Village Hall |
255 East Wilson Ave. |
Lombard, IL 60148 |
villageoflombard.org |
Trustee Rick Soderstrom, Chairperson |
Trustee Steven D.Sebby, Vice Chairperson |
Greg Gron, Thomas Gibbons, John Schwarz |
Arthur Kuehl and William Lepins,Thomas Murphy |
Staff Liaisons: Deputy Chief Dane Cuny, Patrol Division, Police, |
Justine Gembala, Civil Engineer, Public Works |
Meeting was called to order by Chairperson Tross at 7:43 pm. Introduced Trustee |
Soderstrom who will taking over as Chairperson at the next T & S meeting. |
Chairperson Trustee Richard J. Tross, Committee Member William Bergeron, |
resigned Dolores Kempa Cassidy, Greg Gron and Ed Bedard |
Meeting tonight will be addressing the Village of Lombard's involvement in Rte. 53. |
Domenick Ragona 738 S. Rte. 53 Lombard, IL |
Theresa Carney 564 W. Harrison Rd. Lombard, IL |
Lorraine and Einar Oynes 554 W. Harrison Rd. Lombard, IL |
Rosa and Giuseppe Sproviero 1032 S. Rte. 53 Lombard, IL |
Maria Ragona 748 S. Rte. 53 Lombard, IL |
Ken and Carol Clauson 738 S. Rte. 53 Lombard, IL |
Joseph Muff 901 S. Cherry Lane Lombard, IL |
Lisa Johnson 447 W. Harrison Lombard, IL |
Karen Koenig 321 Collen Drive Lombard, IL |
Judy Rohlicek 742 S. Finley Rd. Lombard, IL |
Mary Kaufman 2S154 Churchill Glen Ellyn, IL |
3 corrections to minutes that Tross will provide to staff. Minutes approved with these |
amendments. |
It was moved by Gron, seconded by Bedard, to approve as amended. The |
motion carried by a voice vote |
Tross addressed committee about item. Will accept authorship, not content. Content |
came from committee. Goal to provide a recommendation to the village board regarding |
this issue. Committee has been made aware of this issue for the last 5 months. |
Reviewed item with committee members. |
Tross: NIFTI to be complimented on keeping the public informed about this issue. |
Complimented T & S Committee members on their dedication to this item. |
Tross: will address recommendations item by item. |
(1) Cassidy: at March meeting, we decided 5 lanes, not 4. Bedard: I thought it was 4. |
Tross: no, it was 4. Bergeron: 5 lanes would be with a suicide lane. Tross: all we |
would be doing is putting in a lane for someone to turn in to their driveway. Cassidy: I |
thought we said 5. We can paint things however we want, 3 lanes, 4 lanes, etc. but if |
the pavement is not there, we will be looking at more expense later. |
Joan DeStephano: why do we call it a suicide lane? Johnson: cars are going head on |
against traffic to make a left hand turn. Cassidy: I want to see 5 lanes, I don't care if we |
paint them 4 or whatever. Tross: IDOT needs to approve the painting of the lanes. |
Cassidy: I think monetarily we need to go with 5 lanes. |
(2) No Comment. |
(3) No Comment. |
(4) Bedard: do we have any latitude with how this is going to be designed? Tross: the |
answer is no, we really do not. We are getting in to areas that will not be funded by |
IDOT. Millette: The bridge is already there. IDOT will have to replace it. Tross: I'm not |
talking about the bridge, but the pedestrian access. |
(5) No Comment. |
(6) No Comment. |
(7) Gron: who would pay for this? Tross: since this is an Illinois First issue, we are not |
sure at this point who will be paying what. |
(8) No Comment. |
(9) No Comment. |
(10) Tross: will refer to staff on this item. Public Works has made these |
recommendations, we are just solidifying these. |
Tross: the suggestion of 4 lanes, stripe as 3, then eventually stripe as 4 when needed is |
not for Lombard. |
Tross: after open discussion, we will take the issue of item (1) separately and the |
remaining issues as one total item. |
Tross: residents living on the side streets off of Rte. 53 do not deserve the high |
amounts of traffic that will flow on to these streets without right in/right out. Asked |
Trustee DeStephano if she had any comments on this issue. |
DeStephano: I just saw this paperwork last Thursday. Am trying to keep the residential |
character of Rte. 53 as much as possible. Tross: development will be mainly |
residential, not strip malls, etc. DeStephano: in other words, the amount of residential |
