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Enterprise zone administrator outlines two pathways for zone expansion and asks communities to submit parcels by year-end
Summary
The enterprise zone administrator told the McHenry County board the zone can expand through a project-driven pathway or by meeting state socioeconomic tests; he asked communities to submit parcel lists by Dec. 31 to begin a process that could take about 12–16 weeks before state review.
Speaker 3, the enterprise zone administrator, presented a plan for expanding the McHenry County Enterprise Zone and described two legally distinct pathways to add parcels: a project-based route and a data-driven route that relies on state socioeconomic tests. He said any added parcels must be contiguous with the existing zone and that each participating unit of government (McHenry County, Woodstock, Harvard and Marengo) would need to adopt amending ordinances and update the intergovernmental agreement (IGA).
The administrator summarized the project-based pathway as an “immediate benefit” option for cases where a specific development would create or retain…
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