It took a long time, but McHenry County now has a new to guide development. The 2030 plan was adopted Tuesday night in a 19-3 vote with two members absent. This plan began after the 2020 plan failed to garner sufficient support of the County Board in 2006. The McHenry County Regional Planning Commission began over and worked on a new plan and has been in the process since that time.
During this process, a citizens group Alliance for Land, Agriculture and Water (ALAW) lobbied for a number of changes in the proposed plan with County Board member Ersel Schuster-D-6, offering proposed changes to the presented document. Most of these proposals were adopted, some with minor changes to those presented.
Other citizens' requests were also heard, such as those from Bull Valley and Barrington Hills areas who were asking for larger estate sizes to accommodate raising horses.
The Planning Commission has been working diligently on the details of the plan for the past two years under the guidance of a new head of the Planning and Development Department who was hired following a forced resignation of the previous department head.
The adopted plan is considered as a guide. Various ordinances will need to be revised to reflect what the plan proposes. It is hoped it will be a guide for "good" development such as placing most of the growth near the municipalities where sewer and water are more readily available and allowing farmland and other open space to remain open as a basis for the "framework" for water to supply the population that is arriving and is expected to arrive in McHenry County in the future.
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