Don't put D59 administration complex in our neighborhood

Editor's note: This letter was received prior to the village board meeting on Monday.

We the Elk Grove Village residents in the Pavilion Recreation Center, Pirates Cove Children's Park and Admiral Byrd School neighborhood oppose the building of the new District 59 administration office complex at Bristol and Leicester.

The property is owned by the school district and is zoned residential. It was the site of the old Tom Lively Junior High School that was torn down years ago; the open land is used as recreational fields.

District 59 wants to build a 40,000-square-foot commercial/industrial building next to a recreational area in a residential neighborhood. Besides the school administration, it will house districtwide food preparation and delivery service, maintenance yard storing salt and plow attachments (maybe lawn equipment and vehicles?), host teacher/staff trainings and school board meetings.

We are told that the 70 district employees will move with the building. They never discussed the additional employees for the new food service or explained where they currently store their district maintenance workers, salt, trucks and vehicles. This will add workers in the new building, increasing traffic in our neighborhood.

Locating the administration building in our neighborhood will be a burden on our families' quality of life. It will create noise and increased traffic from trucks delivering food to the district kitchens, breakfasts and lunches being distributed to the 14 schools, comings and goings of district personal during the day, garbage trucks, district maintenance staff, board meetings, etc.

We ask the Elk Grove Village Board to not approve the rezoning of the 1001 Leicester Road location from residential to commercial/industrial and not allow the building of a new administration building for District 59.

William Christian and neighbors

Elk Grove Village