Here is who voted how:
From a Friend of McHenry County Blog:
Hartland Township Slaughterhouse
I’m not sure if you’re aware of the Conditional Use Permit Petition for a Slaughterhouse in Hartland Township. It goes to the County Board for a vote this Tuesday, 6/17.
The petitioners are the former owners of Jones Packing in Harvard. The business burned to the ground in March 2023 & they want to rebuild on an 8 acre parcel they own in Hartland.
Currently they’re using it as a stockyard business. Trucking in sheep & goats, holding them in pens, taking them to slaughter somewhere and delivering the meat to wholesalers & restaurants in Chicago.
Hartland Township is formally opposing it.
So many residents are against it they packed the 3 ZBA hearings similar to the Wonder Lake group.
Standing room only, all 3 rooms.
The ZBA, with the exception of Kurt Schnable & Linnea Koostra, ignored all of the testimony from the opposition and voted 5-2 to approve.
The petitioners cannot meet the standards in the UDO 16.20.040E. In addition, there are Principal Use Standards 16.56.030 HH. Food Processing with Animal Slaughter that they cannot meet.
#1 states: No animal slaughter operation may be located on a parcel within 500 feet of any residential zoning district or residential structure located in an agricultural zoning district. There are 4 residences within 500 feet of the property line, including 1 on the owners property about 150 feet from the proposed slaughterhouse.
I’ve attached the 2 sets of documents. The first one is the original, no longer online. It has an aerial view of the slaughterhouse, the petitioner measured from the 4 corners showing no residences within 500 feet. However, the CUP is for the whole parcel, so measuring from the property lines, there are 3 residences plus the one on their property within 500 feet.
The second set is the official site plan, missing the aerial view of the slaughterhouse. It has the summary from P&D etc.
The slaughterhouse property is a quarter mile from Valley-Hi
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The Hartland Township Board opposes the rezoning.
One idea I had that would allow local control of such zoning would be for the County Board to defer to township zoning boards’ opinions.
That, it seems to me, would protect the interest of those townships with the fewest number of residents, hence, the least representation on the County Board.
That is a future possibility, of course.
