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ELGIN (Illinois) COURIER-NEWS
Kane weighs migrant camp rules
By
STEVE LORD Staff Writer
GENEVA -- Not that it's a big issue in Kane County, but the county board
wants better regulation over migrant labor camps.
The board's development committee this week looked at a potential change
in the zoning ordinance for the definition of migrant labor camp
building.
"It would give us better control," said Phil Bus, the county's
development director. "It gives us better compliance with public health
issues and the migrant labor camp code."
The contemplated change would match the county's definition of a migrant
labor camp with what is in the state migrant labor code. It would define
a labor camp as one or more buildings with 10 or more workers living in
it, or four or more families.
Many other counties have larger, commercial agricultural facilities and
farms with a lot of seasonal workers, Bus said. But there are at least
two camps in Kane County that would come under the definition, both of
them horticultural nurseries.
The current county regulations define a migrant camp as five unrelated
persons in a building.
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