Committee approves rezoning for KCB Farms to formalize existing home and agricultural buildings

Kane County Development Committee approved petition 4660, filed by KCB Farms LLC and represented by attorney Kate McCracken, to rezone two farming parcels from F (farming) to F1 (rural residential). The rezoning will allow an existing home and agricultural buildings on the parcels to become conforming uses under the F1 district.

Mark Van Kerkhoff presented the petition and noted the parcels are in an area actively farmed and adjacent to the forest preserve. He described the site as containing an existing home site and agricultural buildings and said the petition would create a new parcel that would retain the home and buildings as conforming uses. "The rezoning would allow the existing home to remain and be a conforming use with the F1 zoning along with the existing buildings to remain," Van Kerkhoff said.

Water Resources recommended a stipulation related to the stormwater ordinance; KDOT had no comment. The Health Department’s stipulation required that the well and septic remain within the parcel that contains the home. The Zoning Board of Appeals reviewed the petition and recommended approval.

Linder moved to approve the petition and Garcia seconded. Roll call recorded affirmative votes from Doherty, Garcia, Iqbal, Linder, Ross and Williams. The motion carried.

Staff said parcel configuration reflects long-established farming ownership and that the parcels are currently farmed by a tenant; the rezoning will align zoning with the current use of the parcels. No additional action was taken beyond approving the rezoning and carrying forward the usual stipulations.