Fort Hill traffic control:

Naperville will turn the intersection just outside the new Fort Hill Activity Center into an all-way stop by adding two new stop signs at Fort Hill Drive/High Grove Lane and Quincy Avenue. With the opening Aug. 23 of the Naperville Park District’s first indoor recreation center, traffic is expected to increase at the intersection. Drivers heading west on Quincy already have to stop when the road ends at Fort Hill Drive/High Grove Lane, but now those heading north or south will have to stop as well. City staff members assessed traffic conditions at the intersection and determined that an average of 346 vehicles pass by an hour for eight hours a day, which is more than the 300 necessary to make an intersection an all-way stop.

Naperville preps for snow:

Naperville is getting ready for winter with three contracts to handle snow plowing on city parking lots, sidewalks and roads totaling over $1.1 million. Tovar Snow Professionals of East Dundee won 19-month contracts to plow snow from city parking lots and sidewalks in the downtown and at the test track, Metra stations and city facilities. The contracts last through April 30, 2018, and will cost the city $221,360 for parking lots and $545,644 for sidewalks. Road plowing after 2 inches of snow falls can require up to 70 more snowplows than the city has, so the city plans to spend $390,915 on contractors to do the work through April 30, 2017.

Battle appointed:

Longtime Wheaton resident Brian Battle has been appointed to the board of directors of the Friends of the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County, the district’s nonprofit support group. Battle is a director at the Performance Trust Companies. He served a multiyear term on the Wheaton zoning board and is a member of the advisory board of Misericordia Home Chicago, a residential campus for children and adults with developmental disabilities.