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8 | April 25, 2019 | The glencoe anchor community
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Glencoe Park Board
$231K contract OK’d for Old
Green Bay Trail Linear Park design
Ronnie Wachter
Freelance Reporter
Glencoe’s portion of the
Green Bay Trail moved
closer to becoming a finished
product Tuesday,
April 16, when the Glencoe
Park Board hired architects
to design a new
wave of improvements.
The Park Board unanimously
approved a
$231,000 contract with
landscape architects Altamanu,
Inc., who will now
design an updated connection
between the north and
south ends of the trail. The
district’s requests of Altamanu
have shrunk a little
since conversations at the
board’s February meeting,
but still call for a section
that they hope will attract
more users.
“I firmly believe this
project will make life
even better for the people
around there,” commissioner
Lisa Brooks said.
Two residents with
properties that back up to
the trail disagreed.
“We’re not far apart,
we’re worlds apart,” said
one of them, Barbara Fulton,
who worried about too
many users disrupting her
peaceful residence. “It’s
so offensive, and not trustworthy.
Not one bit.”
The board’s action revolves
around its portion
of the 8.4-mile walking and
jogging trail that stretches
along the Metra tracks
through downtowns and
residential areas from Kenilworth
to Highland Park.
Sections of the Green
Bay Trail are owned by
several agencies, who
maintain it in different
ways: most have put gravel
down, but some sections
are paved sidewalk. One
short piece in Kenilworth
is incomplete, where both
the north and south ends of
a gravel path empty onto
a residential street. When
the trail reaches County
Line Road, it changes
names but continues north
as the Robert McClory
Bike Path.
Glencoe’s parks leaders
are considering tearing
out the existing sidewalk
between Maple Hill Road
and Park Avenue on the
east side of Old Green Bay
Road, then replacing it with
a crushed gravel surface.
The contract also calls
for Altamanu to design
upgrades to Veterans Memorial
Park on the north
corner of Old Green Bay
and Park, and a rebuild of
the unnamed playground
on the north corner of Old
Green Bay and Lincoln
Drive.
In February, the board
was considering the addition
of seven “exercise
pods” (pull-up bars, sit-up
benches and such) along
the trail, but chopped that
down this week to only
four. Erin Classen, the
district’s superintendent
of marketing and communications,
said after the
meeting that the board had
not specified what those
four pods should be.
In Glencoe, the trail’s
west side is strictly the
railroad tracks. Immediately
to its east is a green
space between Maple Hill
and Walden Drive, the
unnamed playground, an
open space from Lincoln
to Dennis Drive and Veterans
Memorial. Classen
said the district owns the
entire property, but from
north to south, the backyards
of residential houses
like Fulton’s essentially
blend into it.
Fulton accused the
board of prearranging the
development; commissioner
Bob Kimble took
issue with her accusation,
pointing out the years of
public meetings at which it
has been discussed.
“The community has
been informed, every step
of the way,” he said.
One man — not as informed
as Kimble anticipated
— asked how much
his taxes would go up if the
board gives final approval
for construction. Executive
director Lisa Sheppard
told him they would not;
the board does not need to
buy new land, and expects
to have the cash needed for
build-out on hand.
The upgrades for the
trail’s crossing with Maple
Hill Road will require assistance
from Glencoe Village
Hall’s public works
and administrative departments,
but not a vote from
the Village Board.
Altimanu is now being
paid to design a new
stretch of Green Bay Trail
in Glencoe; Classen said
the Park Board expects to
see that design in February.
If the commissioners
like that plan, she said they
could give final approval to
construction in the spring
of 2020. The trail section
would be a work zone all
summer, she said, but could
be ready for use that fall.
Glencoe, Winnetka to partner on water system analysis
Submitted Content
The Boards of Trustees
for the Villages of Glencoe
and Winnetka this week
approved a joint water
system analysis that will
explore possible opportunities
for combining part
or all of their water production
and distribution
systems.
The feasibility study
will be completed by professional
engineering firm
Strand Associates, which
is familiar with both communities’
water distribution
systems and treatment
facilities.
Strand will develop conceptual
alternatives for
water production facilities,
conduct a hydraulic analysis
of a combined Glencoe-Winnetka
water system,
evaluate emergency
interconnects and provide
the communities with cost
estimates for the various
conceptual alternatives.
Please see water, 12