City To Require At Least 9 Traffic Monitors at HPHS During Peak Hours

Parents who drop their students off in the morning or pick them up in the afternoon at Highland Park High School will be reminded to move it along quickly beginning in the fall.

The Highland Park City Council agreed this week to require Township High School District 13 provide no fewer than nine traffic monitors during during peak morning and afternoon times to address back-ups and confusion around the school, the Highland Park News reports.

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A suggestion from Councilman Anthony Blumberg that the traffic control personnel include two community service officers with the power to write citations was turned down as other Council members figured the requirement to have nine monitors present was sufficient.

District 113 and the city are in talks to enlarge the parking lot at the southwest corner of St. Johns and Vine avenues. Some have called for the expansion to offer 631 parking spaces on campus, the number that stood prior to the start of construction on new gymnasiums and swimming pools.

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