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Committee approves Ryan Field softball changes with limits on amplified sound and lighting
Summary
The Planning & Development Committee approved a minor adjustment to the Ryan Field planned development to expand the softball facility, approving conditions that limit amplified sound to game days, require photometric compliance and authorize enforcement remedies.
The Evanston Planning & Development Committee on July 28 approved Ordinance 47-025, a minor adjustment to the Ryan Field planned development that permits a substantially upgraded softball facility with new grandstands, higher light poles and amplified sound under conditions set by staff and the committee.
Mary Rasinski, a nearby resident who spoke online, urged the committee to treat the proposal as a planned development and to send it to the Land Use Commission for fuller public review, saying that "taking down grandstands and then building a 3 story stadium and then…
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