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John Trapp sat in a additional row bench at this week's Aurora Burghal Council affair agilely watching – which belied how he absolutely felt.
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"I'm ecstatic," he said, aptitude back. "OK, and appropriate now, I feel a little bit of relief."
It was abatement he aggregate with his neighbors in the 17-home Ferry Road Farms subdivision at Meridian and Sunrise roads, aloof off Ferry Road amid Eola Road and Route 59.
They had heard beforehand in the day that Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. had aloof its address to advance a barter annex at Meridian and Sunrise, aloof beyond the artery from Trapp's house. John Trapp, his wife Denise and subdivision citizen Lyle Kipp came to Tuesday night's Burghal Council affair aloof to accomplish abiding it was true.
When a planned assiduity of a accessible audition on the development came up on the agenda, Alderman Robert O'Connor, at large, confined as ambassador pro-tem and chairing the meeting, appear that Old Dominion had pulled its address for the barter annex development.
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"I'm not activity to be 61 anxiety from it," Trapp said. "I'm acquisitive to never see a barter terminal there."
The achievability still exists because Old Dominion owns the about five-acre allotment of acreage there, and acceptable still intends to advance it.
As assembly of the trucking close acicular out throughout the planning action – which included affairs with staff, the Planning Commission and the Burghal Council's Planning and Development Committee – abundant of the breadth by their acreage on Aurora's northeast ancillary and Naperville's northwest ancillary has been benumbed – and in abounding cases already developed – as office, warehouse, analysis and automated uses aback the 1970s.
Old Dominion's advocate Bruce Goldsmith, of Lisle-based Dykema Gossett, acicular out as abundant in a letter beatific to burghal admiral announcement the withdrawal.
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"This breadth has about been appointed for ORI blazon development on the DuPage County adept plan (1985), the Burghal of Naperville absolute plan, and is constant with Aurora's own planning initiatives," Goldsmith wrote. "Moreover, bartering development has about been affective west from Route 59 on the south ancillary of Ferry Road as able-bodied as the Duke development on the arctic ancillary of Ferry Road, area the Burghal has accustomed over (3 million) aboveboard anxiety of ORI development."
The letter acicular out that Old Dominion begin Aurora to accept the workforce it bare for the bearing of 125 jobs at first, and 200 jobs in bristles years.
Throughout the process, Old Dominion had fabricated concessions to association in Ferry Road Farms by abacus college berms and added agriculture – far added than appropriate by Aurora ordinance.
The letter said the burghal "ignored" affidavit by a complete architect assassin by the aggregation who said changes in the Old Dominion plan would lower babble from the armpit to no added than "ambient" complete agnate to, but less, than what adjacent Interstate 88 generates.
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The final harbinger appeared to be two altitude burghal admiral added on. One was to accept the aggregation put up a 20-foot-high complete bank amid the association and the depot, agnate to walls put up forth highways. That would add amount and actualize new stormwater arising problems, the letter said.
Another action was that the burghal was acute Old Dominion to get accord of addition buyer of a adjacent lot to abide a address for rezoning that lot with added akin uses.
The letter alleged that claim "unprecedented and unachievable."
For the time being, association of the almost 70-year-old accumulation of homes in Naperville Township, sandwiched amid Naperville to the south and east, and Aurora to the arctic and west, will breathe easier, acquisitive that whatever development does appear aback to that property, it won't be a 24-hour, seven canicule a anniversary operation.
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"I attending at those warehouses and offices forth Ferry Road, and alike those big ones, the parking lots are abandoned at night," said Denise Trapp.
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