So I'd like to call the transportation advisory board meeting for February 5th, 2026 to order our first of 2026.

Staff uh please conduct a roll call.

Mr.

Hurley?

Here.

Mr.

Kruzwinski?

Here.

Mr.

Laird?

Here?

Miss Snyer?

Here.

Mr.

Nybel?

Here.

Mr.

Strom.

Here.

Mr.

Olger.

Here.

Miss Rose.

Mr.

Webb?

Here.

Councilman McBroom?

Here.

Student member Solkolowski.

Here.

All right.

So we have quorum.

The meeting is officially called to order.

I'd like to thank all the volunteers on the board giving their time to make Naperville a great place to live.

I'd also like to welcome a new board member, Christopher Strom.

Uh Chris, would you like to say anything?

Um thank you.

Uh, just really excited to be here and uh looking forward to uh helping the staff through a lot of uh fun projects.

So thank you.

Great, thanks, Chris, and welcome.

So the first order of business tonight is the public forum.

Uh during the public forum, members of the public have the opportunity to address the transportation advisory board on issues which are not part of tonight's agenda in accordance with City of Neighborville policies.

Comments should be limited to three minutes.

Staff, do we have anyone signed up to speak as part of the public forum?

There are no speakers signed up for public forum.

Very good.

That item will be closed.

Next order of business are the reports and recommendations.

First up is agenda item 260119.

Approve the minutes of the December 4th, 2025 Transportation Advisory Board meeting.

I'll entertain a motion to have a discussion and approval of this item.

So moved.

Uh motion from Mr.

Hurley.

Do we have a second?

Second.

Second from Ms.

Nair.

Do we have any revisions, additions, or corrections to the minutes?

Hearing none, uh staff, can we please call the roll?

All those in favor signify by saying aye, and those opposed, nay.

Mr.

Hurley?

Aye.

Mr.

Kwizwinski?

Aye.

Mr.

Laird?

Aye.

Ms.

Snyer?

Aye.

Mr.

Nybel?

Aye.

Mr.

Strome?

Aye.

Mr.

Webb.

Aye.

Okay, so motion passes.

We approve the minutes of the December 4th, 2025 Transportation Advisory Board meeting as submitted.

Okay.

Next we have the police report.

Uh Sergeant Muska is not here.

Um Mr.

Prusa.

Unfortunately, Sergeant Muskell is not here.

Uh, but he did leave a few comments for the police report.

Uh staff, uh, city staff along with communications legal and the police department are working on a educational campaign for the new e-bike and e-scooter ordinance.

Uh the goal of this campaign is to encourage voluntary compliance by helping people understand why the ordinance was passed and what the ordinance says is allowed and not allowed.

Uh this campaign will begin in late February, early March, and continue throughout the year.

Uh, some of the strategies that will be included in this is we will have a dedicated web page on the city website uh detailing some of those uh regulations, um articles in the resident newsletter that goes out with the utility bills, social media posts, uh education by the school resource officers within the schools, along with uh information in the virtual backpack that all the kids get and then outreach to local media schools, businesses, HOAs, and other neighborhood groups that can provide resources uh for information.

Do we have any uh questions or comments on that?

So hearing nothing, I'll close the police report.

Next, we have 2600 four-seven discuss and approve our recommendation to establish two-way stop control at the intersection of Josiah Road and Weatherby Lane.

Staff, do you have a discussion on this?

Yes, thank you, Chairman.

Staff received a request from a resident for stop control at the intersection of Josiah Road and Weatherby Lane.

This is a four-legged intersection, and it currently has no right-of-way control.

Drivers are expected to navigate the intersection according to the Illinois rules of the road.

Staff conducted an intersection site distance study at Josiah Road in Weatherby and determined that a two-way stop is warranted at this location due to obstructions to the line of sight for the west leg approach on Josiah Road caused by a residential building and a berm.

This site distant this site obstruction requires drivers to stop adequate stop to adequately observe conflicting traffic.

