PEORIA, Ill. – There’s growing belief that a proposal to put a pavilion in Peoria’s Donovan Park is not dead yet.
The pavilion would house music and arts events, and the head of a group wanting to make that happen, Sara Connor-James, tells WMBD’s “The Greg and Dan Show” it can still be done.
“We felt that the public did not have the opportunity to understand what we were really doing,” said Connor-James. “There was a lot of misinformation that had put out by people who kind of just got snicklets [sic] of an idea and never really talked to us.”
A land use agreement had been approved by the Peoria Park Board and the “Pavilion in the Park” Board, but then Connor-James says a timeframe with which to get public comment was, in her words, “drastically shortened.”
Now that, she says, the plan has been pulled off the table, she’s now working to get more public comment.
As for some of the misinformation…
“That part of the park (the pavilion is planned for) is kind of forlorn,” said Connor’James. “The park district picked it as a place that they thought it would be improving the park. It would be repurposing the park.”
Connor-James — a self-described nature enthusiast — tells WMBD’s “The Greg & Dan Show” despite claims, green space in the park would not be negatively impacted, nor would there be a problem with the park’s observatory.
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