Councilwoman Jan Quillman | Facebook
Councilwoman Jan Quillman | Facebook
At its Nov. 15 meeting, the City of Joliet Council amended two ordinances related to how high trucking facilities could stack storage containers in the area.
Both of the ordinances passed with a vote of 5-4 in favor, which included the mayor’s vote as the tiebreaker.
The revised ordinances limit businesses at 3350 Channahon Road and 3850 S. Youngs Road to stacking containers three units high as opposed to the five units high set forth by the original ordinances.
“I’ve been to places and they just get higher and higher and they sit there and rust. They’re eyesores, and they just stay there forever and it’s not good for the environment,” Councilwoman Jan Quillman said before the vote. “And again, I don’t know if that’s something we want to do, I would go with three. And we have the right to do that as a council because I just think if we want to make Joliet better we don’t need a bunch of rusty containers hanging around.”
Quillman was just one of many council members who expressed concern over the issue and how it encouraged stockpiling.
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