The village this week saved more than $47,000 when trustees voted 4-1 against the next step in its Gateway Beautification plan. The project was to have relandscaped the median strip of County Line Road east of Village Hall. The plan had included moving existing trees and replacing them with eight maple trees plus perennials and ground cover.
Trustee Dolores Cizek spoke against the fiscal responsibility of landscaping an area that had already been landscaped with trees and grass, as she had at previous meetings. But fellow trustees were seemingly more swayed by Plan Commissioner Mike McTigue, who complained that the cost of $3,200 to move the existing trees was being looked at as simply a line item in a budget.
Two gateways to Burr Ridge that have already been landscaped include the front of Village Hall, and McCulough Park at Plainfield and County Line Roads. The village’s Gateway Beautification Committee has also planned to beautify a primary Gateway at Madison Street and Plainfield Road, plus eight secondary gateway projects. Each project will need approval from the Village Board before it can be implemented.
