15
risk [5] - 44:4, 44:13,
73:19, 75:17, 78:4
risks [2] - 72:23, 75:21
river [2] - 113:20,
120:18
River [19] - 105:12,
106:14, 107:6,
108:11, 110:3,
110:13, 111:14,
111:19, 112:1,
113:8, 113:18,
115:20, 116:7,
118:5, 120:7,
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121:24, 122:12,
126:21
rivers [1] - 73:14
road [11] - 55:23, 56:4,
88:19, 111:14,
113:10, 113:19,
115:8, 115:11,
115:15, 115:16,
121:9
Road [29] - 15:19,
16:23, 49:19,
105:12, 105:13,
106:14, 106:15,
107:7, 107:8,
108:10, 108:11,
110:3, 110:14,
111:14, 111:20,
112:1, 112:14,
113:8, 113:9,
113:18, 114:13,
115:20, 116:7,
118:5, 120:7,
121:24, 122:12,
126:21
roads [2] - 75:2,
100:22
Rob [3] - 14:8, 19:5,
99:4
roll [2] - 9:11, 127:14
Ron [2] - 68:16, 69:20
RON [2] - 4:18, 68:21
room [5] - 11:8, 96:1,
96:9, 103:10, 109:14
round [1] - 44:22
routine [1] - 72:16
Roy [3] - 14:8, 19:5,
99:4
ruin [1] - 52:17
ruined [1] - 52:23
rules [1] - 7:14
run [8] - 32:24, 37:19,
58:13, 73:13,
108:10, 113:19,
120:12, 121:4
run-off [1] - 120:12
running [3] - 59:16,
110:10, 115:20
runny [1] - 74:6
rural [1] - 89:9
S
sacrifice [1] - 48:15
sacrificing [1] - 45:20
sad [1] - 66:2
safe [4] - 40:10, 64:15,
78:24, 85:14
safer [2] - 62:12, 66:12
safest [2] - 47:7, 63:19
safety [6] - 43:12,
44:23, 48:1, 65:18,
72:3, 79:7
sail [1] - 62:16
sailor [1] - 63:15
sale [1] - 94:3
Sara [1] - 2:12
sat [1] - 41:1
SAUCEDO [4] - 4:5,
33:6, 33:9, 33:13
save [1] - 77:22
saw [2] - 34:8, 40:12
scarcer [1] - 76:17
Schaefer [1] - 114:13
scheduled [1] - 6:6
school [23] - 13:14,
22:22, 22:23, 71:10,
105:18, 106:20,
107:1, 107:9,
107:23, 108:6,
108:15, 108:22,
113:21, 114:18,
115:1, 123:18,
123:23, 124:3,
124:24, 125:1,
125:9, 126:16,
126:22
School [3] - 9:7,
105:7, 106:11
school's [1] - 114:9
schools [6] - 66:13,
110:9, 110:11,
111:2, 112:19,
124:14
scope [1] - 121:14
scoped [1] - 108:6
screamed [1] - 63:16
screaming [1] - 103:9
screening [1] - 84:12
scrutiny [1] - 72:19
sea [2] - 62:4, 63:19
Sean [1] - 26:15
seasons [1] - 84:7
seat [1] - 11:9
seated [1] - 7:11
seats [2] - 11:10,
42:15
second [7] - 9:10,
14:2, 34:18, 44:2,
73:18, 123:1, 127:13
Section [1] - 15:7
secure [1] - 63:19
security [1] - 44:18
see [28] - 7:9, 16:19,
22:3, 23:24, 31:5,
34:4, 54:9, 54:22,
55:1, 58:6, 59:20,
59:21, 68:11, 83:20,
84:21, 89:10, 93:7,
93:20, 95:1, 101:13,
101:14, 107:5,
108:22, 114:13,
120:10, 122:2,
122:20
seeing [8] - 28:17,
35:13, 40:24, 57:21,
66:19, 87:10, 90:1,
93:17
seeking [1] - 105:14
seem [1] - 97:13
selling [1] - 75:9
semis [1] - 111:23
sending [1] - 62:21
Senior [2] - 2:12, 2:13
sense [7] - 36:15,
48:1, 58:13, 59:18,
85:12, 85:14, 103:19
sent [2] - 62:17, 98:24
separate [3] - 10:7,
22:18, 104:11
serious [3] - 44:5,
72:13, 77:4
serve [3] - 14:12, 72:4,
77:2
server [1] - 73:10
servers [1] - 73:16
service [1] - 34:24
services [4] - 21:23,
22:5, 24:5, 75:2
