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Originally Posted by Wrightguy0
some of these buildings (lowrises, not highrises) are probably in a neighborhood with historic restrictions on the buildings,
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No that's the horrible thing about it! Chicago doesn't have any neighborhoods with zoning codes like that at all, at least that I know of! Chicago has a long standing tradition of extremely lose zoning which is partly why we built so many fresh new buildings in the past. Even if there is a height restriction or something in your way, if you are a good developer you'll lobby the community and alderman and they'll have it lifted. Its just that there are a lot of people living in Chicago with disgusting taste (Bros and yuppies primarily) and they want to live in a 🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵 faux-olde 3 flat since the real old ones usually don't have balconies on which to grill and drink Naty Ice.
As Adrian showed though, its not all bad here, some of the more progressive and artsy neighborhoods are building tons of slick new designs, these are also often some of the most historical neighborhoods as well.
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