New Lenox Elementary School District 122 Supt. Thomas Mullins informed the school board Wednesday night that an agreement had been reached with homeowners in the Cherry Hill subdivision over open space.
By cutting parking spaces and pledging a buffer zone, school officials said that they have satisfied most of the homeowners’ concerns about open space.
Although all but 1.25 acres of the Cherry Hill School site at 2800 Washington St. is district property, much of the land has been used as a neighborhood park. Residents were concerned that they would lose park land when Cherry Hill School, which will be the kindergarten center for the school district, is built next summer.
School officials said they will cut eight parking stalls from a proposed parking lot on the 1.25 acres owned by New Lenox, thus creating a buffer zone between homeowners’ yards and the school parking lot.
They said they also will screen the parking area with plantings.
