Plan for new parking lots at Riverview School gets Silver Lake Village Board OK

 

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A site plan that includes new arrangements for parking and student drop-off and pick-up at Riverview School was approved — pending some contingencies — by the Silver Lake Plan Commission and Village Board.

School district representatives appeared before both bodies Wednesday.

The site plan for the project was explained to the Village Board by Mark Eberle of Nielsen, Madson and Barber, the engineering firm working with the school on its upcoming building renovation project.

The current parking lot on the north end of the school along School Street will be enlarged and given a U-shaped drive where buses will both drop-off and pick-up students, Eberle said. The current fence and gate in this area will moved farther to the west.

A commonly used drop off area along School Street adjacent to the north lot will be eliminated. Instead, parents dropping off and picking up students themselves will be directed to a enlarged visitor parking area on the southwest end of the school near the office entrance on Prosser Street. The idea will be for vehicles to roll in to the area, stop, drop students off and then exit back on to Prosser Street without parking.

Parents also will be able to drop off students at Second Street and Prosser as well as Evergreen Avenue and School Street and have their students use supervised cross walks to get to the school, Eberle said. Trustee Chris Willkomm, a former School Board member who lives across the street from the school, questioned the safety of that option. Ultimately, Willkomm voted against approving the plan.

“There’s going to be some education needed …,” Eberle said. “It’s a different plan. We feel it’s going to be safer.”

There now also will be a connection between the visitor parking area on the southwest and the paved areas just to the north, creating paved access to the entire building. That will be better for emergency vehicles and open up some additional parking for non-school hours events.

In all, the new site plan means about 90 percent of the existing asphalt and concrete around the school will be replaced, Eberle said.

 

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  1. diane bandola says:

    Has anyone noticed the congestion on Prosser street during the drop off hours and pick up times ? Cars are parked on Prosser, and the movement during the times of pick up and drop off time are unbelievable. Beware of the little children. This will only to have more cars be a threat to the children, and to home owners who are adjacent to this new plan of action. I’m sure there must be a secondary plan that may eliminate the numerous cars that will be exited onto Prosser, or is there.

  2. Emergency Parking says:

    One Call…That’s ALL!!!!

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