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Forest Park residents ask for driveway protections and traffic calming; Prairie Path extension planned
Summary
A resident asked the council to add driveway signage, remove a parking spot and consider speed bumps; a Prairie Path board member said the county plans to extend the trail into Forest Park within three to five years and suggested a trailhead location.
During the public-comment period, Barbara Jackson of 25 Elgin Avenue presented a petition and asked the council to install a "do not block the driveway" sign and to physically prevent parking immediately east of her garage so residents can safely enter and exit their ramped driveway.
"We would like you to completely eliminate that parking spot just east of our driveway using some barriers of some sort, not just a no parking sign because cars will park there and block it," Jackson said, and she also urged additional signage to prevent drivers from turning the wrong way onto the one-way section of Elgin Avenue.
Jackson asked the village to address frequent speeding on Circle Avenue between Harlem and Franklin, suggesting speed bumps or other calming measures, and she raised concerns about enforcement of a 15-minute parking zone in front of her building.
Ralph Defibo, speaking as a Prairie Path board member, told the council the county study will likely extend the Prairie Path into Forest Park with a new crosswalk at 1st Avenue and recommended the village consider a trailhead near the Altmanheim property to draw trail users to local businesses.
"The Prairie Path is coming to Forest Park," Defibo said, and he encouraged the village to integrate trail planning with local economic and recreational goals.