set [2] - 62:16, 130:3
setback [9] - 17:20,
18:23, 18:24, 20:2,
20:6, 20:7, 20:15,
20:16, 82:16
setbacks [4] - 13:12,
20:14, 82:14
seven [6] - 15:6,
15:20, 15:21, 15:24,
64:17, 115:1
several [1] - 12:7
severe [1] - 45:6
sewer [2] - 57:8, 80:15
shape [1] - 72:9
share [3] - 19:8,
19:14, 36:10
shared [1] - 16:13
shattered [1] - 41:5
sheer [1] - 33:19
shell [1] - 88:15
shinier [1] - 62:6
ship's [1] - 62:11
shipping [1] - 62:9
Shipyard [1] - 62:2
short [5] - 17:21, 41:3,
44:16, 53:10, 76:20
short-term [2] - 44:16,
76:20
shortage [1] - 45:10
Shorthand [1] - 129:4
shorthand [1] - 129:9
shortsightedness [1]
- 76:19
shoulders [2] - 65:19,
120:11
shoved [1] - 51:2
show [2] - 23:8, 62:23
shows [1] - 43:15
shrunken [1] - 27:6
shut [4] - 56:12, 63:5
sick [2] - 41:17
side [12] - 22:23,
32:13, 56:19, 56:20,
92:12, 110:5,
110:21, 112:20,
114:23, 115:7,
116:16, 116:21
sides [4] - 30:22, 32:7,
33:1, 40:14
sign [2] - 6:24, 94:3
signed [2] - 26:13,
129:23
significantly [1] -
23:21
signs [2] - 62:18,
120:10
silent [1] - 8:4
similar [3] - 16:6,
17:18, 85:11
simple [1] - 64:2
simultaneously [1] -
129:9
single [7] - 13:8, 41:3,
65:17, 66:16, 67:3,
67:17, 90:4
Single [2] - 105:15,
107:19
single-family [1] -
13:8
sirens [1] - 122:5
sit [7] - 11:8, 40:20,
43:11, 50:1, 58:14,
121:4, 123:2
site [27] - 12:1, 12:2,
12:13, 12:17, 12:24,
13:6, 14:4, 14:10,
15:3, 15:19, 17:2,
17:3, 17:23, 19:9,
19:12, 19:15, 20:9,
23:22, 24:10, 25:10,
27:6, 27:7, 31:13,
33:3, 44:19, 86:15,
92:14
sites [1] - 86:21
sits [1] - 107:10
sitting [4] - 37:16,
37:17, 67:10, 114:17
situated [1] - 106:14
situation [2] - 69:11,
70:3
six [5] - 20:23, 27:15,
49:14, 81:5, 90:2
size [2] - 14:16, 56:9
skilled [1] - 24:9
sky [1] - 55:24
Slavik [1] - 52:8
SLAVIK [4] - 4:12,
51:23, 52:3, 52:8
sleep [2] - 46:15,
70:14
slide [25] - 15:13,
16:4, 16:14, 17:16,
17:22, 18:1, 18:3,
18:9, 18:20, 19:4,
19:7, 20:9, 20:22,
21:1, 21:13, 22:7,
22:14, 23:18, 24:17,
24:23, 25:13, 28:9,
77:14, 106:10,
106:16
slides [3] - 11:2,
15:12, 121:1
small [8] - 15:14,
37:20, 38:20, 39:1,
39:2, 39:4, 40:19,
44:18
smaller [1] - 13:12
smarter [1] - 62:14
smell [1] - 57:4
snapped [1] - 63:4
solar [2] - 36:19,
82:24
sold [1] - 85:6
solely [1] - 14:6
solution [2] - 36:21,
87:14
Someone [1] - 128:3
someone [2] - 93:13,
93:22
somewhere [2] -
46:14, 85:14
son [1] - 49:15
sorry [18] - 17:7,
18:24, 19:9, 20:4,
22:11, 36:23, 38:2,
42:22, 66:9, 82:19,
82:20, 100:5,
101:11, 103:8,
104:24, 119:2,
122:22, 126:7
soul [1] - 41:6
Sound [1] - 62:13
sound [3] - 31:10,
55:20, 62:7
south [10] - 16:20,
51:5, 107:7, 107:11,
108:11, 110:5,
110:21, 116:16,
116:20, 118:5
southern [2] - 108:9,
121:12
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space [2] - 62:10,
106:19
spare [1] - 91:18
spared [1] - 34:21
speakers [1] - 7:21
speaking [7] - 7:16,
8:5, 11:15, 37:22,
47:17, 55:17, 113:3
special [3] - 18:19,
