The Will County Land Use and Development Committee took public testimony and staff comments on zoning case ZC24078, a request for a special-use permit to operate a construction sales-and-service yard at 6525 West Staiger Road in Monee Township.

Planning staff, Margie, told the committee the property sits about 800 feet from Steger and Bridgeland Avenue, contains a 6,000-square-foot detached pool building the applicant would use for vehicle storage, and that the Planning & Zoning Commission recommended approval 7–0 with two staff-recommended conditions. Margie said the proposed use is similar to the site’s previous landscape-business special use; the applicant plans to demolish the existing house and build an office, the business would not be open to the public, and roughly 12 employees would be on site at a time.

“Typically these types of uses… become a dropping ground at the end of the day, where the trucks, the vehicles… come back to the site for security purposes,” Margie said, describing screening and site-permit requirements for outdoor storage and noting that if the applicant increases impervious surface they may need on-site detention.

Committee members pressed the applicant and staff on neighbor concerns. One member said an emailed objection from a neighbor focused on loss of rural character rather than specifics about the business, and raised the persistent issue of truck noise and idling. Margie said noise enforcement would rely on existing noise ordinances and sheriff’s enforcement and that limits on truck idling or hours of operation could be imposed as a condition on a special use if the committee chose to do so.

Applicant representatives (identified in the transcript as Mr. Budner and Timothy Hayes) described the operation as a fiber-optic construction business, not a motor-vehicle repair shop. “There is no mechanic facility. There’s no shop there. They don’t service trucks there,” a representative said, adding the outdoor storage would be for fiber-optic reels and construction equipment rather than heavy servicing of vehicles.

The committee conducted the procedural steps to hear the item and asked staff and the applicant clarifying questions about adjacent properties, required screening, and what kinds of maintenance would be permitted on site. The transcript does not record a final, substantive committee decision on adoption or denial of the special-use permit within the excerpt provided; the record includes the Planning & Zoning recommendation and the committee’s questions and comments.

The next procedural steps, if the typical course continues, would be to resolve any conditions (hours of operation, screening, and impervious-surface requirements) and then bring formal action back to the committee or County Board with the staff-recommended language and any additional conditions the committee requests.