In fact, Trustee Patty Meroni asked the village staff to help craft a resolution preventing future bike lane proposals.
“We will have a resolution on the September agenda on restricting the building or development of bike lanes, bike paths on village roads within the village,” Meroni said.
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Editorial note: As chronicled in The Observer’s release of the July 28, 2014, Village Board meeting recordings, it was Trustee Meroni’s Roads and Bridges Committee that first sought outside funding from McHenry County in exchange for the widening of Haegers Bend Rd back in 2012.
Since her committee does not announce meetings or agendas via the Village website calendar, it wasn’t until the Plan Commission was asked to look into this matter earlier this year that residents became aware of the plan.