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Agenda
Project Overview
Purpose & Need
Benefits
Environmental Assessment (EA) Update
Funding
Stakeholder Involvement
Public Forum
Next Steps
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Project Overview
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Purpose & Need
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Purpose & Need
Enhance the transportation network
Reduce congestion
Provide alternate and more direct routes
Serve existing and planned land use
Efficient access to businesses, public services, and employment/commercial services
Conform with the County’s land resource management plan
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Brunner Family Forest Preserve
Originally planned for development
Did You Know?
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2002 Record of Decision
Did You Know?
Jointly-planned facilities
2008 Acquisition
Longmeadow Parkway Corridor footprint was approved prior to the establishment of the
Brunner Family Forest Preserve.
The Forest Preserve District closed on the
property and passed a resolution stating their intent to transfer the right-of-way to the
County.
2010 Right-of-way
Transfer
Joint funding from the Forest Preserve District of Kane County and the Kane County Division of
Transportation made the acquisition possible.
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Features
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Benefits
Improves mobility and supports economic growth and job creation
Creates a safer environment for motorists by creating a new direct route for emergency responders and decreasing congestion and accidents on IL 62 and IL 72
Reduces vehicle idling time, which will reduce greenhouse gas emissions
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Improves accessibility to businesses in northern Kane County
Supports sustainable features such as openspaces, greenways, recreation, water quality, and wildlife
Creates a multi-use path along the entire roadway and over the Fox River, connecting to local trails
Benefits
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What Was Evaluated?
Evaluates changes within the project area, including: Socio-economic, Agricultural, Cultural Resources, Air Quality, Section 4(f)
Resources, Noise, Natural Resources, Water Quality, Groundwater,
Floodplains, Wetlands, Special Waste,
and Special Lands
Trees 5,765 trees will be affected. ACTION: An additional 11,530 high-quality native trees will be planted. For
every removed tree, two will be planted. Some of the existing trees are in poor health or dead.
Wetlands 4.16 acres of wetlands will be affected. ACTION: 17.13 acres have been created to mitigate for wetland impacts.
Avoid, minimize, and mitigate impacts
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Wildlife & Endangered Species
Kane County continues coordination efforts.
Native Mussels
Blanding’s Turtle
Northern Long-eared Bat
Bald Eagle
Smallmouth Bass
Greater and River Redhorse
Starhead Topminnow
Coordination continues with many county, state, and federal resource and regulatory agencies, including the Illinois Department of Natural
Resources and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
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Results
EA
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Toll Bridge
Challenge: federal, state and local funds are LIMITED
Tolling will end when bonds have been paid
Bridge is tolled,
but remainder of Longmeadow Parkway is NOT tolled
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Funding
Construction and construction engineering: $115 million
FEDERAL: $14.5 million
STATE: $39.4 million
KANE COUNTY: $61.1 million
$3.5 million: County’s programmed local impact fees
$27.6 million: County’s programmed fund sources
Remaining $30 million from existing fund sources and/or from future
bond revenue to be repaid with tolls.
COST
FUNDING No TaxIncrease
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Municipal Coordination
Agency Coordination
Stakeholder Involvement
Newsletters/
Factsheets
Media Outreach
Over 100Public Meetings
PROJECT WEBSITE
Local Interest Group
Coordination
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A public forum is taking place at 6:00 P.M.
If you would like to make a two-minute public statement regarding the EA reevaluation, please fill out a speakers card and place it in the public forum box at the sign-in table.
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Written comment forms
Verbally state your comment to a court reporter
Submit comments by email to [email protected]
Ways to
Comment
Comments received through
September 6, 2016 will become part of the public
hearing record
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Review public comments
Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement is required OR “Finding of No Significant Impact”
Submit EA reevaluation for Federal Highway Administration determination
Next Steps
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Next Steps
Construction is anticipated to be complete in 2019
Land acquisition
Permitting
Construction
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