Redeveloped firehouse, pedestrian street, rezoning for single family
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09:48 AM Feb 23, 2023 CST
@CHIdocumenters On today’s agenda … Zoning reclassifications, handicapped parking permits and sign permits across the city. https://chicago.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=1077438&GUID=3B562D9F-6E98-4A12-B7F7-8BF158285052&Options=&Search=
Committee Chair Ald. Tom Tunney calls the meeting to order at 10:06 a.m. Quorum is reached. The committee moves to approve last meeting’s minutes.
No public speakers are registered for today’s hearing. The committee moves to considering a building fee waiver for Englewood Connect to rehab a historic firehouse at 6204 S. Green St. to a community center https://blockclubchicago.org/2022/06/28/englewood-connect-a-15-million-business-incubator-to-be-built-in-an-old-firehouse-could-break-ground-this-fall/
Alderperson David Moore compliments the development’s benefit to the 16th and surrounding wards. It passes and a $20,000 fee waiver is granted. “It’s a creative, adaptive re-use and it’s going to be good for many wards,” Ald. Tunney said.
The committee hears a request to change a section of Madison Ave from Throop to Halsted as a pedestrian-only street. “we support this,” Alder. Walter Burnett said. https://blockclubchicago.org/2022/10/05/west-loops-madison-streetscape-getting-2-9-million-facelift/
The street survey conducted by the Chicago Department of Planning and Development to determine if the area is pedestrian-oriented enough to warrant this designation. Urban planner Max Lyon compared this strip of Madison to nearby Fulton Market streets. https://t.co/TO6NhFAPLH
Coordinating planner with the city Brian O’Donnell requests a zoning change to allow for the construction of single family homes to be built by Inherent Homes L3C in vacant lots in the West Humboldt Park Community https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/doh/provdrs/developers/svcs/city-lots-for-working-families.html
The motion to rezone the area and allow for single-family homes passes the committee. https://t.co/FZ6RqFpClG
The meeting is adjourned at 12:39 p.m. All matters passed with no objections by the original roll-call vote. For more information and follow up on this and future meetings, check https://www.documenters.org/meetings/