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Originally Posted by the urban politician
^ I'm going to have to side with the East Lakeview Neighbors on this.
That project is too dense and doesn't have enough parking. The neighborhood is already congested, and there is no place to park. There is no damn parking. No parking is wrong, and it really makes my blood boil.
Not only that, but the lack of parking really makes me mad. This building needs about two times the amount of parking and about 1/4 the amount of proposed units. Actually, it should be turned into a park, but a park that has PARKING.
I think we also need to discuss children. Children are dying in the city. Do you want more children to die? If that building is built as planned, there will be too much congestion and children will die. Every day. And it will be the developer's fault. Shame on the city for allowing the death of children.
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Jesus, you had me going for a second
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Originally Posted by Jibba
Yeah, I read that too. Compare those people's sentiments, and then the abomination that just got approved for Wellington/Broadway with 250+(!) parking spaces. Which one is going to cause traffic again?? Granted, Wellington/Broadway was within Southeast Lakeview Neighbors' "purview", and the meeting for the Sedgwick proposal was held by East Lakeview Neighbors, but the comparison is just too maddening to not remark upon.
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THANK YOU for you recognizing that impending stain on Chicago's urban fabric. I felt like I was shouting into the wind during my earlier vent session.
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Originally Posted by Jibba
Nothing gets me more, though, than the campaign (replete with flyer-distributed propaganda containing laughably huge lies) against the California/Milwaukee development in Logan Square.
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That Logan Square development just makes me want to follow The Postal Service's advice circa 2003 and
give up. The one bit of good news that's come out of that clusterfuck is DNAinfo's calling out of the generational divide—by which I mean, that there
is one and that they reported it. I'm also heartened by the developers' attitudes in both cases: these guys—
actual market actors—have both independently and near-simultaneously confirmed what we know to be true about density, transit, and the demand for desirable neighborhoods, i.e., car ownership isn't a goal for a lot of people and is, for others, an acceptable sacrifice for access to the best places to live. (Shocking!) After years of market conditions that worked against good urban design principles, it makes me livid that the city steps in when we have every indication that those two interests have finally aligned.
But what probably makes me even more livid is what I see as the flagrant violation of constitutional rights. Here you've got all of these "concerned citizens" dictating to public officials exactly which kinds of people can and cannot be their neighbors. Lakeview and, increasingly, Logan Square are expensive places. Tons of people want to live there but can't because of a lack of affordable housing options. It's a classic supply and demand problem, and one of the clearest and easiest solutions (without resorting to manipulating the market) is small studios/"micro apartments." And so all of those people—the working class (including those who provide services for many of the locals themselves), the elderly, the young, students, and the poor and, let's be frank for a minute, the ethnic minorities disproportionately represented among the poor—are essentially denied access. All by people who I'd hazard to guess mostly claim to be liberal/social progressives. (Not like self-described conservatives would come out looking any better, though; few things are less conservative than holding up private enterprise.) Rank hypocrisy, galling social injustice, and an affront to American ideals about property.
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Originally Posted by Jibba
Sure, but that's irrelevant to the sentiments of the neighborhood residents that I have concerns about. Regardless of the developer's shady connections and political wrangling, people are still going to say ridiculous shit like, "5 stories is too tall."
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Exactly. I don't understand why you guys are trying to shift the focus away from this fact?
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Originally Posted by woodrow
Easy. Fabulousness.
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