Staff is asking Tab to approve a recommendation to establish two-way stop control at the intersection of Josiah Road and Weatherby Lane.

Great, thank you.

So moved.

A motion for Mr.

Webb.

Second.

Second from Miss Nair.

Do we have anyone from the public signed up to speak on this item?

We have no speakers signed up.

Okay.

Does the board have any questions or comments for the staff?

Yeah.

Go ahead.

So Mr.

Kutzowinsky.

I know as part of the um these subdivision approvals.

Um I thought that sight lines are something that like would be typically be looked at.

Um so I guess to avoid this in the future, um, I guess what could have been done.

So this intersect uh so this neighborhood was uh following a right-of-way control plan approved at the time that the development was approved, and so line of sight was not measured because we were basing it based on traffic volumes and uh crash history at that time.

Um and so the neighborhood was expected to be designed with adequate corner site distance, and the berm was an addition.

Okay, thank you.

Anyone else?

So hearing no more discussion, staff.

Can we please call the roll?

Um all those in favor signify by saying aye and those opposed, nay.

Mr.

Hurley?

Aye.

Mr.

Kwiswinski?

Aye.

Mr.

Laird?

Aye.

Ms.

Nyer.

Aye.

Mr.

Nybel?

Aye.

Mr.

Strom?

Aye.

Mr.

Webb.

Aye.

Okay, so motion passes.

We approve a recommendation to establish two-way stop control at the intersection of Josiah Road and Weatherby Lane.

Next, we have 260059.

Approve a recommendation to remove the no left turn prohibition at the intersection of Chicago Avenue and Ellsworth Street.

Um, do we have a discussion led by the staff?

Staff received a request from the downtown advisory committee to evaluate the east to northbound left turn prohibition at the intersection of Chicago Avenue and Ellsworth Street.

Uh DAC, along with North Central College, believe that the turn restriction negatively and negatively complicates vehicular traffic for downtown patrons, such as those trying to access the upper decks of the central parking facility and the residents of the neighborhood east of the downtown.

With Ellsworth intersecting Chicago Avenue from the north.

Left turns from eastbound Chicago Avenue to northbound Ellsworth Street are currently prohibited.

Chicago Avenue also intersects with Washington Street, approximately 750 feet to the west, and Brainerd Street, approximately 400 feet to the east.

An evaluation of intersection operations and queue lanes indicate that the intersection would continue to operate with no uh difference with the removal of the eastbound left turn prohibition.

While eastbound Chicago Avenue traffic could experience occasional delays due to vehicles stopping to make left turns on Ellsworth onto Ellsworth Street.

The evaluation found that no cues or that cues were not expected to extend to Washington or to interfere with the operations at Brainerd.

Staff is asking TAB to approve a recommendation to remove the no left turn prohibition and at the intersection of Chicago Avenue and Ellsworth Street.

Thank you.

I'll entertain a motion to discuss and approve recommendation to remove the no left turn prohibition at the intersection of Chicago Avenue and Ellsworth Street.

Do we have a motion and a second to uh discuss and approve this item?

So moved.

Second.

Wait, hold on.

Was that you, Mr.

Kuzinski?

Okay, so motion from Mr.

Kersowinski and a second from Mr.

Hurley.

Staff, do we have anyone to speak uh on this item?

We have one public speaker, Tim Messer.

Okay, welcome, Tim.

Um just I wanted to keep one note quick that uh in accordance with uh city of Naperville policies, comments should be limited to three minutes.

Um and then just state your name before.

Thank you.

Uh Tim Messer, I live in the neighborhood just east of this.

Uh I am on the board of directors of the neighborhood association, the East Central Homeowners Organization.

However, I'd like to stress that my comments are my own, not those of that group or any other board.

I did uh forward notice of this meeting uh because uh Mr.

Prusa was I was kind enough to uh send me and give me a heads up on this particular agenda item.

I did forward it to the members of our board, and I received no feedback from the board.

