Lake Forest Podcast: Traffic, Cell Towers & City Communication Issues

In this episode of the Lake Forest Podcast, Pete Jansons hosts an in-depth conversation about the pressing issues facing Lake Forest today:

🏗️ Deerpath Road construction and traffic concerns
📡 Cell phone tower debates and local opposition
🚌 School bus challenges and parent engagement
🚗 Parking solutions and community input
🗣️ City communication gaps and transparency
🗳️ Lake Forest Caucus and the impact of revised bylaws
With insights from Senator Susan Garrett, Skoo Walker, and Joe Weiss, this episode dives into how these challenges affect residents and what can be done to improve the community.

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Key Moments:
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2:23 Lake Forest Podcast Start: Senator Susan Garrett, Skoo Walker, Joe Weiss, and Pete Jansons are your hosts
5:55 Local Shopping (e.g., Kiddles, Lake Forest Shop)
6:14 Skoo's thoughts on people not throwing Christmas holiday parties anymore
8:30 Why aren’t we shopping in Lake Forest at Costco, Mike Rummel?
9:20 Grainger Company
13:24 Susan Garrett defines some of the top-of-mind problems facing Lake Forest
14:00 Parents dropping off kids at school (traffic issue)
14:37 Issue of parents having to pay for their kids to take the school bus
15:30 Survey on why parents don’t let their kids take the school bus (results)
18:03 Issue of unruly kids on the bus
19:03 School bus scheduling doesn’t work issue
22:04 Why is the city doing the beautification project during the school season?
23:20 If we had a magic wand, how would we correct the situation?
24:07 How are the fire and police departments going to get through the traffic?
24:27 What is the business reason the city is doing this construction project when they are doing it?
25:45 Businesses on Deerpath are going to have issues
25:55 Parking issues and options
27:20 What’s going on with the old gas station across from the Deerpath Inn?
28:30 The bank parking lots should be more accommodating to non-customer parking to help with scarcity of parking
29:52 Cell Phone Issue clip • The 4th Ward Deserves Reliable Cell S...
33:15 Dumbing down the cell phone issue for Pete
34:19 Are Ward 4 residents willing to pay to put a cell phone tower where they want it?
35:20 Are cell phone towers a health risk? • Lake Forest Illinois: How Safe is a N... clip
45:30 More of Susan Garrett’s thoughts
46:10 People want transparency, but people won’t do their own research (e.g., watching city meetings or attending)
49:10 Jason Wicha and Dana Olson: What else can they do to communicate?
50:00 Susan Garrett wants to put commissions in place to deal with city issues
50:52 What is the commission led by Melanie Rummel dealing with Caucus Bylaws Issue?
53:19 Should Chamber of Commerce Director Joanna Rolek play a more influential role speaking on behalf of business interests to the city?
54:09 Sweet’s Candy Shop
54:43 Shell Station? BP Gas?
56:53 Once Upon A Bagel
59:42 What does Cathy Czerniak, the City Council, or Jason Wicha do to correct the communication issue?
1:00:51 Matt Montgomery and John Noble Clip school from 2023 regarding school bus issue • Lake Forest, Illinois Schools: Supt M...
1:07:03 Will there be a contested election for mayor in 2027?
1:07:57 Skoo’s thoughts on the Caucus Annual Meeting "Vote"
1:10:21 Caucus Bylaws down for months in 2021 under the leadership of Kim Pfhal
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1:15:10 Remove Term Limits of Caucus

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