Today’s a big day for zoning, housing, and land use issues in Chicago. The Plan Commission is considering three contentious proposals:
- Leasing Chicago Housing Authority land to a developer who will build affordable and market rate housing, and a small Target in Rogers Park
- Approving the “North Branch Framework Plan” for the industrial corridor and whether it’s providing enough recreational open space
- Constructing a 16-story mixed-use building in Jefferson Park on a parking lot adjacent to the CTA & Metra station
There are only two other items on the agenda: to convert office space into residential units in a building in Avondale, and to increase the number of dwelling units at a proposed site in Bridgeport. Small stuff, relatively.
Follow the Department of Planning and Development on Twitter which usually live-tweets Plan Commission meetings.
Everything was approved.
Neighborhood news
- MarySue Barrett: Involving the public in the sale or redevelopment of the Thompson Center is paramount regardless of the outcome (Crain’s)
- Developer Sterling Bay has bought yet another property in the North Branch industrial corridor (Crain’s)
- Shoreline, a large vacant condo building in South Shore, is undergoing a $14 million renovation and conversion to apartments (DNAinfo)
- Lisa DiChiera of Landmarks Illlinois joins the “A Lot You Got to Holler” podcast to talk about preservation, including the Thompson Center
- WGN summarizes in a 10-minute video the current fight against a mixed-income housing proposal in Jefferson Park that Alder Arena (45) supports
- Some Sauganash residents think that a proposal to build 21 luxury apartments and 7 offices doesn’t come with enough parking (DNAinfo)