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McHenry County board amends term, unanimously backs renewal for Woodstock dairy-barn research use
Summary
The McHenry County Zoning Board of Appeals voted 7–0 to amend a staff-recommended 10-year term to 20 years and voted unanimously to forward applicant Bill Hughes’ renewal of a conditional use permit for a remodeled dairy barn at 910 Hobie Road in Woodstock to the county board.
The McHenry County Zoning Board of Appeals voted unanimously to forward applicant Bill Hughes’ request to renew a conditional use permit allowing engineering research, product development and limited production in a remodeled dairy barn at 910 Hobie Road in Woodstock.
Bill Hughes told the board he and his wife own the 5.6-acre property through a trust and that the barn has housed his agricultural-engineering business, including design, prototyping and some manufacturing, since the mid-1990s. "I'd like to get longer than 10 years if possible because I'll be back here when I'm 66," Hughes said when…
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