Members of the Lake in the Hills Town Center Committee on Tuesday night recommended that the village redraw plans for a new village hall, with a proposed road “snaking around” a stretch of habitat for an endangered insect species on the Rothschild Farm.
A proposed road from Jefferson Street to the proposed village hall site about 250 feet west of the Lake in the Hills Nature Preserve may wipe out patches of prairie dropseed. That is a host plant to the protected red-veined leafhopper, an insect on the state-endangered species list.
“The most logical thing is to go around it, avoiding endangered flora and fauna,” said Judy Drop, a Town Center Committee member.
Jim Hoving, with Smith Engineering Consultants Inc., told committee members that patches of prairie dropseed are being marked and mapped by biologists.
