POLL: Do You Agree with the Elmwood Avenue Beach Recommendation?
The village’s Municipal Service Committee said it will recommend the property become a publically-accessible, passive-use nature preserve.
Before entering Elmwood beach, volunteers had to walk through the overgrown section of the land.
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Yesterday, Wilmette-Kenilworth Patch reported that the Elmwood Avenue right-of-way is one step closer to becoming a publicly-accessible, passive-use nature preserve after the village’s Municipal Service Committee recently decided it would likely recommend that option to the Village Board.
But the committee’s recommendation, which could decide the future of the controversial 80-foot wide, 600-foot long strip of land, was only one of several alternatives.
What do you think? Did the committee get it right? Or is there a preferable alternative? Take our poll and let us know!
Susan Gaines Gatto
9:19 pm on Sunday, November 18, 2012
I sincerely hope that this beautiful property will not become a full use beach like Gillson and Langdon Beach. If a small pathway can be established, the overgrown brush cleaned up, and proper signs with rules are posted, it will be so much better. I do not want porta-potties, dogs, boat launching, etc. Rather, a beach preserve would be best.
Diane Fisher
7:01 am on Tuesday, November 20, 2012
This is one of the last places on the north shore where people have the opportunity to appreciate public lakefront kept on its natural state. District 39 buses children up to lake forest open lands for nature study. Cone to the village board meeting next Tuesday night nov 27th to support the board in voting to save this acre of precious beachfront for the 27,000 wilmette residents who do not live on the lake!