HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESOLUTION - 29-75 - 4/1/1975 - REQUEST NERGE RD WIDENINGRESOLUTION NO.7' y.y
A RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE COOK COUNTY PRESIDENT AND BOARD OF
COMMISSIONERS TO WIDEN NERGE ROAD BETWEEN ROHLWING ROAD AND PLUM
GROVE ROAD
WHEREAS, through your outstanding cooperation with the Village of Elk Grove
Village and your demonstrated awareness of the need for improvements to the
intersections of Nerge Road at Rohlwing Road and at Meacham Road and Nerge Road, and
WHEREAS, data already assembled by your traffic engineers and highway officials
undoubtedly establishes the rationale for futher improvements to Nerge Road between
Rohlwing Road and at least Plum Grove Road, and
WHEREAS, Nerge Road between Rohlwing Road and Plum Grove Road, and ultimately
Roselle Road, is the only east -west traffic artery between Higgins Road and Irving
Park Road, a distance of 4.4 miles, and
WHEREAS,almost daily the volume of traffic using Nerge Road increases signi-
ficantly, and
WHEREAS, the alignment and grade differentials between Plum Grove Road and
Rohlwing Road are a hazard to the motoring public using Nerge Road, and
WHEREAS, optimum benefit from your current construction program at Meacham
and Rohlwing Roads could be achieved by widening Nerge Road to four lanes between
those points and westward to Plum Grove Road, and
WHEREAS, under the current inadequate width of Nerge Road, traffic is backed
up for almost a mile during the morning and evening rush hour periods,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the President and Board of Trustees of
the Village of Elk Grove Village do hereby respectfully request the Cook County
Highway Department, through the offices of Cook County President and Board or
Commissioners, to proceed to widen Nerge Road to a 4 -lane facility with mountable
median strip and curb and gutter between Rohlwing Road and Plum Grove Road as a
minimum distance, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the President and Board of Trustees, through its
corporate power, pursuant to statutes of the State of Illinois and its control over
subdivision development, have already secured a 100 foot dedicated right-of-way
for most of the distance between Rohlwing Road and Meacham Road, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Village of Elk Grove Village, through
its above powers will continue to secure right-of-way for the purpose of
widening Nerge Road by the County Highway Department to the extent of our
corporate authority and control over future subdivisions and future annexations
to at least Plum Grove Road,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the President and Board of
Trustees of the Village of Elk Grove Village request that such widening of
Nerge Road as above described be carried out by the County at the earliest
possible time in the best interest of the general public and the safety and
welfare of the motoring public using Nerge Road.
IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED, THEREFORE, that this resolution be spread upon
the records of the Village of Elk Grove Village and transmitted to the President
of the Cook County Board of Commissioners, George C. Dunne, with copies to be
presented to other interested officials and residents and neighboring communities.
PASSED this 1st
APPROVED this 1st
ATTEST:
Eleanor G. Turner
Village Cler
day of
1975.
day of April , 1975.
2.
Charles J. Zettek
Village President