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Joliet council hears hours of objections over Prairie Landing subdivision; engineering team offers interim flood fixes
Summary
Residents of Piccadilly, Warwick and nearby subdivisions pressed the City Council on stormwater, tree preservation and traffic ahead of a planned vote on the Prairie Landing preliminary plat; developer and engineer said a temporary pipe and detention design would reduce some flooding while full relief depends on upstream development.
The City of Joliet City Council heard more than two hours of public comment and technical testimony Monday about the proposed Prairie Landing subdivision, a single‑family housing development on an annexed farm field east of Essington Road.
Residents urged the council to delay action, saying the project would worsen flooding, remove long‑standing tree buffers and increase traffic; the developer’s attorney and the project engineer replied that the plan complies with R‑2 zoning and that stormwater measures being proposed would reduce short‑term flooding risks though they would not fully fix an upstream drainage problem.
The attorney for the project, Steve Bauer, identified himself as “attorney and entitlement manager with D.R. Horton Midwest” and told the council his team had secured temporary and permanent easements on nearby park property to allow off‑site storm infrastructure to be installed. Bauer summarized landscaping and tree work and said, “there will be a total of 30 trees preserved, a total of 603 trees…
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