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A Harbor/Marina Plan is this evening, October 20th, at Loyola Park at 6:30pm. Expect a full house!
This is a very important meeting and has the potential to impact the shape of our community for generations to come. Please come and voice your opinion and let the Park District hear from you.
The Rogers Park Conservancy fought long and hard in partnership with our Evanston neighbors to stop construction of a marina off the shoreline of Calvary Cemetery last year.
Today, thanks to that effort and a receding waterline, a beautiful and tranquil beach is now forming at that site. We like to think that Mother Nature is thanking us for saving the lakefront from the eyesore of a marina by beginning to restore the once historic Calvary Beach.
Our next efforts are in working to help Mother Nature along to preserve this once grand beach that is forming again.
Likewise, we now intend to save our own lakefront from a marina that will forever mar the shoreline off of Loyola University or anywhere else along the lakeshore from Osterman Beach to Calvary Beach. We see a 3-mile shoreline of beaches along that stretch, reflecting not only our opinion but also echoing voices of those who participated in the numerous forums and monthly meetings that we sponsored last year.
We also heard a resounding voice against shoreline development when the "Save Our Lakefront" coalition put the extension of Lake Shore Drive to a vote in last November's election - a resounding 88% of you said "NO" - an election that included residents at the north end of the Edgewater community along Sheridan Road.
Prior to this Thursday's meeting we are issuing the statement, which is being sent from the Rogers Park Conservancy to Governor Blagojevich, Lt. Governor Quinn, Mayor Daley, Park District Superintendant Tim Mitchell, Director of Lakefront Construction Rob Rejman (who will be giving the presentation on Thursday), Jan Schakowsky, Carol Ronan, Harry Osterman and Alderman Joe Moore.
We are also inviting all of them to attend the meeting and hear the voices of their constituencies.
4 comments:
THANKS! to Don Gordon and the Rogers Park Conservancy for their service to our neighborhood.
hugh-i know we talked this afternoon about our role in this meeting making it absolutely clear that we do not want lakefront developement as they envision it, but james' post puzzled me. are they expecting to hear alternative visions for the use of this space?
James- I think we know what we want. Charlie had a very good "wish list" he posted a week ago or so. I would like to see us have more small "wild" sections and a bird sanctuary for one. Not speed boats.
Many have said and I agree, what this community needs is not a marina- we need resources for this generation of kids that is going by the wayside. I say keep it au naturale around here.
>I don't know if they want to hear our visions or not.
Don't ya think the timing is a little odd, when a guy asks you what you might want to see, when he's got a sheaf of plans tucked under his arm?
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