The McHenry County Board Planning and Development Committee Recommended 2030 Plan is on the way to adoption by the County Board. The Board meets at 7:00 this evening to vote on this long-awaited plan.
All 149 pages are now available for download –and the 2030 Plan Adoption Resolution is also available for download.
However, based on comments heard regarding the plan, it may not be a unanimous approval.
The plan has been under preparation for nearly two years, following the failure of the Board to adopt a 2020 Plan in 2006. There are those who like the 2030 plan and those who dislike it. The majority of the commission working on putting the plan together is involved in real estate in some way. That has been a source of some discontent by some members of the public.
The public was asked to provide comments on the plan and many did; many at the public presentations and viewing the plan held in various parts of the county. But not all the comments were considered to be included. However there are plans to send the provider of each comment a letter of appreciation from the County. This was discussed recently at Planning and Development Committee meeting, at which a comment was made by a committee member to effect that the best response would be to take the comments made more seriously.
District 6 Board members recently provided a letter to County Board Chairman Ken Koehler with a minority report and stated that they desire to support the plan but as presented, certain changes should be made.
The members include Dan Ryan, Randy Donely, Mary MCCann and Ersel Schuster.
They provided backup for the five resolutions they propose. These relate to consistency of philosophies between the various sections of the Plan; ensure that groundwater recharge is a top priority; protect McHenry County's high quality farmland; recognize and respects property rights; clarify, on all County Maps, the zoning difference between parcels/subdivisions approved prior to 2979 and those rezoned after that date.
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