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| Will FPD partners with Bolingbrook Park District to preserve open space | |
| Dec 20, 2007 | |
| Bruce Hodgdon, Media Liaison | |
| Forest Preserve District Of Will County | |
| Pertains to DuPage River Trail, Bolingbrook, Naperville | |
| The Forest Preserve District of Will County presented a check for $2.2 million to the Bolingbrook Park District in a partnership to preserve two properties totaling more than 20 acres. The property purchase will remove a key gap in the DuPage River Greenway and make it available for use by the public. The check was presented to the Bolingbrook Park District on November 15 by the three Forest Preserve District of Will County commissioners who represent District 4, Wayne McMillan, Charles Maher, and Edward Kusta Jr. During the presentation, Commissioner McMillan, who serves as the chairman of the Land Acquisition Committee, noted that the partnership "returns Will County tax dollars to the community of Bolingbrook." Commissioner Kusta said "I am very proud of the Bolingbrook Park District," and recalled using park district facilities as a child growing up in Bolingbrook. Commissioner Maher, a Naperville resident, praised the park district's facilities and programs, saying they provide a model of excellence. The agreement between the two agencies was signed in 2005. The Forest Preserve agreed to assist the Park District in preserving a 17-acre parcel, will provide land for the Park District to build a nature center, a model of which was available for inspection at the November 15 meeting. In April 2007, the Forest Preserve again partnered with the Park District to preserve a 3-acre parcel, which lay between the 17-acre parcel and property owned by the Village of Bolingbrook. The two parcels lie south of the Forest Preserve's Whalon Lake, north of Boughton Road and west of Schmidt Road. Both of these properties will be owned and managed by the Bolingbrook Park District. For its contribution, the Forest Preserve received conservation easements on the properties, which restrict future development. These partnerships are positioned within a broader, multi-jurisdictional partnership, the DuPage River Greenway, whose goal is to preserve land and construct a bike trail along the river form Glendale Heights to the Village of Channahon. Partnerships like these have resulted in leveraged funding of almost $1 million in grant funding form the State of Illinois Open Space Land Acquisition Fund and the Clean Energy Community Foundation. Land preservation by the Forest Preserve in the area began in 1992, when the District bought land that is today being developed as Whalon Lake. The Forest Preserve has acquired 248 acres in the DuPage River Greenway in the years since. |
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