This post incorporates content from Streetsblog Chicago Cofounder and Advisor Steven Vance’s development data website Chicago Cityscape. This week there was reason to celebrate for both Chicago sustainable transportation fans, and folks working to make housing more plentiful in our city. Prior to Wednesday’s City Council vote, Chicago’s Connected Communities Ordinance, passed in July 2022, […]
Making space for storing large metal boxes is no longer mandatory.
Read the article. This is about housing near transit. What use case would there be for a park-and-ride at their home? Are they supposed to be driving from their door to the far side of the parking lot?
It’s also a bureaucratic change rather than functional. It used to be a permit you’d have to apply for, which added costs. Now it’s just not required to build parking within a 5 minute walk of transit
Read the article. This is about housing near transit. What use case would there be for a park-and-ride at their home? Are they supposed to be driving from their door to the far side of the parking lot?
It’s also a bureaucratic change rather than functional. It used to be a permit you’d have to apply for, which added costs. Now it’s just not required to build parking within a 5 minute walk of transit