Uh so I'm not necessarily here, I'm not really here to speak in opposition to the item, uh, but I do have concerns about the traffic cues uh becoming a little longer here because of left turns being made onto Ellsworth, uh, as staff notes in their report, uh, and I do appreciate the detail in the report and the studies they've done.

Uh the cues may not extend all the way to Washington, but it is a very congested uh and very busy block there.

Uh I don't think they'd necessarily need to extend all the way to Washington to cause some issues.

There are, I believe, five driveways between Washington and Ellsworth on Chicago Avenue.

There are two of them that have considerable volumes, the one at River Square and the one at the central parking deck.

And there's another one that goes behind River Square that has a a bit of a poor sight line.

I certainly understand the upside of allowing left turns here.

Uh I've uh I drive Chicago Avenue quite a bit coming in and out of the neighborhood.

I've seen plenty of people make that left turn even though they're not supposed to.

Um, people are gonna take the the shortest route possible, and I understand that uh the letter from the DAC uh certainly does make some good points.

Uh however, uh I just want to go on the record and say that uh TAB and city council should uh understand the potential consequences before making this decision.

So thanks for your time and for your service to this community.

Thank you.

Um does the board have any questions or comments, Mr.

Webb.

Now reading the uh memo here, you said there was some traffic studies done in 05 and 07 prior to the um concert center being built.

So was the left turn prohibition put in place in anticipation that there would be increased volume once the concert center was built.

Yes, based on the estimated volumes for when the concert um center was being built, based on those volumes, the left turn they put the prohibition in place.

And have those volumes not not panned out as anticipated.

Correct.

Correct.

But then based on the 22, which were the volumes from when the parking garage was um built, and then we said again in 2025 we took the volumes and found that they were nowhere near what they had estimated was gonna happen.

And have there been any kind of um studies or analysis as far as what the queue would look like backing up to Washington?

Yes, based on the 2022 volumes, it said it would be um a hundred feet is what the queue would be.

And then what we did is we took the volumes at Brainerd, the left-term volumes at Brainerd, um, and we said 100% of those.

Um worst case scenario, all of them move back to um Ellsworth, and the queue length was 11 feet.

Just for clarification that 11 feet would not uh uh conflict with any of the driveways that we're headed.

Yeah, that was gonna be my next question, just looking at the map here where 11 feet where that would hit at.

Okay.

Any more comments?

Mr.

Hurley.

Uh two questions.

First one is I'm not familiar with uh the downtown advisory committee.

Is that uh a Naperville board, or who do they represent if they are not?

The uh uh downtown advisory committee represents the uh business interests of the uh the businesses within the uh central business district, uh and they're led by a uh a board of um of business owners and uh I believe the DNA chairman is on that board, and then we also have a member of staff on that board as well.

Uh and they're led by a uh a board of um of business owners and uh I believe the DNA chairman is on that board, and then we also have a member of staff on that board as well.

And councilman McGroom, you could correct me if I wrong.

I'm wrong.

I believe there is a council representative there, but I may be wrong on that one.

There normally is, I'm not sure if we have one right now.

Okay, thank you.

And then secondly, looking at the small little driveway in front of the fine arts center, presumably that is built to accommodate people going from one direction for going two directions now.

Would that possibly mean people would be either turning around disrupting traffic more so or possibly I don't know what the clearance is for cars to go on either way, but is that a consideration?

Are you referring to the little horseshoe there in the front?

On Ellsworth.

Uh that we did not evaluate if they were gonna have an impact on that.

Uh with any change that we make ordinance-wise, uh including something like this uh after studies will be done uh to determine if it was the correct uh measurement uh or measure to take.

Uh so sometime probably in the early fall, we'll go out and collect data uh and this will include the queue lanes at Chicago and Ellsworth or on Chicago for eastbound traffic, and then also we'll take a look at to see if you know, during maybe uh uh a high use event, whether that's uh uh student orientation or uh event at the concert center, if the U-turn movements there would maybe impact traffic.

Any more comments?

Ms.

Nair.

