Rock Pit Lake land use change

Cited an active TRO, demanded health and environmental clearance certificates, and said the community refuses another loss of life.

Wanted to know how residents can access the promised jobs and training from the development.

Family in Rock Island since 1969; she survived cancer she links to the site but supports the project for its remediation, jobs and training.

Demanded independent health-department-overseen testing, an EPA community meeting, and urged denial of the zoning change.

Roosevelt Gardens Civic Association rep said the unincorporated community has been excluded from the process and wants independent engineering review of runoff and drainage.

Golden Heights resident raised flooding — all community stormwater drains to the lake — and ash from the site blowing into homes.

Questioned changing residential zoning to commercial before remediation, calling it putting the cart before the horse.