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Originally Posted by Jim in Chicago
I know someone who lives in the building next door on LSD and I'll have to ask about the situation. Yes, that building has long been known as a hot bed of unhappiness, and I remember having to hear about the lobby wars a few years ago. They complain about everything. On the other hand, those units on the north wall are clear through from East to West, so they have both lake and city views. It looks like the window on the North/East corner isn't blocked, and the other one on the North/West is insignificant in the greater scheme of things. IIRC, that's a bedroom that also has West facing windows. So, the views aren't really impeded. Don't know about the building behind, I've never really thought about it.
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That was RPD 196 and it is the reason we have a hard expiration date an all PDs.
It was approved for a high rise in 1978, but the applicants did nothing with it for 18 years. When they approached Ald Bernardini in 1996, asking about it, he said it wouldn't fly and needed to be renegotiated.
Back then there was no hard and fast date for expiration. The ordinance said;
"...developed as a unit, whether contemporaneously or within a proposed extended period of time commensurate with the character of the proposal but in no event to exceed 20 years"
The applicant took that to mean they had 20 years to do something.
The city's position was that the rights were lost if they did not start right away or negotiate a delay.
They did not start drawing up plans until the alderman informed them of his intention to strip the PD designation and they did not submit those plans for Part II until the day after the downzoning ordinance was introduced.
It culminated in several years of court battles and in the end the applicant lost
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