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Woodstock OKs dispensary plan City Council alters zoning, grants special use request for medical marijuana petitioner By CYNTHIA WOLF editorial@shawmedia.com WOODSTOCK – The City Council decided late Tuesday night to alter zoning and grant a special use
request for a medical marijuana dispensary at 2300-2312 S. Eastwood Drive, Woodstock. Voting against the measure were council members Julie Dillon and Maureen Larson. Voting in
favor were RB Thompson, Joseph Starzynski, Michael Turner and Mayor Brian Sager. Council member Mark Saladin was absent. The approval does not make establishment of a dispensary immi-
nent, but does allow petitioner 4500 NW Highway LLC to move forward with an application to the state of Illinois. That application, if successful, likely will mean that Woodstock
will be home to the only such dispensary in the county because of state regulations regarding their total number and location.
See DISPENSARY, page A4
RV storage restrictions draw notable opposition
MORE CASH FOR KIDS’ SCHOOLING
Some object to language in proposed ordinance By KEVIN P. CRAVER kcraver@shawmedia.com
Sarah Nader – snader@shawmedia.com
Students wait outside Westfield Community School in Algonquin on Aug. 13 before the doors opened on the first day of school.
THE COST OF EDUCATION Some districts in McHenry County are administering higher registration fees By ALLISON GOODRICH agoodrich@shawmedia.com For the first time in 20 years, parents in Crystal Lake School District 47 have had to dish out a little more cash to register students, and they’re not the only ones in McHenry County. District 47’s registration fee for first- through fifth-graders is $72, $12 more than the 2013-14 school year. Those with sixththrough eighth-graders owe $90, which is $15 more than last year. Chief Financial Officer Kevin Werner said the increases were a way to help cover new technol-
ogy-based initiatives needed to prepare students for upcoming assessments. “To help support strategic projects aimed at increasing student achievement, small incremental increases have been planned over the next several years...,” Werner stated in an email. This year’s inflation still leaves the fees lower than those of other districts, such as Woodstock District 200. There, parents will pay $121 to register students in full-day pre-kindergarten
See SCHOOL FEES, page A4
School registration costs in McHenry County Crystal Lake Community School District 47 Pre-school: $60 Kindergarten: $48 Grade 1-5: $72 Grade 6-8: $90 McHenry Elementary School District 15 Kindergarten: $57.50 Grade 1-5: $89.75 Grade 6-8: $113.25 Consolidated School District 158 Pre-K: $112 Kindergarten a.m.: $167 Kindergarten Full-Day: $217 Grade 1-5: $173 Grade 6-8: $218 Grade 9-12: $228
Riley Community Consolidated School District 18 Kindergarten: $95, tech fee $15 Grade 1-5: $130, tech fee $15 Grade 6-8: $140, tech $28 Alden-Hebron Community Consolidated 19 (tech fees included) Kindergarten-5: $110 Grade 6-8: $115 Grade 9-12: $125 Cary Community Consolidated District 26 Kindergarten half-day: $136 Grade 1-5: $188 Grade 6-8: $218
WOODSTOCK – Proposed restrictions to the outdoor storage of boats and other recreational vehicles on residential lots has owners up in arms. A standing-room-only audience came out in force at Tuesday evening’s McHenry County Board meeting to object to language On the Web in the proposed Unified DevelopYou can read ment Ordinance the text of the that restricts proposed Unified how recreDevelopment ational vehicles are parked Ordinance and stored in at shawurl. front of homes. com/10wo. The Present coun- proposed limitaty ordinances, tions on recreationwhich the UDO al vehicle storage is intended to can be found in r e p l a c e , h a v e Chapter 16. no such restrictions. To opponents of the measure, such as Tom Eckland of Burtons Bridge, that’s the way it should be. There’s a reason he keeps a 12-foot rowboat and two jet-propelled personal watercraft in his yard – the Fox River is a block and half from his house. “Darned near everybody in our neighborhood has something sitting outside,” Eckland said. Under the proposed UDO, no recreational vehicle or the trailers licensed to transport them can be parked in a driveway for more than 30 days, or parked or stored in a front yard. It also limits the number of vehicles stored outside to two, which must be kept at least five feet from a lot line. The ordinance covers vehicles such as boats, snowmobiles, dirt bikes, all-terrain vehicles, travel trailers and recreational vehicles. The UDO will only apply to unincorporated areas and will not supersede municipal zoning and land-use ordinances.
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