Let’s hope the village board gives a Quick Nope to the proposed zoning for Quick Trip this Thursday. Just three years ago, the village board adopted the Climate Ready Oak Park initiative. That was also the year a study was published revealing the area of the site in question, on Harlem Avenue and Garfield Street, is among the village’s most vulnerable to climate change because of its relatively higher land-surface temperature, annual average daily traffic, air pollution, and flood vulnerability. While the abandoned concrete site might be considered an eyesore, at least trees and plants are growing over it instead of a gas station with a proposed 48 parking spaces. Our local government has the opportunity to stick to a plan with the good of the future in mind. That’s what we elected them for, right?
Monica LaBelle
Oak Park