City Agrees to Pay for Part of Wall At Home Near Red Gate Bridge

ST. CHARLES, IL — The city of St. Charles has already spent thousands on trees meant to serve as a buffer for a property near the Red Gate Bridge. Now, city officials have agreed to spend thousands more to build a wall along the property line. James Martin Jones owns the property near the bridge, which opened in 2012, And requested 16 white spruce trees be planted across his property at that time instead of a wall that was constructed at other nearby properties in the Woods of Fox Glen neighborhood and meant to block the additional traffic, sound and safety hazards at the Route 25 intersection, Public Works Director Peter Suhr told the Daily Herald.

The city Council this past week agreed to pay for $15,300 worth of a wall across Jones’s property which is a portion of the total $27,000 bill for the wall. City officials took into account that they’ve already paid for over $12,000 for the trees at Jones property, according to the article. Jones has decided to have the wall constructed wall constructed after noticing conditions were worse than expected due to the nearby bridge and has had trouble selling his home because of it.

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