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Residents urge council to finish strategic housing plan before changing R-1 and R-2 zoning
Summary
Several Evanston residents, architects and housing experts urged the City Council to complete a strategic housing plan and market studies before approving broad changes to R-1 and R-2 zoning that would allow two- to four-unit buildings across the city.
Dozens of residents and housing experts used the public-comment period to urge the Evanston City Council not to move forward with major zoning changes until the city completes a data-driven strategic housing plan and market analysis.
Joe Caprilli, a Sixth Ward resident who said he and a group of Evanston planning and design professionals sent a memo to the mayor and council, asked that the council retain an independent zoning consultant through an RFP and that the consultant work run concurrently with the comprehensive plan and strategic housing plan so the work can "merge at the end." Steve Test and David Galloway, representing…
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