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LaGrange Road Enhancements - Presentation
History
The current roadway design efforts for the LaGrange Road Corridor (Corridor) are under the control and direction of the Illinois District of Transportation (IDOT). IDOT design criteria include standard landscape and roadway improvements defined within their Bureau of Design Engineering (BDE) manuals and related specifications.
On April 19, 2010, the Village adopted a Corridor Master Plan that was developed by T.Y. Lin Associates following a series of public meetings. The corridor plan was envisioned to include the entire project, including the corridor communities of Palos Park, Orland Hills and Tinley Park. The vision of the Corridor Master Plan is to provide certain aesthetic enhancements and multi-mobility options that provide corridor connectivity while retaining community identity.
In order to include Corridor Master Plan elements within the IDOT Corridor plans being developed, the corridor communities must hire a landscape architect to develop plans, specifications and estimates for inclusion within the plans being developed by IDOT. Norris Design was retained in 2011 by the Village to develop a coordinated plan for the LaGrange Road aesthetic enhancements.
IDOT is in the final stages of design and currently has LaGrange Road scheduled for a March 2013 letting. As part of IDOT's coordination efforts with the corridor communities, intergovernmental agreements (IGA) will be developed for each community which will include the various enhancement costs and potential credits each community is obligated or entitled. To develop the agreements, IDOT recently sent out a matrix of all of the enhancement items considered along LaGrange Road. Each community will check the various items that they want included in the IDOT contract as well as items that will be part of the LaGrange Road enhancements but included in a separate construction contract.
Staff has reviewed the matrix submitt...
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