83:1, 83:3
species [2] - 99:3,
99:5
specific [5] - 14:18,
15:1, 25:15, 30:17,
82:11
specifically [5] -
19:12, 21:9, 22:12,
43:1, 125:18
specified [2] - 10:13,
129:15
speed [1] - 72:2
speeding [1] - 62:24
spending [1] - 44:22
spent [1] - 41:22
spiel [1] - 94:7
spread [2] - 28:9,
101:8
springs [1] - 113:19
square [6] - 19:23,
19:24, 23:9, 24:12,
29:5, 56:10
SS [4] - 62:17, 63:1,
129:1
stability [2] - 61:17,
63:24
stack [1] - 93:5
stacked [1] - 94:21
stand [3] - 7:3, 61:13,
71:22
standalone [1] - 17:15
standard [2] - 24:18,
28:16
standards [11] - 15:7,
15:22, 15:24, 16:3,
16:5, 17:7, 17:17,
20:24, 104:23,
105:2, 127:4
standing [4] - 11:7,
42:15, 69:24, 70:18
Star [2] - 62:5, 62:8
start [10] - 11:6, 15:11,
27:18, 30:9, 31:4,
38:7, 111:1, 118:10,
120:15, 122:8
started [4] - 37:22,
37:24, 38:13, 88:6
starting [1] - 41:20
state [9] - 6:22, 11:22,
12:5, 31:1, 36:7,
36:12, 36:14, 97:15,
123:13
STATE [1] - 129:1
State [1] - 129:4
statement [2] - 61:10,
61:11
states [2] - 28:6, 34:24
station [1] - 88:3
stay [8] - 7:22, 23:16,
48:10, 75:11, 81:19,
95:1, 116:15, 122:12
stays [1] - 46:22
Steel [3] - 17:5, 93:1,
94:12
stenographically [1] -
129:8
steps [1] - 40:21
stewards [1] - 77:1
still [8] - 23:16, 42:7,
83:20, 84:20, 84:24,
94:8, 109:12, 125:3
stop [2] - 46:9, 94:1
stories [1] - 19:22
storms [1] - 74:3
straight [1] - 110:3
straightaway [2] -
111:19, 111:21
strain [1] - 73:2
strained [1] - 78:11
strains [1] - 73:21
streams [1] - 52:16
street [5] - 40:18,
55:18, 57:6, 57:13,
58:5
streets [2] - 24:2,
46:17
strengthening [1] -
74:18
stress [1] - 45:6
stressed [1] - 90:15
strip [1] - 114:6
struck [1] - 69:11
structure [3] - 19:2,
20:17
structure-to-
structure [1] - 19:2
structures [1] - 13:11
STRUETT [3] - 4:8,
42:19, 42:22
Struett [2] - 42:24,
43:9
struggling [1] - 74:15
stuck [2] - 59:8,
112:15
student [3] - 13:15,
106:22, 107:3
students [5] - 64:3,
106:19, 106:23,
106:24, 107:4
studied [1] - 33:13
studies [4] - 15:1,
92:16, 92:22, 112:11
study [3] - 92:23, 93:4,
98:15
stuff [2] - 21:22, 84:7
Styrofoam [1] - 70:12
subdivision [4] - 65:2,
66:15, 91:15, 94:16
subdivisions [2] -
20:22, 65:12
subject [4] - 6:20,
18:13, 18:14, 18:19
substation [5] - 17:1,
20:8, 20:9, 21:12,
88:8
substations [3] - 12:5,
17:13, 21:10
Suburban [1] - 105:15
suburban [1] - 107:20
successful [2] -
41:15, 109:13
sucker [1] - 42:2
sucker-punched [1] -
42:2
sucks [2] - 53:12,
89:21
sudden [1] - 31:3
suddenly [1] - 48:4
sued [1] - 64:18
sufficient [3] - 42:11,
114:24, 115:9
suggest [1] - 48:7
suggested [3] - 14:19,
17:4, 18:17
suggestion [1] - 46:21
suitable [1] - 17:20
Suite [1] - 3:3
suited [1] - 21:7
sulphur [1] - 43:23
summer [1] - 56:12
sunrise [1] - 41:1
sunset [1] - 41:1
Superintendent [1] -
106:6
supervisor [1] - 64:12
supply [3] - 21:4,
21:8, 78:9
support [2] - 95:19,
95:24
supposed [8] - 16:2,
31:20, 47:6, 47:9,
