Ald. Joe Moore, 49th, has taken credit for downzoning the property at 7313-15 Sheridan Road four years ago from B3-5 to RT-4. At the same time, the developer that wants to install a very profitable high-rise building at this site is using this same argument that the property was originally B3-5 to justify getting it "upzoned" back from RT-4 to B3-5.
These gentlemen are both either lying or are misinformed. Records sent from Ald. Moore's own office recently uncovered show that this property and the entire block between Chase and Sherwin have been RT-4 since at least 1995, and most likely dating much further back.
I am very disappointed in the behavior of someone that is supposed to be the champion of our neighborhood (Ald. Moore) as well as the developer (Rich Aronson) who sits on Moore's zoning advisory committee and also contributes to Joe Moore's campaign fund.
From a frustrated , disappointed and scared neighbor.
Kenneth Fox
Rogers Park
A loud 'no' to 7313-15 N. Sheridan Road project.
Residents weigh-in on 7313-15 North Sheridan.
6 comments:
Granting this zoning change request would/will set a president that would be the beginning of the end of ... ?
president?
i see no harm in putting a 7 story building next to an 8 story building,
this is not going to start what happened in edgewater, the sky is falling the sky is falling,
the caves are shocked that a buildig wouldnt reach the height of something built in 1920!
But Jeffo -- there is another vacant spot on Chase east of Sheridan -- where Ms. Triem tore down the North Shore School. Surely she will use the same argument that there are 7 to 10 story buildings all around so why not build another. This zoning change creates a terrible precedent. More density is NOT what is needed east of Sheridan. That certainly violates the spirit of the Lake Shore Protection Ordinance.
The building itself isn't the issue, Jeffo. The stinking corruption is the issue.
Moore is using abusing his office to fund his future campaign.
Look at the big picture, Jeffo.
" ... Ald. Joe Moore, 49th, has taken credit for downzoning the property at 7313-15 Sheridan Road four years ago from B3-5 to RT-4. ... the developer ... is using this same argument that the property was originally B3-5 to justify getting it "upzoned" back from RT-4 to B3-5."
The developer is attempting to assert his god-given right to the most lucrative, most generous, most dense zoning that any piece of property in our neighborhood has ever had at any time in its history.
The lot is currently zoned RT4, you can look it up on our zoning map on the City's website.
RT4 has a certain meaning defined under law, you can look it up on our City's website, too - and that meaning is NOT "placeholder zoning used by an alderman to force community meanings."
It's RT4 - get used to it!
It is outrageous that Moore, the local legislator, nominally the representative of his constituents, standing there like a statue while a campaign contributor completely mis-characterizes the law of the City of Chicago. Moore let Aronson talk for him. Moore let Aronson explain what Moore was thinking when Moore zoned this property RT4 - Moore didn't really mean RT4, according to Aronson. Moore let Aronson explain that in this case RT4 does not mean RT4, it means what Aronson says Moore thinks it means.
Kind of makes you wonder how much of the zoning map in our neighborhood does not mean what the map says it means, rather it has "secret meanings" known only to Moore and his campaign contributor developer pals.
oh please hugh. downzoning to make sure future development is subject to higher scrutiny is a perfectly acceptable and accepted legal maneuver.
new building are what you call growth. new people moving into the neighborhood is also called growth. i guess you would rather have the flow go the other way.
calm down.
The scrutiny process such, as it is, is codified in our zoning law.
Moore is a legislator, if he wants a higher level of scrutiny he could add it.
If he wants to add a new zoning classification for "see alderman for allowed uses (bring your checkbook)" he can do that, too, but that's not what RT4 means.
Our zoning map does not belong to the alderman, it is not their toy to play with; it belongs to all of us. They can only take it away from us if we let them.
At the point where you claim a law does not mean what is says, it means what one man says it means, you are endorsing rule of men, we are a society of laws.
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