The Town of St. John must put a whole lot of work – and expense — into a parcel on which Donald Trump Jr. granted water easement rights before it can annex it, says the Lake County Plan Commission head.

First, the town will have to purchase the nearly 167 acres at 12863 State Line Rd. In unincorporated Cedar Lake, Lake County Plan Commission Executive Director Ned Kovachevich said in a September 4 letter addressed to the St. John Town Council that the Post-Tribune obtained. Kovachevich wrote the letter after the town ran a legal ad announcing a public hearing for the parcel’s annexation during its September 10 Town Council meeting.

Once it has bought the property — which its previous owner, South Lake County developer John Lotton, quitclaimed to Trump Jr.’s llc, RBCP Investments LLC-Indi

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