traffic will be so high that 3 lanes is not acceptable? Tross: correct. Traffic needs to |
keep moving, and 3 lanes will not adequately move 25,000 vehicles per day. Tross |
introduced Trustee Karen Koenig. Koenig: should these be boulevards? Has |
committee looked at this at all? I think that boulevarding is a safety aspect, and keeps |
the residential flare. Tross: there are over 125 driveways here, therefore we did not |
look at this issue. Cassidy: with the 5 lanes we had talked about, there would not be |
any room for this. Tross: also, there is enough parkway area to have trees, sidewalks, |
etc. Koenig: that would keep the residential flare. Tross: committee did not want to |
see a "Roosevelt Road" here. Soderstrom: I want to go on record that I am against the |
5 lane expansion, and really did not even want 4. Would like to see 3, but would go |
along with 4. Tross: I was initially going to go with 5, but committee steered me to 4. |
Asked Trustee Sebby for comments. Sebby: I have counted about 1000 signs that |
people have out there. I would like to see this at 3, but IDOT is looking at this from a |
State issue, not a beautification issue. |
Chairperson Tross opened this to the Public for discussion. |
Mary Kaufman: first of all, thanks for the proposal. I am happy to see the side streets |
set up the way the committee proposed. Additions of sidewalks, bike paths, etc. will |
keep aesthetic feel of neighborhood. IDOT is looking at 5 lane solution, but they are |
also looking at 4 lane solution. One problem they have encountered are the wetlands in |
Flowerfield. I heard from the mayor in Itasca that the Illinois First money is being |
grabbed quickly. IDOT no longer has all of the funds required for the 2003 Rte. 53 |
project. People that think Rte. 53 will be 5 lanes no matter what,but they need to rethink |
this. I will support Lombard with their 4 lanes. |
Theresa Carney: I live in the 500 block of Harrison. Would really like 3 lanes, not 4 or 5. |
I drive on Rte. 53 5 out of 7 days per week. Signs say do not pass on shoulder. I see |
people drive on them all of the time. How would it affect traffic if old MIT building is |
enlarged? Tross: we do not want a large number of employee traffic using our side |
streets. Need to exit and enter off of Rte. 53. Carney: What about Harding? You told |
me that Harding is county. How can you put Harding in your recommendation? Tross: |
we cannot control Harding, but Harrison we can. This is just a recommendation that |
would be passed along to the county. Carney: what about Madison? Isn't that county |
also? Tross: Yes, but it is a collector. Carney: I feel a lot of this traffic will be directed |
to Finley, where kids are trying to cross the street. Finley between 4pm - 6pm from |
Roosevelt and Wilson is unbelievable. Tross: committee members do not want this |
traffic going down your streets or any other residential streets in Lombard. Carney: this |
is why I think we should only have 3 lanes. |
Judy Rohlicek: all of my questions have been answered. 4 lanes sounds good. I am |
concerned about amounts of traffic. Right in/right out is good. |
Lisa Johnson: I have concerns about your recommendations of 4 lanes, striped for 3? |
Tross: committee recommendation is to construct a 4 lane highway not a 3. Lisa |
Johnson: then I am confused about the last page in recommendation. Tross: that |
paragraph is only for NIFTI, not for Lombard. Soderstrom: committee's |
recommendation is to construct 4 lanes and to utilize 4 lanes. If the Village Board |
overturns this, and recommends 3 lanes to IDOT, then that is what will be |
recommended. Gron: if you would like an example of what the 4 lanes will be like, look |
at North Ave. between West and Berteau in Elmhurst. Lisa Johnson: then what is the 4 |
lanes, stripe for 3? Tross: that is only for NIFTI in their area. Lisa Johnson: with the |
savings of the 4 lanes vs. 5 lanes, will that mean that Lombard will not have pay as |
much money? Tross: hopefully, it would mean they will not charge us for the amenities |
we would like to have. |
