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A
Good
evening,
everyone
welcome
to
the
Planning
and
Development
Committee
meeting
for
Monday
September
26
2016
calling
meeting
to
order.
We
do
have
a
quorum
present.
First
item
on
the
agenda
is
approval
of
regular
meeting
minutes
of
sep
tember
12
2016.
Is
there
a
motion
all
in
favor
any
opposed?
The
meeting
minutes
are
approved.
A
A
A
C
We
have
to
thank
you,
everyone.
My
name
is
Noah
blogger
I'm,
the
co-owner
of
viet
nam
nam.
We've
been
operating
as
a
catering
company
out
of
the
formerly
now
we're
cooking
incubator
space
here
at
pain,
and
we
assign
the
lease
at
6
18
and
a
half
Church
Street
to
move
into
the
previous
funky
monk
restaurant.
C
So
we
only
have
one
van
and
we
just
actually
secured
parking
today
at
the
northeast
corner
of
Chicago
and
church,
so
they
have
monthly
parking
there.
So
we've
covered
parking
author
winter,
thankfully,
and
so
that's
where
we
have
our
one
and
then
in
terms
of
pickups
and
deliveries,
there's
a
little.
What
I
call
a
horse
shoe
alley
behind
all
those
restaurants,
so
all
the
vans
and
anything
that's
being
delivered
us
vendors
of
ours
I
would
pull
their
trucks
into
the
back,
so
nothing
will
be
parked
on
our
tree.
Okay,
thanks.
D
A
Good,
thank
you.
There's
a
motion
in
a
second
all,
those
in
favor
aye
any
opposed
all
right.
It
will
be
able
for
the
council
a
little
bit
later
receiving.
Thank
you.
The
item
we
have
for
discussion
is
a
discussion
of
the
north
downtown
area.
Planning
staff
was
recommending
City
Council
direct
staff
to
amend
the
2009
downtown
plan
to
add
new
sub
areas
covering
the
geographic
area
roughly
between
emerson
street
to
the
south,
foster
street
CTA
station
to
the
north
etc.
A
B
B
How
we
got
here
is
through
as
you're
all
well
aware,
proposal
831
Emerson
that
was
ultimately
denied
by
the
city
council
that
at
the
februari
meeting
there
was
discussion
of
out
there
need
for
a
community
plan
north
of
emerson
street,
as
the
existing
downtown
plan
ends
on
the
south
side
of
emerson
street.
So
we
came
back
to
you
in
april
with
some
demographic
data,
some
CTA
data
and
requested
that
we
go
out
to
the
community
for
a
few
meetings
to
get
their
impact
on
what
they
would
like
to
see.
B
So
those
two
meetings
occurred
in
may
and
june
of
this
year.
In
May
we
had
about
75
residents
and
stakeholders
up
in
the
parasol
room
and
that
meeting
primarily
focused
on
a
macro
level.
It
looked
at
what
the
planning
boundary
should
be
and
then
really
major
themes.
You
know
what
type
of
uses
should
be
in
this
area,
and
should
there
be
sub
areas
within
this
larger,
downtown
planning
area?
So
there
was
a.
B
There
was
very
good
feedback
at
the
May
meeting
in
June
we
gathered
again
a
little
less
in
number,
but
still
a
good
turnout
and
that
looked
at
more
specific
development
sites.
So
within
the
proposed
planning
boundary
which
I
will
get
to
on
the
next
slide,
I
believe
there
are
development
sites
that
that
staff
has
had
conversations
with
entities
about
future
land
use
entitlements,
changes
in
the
land
use,
so
we
focused
on
those
sites
and
what
the
community
wanted
to
see
in
terms
of
density
in
terms
of
massing
in
terms
of
building
design.
B
We
had
a
meeting
with
Northwestern
University
regarding
their
facilitated,
engelhardt
Hall
and
the
parking
lot
the
university
indicated
to
us
that
their
focus
from
from
now
and
in
through
the
next
five
to
ten
years
is
on
undergraduate
student
housing.
Angle.
Heart
is
a
graduate
resident
facility,
targeted
mainly
for
international
students
as
I
understand
it,
and
that
the
university's
focus
will
not
be
on
the
renovation
or
redevelopment
of
that
site,
but
you,
university
officials
recognized
the
potential
mixed-use
opportunity
that
could
ultimately
exist
either
on
ankle
heart
or
the
adjacent
parking
lot.
