Title
Resolution on Zoning Case No. 3732, which consists of the petition of the County of Lake and Great Lakes Disaster Training Facility, Inc. relative to a request for a Conditional Use Permit to allow a public safety training facility. The Department of Planning, Building and Development recommends the petition be approved. On the motion “to approve” the prayer of the petitioner, the Zoning Board of Appeals vote is 6 “ayes” and 0 “nays”; the Planning, Building and Zoning Committee vote is 6 “ayes” and 0 “nays”.
Staff Summary
· This is an application to issue a Conditional Use Permit to allow the development of the “Lake County Advanced Response Training Academy” on the Sheriff’s shooting range property which has been leased to the applicant corporation by the County.
· The property contains 80 acres and is located on the north side of Russell Road ¼ mile east of the Tollway.
· The facility will offer a wide range of training services and objects such as a burn tower, rubble piles, railroad cars and a vehicle driving practice course unlike anything in the region. Training will be available to all types of emergence first-responders including police, fire and utility personnel.
· The Zoning Board of Appeals, Regional Planning Commission and Planning Department staff all recommend approval.
Body
WHEREAS, a public hearing has been held by the Lake County Zoning Board of Appeals pursuant to the Statutes of the State of Illinois on the petition of County of Lake and Great Lakes Disaster Training Facility, Inc. relative to a request for a Conditional Use Permit to allow a public safety training facility for the following real estate, to-wit:
THE WEST HALF OF THE WEST FRACTIONAL HALF OF SECTION 3, TOWNSHIP 46 NORTH, RANGE 11, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, IN LAKE COUNTY, ILLINOIS.
P.I.N.: 03-03-300-001
WHEREAS, your Department of Planning, Building and Development duly considered the aforesaid petition and recommends that it be approved; and
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