County board considers new map, Olympian Drive
URBANA -- County board members will vote Tuesday night on the county board district map recommended by its redistricting commission, will consider another part of the Olympian Drive intergovernmental agreement and will hear updates on two remodeling projects.
The committee of the whole meeting will be at 6 p.m. at the Brookens Administrative Center, 1776 E. Washington St., U.
The proposed redistricting map, known as Plan 1E Revision 1, (available for viewing at http://bit.ly/OlyDrive) is expected to be voted down by Democrats, who hold a three-seat majority on the 27-member county board. If it is voted down, the Democrats have indicated they will ask the commission either to revise Plan 1E or develop one or more new maps and submit them to the county board. Some Democrats have said, however, that the county board should draw its own map.
Democratic members of the board have cited a number of reasons for opposing adoption of Plan 1E, including that it splits Urbana into five different county board districts (out of 11), creates one majority minority district but no others where minorities would have influence, fails to have equal district populations and creates a District 5 in northwest Champaign which they contend is not compact.
The county board has until July 1 to adopt a new map for county board districts.
The board also will consider an intergovernmental agreement with the cities of Champaign and Urbana for construction of the Lincoln Avenue segment of the much-debated Olympian Drive project north of Champaign-Urbana. The agreement calls for building the new North Lincoln Avenue along the so-called "purple" corridor. The project will cost an estimated $3.6 million, with both the county and Urbana providing $1.1 million. Construction is to begin in 2015.
Once built, Urbana will assume jurisdiction and maintenance of North Lincoln to Olympian Drive.
Also on the board's agenda tonight is an update on the repair and replacement of the decorative piece that fell off the top of the courthouse tower last month, and more information on a proposed autopsy facility in the new county maintenance building at 201 Art Bartell Road, U.
The board/Prussing/news gazette/atkins development are out of control with respect to olympian
drive destruction/desecration.
Everything has changed since 1996 study ---infinitely beyond the destructioneer's claims.
Their tools of measurement are tainted. This isn't about a few residents just happily living their
lifelong dreams; it's about the food chain, native american inhabitants, water contamination,
and --oh--yes--oil and gas and road tar and motor fuel taxes and factories who mistakenly plopped
themselves at the end of the road across the tracks.

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