The Naperville Bicycle & Pedestrian Plan was three years in the making, but the Naperville City Council has voted to adopt the steering document without a list of 50 policy statements organizers had included in the proposal.
Council members said they were uncomfortable with some of the policies outlined in the document, including a recommendation to bring in $1 per Naperville resident each year to support the city program. The vote this week included an instruction to city staff to find out which of the policies trouble members of the council and to report back in less than 60 days.
Nan Newlon, assistant director of public works for the city, said what is left of the plan still will move Naperville toward becoming a more bicycle-friendly town.
The plan is designed to focus a 10-year, $4 million effort to organize a network of bicycle and pedestrian paths in the city.
Newlon said the plan establishes nine corridors where the city will seek to establish either independent trails or bicycle lanes on existing streets.
The first trail to be built under the plan will run along the south branch of the DuPage River, between Hobson and Hillside Roads.