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Villa Park schedules June public-input meetings for park-crossing safety and corridor designs
Summary
Residents raised safety concerns about park crossings, particularly Danbury–Loughton Park and Villa Avenue; staff said two public-input meetings in June (Villa Avenue and Ardmore) will gather resident feedback and consultants are evaluating IDOT constraints before the village acts.
Residents raised pedestrian-safety concerns for park crossings at the Coffee with the Board meeting on May 2, pointing specifically to a Danbury–Loughton Park crossing and several neighborhood intersections where children and strollers cross busy streets.
A long-time resident said she regularly sees families with young children crossing near Jackson and other corridors and urged the village to implement interim measures. Assistant Village Manager Mike Guerra said the village is scheduling two public-input meetings in June — one at the VPRC for Villa Avenue and one at Village Hall for Ardmore — so residents can review options and give input on traffic-calming measures.
Guerra and other staff explained that interim measures (signs, low-cost design features, repositioning solar-powered speed signs) are possible, but larger changes tied to federal or state-funded projects require consultant studies and IDOT approval. "If we put something in that IDOT says is not allowed, they’ll make us tear it back out," Guerra told attendees, explaining the village must coordinate with IDOT when federal-design standards or federally funded projects are involved.
Staff also discussed other near-term options — adjusted parking, targeted enforcement during school drop-off and pick-up times, and repositioning speed signs to better slow traffic while consultant studies proceed.
What’s next: public-input meetings in June will present preliminary designs and gather resident preferences; staff said the traffic-safety commission and planning commission will review submitted input before formal recommendations to the board.
