they didn’t really block it, just moved the location a bit.
i don’t think it was ever gonna pencil absent a truly huge office development at The 78 like hudson yards. blame covid, not the alder.
i’m surprised you can just drop 3 additional stories on a 5-story building.
i wonder if it was always designed for expansion? older masonry buildings sometimes have some extra structural capacity, but this is a lot
toronto has a nice setup with its museum in the old CN roundhouse. now surrounded by highrises
ah that explains the old (short lived) bubbly creek soda!
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this is big “chain text with emojis” energy
normally i agree with you but cmon man, Lathrop is gorgeous.
several parts of the landscape were indeed programmed more actively in the 2019 renovation, but it’s also okay for some open space to mainly exist in order to bring light and air to apartments.
well, the barrington schools are already consolidated. barrington hills doesn’t have many other services, e.g. most folks are on well & septic.
the notion that developers would target barrington hills for apartments is laughable.
the horsey set are in barrington hills. old money, extremely anti-growth of any kind.
south barrington is new money: mcmansions on culdesacs, fancy shopping centers, etc.
that said, i do think the immigration problem threatens the entire business model of missing middle in chicago.
for your average 3-flat, often the grunt laborers all the way up to the developer are immigrants. what happens when those folks either can’t or don’t want to come to the US?
i’m not sure the massive tier is really missing in chicago.
it would be great to start building big outside of downtown, but downtown is a vast area and in most cases it’s anything-goes.
south barrington is 40% asian, and has lots of (wealthy) multi-generational households who want a lockoff for grandma.
that graft you like is gonna come back in style
i wonder how many 1st gen townhouse projects are lying around the city with super-dense RM-5 zoning?
would it pencil for developers to attempt a buyout and replace with a larger elevator building?
dude liked to entertain.
fun fact, susana mendoza had her wedding in this house!
burke’s house is a separate zoning lot.
but i think the townhouses don’t come close to using up the FAR or unit count. the rezoning was not about density - 2004 was before the townhouse ordinance, so they had to code-hack/upzone to RM-5 to allow townhouse setbacks/massing.
both? the RM-5 appears to have been done in 2004 for the larger townhouse development, but burke got his mitts on a chunk of the rezoned land.
holy shit this lot is zoned RM-5!
with a 5000SF lot, you could tear it down and build up to 12 units and up to 47’ tall.
leave it to ed burke to rezone himself into a fat nest egg….
yes!
and there’s a smaller parking lot north of byrd’s chicken, where a separate project is proposed with 52 units.
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the labor to sweat the connections is a lot faster than doing a bunch of lead & oakum.
correct and you’re right to say it
bingo, but neither of those constraints are fixed. the city could open up industrial corridors for housing development, or relax the design standards.
but is that even something we want to do, or should the priorities be elsewhere? what exactly is the policy to promote family-sized housing?
it seems like townhomes no longer pencil very often in chicago compared to the heyday in the 90s/00s. have land values gotten too high?
yeah the townhouse code is rooted in a very top-down, 1990s conception of what is “appropriate” and is extremely micro-manage-y.
and yes, metra electric is also not fully accessible yet so for the time being, the city needs an alternative bus service(s).
i don’t know that i agree with that either in principle, although right now the red line needs a backup bus since thorndale-jarvis are not accessible.
whenever that happens, the 147 should turn into a local bus (merge it into the 151).
south DLSD already has a rail line, it doesn’t need another (excepting a future track pair for HSR)
are you holding this up as an example to follow??
under a properly coordinated regional system, there should not be any express buses on south DLSD