Recent Alden Road-related newspaper articles and blog posts

I have come across a few recent newspaper articles and blog posts that you may be interested in reading. The most recent are listed first:

Environmental Group Wary of 2030 Plan from the Northwest Herald, August 28, 2009. This article, written by Kevin Craver, discusses the Regional Planning Commission meeting which took place on 8/27, and mentions Alden Township specifically, among others. In regards to the 2030 Land Use Plan, McHenry County Green Alliance and Alliance for Land, Agriculture and Water (ALAW) member Patricia Kennedy is quoted as saying, “If they accept it as it is today, anyone with a petition could take it to court and win, because it’s totally contradictory,”

Kennedy made the following statement during the Public Comment portion of the meeting:

My concern this evening arises from what we all saw and heard at [the Regional Planning Commission] meeting last week. We have observed this before, but it was particularly obvious last week.

Especially considering the [Land Use Plan] that you are creating, as a tax paying and voting citizen, I request that each of you be very up front in disclosing any and all connections, holdings or property interests which you may represent. And if you have any doubt in regard to those issues, that you err on the side of recusing yourself. If you talk in specifics about one property owner’s opinions and desires, you would, of course, need to do that for every property owner and that certainly is not appropriate.

We have been sitting here watching you do a parcel by parcel Land Use Plan map. That is totally incorrect planning procedure. You have been told by staff on several occasions that you are using an incorrect procedure, and still you persist. If you continue in this manner, you have certainly found a unique way to destroy the credibility of this Plan and its map. It will be interesting to see which direction you decide to take.

County to Re-Examine Alden Road Project from the Woodstock Independent, August 26, 2009, written by Mike Neumann.

Rural Residents Halt Alden Autobahn from the First Electric Newspaper, posted August 24, 2009.

Residents Organize Against Alden Road Project from the Woodstock Independent, August 19, 2009, written by Mike Neumann.

Road Madness fron TLC’s blog, posted July 20, 2009. TLC’s blog is written by Lisa Haderlein, Executive Director of the Land Conservancy of McHenry County.