HomeMy WebLinkAbout05/23/2000 COW agenda COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE
AGENDA
Meeting Location: Meeting Date and Time:
Mount Prospect Senior Center Tuesday, May 23, 2000
50 South Emerson Street 7:30 p.m.
I. CALL TO ORDER - ROLL CALL
Mayor Gerald L. Farley
Trustee Timothy Corcoran Trustee Dennis Prikkel
Trustee Paul Hoefert Trustee Michaele Skowron
Trustee Richard Lohrstorfer Trustee Irvana Wilks
II. ACCEPTANCE OF MINUTES OF MAY 9, 2000
III. CITIZENS TO BE HEARD
CORRIDOR DESIGN GUIDELINE UPDATE
Wolff Clements and Associates and Graf/x Communications Group have been working with
Community Development staff and the Plan Commission to develop a comprehensive set
of guidelines to assist in the revitalization of important commercial corridors within the
Village. At previous Committee of the Whole meetings, primary and secondary corridors
were identified along with other key focal points. Conceptual designs for entry markers,
banners and improvements for specific locations within the Village were also presented at
a Committee of the Whole meeting for consideration.
Based on previous direction from the Village Board, staff and Wolff Clements have continues
to refine designs for signs, banners and Iogos. The purpose of the evening's meeting is to
discuss revised design efforts.
As with previous Committee of the Whole meetings, the Plan Commission has been invited
to sit in on the presentation and participate in the discussion. Representatives from the
consulting firm and Community Development staff will also be in attendance to answer
questions and facilitate discussion.
NOTE: ANY INDIVIDUAL WHO WOULD LIKE TO ATTEND THIS MEETING BUT BECAUSE OF A
DISABILITY NEEDS SOME A CCOMMODA TION TO PARTICIPATE, SHOULD CONTA CT
THE VILLAGE MANAGER'S OFFICE AT lO0 SOUTH EMERSON, MOUNT PROSPECT,
ILLINOIS 60056, 847/392-6000, EXTENSION 5327, TDD #847/392-6064.
V. NEIGHBORHOOD TRAFFIC CONCERNS
Village Board members expressed a high level of interest in discussing strategies for
decreasing the incidents of both speeding and cut-through traffic in residential
neighborhoods. Staff was directed to research opportunities to address these issues through
both enforcement efforts and physical modifications to roadways. The Committee of the
Whole package contains two memoranda. The first is from Police Chief Ron PavIock and
discusses various enforcement strategies directed specifically at reducing speeding in
residential neighborhoods. The other memorandum is from Traffic Engineer Matt Lawrie and
discusses a variety of traffic calming techniques (mainly through the use of physical changes
to the roadway system) that have been tried in other municipalities.
The purpose of this discussion is to discuss the range of options available to the Village,
determine which are suitable for use in Mount Prospect and direct staff to develop a
comprehensive traffic-calming program including any budgetary impacts.
Appropriate staff from the Police and Public Works Departments will be in attendance to
answer questions and facilitate discussion.
VI. VILLAGE MANAGER'S REPORT
VII. ANY OTHER BUSINESS
VIII. ADJOURNMENT
CLOSED SESSION
LITIGATION:
5 ILCS 120/2 (c) (11) -"Litigation, when an action against, affecting, or on behalf of the particular
public body has been filed and is pending before a court or administrative tribunal, or when the public
body finds that an action is probable or imminent, in which case the basis for the finding shall be
recorded and entered into the minutes of the closed meeting."
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