47:10, 89:18, 116:8
surely [1] - 71:13
surprise [1] - 66:20
surprisingly [1] -
74:23
surrounded [2] -
51:19, 63:3
surrounding [5] -
11:24, 17:11, 21:13,
22:17, 86:20
surveyed [1] - 120:24
sustain [4] - 44:21,
57:7, 57:15, 124:12
sustainability [1] -
72:3
sustainable [1] -
73:16
swear [5] - 30:3, 30:5,
39:19, 39:20, 103:12
switch [1] - 69:17
switched [1] - 81:20
sworn [46] - 7:10,
10:23, 30:11, 33:10,
35:22, 37:11, 42:20,
46:3, 49:4, 49:5,
49:7, 50:21, 51:23,
52:2, 52:4, 53:6,
55:6, 55:9, 55:14,
58:18, 58:21, 58:24,
60:3, 67:23, 68:20,
68:22, 71:2, 81:9,
87:21, 88:23, 89:3,
91:12, 92:8, 95:7,
95:10, 95:12, 97:8,
100:5, 100:9,
100:13, 103:5,
106:3, 109:24,
112:23, 116:4, 120:4
system [4] - 28:5,
35:10, 45:1, 45:9
systems [2] - 26:21,
73:6
T
tailed [1] - 90:18
Taker [1] - 2:15
tall [3] - 20:21, 42:22,
58:8
taller [1] - 13:11
tank [1] - 54:17
targeted [1] - 12:10
targeting [1] - 25:10
tax [13] - 22:18, 22:23,
23:1, 23:2, 23:3,
23:5, 23:17, 27:21,
28:21, 41:24, 93:15,
119:14
taxes [13] - 22:19,
22:22, 23:7, 23:15,
27:23, 103:20,
104:4, 119:11,
123:3, 123:11,
123:12, 124:18
taxpayers [1] - 75:3
team [1] - 69:13
tearing [1] - 47:12
tears [1] - 41:9
technically [1] - 113:9
technicians [1] -
44:19
technology [3] -
62:12, 71:23, 76:14
Tellabs [1] - 31:18
tellabs [1] - 32:1
ten [2] - 22:12, 104:2
tens [1] - 44:11
term [8] - 43:12, 44:2,
44:10, 44:16, 44:19,
75:7, 76:11, 76:20
terms [8] - 24:2,
120:9, 120:14,
121:21, 123:10,
123:12, 124:8,
124:10
Teska [1] - 50:23
TESKA [4] - 4:11,
50:20, 50:23, 51:16
testified [31] - 10:23,
30:11, 33:10, 35:22,
37:11, 42:20, 46:3,
49:7, 50:21, 52:4,
53:6, 55:14, 58:24,
60:3, 67:23, 68:22,
71:2, 81:9, 87:21,
89:3, 91:12, 92:8,
95:12, 97:8, 100:13,
103:5, 106:3,
109:24, 112:23,
116:4, 120:4
testify [1] - 6:21
testimony [7] - 6:9,
6:12, 8:7, 8:23,
127:8, 127:10,
129:12
testing [1] - 26:12
Teusink [1] - 55:12
TEUSINK [5] - 4:14,
55:6, 55:12, 55:13,
55:16
Texas [1] - 45:11
THE [2] - 68:3, 97:15
theft [1] - 88:18
themselves [1] - 88:12
theoretical [1] - 46:13
thereof [1] - 129:23
Thiam [1] - 2:14
thin [1] - 114:6
thinking [2] - 46:9,
51:10
thinks [1] - 50:8
third [7] - 44:15,
74:20, 106:15,
107:9, 108:9, 110:7,
121:13
thoughts [3] - 88:1,
120:8, 120:19
thousands [1] - 44:12
thread [2] - 47:13
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thread-by-thread [1] -
47:13
three [20] - 10:5, 12:9,
16:5, 17:18, 23:9,
27:15, 31:13, 49:22,
66:6, 71:9, 77:16,
85:5, 86:16, 105:10,
106:12, 106:18,
107:5, 115:9, 115:14
thriving [1] - 12:6
throats [1] - 51:2
throughout [1] - 53:15
throw [1] - 113:6
Thumb [1] - 55:22
tier [1] - 26:15
tight [1] - 62:11
TikTok [1] - 88:15
TIM [2] - 4:20, 81:8
Tim [1] - 81:11
timers [1] - 41:21
timing [1] - 27:9
tip [1] - 71:8
tired [1] - 80:2
tissue [1] - 74:6
Titanic [5] - 62:2,
62:16, 62:18, 63:2,
63:17
Titanic's [2] - 62:23,
