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48th zoning debate ends
BY ANITRA ROWE
Unless the community votes in favor of it, big-box retail will not be built on Broadway from Foster to Devon avenues in the 48th Ward.
Alderman Mary Ann Smith's Broadway rezoning compromise, the document proposing this change, passed without a single "no" vote April 26.
"This is the biggest thing we've ever bit off in this neighborhood," Smith said of Edgewater's two-year Broadway rezoning debate.
Twenty-one members of the 48th Ward Zoning and Planning Committee voted in support of Smith's proposal, and five abstained.
The zoning change keeps big-box stores off Broadway by reducing zoning on all of Broadway in the 48th Ward, from Foster to Devon avenues, from B3 to B1. The B3 zoning allows the construction of larger destination-type stores, while B1, a less intense classification, allows smaller stores that primarily serve local residents.
Schreiber gets $30,000 grant
BY ANGELA CAPUTO
It's been more than a decade since neighbors first came together with a plan to expand Schreiber Park, a small park with the tiniest of field houses that sits just off of Devon and Clark on the border of Rogers Park and Edgewater. The process had been slow going since 1997, when the first of two additional properties was acquired along Bosworth, virtually doubling the size of Schreiber, and adding to the stock of green space in the neighborhood considered parks-poor by all accounts. But with a new $30,000 state grant from the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, community leaders who have kept the momentum for expansion going are preparing for the next phase of growth.
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48th zoning debate ends
BY ANITRA ROWE
Unless the community votes in favor of it, big-box retail will not be built on Broadway from Foster to Devon avenues in the 48th Ward.
Alderman Mary Ann Smith's Broadway rezoning compromise, the document proposing this change, passed without a single "no" vote April 26.
"This is the biggest thing we've ever bit off in this neighborhood," Smith said of Edgewater's two-year Broadway rezoning debate.
Twenty-one members of the 48th Ward Zoning and Planning Committee voted in support of Smith's proposal, and five abstained.
The zoning change keeps big-box stores off Broadway by reducing zoning on all of Broadway in the 48th Ward, from Foster to Devon avenues, from B3 to B1. The B3 zoning allows the construction of larger destination-type stores, while B1, a less intense classification, allows smaller stores that primarily serve local residents.
Schreiber gets $30,000 grant
BY ANGELA CAPUTO
It's been more than a decade since neighbors first came together with a plan to expand Schreiber Park, a small park with the tiniest of field houses that sits just off of Devon and Clark on the border of Rogers Park and Edgewater. The process had been slow going since 1997, when the first of two additional properties was acquired along Bosworth, virtually doubling the size of Schreiber, and adding to the stock of green space in the neighborhood considered parks-poor by all accounts. But with a new $30,000 state grant from the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, community leaders who have kept the momentum for expansion going are preparing for the next phase of growth.
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