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| Wauconda bike path plan dead | |
| Feb 5, 2008 | |
| Georgia Garvey | |
| Daily Herald | |
| Pertains to Wauconda | |
| A plan to build a bike path along Garland Road in Wauconda has run off the road after several homeowners refused to grant easements for the project, officials said. But Wauconda Mayor Salvatore Saccomanno said the project will likely be revisited, especially if voters approve a referendum request to build a new pool in the village. "At this particular point today, it's dead in the water," Saccomanno said. "If that referendum passes, then we're going to have to seriously (revisit) this." The bike path would have extended from Main Street to Gossell Road along Garland in both the village of Wauconda and Wauconda Township. Saccomanno said if the pool referendum request passes today, the village and the township need to go back and talk about the bike path again. "If there's a water park there, hundreds of kids are going to be going to that park everyday," he said. "That's the only way to get there." Voters will determine today whether the park district should raise taxes to build a $12 million aquatic center. The increase, which amounts to about 17 cents per $100 of equalized assessed valuation, would fund the pool and a 4,500-square-foot expansion of the community center, located at 600 N. Main St. To build the bike path, some residents would have had to grant easements. The majority were not willing to do so, Saccomanno said. "If the residents won't cooperate with the village and township, then the only other way to secure the easements is through legal action," he said in a news release. "Both the village and township have decided at this time that we do not want to use that option." Wauconda village and Wauconda Township officials now cannot use a $148,000 grant the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality program gave them for the project. The terms of the grant had required $148,000 in matching funds for the project, to be divided in half and paid by the village and the township. When the grant was announced, response from homeowners along Garland was mixed, but Saccomanno said few objected to a bike path in general. "The majority of the concerns were, 'I like the bike path, I just don't want it in front of my house'," he said. "That's what it really comes down to." But Saccomanno said there won't be another grant application until Garland homeowners agree. "I will never apply for another grant until I have those easements in my hand," he said. |
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