63:3
today [8] - 37:16,
38:17, 57:20, 59:4,
59:6, 71:11, 76:3,
99:21
together [4] - 32:8,
72:23, 94:14, 94:21
tomorrow [1] - 27:14
ton [3] - 31:6, 31:7,
120:17
tonight [28] - 7:5,
7:15, 8:22, 10:2,
12:23, 14:2, 15:6,
29:17, 30:3, 45:17,
46:20, 47:15, 48:6,
48:7, 54:16, 60:14,
68:6, 68:12, 72:22,
75:22, 79:15, 86:24,
93:22, 94:3, 98:18,
103:10, 103:17
tonight's [9] - 6:6,
6:17, 6:20, 7:2, 7:13,
8:1, 8:4, 8:7, 128:18
took [1] - 96:10
top [3] - 23:5, 84:1,
113:15
topic [2] - 7:22, 63:10
topics [2] - 7:18,
79:21
Toporowski [1] -
92:11
TOPOROWSKI [6] -
4:24, 91:5, 91:8,
92:7, 92:10, 93:9
total [5] - 14:12,
19:24, 23:9, 24:13,
33:17
totaling [7] - 10:6,
10:8, 10:14, 12:9,
18:11, 105:11,
106:13
totally [3] - 70:10,
95:23, 98:21
toward [1] - 77:7
towards [2] - 90:10,
120:17
towering [1] - 47:5
town [7] - 38:21,
48:19, 48:21, 56:6,
64:20, 101:5, 101:7
townhomes [1] - 25:6
towns [1] - 115:2
township [1] - 45:18
traded [1] - 76:20
traffic [7] - 13:14,
15:1, 23:21, 24:2,
25:21, 27:2, 75:17
trail [1] - 113:10
train [1] - 64:11
train's [1] - 64:12
transcribe [1] - 8:6
transcript [3] - 8:9,
129:7, 129:23
transcription [1] -
129:10
translate [1] - 45:15
transparency [2] -
93:19, 94:23
transparent [3] - 22:9,
93:20, 94:5
treats [1] - 48:20
tree [2] - 26:5, 58:6
trees [6] - 26:5, 40:19,
40:22, 58:7, 58:11,
84:7
tres [1] - 77:17
tried [1] - 63:2
triple [1] - 56:9
truck [1] - 24:2
trucks [1] - 112:13
true [2] - 33:14,
129:12
truly [1] - 48:21
trust [4] - 46:18, 48:9,
71:12, 103:15
trusted [1] - 86:5
try [1] - 37:3
trying [10] - 25:12,
32:2, 54:23, 79:13,
89:15, 91:6, 115:2,
115:10, 120:13,
122:23
turning [1] - 112:1
two [23] - 6:5, 10:6,
10:8, 17:7, 18:10,
19:20, 19:22, 22:18,
23:14, 27:5, 27:22,
29:4, 31:23, 49:14,
63:20, 66:6, 77:16,
86:16, 102:11,
106:14, 107:6, 108:6
type [2] - 15:15, 19:9
typewriting [1] -
129:10
typically [1] - 44:18
U
UDO [4] - 15:7, 17:21,
20:12, 25:22
unanimous [1] - 99:21
unanimously [1] -
96:8
unanswered [1] -
54:11
uncertainty [2] -
53:22, 54:8
unchecked [1] - 44:9
under [6] - 12:13,
45:6, 113:19,
129:11, 129:24,
130:2
understood [2] -
86:19, 109:16
underwear [1] -
100:17
undeveloped [2] -
21:11, 25:8
undone [1] - 48:8
unexpected [1] - 87:7
unexplained [1] -
64:22
unfortunately [2] -
113:8, 113:23
UNIDENTIFIED [13] -
54:18, 61:6, 61:7,
79:5, 79:7, 79:23,
80:1, 80:5, 80:9,
83:7, 96:3, 98:19,
123:19
unincorporated [5] -
52:21, 107:16,
108:16, 108:24,
125:4
union [2] - 24:9, 30:20
unit [1] - 12:19
united [4] - 60:7, 60:8,
60:13, 61:12
UNITED [1] - 1:6
United [5] - 3:5, 60:6,
60:12, 61:9, 61:10
units [1] - 70:8
unless [1] - 8:4
unmute [1] - 102:22
uno [1] - 77:17
unregulated [1] -
72:13
unrelated [1] - 7:18
unsinkable [1] - 62:15
unsure [1] - 94:8
unsustainable [1] -
73:18
up [59] - 11:10, 12:22,
13:11, 15:20, 16:22,
17:3, 22:12, 25:7,
28:3, 28:8, 28:13,
29:2, 32:8, 32:17,