Um was the traffic signal added after the construction of Wentz Hall?

Or was that in anticipation of the higher volume of traffic?

Uh that traffic signal was I I don't know the exact date, but it was installed before the Wentz concert hall.

Uh it was installed primarily because of the pedestrian volume warrant.

Okay.

Um and then was has the left turn been restricted there since the traffic signal was installed or because of the concert hall.

I believe I believe since the concert hall.

Yeah, since the concert hall.

Okay.

And so just to clarify, so your traffic modeling showed that if all of the left turns that are currently turning northbound onto Brainerd turned northbound onto Ellsworth, it would back up about 110 feet in the queue length.

But what cycle, you know, would would all the cars that are moving eastbound be able to get through one traffic cycle in the same way that they do now.

So are you asking whether how many like queue lanes can get through one cycle?

Yeah, I mean, if you're saying like if there's any delay.

I'm just trying to understand, would it truly not impact traffic of all of the left turns that aren't going out to Bringer now would move to Ellsworth theoretically?

I I don't have that information in front of me, but from watching the synchro model uh with the four-way stop at Brainerd in Chicago.

Uh the queue through the intersection, or at least through Brainerd along with Ellsworth was very similar to what it was before uh with the restriction or without the restriction.

Okay.

And was any thought given to restricting the time of day that a left turn would be allowed?

Uh it was not.

Uh with the uh the uh the variation in the school uh what's it like not the bell schedule, but with the classroom schedule uh as you're traveling on Chicago Chicago Avenue, uh it could be 325, it could be 9 a.m.

or it could be 8 p.m.

for an event at the concert hall.

And uh I think it's a pretty it's it's too random to restrict at a certain time.

But I agree that there's a lot of variability on the um campus schedule, but Chicago's just obviously also a major thoroughfare RTRL that moves traffic through the city for brush hour.

Is that something that was discussed?

Yeah, uh so the uh uh Synchral model was done for uh four to five PM uh during the PM peak, which is the highest amount of volume on Chicago Avenue.

Um and as I said, the the queue lane through Brainerd, which is the streets of the east of uh Chicago and Ellsworth was similar to what it would be before and after taking away the restriction.

Uh, but I don't have like we could certainly come back.

Uh I would like to not come back, but uh we would certainly uh reach out with the information more specifically on uh the amount of uh cycles that would a vehicle would potentially have to go through.

Okay, thank you.

Councilman McBroom?

Thanks.

Uh just a quick question.

So, you know, these are all estimates, and we don't know until it actually happens.

So is this one of those things where you allow the left turn and and uh it turns into an absolute disaster?

Um we come back to TAB and we uh prohibit it again.

That's obviously a possibility, right?

Uh yeah, of course.

Uh anything in Title 11, uh, we can go back and redo.

Uh, we're constantly coming here with old parking regulations from the 90s and early 2000s that were, you know, in at that time maybe the right thing.

Uh obviously, with this, uh, we would know a little bit sooner than two decades whether or not it's working.

Uh, but we'd certainly, after our after study, uh, again, sometime in the late summer, early fall, we'd want this to uh be in effect for a little bit.

Uh we could come back if there is a negative uh impact.

And and that being said, we come back often with old business, and we could come back with that report sometime in September detailing whether or not um the impact was positive.

We'll come back either way if it is a positive impact.

Uh go ahead, Mr.

Shrum.

Um, I am wondering, so obviously Chicago Avenue needs to be resurfaced within I'm sort of the near future.

Is there ever plans with public works to consider putting a left turn lane going northbound onto Ellsworth?

I know it's a tight intersection, but I just looking at the green, the grass here, there could be area to expand the intersection.

Um to your first point, Chicago Avenue is getting resurfaced this summer, so um that's a positive.

Uh, in terms of putting in a left turn lane, we did look into that, but there are right-of-way constraints, and so we can't widen it enough to get the left turn in there.

Um, I have one one comment.

Uh so I know Brainerd during rush hour, especially gets super backed up.

