Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Northeast corner of Deerfield and Waukegan Roads is set for upgrade. Greater recycling requirements imposed on building remodelers.
The public plaza at the northeast corner of Waukegan and Deerfield Roads will get a beautification boost from the Village this spring. The path to the improvements came after the Village Board of Trustees unanimously approved a lease for the land with US Bank at its Jan. 7 meeting. Deerfield will take control of the property April 1. Earlier: Lake Cook Road Corridor Plan Moves Forward “We’re going to improve the property for use as a public plaza,” Village Administrative Assistant Andrew Lichterman told the Trustees and Mayor Harriet Rosenthal Jan. 7. There are currently trees, bushes and benches. “This is a beautification effort that’s been in need of leadership.” There was nothing but optimism coming from the mayor the trustees after …
Monday, June 4, 2012
Village will begin by gathering information from the business community. Cost savings and environmental benefits could result.
Deerfield is taking its first steps this month to incorporating the inclusivity and convenience of its residential recycling program into the commercial community. While the Village now has a contract with Waste Management for picking up most of the residents’ recycling and its garbage, businesses and other non residential users are free to choose any hauler they want. Any recycling at all is an option to these corporate citizens. If everything falls into place, Deerfield could have a contract with a hauler to handle commercial recycling as well as waste removal in two years, according to Jenny Maltas, the assistant to Village Manager Kent Street. The initial phase of the process is information gathering, according to Maltas. The Village …
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Sustainability Commission tackles project to educate Deerfield’s students about the effect of automobile idling.
When Deerfield’s Sustainability Commission was given an education project by the Village Board, it literally went to school. After taking a closer look at how to reduce the amount of vehicular idling in town, Mayor Harriet Rosenthal and the trustees felt teaching the public rather than legislating was the best way to go in the beginning, according to Jenny Maltas, an assistant to Village Manager Kent Street. Earlier: Idling in Your Car May Get You a Ticket During a Village Board meeting in November, potential ordinances were discussed and the largest complaint among the trustees was the idling of school buses. Street reached out to the schools and a project for the Sustainability Commission was born. “We didn’t want to do more than the …
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
A majority favor no restriction while some want a commercial ban only.
Readers responding to a Patch Poll showed little support for a proposed ordinance to reduce motor vehicle idling currently being considered by the Deerfield Village Board and studied by the Sustainability Commission. On Nov. 7 the Village discussed the finding of the Sustainability Commission and its suggestions to reduce idling in Deerfield. After hearing a report from the Sustainability Commission Nov. 7, the Board asked the Commission to further study the idea and return a proposal applying to diesel and commercial vehicles according to Assistant to the Village Manager Jennifer Maltas. Patch readers showed little support for the idea in their comments to an article about the idea. The poll results demonstrated more of the same. Many …
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
The Village Board proposal to regulate idling of motor vehicles was not warmly received by a lot of Patch readers. Now you can respond to a poll with your ideas.
While Deerfield’s Sustainability Commission further studies ways to control the idling of motor vehicles in the wake of the Nov. 7 Village Board meeting, citizens wasted no time letting their elected officials know how they feel with comments on Patch. Much of the commentary was critical and some was constructive but not one person gave a wholehearted endorsement to the idea as of 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. Now Patch is giving people another opportunity to voice their opinions with a poll. The most criticized practice by a number of trustees like Mary Oppenheim and Robert Benton was behavior of school bus drivers both for Deerfield High School and District 109. Readers shared the sentiment. “District 109 and Olsen Bus Co. definitely need to do …
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Village Board comes closer to an ordinance limiting occasions when motorists can sit in car with engine running.
Deerfield took a step closer to prohibiting excessive idling of motor vehicles Monday at its Village Board meeting when it asked the Sustainability Commission to further tweak possible legislation. The trustees heard a report from Sustainability Commission Chairman Matt Wylie and Jenny Maltas of the village staff suggesting a year of education before putting an ordinance in place. The proposal calls for an extensive education program for the community for a year. After that most people idling their vehicle for more than five minutes could receive a ticket. There would be exceptions for medical necessities, traffic jams, emergencies and either excessively high or low temperatures. Mayor Harriet Rosenthal felt education of citizens will …
Jon Hall
8:36 am on Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Agreed RB. This is the same bank which has been permitted in the past to get away with placing a handwritten loan rate posters on the sidewalk, daily, for months on end in the past. Obviously, haranguing Rosebud and Carsons is one standard, but U.S. Bank and the owner of the Woodfire property are something else. Meanwhile, the inability to do anything with the former Lindemann Pharmacy site … more ›