34:9, 35:12, 36:5,
36:11, 37:4, 37:17,
38:23, 39:11, 42:23,
43:1, 46:7, 47:4,
49:15, 50:1, 50:7,
52:12, 52:13, 53:16,
53:20, 54:16, 55:16,
55:23, 62:24, 63:5,
66:4, 79:16, 79:19,
79:20, 79:21, 80:21,
81:7, 85:11, 93:6,
100:16, 100:21,
107:6, 107:7,
109:21, 114:3,
114:4, 120:11,
120:12, 121:22
update [1] - 18:20
updated [1] - 17:9
upside [1] - 55:1
upsize [1] - 57:3
urge [1] - 76:24
usage [6] - 28:23,
30:17, 31:3, 31:8,
36:3, 36:13
user [4] - 12:17,
19:11, 27:13
users [3] - 21:18,
22:5, 27:3
uses [12] - 13:4,
14:18, 16:10, 18:16,
21:7, 22:12, 22:13,
34:19, 44:21, 56:8,
108:13
utilities [2] - 61:18,
75:2
utility [8] - 15:2, 23:2,
23:5, 23:17, 27:23,
28:21, 74:15
utilizing [1] - 108:8
V
vacant [1] - 24:20
valuation [1] - 119:14
value [1] - 15:16
values [7] - 40:15,
54:16, 54:17, 66:21,
75:21, 79:1, 115:12
various [1] - 20:20
vast [1] - 73:3
versus [2] - 21:18,
115:16
vessel [1] - 63:19
via [2] - 8:13, 129:10
viable [1] - 124:12
vibrate [1] - 70:14
vibrating [2] - 70:1,
70:19
view [1] - 69:8
views [1] - 11:23
VILLA [9] - 4:19, 71:1,
71:4, 71:7, 74:10,
74:13, 75:14, 77:20,
77:23
Villa [1] - 71:7
VINYARD [183] - 6:5,
7:8, 7:11, 9:11, 9:20,
10:1, 10:21, 11:11,
11:13, 11:17, 28:14,
29:6, 29:8, 29:11,
29:14, 29:20, 30:2,
30:8, 33:8, 33:12,
35:16, 35:19, 37:8,
38:11, 42:14, 46:1,
49:2, 49:9, 51:14,
51:22, 51:24, 52:6,
53:3, 55:5, 55:7,
55:10, 58:17, 58:19,
58:22, 59:23, 60:1,
60:18, 60:20, 61:1,
63:7, 63:9, 63:13,
68:1, 68:18, 68:24,
69:3, 70:21, 70:23,
71:6, 74:12, 78:21,
78:23, 79:4, 79:9,
79:13, 80:3, 80:7,
80:11, 80:24, 81:3,
82:10, 82:19, 83:2,
83:8, 83:12, 83:15,
84:5, 84:11, 84:15,
84:18, 85:23, 86:2,
86:14, 86:19, 86:22,
87:2, 87:5, 87:16,
87:18, 88:21, 88:24,
89:5, 90:23, 91:2,
91:6, 91:9, 92:5,
93:8, 95:4, 95:8,
95:14, 96:18, 96:20,
96:23, 97:2, 97:4,
97:18, 97:20, 97:22,
98:1, 98:4, 98:12,
98:17, 98:21, 99:7,
99:10, 99:14, 99:18,
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100:3, 100:7,
100:10, 100:18,
101:16, 101:21,
101:24, 102:2,
102:5, 102:8,
102:13, 102:16,
102:19, 103:14,
104:8, 104:10,
104:15, 104:18,
104:21, 105:1,
105:5, 105:21,
106:1, 109:5, 109:9,
109:16, 109:20,
110:15, 112:3,
112:7, 112:21,
113:12, 114:6,
114:8, 114:10,
115:24, 116:2,
116:11, 118:9,
118:13, 118:16,
119:1, 119:23,
120:2, 122:14,
122:17, 122:19,
122:23, 123:14,
123:18, 123:22,
124:2, 124:6, 124:9,
124:14, 124:21,
125:7, 125:13,
125:17, 125:23,
126:4, 126:8, 127:1,
127:7, 127:14,
127:21, 128:6,
128:9, 128:11,
128:17
Vinyard [3] - 2:2, 9:19,
127:20
vision [1] - 61:11
vision's [1] - 61:10
Vitosh [2] - 2:23,
130:8
VITOSH [2] - 129:3,
130:9
voice [1] - 78:12
voltage [1] - 30:20
voluntary [2] - 125:20,
126:15
volunteer [1] - 37:20
vote [15] - 6:18, 8:20,
9:11, 47:3, 47:8,
48:19, 67:1, 67:5,
67:10, 67:18,
117:17, 117:19,
118:20, 119:7,
127:15
voted [2] - 67:2, 96:8
voting [1] - 67:13