And I think on the positive, this could help that intersection, uh, move some of the traffic up on Ellsworth and off of Brainerd, especially when kids are crossing.

It's a lot of pedestrian traffic and then a lot of backup happens there.

That may be a positive of this.

I understand the negatives, but I think that's a that's a good positive also with this.

Uh to that point, uh, DEC referenced that in the letter that uh currently, if you are um wanting to get to the uh second or third floor of the central parking facility, you would, if you are heading that way, you would have to turn left on Brainerd instead of Ellsworth to get there.

Uh so this would presumably bring some traffic off Brainerd.

Anything else?

Okay, so hearing no more discussion, uh staff, can we please call the roll?

All those in favor signify by saying aye and those opposed, nay.

Mr.

Hurley?

Aye.

Mr.

Kriswinski?

Aye.

Mr.

Laird?

Aye.

Ms.

Snyer?

Nay.

Mr.

Nybel?

Aye.

Mr.

Strome.

Aye.

Mr.

Webb.

Aye.

Okay, so uh motion passes.

We have uh and we approve recommendation to remove the no-left turn prohibition at the intersection of Chicago Avenue and Ellsworth Street.

Next we have 26063.

Approve a recommendation to establish overnight parking exemptions for the townhouses at River Bend.

Staff, do you uh have a rec uh discussion to lead on this?

I do, yes.

Thank you, Chairman.

Uh the city received an application from the townhomes at River Bend's HOA for the overnight parking program.

Staff reviewed their application and determined that most of the town home unit units do have adequate off-street parking, with the exception of the units on village green road, which have a different driveway configuration.

This development was constructed prior to 2015, and the village green road units are not in compliance with the current off-street parking requirements per the municipal code.

Staff deemed the village green road residents eligible for the overnight parking program.

Uh this location is somewhat unique.

Uh the townhomes at River Bend HOA is an entirely is comprised entirely of multifamily unit units, but it's located in a neighborhood that has mixed single and multifamily homes and is managed by several HOAs.

Additionally, it is atypical for program applicants to have disparities in off-street parking spaces between properties in the same HOA in their application.

The town homes at River Bend Association Board did acknowledge this unique circumstances and committed to restricting participant participation to the residents on village green road who they deemed most in need.

Staff proposes locating the overnight parking exemption on the south side of Village Green Road, west of Landing Road, and issuing eight permit hand tags.

Staff is asking TAB to approve a recommendation to establish overnight parking for the townhomes at River Bend.

Thank you.

I will entertain a motion to discuss and approve a recommendation to establish overnight parking exemptions for the townhouses at River Bend.

Do we have a motion and a second to discuss and approve this item?

So moved.

Motion from Mr.

Webb.

Second.

Second from Mr.

Nebel.

Staff staff, do we have anyone signed up with anyone from the public signed up to speak on this item?

Yes.

The first speaker is Brian Dixon.

Okay, just a reminder that according to City Naperville policies, you have three minutes.

If you go over, you can ask to extend.

And then just say your name before you go.

Okay, thank you.

My name is Brian Dixon.

I'm a 40-year-plus resident of Naperville here.

I appreciate your time.

I live at 477 Village Green Road, which is on Village Green Road.

I'm the president of the homeowners association, which we have two buildings.

We have one on Village Green, which I live on, and then we have one right around the corner at Riverfront.

We have 16 owners.

We received this letter in the mail.

I'm just gonna go through a couple quick bullet points that I think speak for themselves.

Is I took a poll of our residents, I said, hey, let's get a vote.

15 out of 16 said no way to this proposal.

Uh we have trouble backing out of our driveways.

We feel being downtown Naperville, we have a lot of parking there for different events.

People can park there during the day.

We don't want it to turn into a parking lot.

We already have some cars that just got ticketed the other day that we're staying in there for two weeks.

Uh the community service came out, gave them a ticket, they're still there.

Um the other point of this is we have the riverfront building just around the corner here.

You see the village green, I don't I can't point on it, but we actually have smaller driveways.

