Development, Preservation and Zoning HPKCC Public Policy Task Force

 

Navigator for Development and development policy, in Hyde Park-Kenwood and for the HPKCC Development, Preservation and Zoning Committee

A service of Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference, its Development, Preservation and Zoning Committee and its website www.hydepark.org. Join the Conference; your dues support our work as an independent watchdog and clearinghouse of ideas.

To Development detail and Development-Preservation-Zoning Committee homepage. To 53rd Street page. See results Harper Court Priorities Web Survey.

Visit the homepage of the Development Committee with list of What's in Play. History and Preservation homepage has the navigator to the preservation-related pages (including landmarking impacts) in this website. See also University Projects Updates for campus.

Links and Meetings etc.

September 8, Monday, 7 pm. The 53rd St. Redevelopment TIF Advisory Council meets in open session at Kenwood Academy, The Little Theater, 5015 S. Blackstone Ave.

View Harper Court Guidelines: http://www.vision53.org/12.html. ALL COMMENTS:
http://www.vision53.org/index.html.
View text in this site with proposed revisions by TIF Plg.-Dev. Comm. Chair Chuck Thurow.
HPKCC comments on original. HPKCC Dev. Comm. June 18 report, June 30 letter to Pres. Zimmer.

Links on the larger planning partnership in formation:

Watch also in http://www.vision53.org -the TIF based Irene Sherr site- equals http://www.hydeparkchicago.org/3.html (SECC website) and includes December 8 and May 3 Workshop Reports,
Harper Court RFP Guidelines for comment through June 12 at http://www.vision53.org/12.html. Text in this site with prop. committee rev.
Direct to December 8 report and vote tallies, in this site. Direct to May 3 Workshop reports and links incl. to photos by evaluators of 53rd St.
Contact Jay Mulberry or sign up in googlegroups for 53rdStreetFuture@googlegroups.com (was harpercourt@googlegroups.com) the site of the 53rd Street Future Partners- offshoot of HPKCC Development committee and others.

To Principles of the 2004 Zoning Ordinance:
http://www.duncanplan.com/pdfs_all/chicago_zoning_principles.pdf

This site strongly suggests you visit the full reports, extrapolated principles and data from the 2006 HPKCC Harper Court Forums (May 2006 Conference Reporter.) PDF version.

 

March 4 2008 a panel (incl. HPKCC's George Rumsey) of Hyde Parkers debated and informed before a huge heavily student audience at Ida Noyes. Sponsor South Side Solidarity Network. Report in Harper Court homepage- see also there report on Feb. 26 meeting on Harper Court RFP process.

December 8 2007. 53rd Street Vision Workshop.This very largely attended conclave will receive reports and considerations to where to go from here, including at next meetings of the HPKCC Development Committee and board, possible forums. See in 53rd Visioning and News. Official reports: http://www.hydeparkchicago.org/3.html. http://www.vision53.org.

Cases for various and overall development are presented or explored in Hyde Park Progress and Majority blogs,hydeparkprogress.blogspot.com/ http:/www.hydeparkmajority.blogspot.com/
and in Hyde Park Urbanist blog, http://alwaysintransit.typepad.com/hyde_park_urbanist/

Some related pages: To Business Climate and developments in the business district.
Small Business Improvement Fund
Also: Community News with Navigator and Backgrounder page.
Neighborhood: the website topic and subject navigator.
Tracking Community Trends, and Trends II. A Vision for the Hyde Park Retail District 2000.
Several of our Transit pages touch upon development and transit-oriented development, including Walkable Community.

New Proposed High Rises and Condos-Reactions. To Cottage Grove Corridor (in dev. homepage). To Developing Neighborhood Goals. To TIF News home, news from TIF Council meetings. To TIFormation update brochures.
Reporter '06 December: Theater RFP page, Development (for a broader article on Development), 56th Cornell.

More shortcuts and related pages:
Doctors Hospital
Harper homepage. Theater. To Business Climate, including updates.
Parking /Planning. Parking District Rec. To University and Community. University Project Updates.
Preservation Beat. Preservation Hot. Landmark Districts?
To HP Co-op decisions page.
To Affordable Housing, Coal. Equit Comm Dev. Ending Homelessness. Affordable in Hyde Park?
Report on the April 2004 Community Renewal and Development Conference.


See Hyde Park neighborhood profiles.
An article arguing for density as "solution" rather than "problem."
See what neighbors said about development and related issue at HPKCC forum on neighborhood development Oct. '05 and at HPKCC Harper Court forums, spring '06.