voyage [1] - 62:17
vulnerability [1] - 45:9
vulnerable [1] - 45:16
W
wagon [1] - 113:10
waiting [2] - 35:7, 81:2
Wal [1] - 83:23
Wal-Mart [1] - 83:23
walk [3] - 15:12,
41:11, 65:18
Wally [1] - 2:7
wants [6] - 31:3,
35:20, 39:14, 40:3,
54:14
warn [2] - 45:7, 63:2
warning [1] - 62:18
warnings [2] - 63:23,
64:14
Washington [1] - 88:7
watch [1] - 40:21
watching [1] - 41:3
water [29] - 15:1, 23:4,
25:21, 26:20, 26:22,
30:17, 31:7, 33:18,
33:20, 36:3, 56:20,
56:21, 57:2, 57:4,
57:5, 57:6, 57:12,
62:11, 72:17, 73:2,
73:3, 73:5, 73:11,
76:17, 78:9, 79:1,
80:15, 110:10,
120:16
watering [1] - 96:12
waves [1] - 73:6
wealthy [1] - 62:22
weather [1] - 45:9
Wednesday [1] - 1:21
week [1] - 26:13
welcome [3] - 45:19,
100:3, 113:4
well-being [1] - 78:3
wells [1] - 73:13
WERDERICH [5] -
9:24, 28:19, 29:3,
109:8, 128:13
Werderich [3] - 2:7,
9:23, 128:12
west [11] - 14:10,
14:14, 17:2, 20:4,
41:2, 51:6, 86:10,
92:12, 105:12,
107:10, 114:12
western [1] - 10:8
whatsoever [1] -
117:2
WHEREOF [1] - 130:3
WHEREUPON [1] -
6:1
Whew [1] - 72:5
Whispering [1] -
91:15
White [1] - 62:5
white [3] - 62:8, 90:18,
126:7
whole [9] - 13:6,
41:22, 50:16, 50:17,
53:12, 69:8, 70:11,
121:19, 123:17
whore [1] - 54:23
wide [1] - 13:3
wildlife [1] - 98:24
Williams [3] - 2:3,
9:21, 127:22
WILLIAMS [8] - 9:9,
9:22, 98:10, 102:24,
104:12, 104:17,
127:13, 127:23
wind [1] - 36:18
windows [1] - 46:16
winners [1] - 66:7
winter [3] - 45:10,
58:10, 74:3
wireless [1] - 62:12
wise [2] - 56:10,
113:23
wish [6] - 6:13, 9:1,
33:2, 38:22, 70:19,
93:21
wishes [2] - 29:15,
109:17
wishing [1] - 6:21
Witness [1] - 68:20
witness [6] - 49:5,
52:2, 55:9, 58:21,
95:10, 100:9
WITNESS [2] - 4:2,
130:3
witnesses [1] - 7:10
Wolff [1] - 62:1
wondering [1] - 76:19
word [1] - 38:23
words [4] - 39:17,
50:3, 53:23, 63:4
worker's [1] - 32:13
workers [1] - 24:9
works [3] - 28:4, 32:9,
60:21
world [1] - 70:3
worry [1] - 110:22
worsen [2] - 43:24,
76:18
worth [1] - 52:15
Wrigley [1] - 69:13
write [3] - 12:22,
49:10, 57:19
write-up [1] - 12:22
wrote [1] - 43:5
Y
Y2K [1] - 31:17
yada [2] - 43:9
yard [5] - 69:23, 69:24,
70:19, 94:3, 111:17
yards [1] - 46:18
year [8] - 13:1, 33:3,
44:22, 59:12, 90:4,
103:22, 111:17,
116:19
year-round [1] - 44:22
years [18] - 12:11,
15:18, 25:11, 30:21,
31:1, 31:13, 37:19,
51:12, 51:16, 64:4,
81:19, 88:5, 91:16,
94:19, 116:24,
117:8, 123:4, 123:5
yesterday [5] - 37:16,
39:19, 77:3, 96:6,
118:21
yesterday's [1] - 71:15
YORKVILLE [2] - 1:6,
1:7
Yorkville [55] - 1:18,
3:6, 9:7, 10:3, 16:16,
20:12, 21:3, 21:9,
22:16, 23:2, 23:6,
23:11, 23:16, 23:18,
23:19, 24:17, 28:1,
30:15, 36:1, 41:13,
41:16, 41:18, 41:19,
41:21, 41:22, 51:3,
52:20, 53:14, 60:7,
60:12, 61:10, 67:8,
68:5, 69:6, 69:7,
71:10, 77:15, 85:10,
90:8, 100:21, 101:7,
103:22, 105:7,
106:11, 107:12,
107:19, 108:19,
109:1, 109:2, 112:2,
123:6, 123:9, 124:17
Yorkville's [2] - 61:11,
