Pro & Con: Residents React to Mining Proposal in Channahon

A proposal to allow Ketone Partners to resume mining on a large parcel of land at U.S. 6 and Bluff Road in Channhon had a number of local residents raising their voices on Patch.

Ketone, a Chicago-based real estate, consulting and development firm, wants to mine the property for 10-15 years, then turn the land into a luxury residential neighborhood surrounded on three-sides by a 90- to 100-acre lake.

The company's plan, as outlined in a recent Village of Channahon planning and zoning commission meeting, calls for 100 homes to be built, each one of the homes sitting on one-acre lots.

Here is a Sampling of Patch Readers/Users Had to Say:

Bob

another screw up by Pena and his clowns, everything for the village at the expense of the citizens.

Channahonian

I can't understand how the village doesn't have a say in what they do with the land. We can't even put in a pool without a permit. I don't see how anyone can dig a quarry without a one! I agree the dust, truck traffic and noise would not do our property values any good and the fact that the project is suppose to last a minimum of 10 years is definitely not a selling point.

anonymous

Here's the deal people-either we create jobs in private industry or we just have more and more people on the govt teat that don't pay taxes-or govt creates even more worthless govt employees- and then a shrinking middle class pays even higher taxes to a govt that is already broke. You decide-either way you will be taxed to death. Don't forget-property taxes are due in 2 weeks-dig those pennies out of the couch cushions-your friendly local firefighter's wife has her eye on a new GMC Yukon Denali.

Justme

Don't people realize almost everything they have is delivered by trucks. That mine has been here longer than most residents. As a 35 year resident, let them mine it without imposing so many restrictions as the village has become very good at doing.

Christine

When that mine was open, it never bothered most people. Anonymous is right. It's a mine, not a nuclear power plant. I say let it be done.