Post by sushi on Mar 14, 2008 6:16:18 GMT -6
Metea annexation approved
March 14, 2008
By Dan Campana The Beacon News
AURORA -- Plans for the new Metea Valley High School will get full Aurora City Council exposure next week after a committee gave its nod to preliminary plans Thursday night.
The school and a new location for St. John African Methodist Episcopal Church are slated to share approximately 122 acres on Eola Road, south of Diehl Road. On Thursday, the council's Planning and Development committee approved an annexation agreement to bring the site into Aurora, as well as site designs.
The council's Committee of the Whole is expected to consider both plans at its Tuesday meeting, and a public hearing could be held at the March 23 council meeting.
In January, Indian Prairie School District 204 announced the Eola location as its planned site for the new high school on an 86.5 acre site that carried a price tag of $16.5 million. A parents' group has sued to block the district from using the Eola site, pointing to a 2005 study that described it as a "potential health threat." The lawsuit contends referendum money is earmarked for a different location, known as Brach-Brodie.
Attorney Rick Petesch, representing the school district, said the location will be a "safe site."
"We are working very hard on due diligence," he said, adding officials continue to work on traffic plans with the DuPage Department of Transportation to secure a second fully signalized intersection north of the main entrance planned for Molitor Road.
If everything goes according to plan, the district expects to break ground by April 1.
Sun-Times News Group
March 14, 2008
By Dan Campana The Beacon News
AURORA -- Plans for the new Metea Valley High School will get full Aurora City Council exposure next week after a committee gave its nod to preliminary plans Thursday night.
The school and a new location for St. John African Methodist Episcopal Church are slated to share approximately 122 acres on Eola Road, south of Diehl Road. On Thursday, the council's Planning and Development committee approved an annexation agreement to bring the site into Aurora, as well as site designs.
The council's Committee of the Whole is expected to consider both plans at its Tuesday meeting, and a public hearing could be held at the March 23 council meeting.
In January, Indian Prairie School District 204 announced the Eola location as its planned site for the new high school on an 86.5 acre site that carried a price tag of $16.5 million. A parents' group has sued to block the district from using the Eola site, pointing to a 2005 study that described it as a "potential health threat." The lawsuit contends referendum money is earmarked for a different location, known as Brach-Brodie.
Attorney Rick Petesch, representing the school district, said the location will be a "safe site."
"We are working very hard on due diligence," he said, adding officials continue to work on traffic plans with the DuPage Department of Transportation to secure a second fully signalized intersection north of the main entrance planned for Molitor Road.
If everything goes according to plan, the district expects to break ground by April 1.
Sun-Times News Group
