A lawsuit challenging municipal decisions to allow one of the city’s largest companies to build a rail yard in a blue-collar neighborhood and nature corridor could expand as residents opposed to Cargill’s $6.5 million project filed paperwork on Tuesday to intervene in the cases, reports The Gazette.
Protect the Prairie Park Nature Corridor Inc., made up of six residents, filed motions to intervene in two separate petitions for certiorari, or review, filed by Rob and Kate Hogg in December.
The Hoggs challenged the legality of City Council votes late last year to change the city’s future land-use map and rezone 17 acres of city-owned land in the Rompot neighborhood to allow the 12-track, 200-car rail yard.
