A federal lawsuit is asking a judge to order the Kane County Department of Transportation stop working on the Longmeadow Parkway Corridor project and conduct a new environmental impact study, according to documents filed Friday in the U.S District Court, Northern District of Illinois.
The lawsuit lists the Kane County Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration and accuses the agencies of violating federal law by approving the project through the Brunner Family Forest Preserve “without properly studying or reviewing the environmental impacts of the construction or its impacts to the Forest Preserve,” said Geoffrey Petzel, who filed the pro se lawsuit.
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