Clarendon Hills officials have decided to put the brakes on a proposed downtown plaza on Prospect Avenue as they look to incorporate potential projects into a wider plan for the village’s downtown.

The plaza was proposed between Railroad and Park Avenues and would include the elimination of the right-turn lane, or slip lane, from southbound Prospect onto Park. That turn lane now is part of what the village calls the Sloan Triangle, an area that would become a large part of the plaza and used for gatherings.

Instead, the Village Board has approved a contract with consulting firm Houseal Lavigne to facilitate a Clarendon Hills Downtown Improvement Plan for an amount not to exceed $75,000. A plaza could be part of that plan, but the study is about the entire downtown and not about a plaza,

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