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Tri-State Asphalt looking to annex 12 acres to location By CHRISTINA CHAPMAN–VAN YPEREN cchapman@shawmedia.com MORRIS – Tri-State Asphalt of Morris is working with the city to expand its location. The Morris City Council’s Parks and Annexation Committee and the Water and Sewer Committee held a combined meeting Wednesday to discuss a proposed annexation agreement with the asphalt company to annex about 12 acres into the city, Mayor Richard Kopczick said Thursday. According to the company’s website, tsasphalt. com, it produces and supplies quality road and industrial-grade asphalt
emulsions. The asphalt company plans to annex 12 acres into Morris. Tri-State Asphalt was founded in 1984 and has been owned by Todd Weist since 2010. “The business has expanded. They are doing a lot of shipping from here all over the Midwest,” Building and Zoning Officer Bill Cheshareck said. The 12 additional acres would be used as a staging area for loading and unloading, Cheshareck said. At this time, there are no plans to build any structures on the land, Cheshareck said, but a stone base would be put down to accommodate the large equipment. He said Weist mentioned possibly putting in
a landscape berm between the current buildings. A detention pond also is planned. Because all property being annexed into the city comes in as residential, the project is scheduled to go before the Planning Commission this week to request a zoning change to Manufacturing-2 to fit in with the surrounding zoning. It would then go before the full council for approval at its Feb. 3 meeting. In other business, Kopczick said the committee heard a request from the Grundy-Three Rivers Habitat for Humanity. The organization is putting the finishing touches on its second home in its Hancock Page subdivision.
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