We have one car driveways.

And when they bought this property on Riverfront, all my residents said, hey, why can't we park there?

Why why can't we park out there?

The street is just as much our that it's our right just as much as the other townhomes there, which knew they were purchasing with two car garages.

When they purchased those properties, they realized they had two car garages.

And I love my neighbors, but you got to clean out your garage and get two cars in there.

We don't want that to turn into a parking lot.

And again, I represent the homeowners who said 15 of them voted no.

I've talked to other ones that live around the corner in the same HOA, and they said we don't want this either.

It's just the building that's coming out right now here that's stating you know what, we want this because they want to park there, and this is directly out of my driveway when I back out.

Um, and the and the residents of the other HOAs, actually, one one person's here from the other HOA that's gonna be on the board, they don't want it either.

So I all I've asked for is a vote for the whole entire neighborhood, which is these four HOAs, and I guarantee you 70% of them are do not want this parking.

It's a detrimental, it's downtown neighborhood.

I talked to Patty Gustson today, a former city council member.

She said that you guys passed in encave out in Aurora, uh, some overnight parking.

She agreed with me that this should not be passed.

She said that this is more prevalent of downtown area, and it's uh it's a busy area where people like to park, and too.

We have no problem parking during the day or calling and fouling, but we just want the policy to stay in place.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you.

Do we have another speaker?

Yes, the next speaker is Trish Shocked.

Welcome, Trish.

Thank you.

Um I didn't know about the time limit, so I'm gonna try to keep I just crossed out a bunch.

Um, so if I go over, I apologize, but um I'm I am gonna try to scale it down.

Um, I also wanted to let you know that I did bring pictures um to give reference because I do talk about some things in regard to the driveway and to the parking situation, and I know that you don't know what I'm speaking of, so if you would like to see pictures, I also um reference that.

Um, okay.

So my name is Dr.

Trish Shochton.

I live in 472 Village Green Road with my husband Andy and my two teenage daughters.

Um I'm the individual who started the application process for the overnight parking.

Um, and I appreciate you guys hearing um our case tonight.

Um our neighbor who just spoke claimed that there were a lot of votes for no.

Um, but I think he told them a lot of unfalse things about this parking situation, and I just want to talk a little bit about why I applied for this overnight um parking, and then also just why it's needed.

Um so um everyone in our townhomes, our neighbors here tonight.

Sorry, I cut it down.

I had a whole story prepared, so forgive me if I'm kind of off base.

Um everyone in our townhomes is here tonight, almost everyone, and um, and we support this application.

The driveway is often congested with cars parked outside of our garages, and it's hard to pull out of your garage when a neighbor is parked in front of theirs.

It's hard to turn around and hard to get up and down the driveway when cars are parked there.

Um, most importantly, I think this is something that we're all very concerned about.

Cars parked on our driveway can be a safety hazard.

Um, when trying to pull out of the end of our driveway on Village Green Road, it is very hard to see past parked cars for continu um for oncoming traffic on village green and also pedestrians.

So um that is a very uh troublesome problem that we have always seen, but honestly, we didn't know that this application was possible.

So um even though we have been living there for a long time, we never knew that we could apply for overnight parking.

Um, furthermore, it could be dangerous if an emergency vehicle must get past the parked cars to one of our houses.

Finally, it's always a headache for maintenance when trying to clean and plow around the park cars on our driveway because we're often parked outside of our garages.

Um of the arguments that is being made to the other uh homeowners in the um uh uh neighborhood is that our property values will decrease because of this overnight um parking, and that is just simply false.

I've spoken to two realtors who recently showed townhomes for Sal on our driveway.

The speaker's time is up.

Oh no, sorry.

May I continue?

Uh yeah.

Um do we have a motion to uh give additional minutes to the speaker?

So move motion for Mr.

Hurley.

Sorry, second from Mr.

Webb.

Thank you.

Two additional minutes.

I'll be short, thank you.

