The Chicago City Council voted 36-10 to encourage transit-oriented development by boosting incentives and increasing pedestrian safety while also expanding the amount of affordable housing being built near train stations and along bus lines.
The under-construction affordable housing project at 2602-38 N. Emmett St. in Logan Square.
But that resulted in the construction of only market-rate homes, with more than 90% of transit-oriented developments built on the North Side, Northwest Side, downtown and around the West Loop, according to a city report.
However, a provision that would have allowed three-unit residential buildings to be built in wealthy neighborhoods near transit hubs without special permission from the City Council, which requires the support of the local alderperson in nearly all cases, was removed during behind-the-scenes negotiations.
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