Tuesday, October 9, 2007 - 7:00 PM
(NEW BUSINESS) - Zoning Amendment from RT4 to B2-3, 7015 North Sheridan Road Rich Aronson, Steve Golovan and Chuck Mudd will present their request to change the zoning to build a 50-foot tall, four-story, 12-unit rental apartment building with two affordable apartments and 1,000 square feet of first-floor commercial space. The lot is approximately 7,500 square feet in size. The current zoning allows seven dwelling units and no commercial space.
BLOGNOTES: Here we go again. This has to be the # 1 development topic ever on the 'Broken Heart' of Rogers Park.
17 comments:
huh, whaddya know, another development project dusted off after the re-election
Some back-story
January 23, 2006: 79 Foot Tall Building @ 7015 North Sheridan Road?
January 24, 2006: 79 Foot Tall Building @ 7015 North Sheridan Road? The Political Version
January 30, 2006: 79 Foot Tall Building @ 7015 North Sheridan Road - The Owners Version
February 2, 2006: Just the Beginning; Standing Room Only Meeting at Loyola Fieldhouse
February 3, 2006: Rogers Park Residents Like Highrise Design, But Object To Lakefront Location
February 5, 2006: Watch Them Lie
February 21, 2006: 49th Ward ZALUC Meets Tonight
February 22, 2006: 49th Ward ZALUC Vetos Abels Plan
Is this a closed meeting or will there be community input like last time?
This property (PIN11-32-111-003) has not changed hands since our last go-around. Moore pal Golovan may be the latest developer, but the owners have not changed.
The $1.M mortgage Abels took out with Reza Toulabi is still outstanding and unmodified. The mortgage is collatoralized with the 7015 property and Reza's property next door. The $1.M million is not a construction loan, it is project development money, a seed fund to pay architects, zoning attorneys, lobbyists, and aldermen.
So one question for Ms. Abels is the same as last time:
Who is behind this? Who are your partners? If the building next door being incldued in your mortgage for your development loan was some kind of mistake, as you claimed at the time, why haven't you clean up the lien since early 2006?
What is the current height limit?
50', or 48'?
Mixed-use is fine, and so are 12 units as long as it complies with the Lakefront Protection Ordinance.
The important thing is that we preserve the letter and intent of that law, and also important is getting an attractive building that relates well to the buildings on either side of it.
Ok I know that the Santuary idea is a bust. How about making this house a testimony to Rogers Park and the way we were!
Have some apprentice or journeymen
carpenters, electrician, and painters come inside and restore the property to its original grand style of living in the early 1920 thru the 1960.
Then make a museumn out of this old house.
No Child Left Inside would mean plenty of room in the front yeard to run and play. Maybe even tend a small flower garden.
Inside would contain rooms that would immitate the life style as it once was. A place for neighbors to visit and learn. Someone , aaah, a housekeeper, or call him/her a servant could create daily treats and snacks of the day. These would be free to anyone who came inside for the tour. Music from the day could be piped into the house.
Visitors could pay a fee to sleep one night in Rogers Park back in the day.
This money could be used to keep up the house.
This could avoid building another unneeded condo or 'resturant with a view' and spoiling the already limited parking near Loyola Park.
I strongly oppose another 'condo' conversion or tear down at this location.
When is enough enough!?
If this house were an architectural gem, I'd fight for it.
But it's nothing of the sort. It's a stodgy, blocky, Prairie-style Circa 1910 tract house that's lacking in grace and elegance and no more worth preserving than are modern tract houses built at later dates.
Moreover, it is overwhelmed by the large and vastly more attractive 1920s vintage bldgs on either side of it.
I'd like to see the lovely bldg at Lunt & Sheridan, now rather decrepit, rehabbed in character, and this dumb house taken down and something in keeping with these two attractive vintage bldgs, on either side. It's a shame it wasn't taken down in the 20s and the building just to the south built larger.
Let's choose our battles carefully when it comes to preservation becuase it's a fact that we can't preserve every commonplace old house, and we can't even save the really beautiful bldgs we have in Chicago that are worth the trouble.
Take a look at Preservation Chicago's site to see buildings that are of real significance and are very beautiful, and well worth fighting for. They are only a sampling of the really dazzling structures that are now threatened.
HERE WE GO AGAIN, -
WONDER WHAT THE POLITICAl DONATION WILL BE ?
CLOSED MEETING -GOOSE LIVER ALSO---
Richard M. Aronson
1935 W. Farwell Ave.
Chicago, IL 60626
Occupation: Broker
Employer: Camelot Realty
$2,000.00 on 1/28/2007
Individual Contribution to Citizens for Joe Moore
THANKS CRAIG FOR THE INFO-
REMINDS ME OF ONE OF THE FORMAL ALDERMAN WHOS SAID- SOME OF US ARE JUST HOES-
JOe Moore's pay to play with Steve Golovan, aka Castlebar.
Castlebar Enterprises
2636 N Lincoln Av
Chicago, IL 60614
$1,500.00
11/30/2006
Individual Contribution to Citizens for Joe Moore
Castlebar Enterprises
2636 N Lincoln Av
Chicago, IL 60614
$1,500.00
11/30/2006
Individual Contribution to Citizens for Joe Moore
Castlebar Enterprises (4716 Beacon) 2636 N Lincoln
Chicago, IL 60614 $2,500.00
12/14/2006 Individual Contribution
Citizens for Joe Moore
Castlebar Enterprises
2636 N Lincoln
Chicago, IL 60614 $2,500.00
12/14/2006 Individual Contribution
Citizens for Joe Moore
Castlebar Enterprises
2636 N.Lincoln Av
Chicago, IL 60614
$1,500.00
11/30/2006
Individual Contribution, Citizens for Joe Moore
Castlebar Enterprises
2636 N.Lincoln Av
Chicago, IL 60614
$1,500.00
11/30/2006
Individual Contribution to Citizens for Joe Moore
Rich Aronson is on the ZULAC Board
Rich Aronson is...
Camelot Realty of America Inc.
1943 W. Farwell
Chicago, IL 60626
$2,000.00 on 3/2/2006
Individual Contribution to Citizens for Joe Moore
Say, just wondering... How many of Rich Aronson's construction projects currently underway are Union? Hmmm?
Ick, ick, and way more ick. And why doesn't this make the news on a daily basis? Joe Moore should be ashamed of himself. I'm ashamed of him and all of his games. How can we stand him for three more years?
Here is a quote from our joey from the Chicago Tribune regarding Daleys tax increase.
"an alderman is doing his or her job when they are advocating on behalf of their community," said Ald. Joe Moore (49th). "An alderman is also doing his or her job when they challenge and question and examine the mayor's budget. Obviously you can't get anything for free, but that doesn't mean there aren't possible areas of waste that we can cut while still delivering essential services and beneficial projects for our communities."
Hey! you have to admire joeys mind set, I like joeys comment " you can't get anything for free."
Just ask the developers that deal with joey!
Boy, I hope that we'll get an infomercial out of this. It's the Connie Abels Reality Show. You have to admit that Connie makes for great meetings.
This guy is a freakin joke. Don't believe a word he says, don't buy anything he sells, and don't think for a minute that he gives a flying f**k about you and your needs. He is a selfish you-know-what who is trying to make up for his failed law career (yeah, he's a former lawyer) by scamming people through "fake estate".
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