Riverwalk Planning, Design and Construction Committee

400 S. Eagle Street

Naperville, IL 60540City of Naperville

Meeting Minutes

Riverwalk Planning, Design and Construction Committee

7:30 AM NEUTuesday, November 5, 2024

A. CALL TO ORDER:

Chair Erickson called the November 5, 2024 Naperville Riverwalk

Planning, Design and Construction (PDC) Committee meeting to order at

7:30 a.m. The meeting was held in the Naperville Employee University

(NEU) at the Municipal Center, located at 400 S. Eagle St., Naperville, IL.

B. ROLL CALL:

Present: Pam Bartlett; Grant Cowen; John Cuff; Jan Erickson, Chair; Pat

Kennedy; Bill Novack; Tiffani Picco; Johnna Shields; Mike Sullivan; and

Carl Wohlt

Absent: Hannah Brauer; Mary Gibson; and Ian Holzhauer

Also Present: Tim Ball, Gary R. Weber and Associates, Inc. (GRWA);

Kendra Davis, North Central College (NCC) student; Rebecca DeLarme,

City staff; Mike DiCristina, Naperville Park District; Brian Dusak,

Engineering Resource Associates, Inc. (ERA); Ellory Graff, NCC student;

Rick Hitchcock, former Riverwalk Commission Chairman; Mary Hamill,

Accessible Community Task Force (ACTF); Alyssa Pipken Heimbach,

NCC student; Anna Larsen, NCC student; Dr. Maud Makoni, NCC

Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy; Peggy Motta, Naperville

Park District; and Stephanie Penick, Naperville Riverwalk Foundation

C. PUBLIC FORUM:

Hitchcock noted that he met with Ball recently to review the plans that were

discussed at last month’s PDC Committee meeting regarding the South

Extension Progress Update. He shared the following three

recommendations for the South Gateway project: 1) the opportunity to

manipulate the ground plane in the areas where it is flat by the parkway and

keep it undulating; 2) including additional trees (even small diameter ones),

especially close to the river bank, and using a native pallet along the

shoreline but letting the grass move just like the sidewalk toward the

parkway; and 3) adding an additional section of stone wall between the

substation and Martin Avenue.

Sullivan provided additional information about the South Gateway project

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Meeting Minutes