The McHenry County Zoning Board of Appeals continued a hearing on application Z250068, which seeks a conditional use permit for food processing with animal slaughter and variances reducing required street frontage and the required distance between an animal slaughter operation and a residence.

The petition before the board, filed by applicant S. T. Basiluk, requests a variance to reduce the required street frontage from 330 feet to 0 feet and to reduce the required separation between an animal slaughter operation and a residential structure in an A-1 agricultural district from 500 feet to 217.29 feet. The parcel is described in the petition as a 1-acre lot about 1,500 feet east of Greenwood Road, with site access roughly 740 feet north of the intersection of Avang and Greenwood Roads in Greenwood Township. The application’s PIN is 0814300-002.

Board members debated whether to incorporate the record from prior hearings into today’s record or to require the petitioner to restate testimony. The petitioner’s attorney asked to admit the prior record to avoid repeating evidence. The attorney said the current petition adds a variance for the 500-foot separation that was not in the prior proceeding and that they were prepared to address that issue. A member of the board, Bill Kernick (Grafton Township), said, “I did not. I did not know that this was an option,” and argued that he and the public were entitled to hear the evidence in this proceeding rather than rely on prior transcripts.

Several members favored a middle ground: continuing the hearing and posting the earlier transcripts and recordings online so board members and the public could review them before a resumed hearing. Anna (county staff) said she would provide the transcripts and links to the prior hearings. After discussion, the board continued the hearing and scheduled the next session for Nov. 19 at 1:30 p.m. in the same room in Woodstock.

No formal vote on the merits of the petition occurred at the continued hearing. The board clerk confirmed that the publisher’s certificate of publication (dated Sept. 20, 2025), affidavits of posting (dated Sept. 24, 2025) and mailing (dated Sept. 18, 2025) had been received and met ordinance requirements. The county’s Soil and Water Conservation District report (NRIL240774633) was also in the file; an endangered‑species consultation was not required, per staff.

The hearing was continued to allow board members who missed prior meetings, and members of the public, time to review the earlier testimony and recordings before the ZBA takes any final action on the conditional use permit or the variance requests.