Good evening.

Welcome to tonight's city council meeting.

I want to get started with a proclamation with inclusive post-secondary education programs, extend access to higher education for individuals with intellectual and development of disabilities, costing independence, clear readiness in community engagement, and where family community houses called for life program provides meaningful educational opportunities for empowered students to accept their personal academic and employment goals and inclusive education strengthens our community by promoting diversity, equity, and full participation in civic and economic rights, and whereas the Illinois Alliance of Inclusive Psecondary Education programs, important separate national leaders, and proposes committee to recognize the importance and impact of inclusive higher education.

On behalf of the City Council and the residents of Princeton, who hereby touch on May 1st, 2026 as national inclusive post-secondary education day in our community, and I encourage all residents to recognize and celebrate the previous and contributions of students in process post-secondary educational programs.

And to receive this confirmation tonight, we have a group from done with community power here, and I would ask them to come to the microphone, press the phone button, and introduce the child so that we know who you are, and I'll bring this uh topic in the snoop too.

So thank you for being there.

Thank you, Mm-hmm.

Thank you, thank you.

And Julie Khan from Bandit Community College and Classical Slides with me.

I have self-advocates please now.

Thank you.

Um I would ask to put together an update on the uh development project that we're calling the tip to learn development, where we're at in the process and kind of what is going to be going forward.

So as you can see, um, this is a basic handline for what will go on as a part of this project.

Um you can see at the top uh in the VD space position for people to say that uh a developer dedicated city developing a potential project, uh the developer in the city discuss potential property acquisition as part of that.

The point status where we're at right now is the city is conducting preliminary diligence regarding uh this potential project.

The next step would be a committee of the whole meeting, which is going to be Thursday, April 30th or 6 o'clock at the OpenGener.

After that, the City Council would consider the purchase of the property that has been discussed.

If it is approved, the city would put out an RFP of a test for proposals issued for use of city owned property.

There's only a few of these slides I'm going to get into a little more detail into this kind of covering this step in the process at this point.

Once the proposals are submitted, the city would review them to determine the bus feed for the land.

The city would then select the proposal and begin leach negotiations with the individual organization that submit the proposal.

The developer would then have to apply to the Plan Commission once they have an imprint police on front.

The next step in the process is actually where that green box would be.

That is where the official collection of public input is in this process.

That is the Plan Commission would conduct the public hearing.

That is where the official record of public input is established for any type of project that goes before the Planning Commission.

Following that, the Plan Commission would make a recommendation to the City Council.

The City Council would then potentially vote on the development proposal and the lease.

If it is approved, the developer would have to apply for a construction permit as part of that process.

The city multiple city departments would use state plan and construction documents.

The city would then issue a construction permit following the approval of the planning, and then finally, construction can be done following the issuance of a building permit.

So that is basically a brief overview of the steps that will go on as part of this process.

So this is the site in question that is on PIC command four parcels that are outlined in blue.

It's approximately 136 acres, and the property is zoned in three, which is found industrial, and we will get a little bit more into what that means in the book.

Respondents would have approximately three weeks to submit proposals to describing how they would want to use the land.

All of these proposals would be verified and reviewed to determine what the top prospect would be, and that prospect proposal would be presented to the city council for review and consideration.

Should the city not acquire the land, the private developer could obtain the properties themselves and pursue as described in the following stages.

This property is zoned in three, which is planned industrial.

What that means it allows uses by right that are in the city's light industrial zoning district and in the city's various commercial zoning district.

So essentially there are dozens and dozens of potential uses that could be on this property based on the zoning.

There's one thing that is unique about the E3 is that it requires review and approval by the city council, no matter what.

There is nothing that is actually permitted by right in that zoning district.

Every development would have to come to this board for approval, no matter what was going to be done on that property.

Churches, schools, libraries, taxable explodes, residential homes, and the outdoor series material, there are requirements if there are outdoor stores of having a six-foot car county donation wall to be able to fill them.

They include a commercial stallway, uh energy facility, a net crab or cabaret, a speed or wind pad, a roller ice speeding ring, a baseball pipe, or an outdoor theater.

Those are ones, those are uses that are close to being committed, use by right, but there's a couple conditions for each one of those that they have to meet before they could be allowed in an industrial district.

And again, because of that until status, no matter what would be built, it has to come before this board for consideration.

Also, we discussed that this way to the Council Plan Commission for those who are not aware.

The Council Plan Commission is a group of 18 individuals.

Seven represent local organizations of government, including the member's office, city council, and board, health district, school district, and health department and the country housing authority, while the other six members should not live draw, including one member who represents the one and a half mile jurisdiction around the city.

This commission meets the first PM to set an opponent in terms of timber.

The commission considers a variety of issues, including zoning changes, that's a leak permit, that's a permit for time development.

Subdivisions, adding treat locations, and changes to city code.

The commission does submit recommendations of approval or denial to this country.

An application to the planning commission must be submitted at least 25 days in advance of the meeting to allow for public notification.

The public notification includes the following.

That letter includes the date, time and location of the meeting to make sure that they are aware of that meaning.

The public team I talked about earlier does occur during the planning commission meeting.

During that hearing, everyone is welcome to speak during the public hearing.

There are some property owners who are within 10 and 50 feet but also have the right to ask questions if they do sign up in a vent.