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Kelly seeks to delay rezoning for a year - Evanston Now
8 hours ago · Ald. Clare Kelly (1st) plans to ask City Council Monday to delay action on a new zoning code for a year. Her proposal would defer approval of the city’s new comprehensive plan to the fall, delay discussion of the new zoning code until after the comprehensive plan is adopted and push action on the zoning code off until Spring 2026.
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Zoning reform draws fans, foes to LUC - Evanston Now
18 hours ago · Fans and foes of zoning reform turned out in large and roughly equal numbers Wednesday night Wednesday night to provide feedback as the Land Use Commission considered revisions to the city’s proposed comprehensive plan. Reform supporters organized by Connections for the Homeless donned blue shirts ...
Snowstorm falls short of forecast here - Evanston Now
3 days ago · Evanston appears to have gotten not much more than a dusting of snow from a storm that had been forecast to drop up to four inches on the city Monday. While reports from the National Weather Service said a few locations in southeastern Wisconsin had almost 5 inches of snow and Kankakee to the south ...
Kelly: Hit the brakes on zoning revamp - Evanston Now
3 days ago · Ald. Clare Kelly (1st) told 1st Ward residents Monday night that trying to get the city’s new comprehensive plan and zoning code adopted before the city’s April 1 election is “absolutely the wrong way.” At the request of Kelly and two other council members, Mayor Daniel Biss has …
Council contenders demand zoning delay - Evanston Now
Dec 6, 2024 · And here’s what the three candidates hoping to replace the retiring Melissa Wynne in representing the 3rd Ward had to say. John B. Kennedy said the “radical design for rezoning” should become a campaign issue so a new council would then “have the direction to either move forward with the plan or radically revise it,”
Two shot on Dempster - Evanston Now
Aug 6, 2024 · Evanston Police say two men were hospitalized in stable condition Tuesday morning after they were shot Monday evening in the 1700 block of Dempster Street.
New zoning to embrace progressive goals - Evanston Now
Nov 27, 2024 · Evanston’s proposed new zoning code lists goals far different from the ones in the current code adopted in the 1990s. Three chapters of the proposed code, including its purpose statement, were released by city staff late Tuesday afternoon.
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