Thursday, November 8, 2012
The 4-1 approval brings the proposal, which still includes the controversial interpretive center, one step closer to getting built.
The Rosewood Beach redesign proposal has moved one step closed to becoming a reality. Months after the Park Board signed off on the proposal, the Highland Park Design Review Commission has voted 4-1 in favor of the plan as well, according to the Chicago Tribune. Rosewood Beach Redesign: The Story So Far "This project has probably been vetted more than any other project I can remember," commission Chairman Michael Stein told the Tribune. "It's one of the nicest project's I've seen." Want Highland Park news in your inbox every morning? Subscribe to Patch's newsletter. Now that the design has been set, the next step for the plan is approval from the Natural Resources Commission, followed by approval by the Highland Park City Council. The …
Monday, July 30, 2012
Residents joined the park board and architects last week to see how the proposed redesign would look.
Last Thursday's Park District board meeting began with a trip to the beach. The Park Board commissioners went to Rosewood Beach with members of the Rosewood Beach Task Force and the architects behind the beach's proposed redesign to see where stakes and flags had been placed to mark the location and size of the proposed buildings. They were joined by about 20 Highland Park residents, including members of Friends of Rosewood (FOR) and Ravinia Neighbors Association (RNA), two groups that have taken positions for and against the renovation. Read more: See all of Patch's Rosewood Beach Redesign Coverage "We had storms, we had biting flies, we had pestilence, it was like being at a seder," joked Park Board President Scott Meyers about the trip …
Thursday, June 21, 2012
After a year spent working on its plan for Rosewood Beach, the task force will make its presentation Thursday.
In a small conference room at West Ridge Center in early June, six men talk about going to the beach. It's a Rosewood Beach Task Force meeting, and right now the group of Highland Park residents that includes three architects and a landscape architect is intensely discussing what kind of material the boardwalk should be constructed from. Steve Sider, an architect, argues in favor of using wood for the Rosewood Beach boardwalk. Want Highland Park news in your inbox every morning? Subscribe to Patch's newsletter. "It's the most natural material," he says. Though he acknowledges splinters wouldn't happen with a material like concrete, he calls wood the more pleasant of the two. Edmond Zisook, the group's second architect, is not so sure. A …
Speaking out against the Rosewood Beach project at a City Council meeting is just part of the democratic process.
It's so gracious of the Rosewood Task Force to allow that, of course, "All residents have an unquestionable right to express themselves to the City Council on any matter under a standing item on their agenda." But it does appear somewhat hypocritical then for the Task Force to complain that the decision taken by the residents in going before City Council to inform it of its grievance, which might become an issue before Council in the near future -- a decision taken only after the Task Force finally voted 6 to 1 to proceed with their original and final plan to include the IC placement on Rosewood -- that the residents acted "in an unprecedented attempt to preempt the thoughtful, inclusive process of the Task Force...with its 'experience …
Monday, June 11, 2012
Ravinia Neighbors Association heads to Monday's City Council meeting to object to the interpretive center that's part of the proposed Rosewood Beach redesign.
After months of speaking out against the proposed Rosewood Beach redesign online and at Park District meetings, the Ravinia Neighbors Association (RNA) has taken its concerns to another source: the Highland Park City Council. Want Highland Park news in your inbox every morning? Subscribe to Patch's newsletter. At Monday's meeting, the community group asked the city council to "note our deep concerns" about the plans, according to an email sent out by Ravinia Neighbors Association last week. The focus of the objection is the proposed interpretive center, a roughly 1900 square-foot building the organization feels doesn't belong at Rosewood. "We like the plan," RNA Publicity Director Doug Purington told Patch last week. "We've seen [architect…
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Here's why readers are for and against the Park District's proposed renovations Rosewood Beach.
The Park District of Highland Park may have gotten more than it bargained for when it asked for resident feedback to its plans to redevelop Rosewood Beach . If you've been reading Patch lately, you've noticed there's been no shortage of opinions on the issue. Want Highland Park news in your inbox every morning? Subscribe to Patch's newsletter. According to a FAQ recently posted about the development , the proposed plan includes a boardwalk along the beach, a guard house, a concession stand, restrooms, picnic areas, a sand volleyball court, outdoor showers, a beach playground and improvements to the ravine walk and bluff stairs. The estimated cost of the project is about $3.7 million, and would be funded through grants and reserves, …
Monday, April 30, 2012
A reader responds to a Patch reader's blog to explain her opposition to the park district's renovation at Rosewood Beach.
No doubt the benefit and reward from most of the planned redevelopment for Rosewood Beach planned this year by the Park District of Highland Park presents a welcome vista for the near future of our community. It's certain a great idea for Rosewood to have, for the first time, permanent restrooms, a children's playground, revamped picnic area, a concession area, new naturalistic wave breaks to stabilize the sand, etc., -- all while combining the environmental and aesthetic needs of this very special beach. But the inconsistent idea of adding a "multi-purpose beach house" structure -- ("fantastic" as enthusiasticly lauded by Ms. Holleman) is contradictory and incongruous to the whole confident conception the park district presents. This …
Old H.P.
10:39 am on Friday, November 9, 2012
Ed, the way I see it is another my way or the highway mentality from the park district. Yes there is a group of supporters for and a group of supporters for not building. Do I believe that they have 1200 signatures possibly do you have 300 people yes. You both want some form of improvement, yet not one bit of compromise was offered by the park district. People are elected to serve the public yet … more ›