B
831
Emerson,
as
I
noted,
was
the
previous
development
that
was
denied
by
the
council.
They
have
subsequently
met
with
staff
on
a
few
occasions
about
a
new
proposal.
We
do
anticipate
that
coming
to
us
in
the
next
few
months
as
I
understand
it,
it
would
be
a
mixed-use
development.
It
would
not
be
targeted
towards
students,
it
would
be
more
of
a
traditional
apartment
building
and
it
would
have
ground
floor
retail.
But
again
those
are
initial
conversations
and
nothing
has
been
filed
with
the
city.
B
Finally,
the
ridge
and
Emerson
shopping
center,
which
is
at
the
northeast
corner
of
ridge
and
emerson.
We
had
a
conversation
with
them.
They
noted
that
it
is
a
fully
leased
shopping
center.
They
recognized
and
have
been
approached
apparently
by
various
entities
about
redeveloping
that
site,
but
it
has
always
been
in
conjunction
with
the
properties
to
the
east
up
to
print
our
not
including
print
our
so
the
north
downtown
plan.
Again,
the
recommendation
would
be
to
amend
the
existing
plan.
B
So
what
we
were
looking
at
was
again
to
amend
this
plan
to
recognize
that
there
was
development
interest
in
the
area
north
of
emerson
street
and
that
there
was
interest
in
making
sure
that
it
was
as
compatible
and
contextual
as
possible
with
the
residential
areas
that
surround
it
and
they're
highlighted
would
be
the
starting
point
again.
I
will
I
will
emphasize
that
this
is
just
a
beginning
conversation
if
you
were
to
allow
this
to
proceed.
B
B
B
There
was
a
recognition
from
the
community
in
the
stakeholders
that
to
look
at
this
area
again,
bounded
primarily
by
Ridge
Emerson,
the
alley
just
to
the
west
of
Sherman
and
foster
and
around
the
el
station,
that
it
couldn't
be
viewed
just
as
one
big
site
that
properties
fronting
Emerson,
probably
made
more
sense
to
have
a
little
bit
more
density
and
the
properties
surrounding
foster
maple
and
a
bit
to
Emerson
across
from
E
to
a
little
bit
of
less
density.
So,
just
briefly
the
N
area
and
again
this
lettering
comes
from
the
existing
plant.
B
B
The
beginning
conversation
that
we
heard
from
the
community
and
from
what
we
recognize
from
talking
to
developers
would
be
in
the
range
of
somewhere
in
six
to
twelve
stories,
but
again
would
be
subject
to
review
by
certainly
by
this
committee
and
council
and
by
the
plan
commission,
as
we
got
into
this,
that
na
area,
which
is
the
hatched
area
north
of
an
north
of
the
green,
is
we.
We
felt
that,
even
though
that
was
as
far
as
Northwestern's
property,
one
property
owner,
that
it
wasn't
appropriate
to
have
the
six
to
twelve
story.
B
Recommendation
fronting
on
the
south
side
of
foster
that
that
was
too
much
massing
and
bulk
and
was
not
compatible
with
the
residential
that
surrounds
that
part
of
the
community.
So
there's
a
brief
description
that
notes
that
while
density
could
be
accommodated,
much
farther
back
in
that
na
hatched
area,
that
it
would
be
more
likely
a
traditional
neighborhood
business
district
somewhere
in
the
four
to
five
story
range.
B
The
oh
area,
which
is
the
area
to
the
west,
which
includes
the
shopping
center
ridge
and
emerson
and
then
a
series
of
residential
homes,
and
I
believe
it
church
on
the
north
side
of
emerson
street,
would
also
be
viewed.
It's
called
transitional
but
mixed-use
development.
It
would
be
a
slight
let
slightly
less
density
as
proposed.
It
would
be
about
six
to
ten
stories
again.
We
wanted
to.
B
So
we
view
that
as
traditional,
and
that
is
again
typically
in
the
four
or
five
six
story
range
I
would
think
more
appropriate.
Probably
in
the
forest
story
range
in
and
around
the
el
station,
we
have
in
a
conversations
with
the
property
owner
just
to
the
west
of
the
foster
el
station,
about
a
desire
to
redevelop
that
property,
and
that
was
a
for
my
recollection
of
four
story
proposal.
