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Kankakee City Council approves QuickTrip permit extension, riverfront engineering and multiple resolutions
Summary
At its Feb. 2 meeting the Kankakee City Council unanimously approved a one-year extension of a conditional-use permit for a QuickTrip convenience store and fuel sales, authorized engineering services and state grant paperwork for the Kankakee Riverfront Trail, and passed several routine bills and resolutions.
Kankakee City Council on Feb. 2 unanimously approved a package of ordinances and resolutions that advance a major downtown trail project, extend a developer’s permit for a convenience store, and clear routine city bills.
The council voted 13–0 to extend by one year the conditional-use permit for a QuickTrip convenience store and fuel sales (Ordinance No. 20 25-10). Mayor Curtis told the council the project remains delayed largely by utility relocations; the developer expects to record the plat this week, begin tree and brush removal by Feb. 13, and hopes to break ground in mid– to late April, with a target completion date of no later than May 27, weather permitting. Alderman Swanson moved to suspend the rules and place the ordinance on final reading; the motion and final passage carried unanimously.
Council members also approved…
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