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The Illinois State Historic Preservation Office has finally sent a Section 106 review letter, and it calls for “additional design review,” specifically requesting that mitigation considerations include shifting the proposed location of the Obama Presidential Center south in Jackson Park. Such a move would allow the connection between Jackson Park and Midway Plaisance to remain intact, the letter stated.
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So, they want the Women's Garden to remain inaccessible in a tangle of busy roads. Got it. Preservationists seem to love being pedantic about the aesthetics of things and miss the real problem - which is that Olmsted's tranquil pleasure drives have become stressful, deadly drag strips that seriously impair the core function of the park, to promote health, rest and relaxation.
It doesn't seem that difficult to shift the whole complex slightly south, though. The south end is kind of an arbitrary cutoff at the south line of 62nd St, but there's a lot more room to the south before you hit 63rd. |
I feel like I'll be a grandparent by the time this thing gets built...
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Just build it dammit
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Block Club reporting that Lightfoot has struck a deal with Ald. Taylor and other community groups worried about housing impacts in Woodlawn.
That effectively takes care of most of the opposition from the social-justice side of things, now the preservationists are the only ones left with their court case. The Lightfoot administration seems to be wrapping things up on the bureaucratic end as well, with the FHWA and other required reviews almost complete. Then there's the issue of Obama Foundation fundraising, they only have a fraction of the money raised to build the OPC... maybe they're hoping people will open their checkbooks once the community opposition is taken care of? |
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Almost there to construction :cheers:
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Obama Presidential Center timeline moves forward after lawsuit dismissed by federal a
CHICAGO TRIBUNE | AUG 25, 2020
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^GOOD.
“The plaintiffs are nothing more than ‘concerned bystanders,’ and concerned bystanders are not entitled to press their claims in federal court,” the ruling said. |
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Jackson Park is looking more and more like a dump these days, the comfort station is barely standing. I hope the center will breathe some new life into the park. Are the roadway revisions expected to take out many trees and other mature landscaping?
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^ The information you want is here (PDF link).
The total number of trees in Jackson Park is unknown, but a little more than half of the park has been surveyed in recent years and contains just under 5000 trees. For the sake of argument, assume 9000 trees in the park total. Out of that, the Obama center and all the roadway projects are projected to remove 789 trees, or around 9% of the trees in the park. All removed trees will be replaced at a 1:1 ratio. Stony Island will also be widened into a boulevard north of 65th, which will include new trees on the east and west side parkways and in the median that are outside of the park boundaries but functionally part of the same urban forest. There are also new trees being added in the Midway between Stony and the Metra tracks which will offset the loss as well. |
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I just realized what this design is...
It's a Lime Kiln: https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FAnivk7nR...m_park_001.jpg https://wisconsin-explorer.blogspot....afton.html?m=1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/c...g?format=1000w |
^ Nothing could possibly be more of a lime kiln than the St Regis' crown lime kiln :shrug: :runaway:
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Hallelujah it's about fucking time
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