TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: Jayne Bernhard, Planning Director
SUBJECT:
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Public Hearing for a Resolution Approving an Annexation Agreement for 23960 S. Houbolt Road (A-3-26)
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BACKGROUND:
The petitioner, LPC Acquisition Company, LLC, is requesting approval of the annexation, classification to the I-1 (light industrial) district, and approval of an annexation agreement for 23960 S. Houbolt Road to allow the development of an industrial warehouse facility. The I-1 district permits clean manufacturing, warehousing, and wholesaling activities. The proposed facility is a permitted use in the I-1 district.
The petitioner also requests approval of a Special Use Permit to allow development on a lot containing Cedar Creek watershed protection area because the northeast corner of the site contains a small portion of protection area due to an adjacent tributary of Cedar Creek. There is no development proposed in the Cedar Creek protection area.
The 74-acre subject site is located at the northwest corner of Houbolt Road and Millsdale Road and currently contains farmland and several agricultural buildings. The surrounding area is a mix of incorporated City of Joliet and unincorporated Will County. The adjacent uses are mainly industrial: to the east are warehouse and distribution centers within CenterPoint Intermodal Center at Joliet with I-TC (intermodal terminal – industrial park) zoning; to the south is an industrial warehouse with I-2 (general industrial) zoning; and to the west is the Stepan Company manufacturing plant, with County I-3 (intensive industrial) and A-1 (agricultural) zoning. The site is bordered on the north by a pipeline parcel; beyond that is a trucking terminal with I-1 (light industrial) zoning and a rural residential property with County A-1 (agricultural) zoning.
Houbolt Road in this area is an improved four-lane road. Most of Houbolt Road adjacent to the site was reconstructed around 2016 in conjunction with the buildout of the Ce...
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