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Residents raise due-process, safety and environmental concerns over Field Park capital project
Summary
Public commenters told the village board they oppose the park district's chosen location for a $2.8 million Field Park capital project, saying the Park District did not hold required community meetings, promised traffic studies were not completed, and that tree removal and AstroTurf installation would harm the environment and local businesses.
John Mitchell, a longtime Oak Park resident, told the Village Board on May 13 that neighbors object to the Park District’s planned capital project at Field Park and wanted their concerns about location recorded. "They blew us off basically," Mitchell said, adding the project was scheduled to start in mid-June and that he and other neighbors gathered about 300 signatures opposing the chosen site.
Mitchell said the project budget is $2,800,000 and that the Park District had promised three community meetings but held none in the neighborhood until Oct. 23. "They said they were gonna do a traffic study and they never did," he told trustees, and said his own counts found a car every 29 seconds near the Woodbine and Berkshire intersection during active park use.
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