Andrew Schaeffer

The Arterial Bike Network Study for the Village of Mount Prospect aims to develop a comprehensive strategy for constructing bike facilities throughout the community. It focuses on enhancing safety for cyclists and pedestrians, improving access to key community destinations, and integrating community priorities. The plan recommends creating a low-stress bicycle network by implementing sidepaths along arterial and high-traffic streets, providing detailed corridor-specific recommendations, and outlining implementation phasing, cost estimates, and funding strategies to guide the network's full build-out.

This 'State of the Village Presentation' outlines the Village of Mount Prospect's strategic direction, reviewing accomplishments over the past five years (since 2021) and detailing future opportunities for 2026 and beyond. Key priorities include ensuring citizen safety, maintaining strong financial health, investing in critical infrastructure, fostering business community growth, and enhancing overall community appeal. The presentation emphasizes proactive outreach, strategic planning, and initiatives like creating an economic development loan fund to drive future prosperity and maintain Mount Prospect as a premier municipality.

The Village of Mount Prospect's Transit Study aims to understand and address the public transportation needs of its residents, workers, and visitors. The study identifies opportunities and develops specific recommendations to improve mobility for current and future users of the transit network, with a particular focus on older adults and transit-dependent populations. Key areas of recommendation include establishing new transit services, exploring service alternatives, adjusting current transit provisions, improving access to transit infrastructure, and increasing public awareness of available options. The plan provides a framework to expand mobility and address evolving transportation challenges.

The Village of Mount Prospect's Strategic Plan outlines a long-term vision for 2040 and a strategic plan for 2025-2030. The 2040 vision describes Mount Prospect as a thriving, proud, diverse, and connected suburban community with a rich heritage, strong values, and resilient government. The plan's mission is to advance the community's collective quality of life through adaptive leadership and leading-edge service delivery. Key goals for 2030 include fostering effective, financially sound village government, creating safe and livable family-friendly neighborhoods, investing in top-quality village infrastructure, and developing vibrant community destinations across Downtown, Randhurst Village, and South Mount Prospect. The plan also emphasizes enhancing Mount Prospect's charm and character by honoring history, heritage, diversity, equity, and inclusion.

The joint review board meeting included discussion of 2024 audited financials, surplus to be declared, return of increment historical data, TIF pro-forma, student impact fees, and development projects. Development projects included downtown mixed-use projects, Busse Flowers Redevelopment, Prospect Avenue District, Angelo Caputo's Fresh Market, Whiskey Hill Brewery, Salerno's Pizzeria, Lady Dahlia Mexican Kitchen, Mia's Cantina expansion, The Prospect, Khepri Kitchen + Coffee, CoCo & Maple, and Formula Auto. Also discussed were Lion's Memorial Park Renovations.