We’ve finished rolling out our zoning changes feature that we announced last week. Here’s the story of how it happened!
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We added the feature to our public to-do list in February, based on member requests, but work on this idea fast forwarded two weeks ago when two things happened:
- A friend of the company asked us “how would I know if the city-owned lot next to my house is going up for sale?” The answer, to periodically check the various committee and commission agendas, was unsatisfactory.
- Then, two residents told us about the proposed downzoning of the 71st Street commercial corridor, where the only notice that residents got was on a paper wrapped around a pole.
Zoning changes got moved immediately to the top of the to-do list because neither of these modes of discovery are sufficient in the 21st century. Thankfully, the Chicago City Clerk’s website and the Chicago Councilmatic service were already prepared to transmit the necessary data to Cityscape. Check it out now.