B
So
again,
there's
the
what
we
heard
from
the
community
was:
yes,
we
we
recognize
the
desire
to
be
near
transit,
but
even
though
that's
the
area
right
next
to
the
station,
that's
also
right
next
to
the
residential
neighborhoods
and
much
lower
rise
residential,
so
it
won't
be
appropriate
and
I'll
likelihood
to
have
a
large
development
on
north
of
foster.
Finally,
q
is
something
that
was
brought
in
at
the
last
meeting
that
we
had
q
is
a
bank
parcel
and
also
a
restaurant.
B
Economic
development
has
indicated
that
there
has
been
interest
in
the
parcel,
but
that,
given
its
unique
configuration
that
it
would
be
difficult
to
develop,
given
the
residential
property
to
the
east,
so
the
Q
would
involve
the
vacation
of
Benson
to
up
to
Emerson
and
even
though
that
yellow
kind
of
shows
it
going
into
Emerson.
By
no
means
is
that
a
note
to
close
Emerson,
it
would
just
be
to
vacate
that
small
portion
of
to
make
that
site
more
developable,
so
as
proposed
again.
This
is
a
very
beginning,
part
of
the
conversation
in
there.
B
This
is
not
a
request
for
rezoning.
I
would
say
that
if
you
did
decide
to
proceed
that
if
a
plan
for
the
north
downtown
area
was
adopted
that
subsequently
we
look
at
the
underlying
zoning
because,
as
you're
all
well
aware
now
we
have
some
a
little
bit
of
a
conflict
between
our
existing
downtown
plan
and
what
our
base
zoning
is.
B
So
I
would
recommend
that
if
this
plan
were
to
be
completed,
that
we
look
at
the
entire
downtown
plan,
including
this
area
and
revisit
our
base
zoning,
so
that
we
don't
have
as
much
of
a
conflict
between
the
two.
So
the
tentative
timeline
would
be
to
take
it
to
plan
commission
again
november
december
of
this
year
and
then
bring
it
back
to
the
committee
sometime
in
2017.
I'm
happy
to
take
any
question.
A
D
B
D
B
E
So
will
be
alerting
the
neighbors
to
this
opportunity
than
to
go
here,
give
testimony
or
whatever
the
plan
commission
that
will
be
their
first
sort
of
official
opportunity
to
respond
to
this
concept.
Yes,.
F
Still
say
to
alderman
lavelle
the
the
meeting
didn't
May
and
June,
which
were
attended
by
residents
from
lots
awards,
I
guess,
and
but
certainly
the
first
and
fifth,
and
I
believe
the
second,
because
the
lines
go.
It's
it's
very
interesting.
The
way
in
which
the
award
lines
are
drawn
here
because
on,
if
you
go
to
emerson
on
maple
emerson
and
maple
on
the
west
side,
is
the
fifth
ward,
but
on
the
east
side
is
a
second
ward.
But
then,
when
you
get
the
foster.
F
The
second
word
ends
on
the
south
side.
I
believe
I'm
correct
of
foster
and
then
on.
The
north
side
is
a
fifth
ward,
and
so
you
know
I
mean
it's
really
very
interesting
in
terms
of
how
they're,
so
we
would
make
want
to
make
sure
that
everybody
understood
and
all
the
residents,
oh
that
would
be
notified,
but
they
there
has
been
input
in
terms
of
developing
this.
F
So
the
first
one
that
you
was
worried,
you
Judy
you
remember
that
was
sort
of
talked
about
when
we
were
having
those
first
meetings
and
taking
the
line
all
the
way
up
to
noise
and
back
over
on
ridge.
But
then
this
is
sort
of
came
out
of
those
two
meetings.
So
it's
been
community
input.
I
just
want
to
make
that
look
clear,
that
there
has
been
communion
input
all
along.
A
You
any
further
communications.
No
is
there
a
motion
to
adjourn
all
right.
Second
works
at
all
in
favor
all
right.
We
will
adjourn
until
let's
say
seven
forty,
at
which
time
the
city
council
meeting
will
can
resume
and
hopefully
we'll
get
our
business
done
quickly.
So
we
can
all
adjourn
to
our
respective
viewing
locations
for
the
evening.