Dominick Ragona: tollway is not working because of the 55 cents toll, and traffic went to |
Rte. 53. Toll is being raised to 90 cents, and everyone will be taking Rte. 53. If majority |
of people on Rte. 53 do not want 5 lanes or 4 lanes, should be majority rules. Tross: I |
agree that dealing with the State and up is difficult and it should be what majority of |
residents want. Ragona: I cannot get out of my driveway. |
Poll of committee members present on Item (1) Bergeron, Bedard, Gron - Aye Cassidy |
- Nay Tross: Will go to the Board with a negative, not enough votes. Please note that I |
did speak with Bill Pool & John Schwarz and they are in agreement with 4 lanes. |
Poll of committee members present on remaining Items (2 thru 10) Gron, Bergeron, |
Bedard, Cassidy - Aye. |
Tross asked Bunni Cassidy to write a minority report to accompany this |
recommendation to the Board. |
Enactment No: Resolution 17-02 ID |
Enactment No: Ordinance 5015 "No P |
Gron: is this part of the "put up, take down" we talked about in the past? Johnson: No, |
this is not part of that. Tross: if this does go through, residents will be notified that this |
will not be a yo-yo issue. Johnson: the residents on that street want their parking back. |
They feel the students were not parking in that area. A petition is attached from all |
residents. |
DeStephano: has anyone spoken to these residents about the parking problems that |
might occur with the students? Johnson: yes, and they do not feel it will be a problem, |
that students were not parking there before. |
It was moved by Bedard, seconded by resigned Kempa Cassidy, that this matter |
be recommended to the Board of Trustees for approval. The motion carried by |
the following vote: |
Enactment No: Ordinance 4984 "No P |
Soderstrom: Magnolia is stopping Cherry? Johnson: correct. Yield signs will not work. |
Joseph Muff: I live at 901 Cherry Lane. My daughter's car was hit there, and she was |
almost killed. Soderstrom: is the problem equally as bad going westbound on Magnolia |
as it is going eastbound? Should this be 4-way? Tross: should Cherry stop at |
Magnolia? Bergeron: do we need a certain traffic count to warrant a 4 way stop? |
Tross: with the vehicular and pedestrian traffic from the park, if it warrants one stop |
sign, it should warrant four. Given the proximity of the park, traffic counts, pedestrian |
traffic, etc. committee could recommend 4-way as with Southland Park. Cassidy: what |
does staff recommend? Tross: staff recommends a 2 way. Johnson: actually, it is a |
one way. Reason for this is that traffic flows at normal speeds on one, and the other is |
going too fast. Yield sign will not work. Cassidy: is 4 way stop warranted? Millette: |
stop signs allow right of way. Johnson: could look at it as a 2 way as there is only one |
resident coming off of the other direction. Bedard: stop signs should not be used to |
control speed. Bedard made a motion to install 4-way stop signs due to safety issues, |
not traffic counts. |
It was moved by Bedard, seconded by Gron, that this matter be recommended to |
the Board of Trustees for approval. The motion carried by the following vote: |
Enactment No: Ordinance 4984 Magn |
Tross: Bill Bergeron is resigning from Committee after many years of service. Cake |
and coffee will now be served in the hall. Also, asked Bill Bergeron to attend the Village |
Board meeting on 6/21/01. |
Tross: I will send this list of open items that still need to be addressed to incoming |
Chairperson and Co-Chairperson. There are quite a few issues that still have not been |
resolved. (Tross to give copy to staff) Soderstrom: as incoming Chairperson, I am |
letting you know now there will not be a meeting in July. I will poll members of the |
committee on their availability and what day would work best for all. |
Gron: on Westmore. the tree south of the driveway at West Suburban Bank needs to be |
trimmed - site hazard. Patty will forward to Steve Kremske. |
It was moved by resigned Bergeron, seconded by Gron, to adjourn the meeting at |
9:35 pm. The motion carried by a voice vote |