106:17
you-know-what [3] -
39:18, 39:24, 54:21
YOUNG [13] - 9:13,
9:15, 9:17, 9:19,
9:21, 9:23, 127:16,
127:18, 127:20,
127:22, 128:12,
128:14, 128:16
young [2] - 41:20,
63:15
Young [1] - 2:15
yourself [2] - 65:11,
96:17
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yourselves [3] -
48:11, 76:24, 86:7
Z
Zediker [1] - 106:5
ZEDIKER [25] - 5:5,
105:20, 106:2,
106:5, 109:11,
110:6, 110:12,
110:17, 110:20,
110:24, 111:3,
111:7, 111:11,
111:15, 113:4,
116:17, 116:22,
117:7, 117:13,
117:15, 117:19,
118:1, 118:4,
120:20, 127:6
zero [1] - 68:9
zone [5] - 13:24,
18:22, 31:2, 46:23,
84:2
zoned [5] - 16:12,
18:5, 23:23, 24:20,
108:17
Zoning [5] - 6:7, 15:8,
15:9, 15:10, 82:12
zoning [27] - 10:7,
12:14, 12:24, 13:3,
14:3, 16:1, 16:15,
17:4, 17:10, 17:14,
17:15, 17:19, 18:5,
18:12, 18:18, 18:19,
18:20, 18:24, 22:14,
24:7, 25:2, 25:5,
65:4, 72:7, 84:17,
107:17, 109:12
ZONING [1] - 1:10
Zoom [10] - 81:2,
90:24, 91:7, 102:3,
102:6, 102:20,
122:18, 122:20,
126:4, 126:6
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Monica Cisija
Subject:FW: Regarding rezoning for the new school on River Road
-----Original Message-----
From: KAREN HURT
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2026 1:44 PM
To: Bart Olson <BOlson@yorkville.il.us>
Subject: Regarding rezoning for the new school on River Road
Hi Mr. Olson
I am unable to come to tonight’s meeting but I just have one major concern I’d like you to keep in mind.
The River Road location is nice however since the City closed access to River Road from King Street, with zero input or
consideration for all the residents who live there, Church Street has become a nightmare. Everyone races through Main
Street and Church to get back to River Road. There is no other access to River Road since direct access was removed
from Route 47. Very few people stop for the stop sign there. Unfortunately there are children living in the house on the
corner and I am increasingly concerned for their safety. There are no curbs nor sidewalks either and this could result in
a car driving into the house. Everyone is always in such a hurry and adding so many more cars heading to and from
school would add more craziness to that corner. Since it’s right by town square there are lots of people who walk their
dogs as well. Having a school on River would make that intersection too dangerous for people to live near. The added
cars from all those people heading to the school is something I shudder to contemplate.
If the school is built there another way to get to River from Route 47 will HAVE to be found. Please at least consider
restricting access from Church Street to River if you want to use the property on River Road.
Thank you for your consideration. Please respond so I know you received this.
Karen Hurt
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