Um both stated that most buyers were very concerned about the parking situation, and the parking was a reason for that for them not pursuing the homes.

And the realtors stated that the option for the parking pass with the HOA will be a great selling point for potential buyers and families, and with that positive, the properties will be easier to sell, and any increase in our house prices provide better comps for the other houses in the neighborhood.

Um also it will increase accessibilities for families who can't afford single family homes or luxury townhomes in downtown Neighborville, um, which is very important because I think a lot of um people don't have access to downtown neighborhood.

Um also this decision was not made lightly by our HOA.

Our HOA is very particular about improving our property value.

For example, renting is strictly prohibited because they do not want our property values to be decreased.

Um, and finally, I'm aware that it is being kind of said that overnight parking will bring in um non-residents and unhoused individuals, but that again is just false because this these permits are only for our townhomes.

Um the HOA is planning to own these um permits, they will be allocated by them.

We have 12 townhomes, but only eight permits, and it's highly unlikely that there will be more than a few of them given at a time because they will only be given if deemed appropriate by the board.

Um and the spots are far down on Village Green.

So the former the previous speaker said that it will actually impact him pulling out of his driveway, but the spots are actually not near his driveway, they're farther down behind our townhomes and in front of a spot of grass where there is actually no um no towns or no properties.

Um thank you.

I have some very important information.

I just feel like I I was gonna keep talking here, but I have a few minutes of additional time.

They got six minutes.

I have information from the other HOAs.

So this is our driveway.

Um it's not a debate right now.

This is a public forum that we're where we can speak.

So uh I just wanted to show you these are the driveways, the cars are parked.

This is a car parked in front of village green, and then this is the space where the comments will be inside the parking lot.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Do we have additional speakers?

We do.

The next speaker, just one more two minutes if I put it to remodel.

I didn't get the full six minutes that they got.

I'm represented, I have all residents that want to be comments.

They told me to come on your app.

Okay, okay.

Um, so we're not debating.

This is a the public forum.

So um, do we have additional speakers?

We do.

The next speaker is equal time to speak on that behalf.

Okay.

The next speaker is Sue Krauss.

Welcome, Sue.

Hi, um, I'm Sue Krauss.

I live at 502 Riverfront Circle, which is in the townhomes at River Bend, and I am also the uh president of the HOA there.

Um so I'm the one that brought the application for this overnight parking to um Naperville to this board.

So first I wanted to say thank you for entertaining this and for considering our request.

Um as you've already seen, there are 12 units in our association that have these two car garages and only two car garages, and they have no driveway.

Um so having some additional parking as uh proposed would be a tremendous help for many reasons to some of these homeowners.

So we understand that you have uh suggested or allocated eight spots, and uh while we appreciate that, we don't feel that eight are necessary.

We would be happy with fewer than that.

Um and I also wanted to reiterate that we appreciate the fact that these spots are allocated in a place that are not near people's driveways, so they shouldn't have to worry about um having cars there when they back out.

So um also we acknowledge um the concerns and the opinions of our neighboring associations, and we understand that they might not agree with this request.

I will say that the board at River Bend commits to taking those concerns into consideration when we establish the guidelines for homeowners receiving a spot if this is approved.

Um we do not intend to give out parking spots to just anyone who requests one.

We intend on defining guidelines where a homeowner must demonstrate a legitimate need for the additional parking, and we also commit to working within the parameters that are already established by TAB in order to make this work positively and effectively for everybody.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Do we have more speakers?

Yeah, the next speaker is Celeste Buckingham.

Welcome, Celeste.

Hi, I'm Celeste Buckingham.

I'm here in a dual role.

I live at 486 Village Green Road, and I am the vice president of the homeowners association.

Um, and I appreciate that you are considering our request for street parking.

As you can see by the blue line, it doesn't impede anyone's driveway.

Um I I don't understand uh why people could say that it does, but more importantly, we don't get the benefit of a driveway, and if cars are parked on the driveway or at the front of the driveway, it could it does, it's a safety issue, and it could impede um like the fire department or something getting in because it does get very narrow.

