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Eco groups: Fix ordinance

By KEVIN P. CRAVER - kcraver@nwherald.com

WOODSTOCK – Several county environmental groups are in the unusual position of asking McHenry County to suspend its landmark conservation-friendly development ordinance.

A letter penned by members of several conservation agencies is asking the task force reviewing the ordinance to suspend it for six months. In that time, they want alleged loopholes and conflicts to be fixed, developers to be educated on it, and county Planning and Development Department officers to be trained to enforce it.

And if that doesn’t happen, they want it repealed, Alliance for Land, Agriculture and Water member Emily Berendt Monday told members of the Land First Advisory Group that helped draft the ordinance. The group on Monday invited public input for the six-month review of the ordinance, which the McHenry County Board approved in February.

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