City should keep single-family zoning

Submitted by Mary Rosinski on Sat, 11/23/2024 - 18:19

(This great  letter below was written by Joan Cherry & Joan Cara )

Serious danger for single-family R-1 property owners lurks within the Envision Evanston 2045 proposed comprehensive plan and revised zoning ordinance. R-1 property owners must be aware of and understand the drastic effect on their R-1 properties that will result from the city’s planned zoning changes.

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Residents and Landowners Must Have Time to Weigh In Before Elimination of R1 Zoning; We Need Real Townhalls, Not Sticky Notes

Submitted by Mary Rosinski on Fri, 11/15/2024 - 09:43

 


URGENT! The public has never called for the elimination of R1 zoning. Why are some elected officials doing just that, and pushing zoning and comprehensive plan updates before the public process is completed? What is the rush? These changes impact everyone—renters, homeowners, landlords, developers—and the public needs to discuss the pros, cons, and unintended consequences. Who is behind this rush? It is up to us to slow it down.

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Eliminate R1 Zoning? Why Did Mayor Biss Sponsor this Referral In July and Get 4 other Council Members to Co-Sponsor?

Submitted by Mary Rosinski on Fri, 11/15/2024 - 09:28

A reccomendation to elimate all R1 zoning deserves many questions as to why he and 4 other council members made this recommendation back in July 2024. What are the pros and cons and as important what are the unintended conseques of property owners. Who is driving the massive change? The draft comprehensive plan was just released about a week ago 4 months after the referral and while the public is still in the process of providing imput. Below is one letter in the Evanston Roundtable:


Letter to the editor: City should keep single-family zoning

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Proposed Recommended Changes to Zoning and Comprehensive Plan Process Needs to Slow Down

Submitted by Mary Rosinski on Fri, 11/15/2024 - 09:07

URGENT! The public has not called for the elimination of R1 zoning. Why are some elected officials doing just that and pushing zoning and comprehensive plan updates before the public process is completed? What is the rush? These changes impact everyone—renters, homeowners, landlords, developers—and the public needs to discuss the pros, cons, and unintended consequences. Who is behind this rush? It is up to us to slow it down.

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39th Annual Marty F. Leoni Memorial Fun Run Sunday Oct. 6

Submitted by CSNA on Thu, 10/03/2024 - 15:27

Sunday Oct. 6th from 6-8 at 2715 Hurd -Where The People Meet (free event)

Submitted by Mary Rosinski on Wed, 10/02/2024 - 11:21

Come and bring a friend to this free event in the 6th ward. Where The People Meet is a live show which brings together leaders from various sectors of a city. This week's lineup has leaders in the arts community, a school district foundation, and Dolton, Illinois where a whitleblower exposed the corruption by Dolton mayor TIffany Henyard.  https://fb.watch/uZ9LK9JAJz/ The following is from the show's press release:

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Where the People Meet Sunday Oct. 6th from 6-8 at 2715 Hurd

Submitted by Mary Rosinski on Wed, 10/02/2024 - 11:12

Come and bring a friend to this free event in the 6th ward. Where The People Meet is a live show which bring together leaders from various avenues of a city. This weeks line up has leader in the arts community, school district foundation, and Dalton Il whiere a whitleblower exposed the corruption by Dalton Il mayor TIffany Henyard. https://fb.watch/uZ9LK9JAJz/ 

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More Buildings in Evanston = More Cars

Submitted by jeffpsmith on Fri, 09/13/2024 - 21:00

Since 2015, Evanston basked in the sobriquet “the suburb that killed the car,” promoting an image of an imminent car-free utopia. From environmental nonprofits to editorial pages, we heard that Evanstonians were making different “transportation choices” warranting overhauling our zoning. By summer 2023, City Council was mulling wholesale reduction of parking requirements for new developments in an expanded radius, up to 1/2 mile, from train stations, or even putting a cap on allowed parking, to force those “choices.” The theory: development and greater density in transit-rich Evanston would spark abandonment of vehicle ownership. This has been a refrain in current citywide planning ongoing. Yet data specific to Evanston supporting those policy assumptions was scant to nonexistent. Now, information obtained through FOIA provides some answers.

Deep Thoughts

Submitted by jeffpsmith on Tue, 09/10/2024 - 14:04

Above:  As of the end of August, 2024, the former century-old Dyche Stadium on Central Street had been deconstructed more thoroughly than James Joyce's Ulysses, with sheet pilings several stories deep ringing the excavation.

Free Activities at Mitchell Museum Family Day 9/7

Submitted by jeffpsmith on Fri, 09/06/2024 - 07:51

One of Evanston’s hidden treasures, the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian at 3001 Central Street, Evanston (the northwest corner of Central St. & Central Park Ave.), will host a Family Day this Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024. The daylong celebration will feature Ecology Center staff and live animals at 10:30, an all-ages clay turtle art workshop led by an Oneida Nation artist at 12:15, a 2:00 pm workshop on making birchbark and porcupine quill earrings.

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