Planning commission approves Dugan Park redevelopment plan, recommends 8AM–9PM park hours and extra restroom stalls

The Orland Park Planning Commission on April 15 approved the Dugan Park redevelopment plan, a package of entitlements that includes rezoning portions of the site from R3 residential to OS open space, a special-use permit for recreational facility lighting with a modification on light trespass, a sidewalk variance, and approval of the project site and landscape plans subject to conditions.

Ray Piattoni, Director of Recreation and Parks, and designers from Christopher Burke Engineering presented plans that call for ten lighted pickleball courts, lighting added to two existing tennis courts, a new restroom/shelter pavilion near a playground, reconfigured north and south parking lots, a larger soccer field, a smaller youth baseball field and associated landscaping. The proposal removes two elements that had been in the earlier concept — bocce courts and a sledding hill — because of grant conditions and to meet grading and drainage needs.

The village has secured an Open Space Land Acquisition and Development (OSLAD) grant from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources worth $600,000 for the project;…