Scaled-back burn ban near Mahomet goes to county committee as rural residents object
The county has logged five complaints about landscape-waste burning near Mahomet since 2016.
URBANA - A Champaign County Board committee on Thursday will take up a revised plan to ban burning within 1,000 feet of the village of Mahomet, according to the committee's agenda and packet.
The nuisance ordinance amendment would add a prohibited burn area around the village. County planning staff reduced the area after committee members' comments at the Sept. 10 meeting, a staff memo says.
Several emails from rural residents opposing the amendment are included in the packet, along with a memorandum from the Village of Mahomet. County records show five complaints about burning landscape waste in rural Mahomet since 2016: three in 2022, one in 2024 and one so far in 2026.
The Environment and Land Use Committee meets at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Bennett Administrative Center, 102 E. Main St., Urbana. Its recommendation would go to the full County Board.
Source: Champaign County Environment and Land Use Committee agenda packet, Oct. 8, 2026.