A new layout design for Schoolhouse Manor Park was approved this week by the New Lenox Park Board.
Changes in the design of the neighborhood park for the Schoolhouse Manor subdivision came after residents voiced safety concerns about the location of the playground area, Park Commissioner Walter Dettmann said.
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The revised plan includes a smaller, but expandable, parking lot, and a sidewalk leading directly from the subdivision to the playground, according to Matt Doede, a planner for the Park District.
Besides the playground, the park plan includes a pavilion, a skating pond, a walking path and a scenic overlook at the wetland area.
Park officials said they expect to award contracts for the pavilion and the overlook later this month.
Excavation work should be finished in about 15 days, and seeding could begin at the “optimum time” in mid-September, Doede said