Officials in Joliet and Plainfield have agreed to revise and extend the life of a boundary agreement that affects their growth areas in Kendall County.
The original contract, approved in 1990 and revised a year later, was to expire at the end of 2004. The new agreement will run until Jan. 1, 2012.
The Joliet City Council voted Tuesday night to approve the pact, one day after the Plainfield Village Board endorsed it.
Joliet Mayor Arthur Schultz and Plainfield Mayor Richard Rock plan to sign the documents Thursday.
“Mayor Rock is happy with the agreement and so am I,” Schultz said.
“I am awfully glad to get it,” Rock said. “I want to thank [the city of Joliet] publicly for going along with it.”
The original deal set boundaries for the towns in Will County, using Walker Road as the dividing line. Plainfield developed to the north of Walker and Joliet to the south.
Under the new agreement, the boundary in Kendall would extend north from Walker along Schlapp Road, ending at Illinois Highway 126. The rest of the 1990 agreement remains intact, officials said.
Since Joliet annexed its way into Kendall in 1996, developers have started work on five subdivisions. The city last summer approved plans to build a water treatment plant in Kendall within a few years.
Plainfield approved its first Kendall development in 2001, Grande Park with 2,036 units. A proposed second development, the 4,500-unit Grande Park South, is awaiting consideration by village officials.
