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Latest blog post Saturday, March 27, 2021

See Carmin’s future backyard ADU
by Steven Vance

I’ve talked about Carmin Ballou a couple of times on this blog. Her parents moved in with her, her partner, and their two school-age children right before the COVID-19 pandemic started to upend lives in March 2020. Many combined and multi-generational families yearn for more space, including Carmin’s.

At first, the originally proposed ADU ordinance’s treatment of certain residential zoning districts was going to require that Carmin and her partner obtain a “special use permit” through a process that would have resulted in hiring an attorney and appearing before the Zoning Board of Appeals.

Thankfully, that version of the ordinance was modified to include RS-2 zoning districts “as of right”, and fortunately, the ordinance’s pilot area included her house. Since winter started, Carmin and her architect, Doug Sandberg, have been working on a design for a small one...

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A proposed 9-story office building with a 6-story mural on the windowless side of the building.

New Belmont Cragin Elementary School in Jacob A. Riis Park (which is on the National Register of Historic Places).

The final building of the Westhaven Park redevelopment of CHA's former Henry Horner Homes.

A proposed 27-story apartment building with 375 units (75 affordable) and 20 percent of the 9,000 s.f. of commercial/retail space will be affordable.

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New construction permits pulled in Chicago in the last 2 months since Friday, February 12th, 2021

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