Um as I said, I am the vice president of the HOA board, and we take um this situation very seriously.

We do not just hand out things that everyone wants.

We have declined many requests for things from our residents, and we will be uh thoughtfully, we will act thoughtfully for everyone that's concerned.

I appreciate your time.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

There are no public, no more public speak.

Excuse me, no more public speakers.

I would like to speak for 45 seconds.

Just such critical information on the more part.

All right.

So hearing no more discussion or hearing no more.

So uh I'm gonna open it up to the board for questions or comments from the staff, Mr.

Webb.

Now looking at the map, so just the greenish blue dashes, that's the only spot where the parking's gonna be, correct?

Yes, that's correct.

It's about 120 feet.

Okay, so um 120 feet.

I mean, is that eight parking eight parking spots, or would there actually be fewer cars that would fit there?

That's adequate space for eight eight vehicles.

And that house that's on the north side of village green.

I can't really tell because just the is that a driveway on the eastern end of the property on the village green.

There is one driveway that is just west of landing road.

The ordinance or the no parking ordinance for the general no parking guidelines requires there to be 30 feet of clearance between an intersection and parking.

Uh that clearance would account for most of that driveway space, so vehicles would not be parked directly across from the driveway.

Okay, thank you.

Mr.

Hurley, so we've evaluated several of these applications before.

Do is there precedent for approval in neighborhoods where other residents that are not part of the homeowner association is applying for it are directly adjacent to the area that would be impacted by it?

Yes.

Um, the Fox Croft uh condos that was brought to TAB last year.

Um, their parking was located external to their development and was adjacent to a neighborhood with a separate HOA.

And in that case, or in this case, was there any effort to gather feedback from impacted communities that are adjacent to it that are not part of the homeowners association?

In both situations, we sent out a notification letter to all residents of adjacent properties to let them know that the HOA had applied for the program and when it would be taken to TAB.

So they would have the opportunity to speak or submit written comment.

Thank you.

No more comments?

Questions.

Okay, so uh hearing no more discussion.

Staff, can we please call a roll?

All those in favor signify by saying aye, and those opposed, nay.

Mr.

Hurley, nay, Mr.

Kriswinski?

Aye.

Mr.

Laird?

Nay.

Ms.

Snyer?

Aye.

Mr.

Nybel?

Aye.

Mr.

Strome.

Can I abstain?

I haven't had enough time to consider the Mr.

Webb.

Aye.

All right.

So motion passes, and we approve a recommendation to establish overnight parking exemptions for the townhomes at Riverbend.

Next up is old business staff.

Do you have an update for old business?

I have an update on the bike and pedestrian plan.

Uh city staff and our consultant Epstein are continuing to make progress on the update to the city's bicycle and pedestrian plan.

We have successfully conducted an interactive map survey and three pop-up events.

The online interactive map was open from October to the end of December, and over 500 people left comments on the map, pinpointing desired or challenging routes for walking and biking in Naperville.

The third pop-up event took place this past Saturday at the Fort Hill Activity Center.

We received over 200 responses on a survey board acting asking people about facility design preferences and the trade-offs that they would be willing to make.

The project team is currently identifying potential route and gap infill options based on the public input gathered from the interactive map.

Public input from the pop-up events, interactive map, and stakeholder meetings will continue to guide the route and facility design recommendations.

So moved.

A motion from Miss Nair.

Second.

Second from Mr.

Strom.

Staff, can we please call roll?

All those in favor in favor signify by saying aye and those opposed, nay.

Mr.

Hurley.

Aye.

Mr.

Kriswinski.

Aye.

Mr.

Laird.

Aye.

Ms.

Nyer.

Hi.

Mr.

Nyball.

Aye.

Mr.

Strom.

Aye.

Mr.

Webb.

Aye.

We have an unanimous agreement to adjourn for adjournment.

And this concludes the February fifth, twenty twenty-six Transportation Advisory Board meeting.