Visit these related pages:

The Co-op. Treasure Island, Hyde Park Produce, Village Foods, other grocery options
Harper Court Story. Harper Court Sale homepage.
Urban Renewal Story and Hyde Park Timelines
Woodlawn page.
To code changes incl. sprinklers/life-safety evaluation since 3 disasters.
HPKCC Transit Task Force on transit-oriented development and supporting good parking, walkability, and disabilities alternatives
Example of creatively adaptive reuse: Harvard School -see Preservation Hot)--but caught in the mortgage meltdown

Antheus/MAC Properties
53rd Mobil McDonald's site incl. 53rd Cornell
56th Cornell development (more in Antheus)
Checkerboard Lounge- Kleiner restaurant
Doctors Hospital
Harper Theater
Indian Village Center, Lake Park and Hyde Park Blvd.
Shoreland Hotel. Quadrangle Club
University South Campus Plan
UC long-range plans. UC project updates
Hyde Park Art Center enlivens east Hyde Park, Little Black Pearl and Muntu dance enliven 47th/Greenwood; new UC arts ctr. planned- in Arts News

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For local, regional, and national organizations whose powerful web and other resources we draw upon, see Government Services and Resources, Neighborhood Links and Community Nonprofit Organizations and Resources, Community Resources.

Involved especially include Metropolitan Planning Council,
The Chicago Department of Planning and Development,
 South East Chicago Commission,
Center for Neighborhood Technology,
Neighborhood Capital Budget Group (which includes a neighborhood mapping engine and TIF and city budget almanacs).

Agencies & Public taxing bodies:
               City of Chicago.org                Park District      Chicago Public Schools    
               Chicago's Departments of       Planning              TIF registry            Environment   Police     Water
               Cook County                         list of Bureaus & Agencies,            search by services wanted
               State of Illinois                        excellent access to all Illinois government + links to some cities 

See also Elected Officials and their Services

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Our governmental agency liaisons

Police: Commander Howard Lodding, 21st District; Theresa Odum--see CAPS page.
Commander John (?) Franklin, 3rd District

Fourth Ward Development Projects- D. Plg. Dev.: James Wilson

Housing: Clare Leary (Affordable, Multi-family, Loans)

Planning and Development: Com. Lori Healy- (specific liaisons for Olympics, TIF, Harper Court, SBIF, Cleanslate, TED. Constance Buscemi). James Wilson-4th Ward Liaison.

Transportation: Deidre Holmes, under her Janet Attarian and Scott Waldinger for Lake Park Project and interfaces with Planning and Development

CHA: Jessica Caffrey. HUD Chicago Director Ed Hinsberger

Chicago Park District: (includes Regions: Liz Millan (South) , Bill Richardson (Central) , Alonzo Williams (Lakefront); Planning-Chris Gent rep. to Gia Biaggi; External/Community- Arnold Randall.

Non governmenal; Chicago Consultants Studio, Tim Brangle

Development key and home pages up in this website, including many that reflect or report on the work of the HPKCC Development-Preservation-Zoning Task Force

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About the HPKCC Development, Preservation and Zoning Committee

By Gary Ossewaarde

Currently with nine board members*, DPZ is the largest board committee of Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference. President George Rumsey chairs the committee. The committee's purpose is to monitor and evaluate development, preservation/landmarking and structural (such as zoning) proposals, policies, trends, and their impacts. On Preservation and Landmark topics we generally defer to or react to the Hyde Park Historical Society and its committees or advocacy groups such as Save the Point. We have also worked with other community organizations that take the lead on questions that have a major relationship to development, such as strengthening affordable housing and an affordable community with an affordable break for retail variety.

On development and collateral issues, the committee recommends policy positions, "wait-and-see," engagement with proposers, or ways to both inform and provide vehicles for public conversation. We have convened and conducted public forums on a wide variety of general and specific issues. And we maintain what has to be among the largest, most in-depth set of localized community webpages on the subject.

More often, we serve as a clearinghouse that helps focus issues and allow residents and stakeholders to "tell what you think". Sometimes we develop detailed position papers, based on our findings and what the community tells us, and submit these as a detailed white paper report and letters to the formal review bodies--for example response to draft Request for Proposals on redevelopment of Harper Theater, to the University of Chicago and 53rd TIF Advisory Council's Planning and Development Committee and the same on future development and RFP for Harper Court and the tied-in City Parking Lot.

In 2006, Harper Court was our main order of business. Our work ranged from direct inquiry and conversation with boards, elected officials, and public agencies such as the Illinois Attorney General's Office, position papers, and forums that won recognition of their standing and findings. We now want to look at broader issues, in context, such as retail mix, incubator space, density, condo conversion, and more.

While, in distinction from some of our other working and program committees (Condo/Co-ops governance, Disabilities, Parks, Schools, Transit), DPZ is a board committee, it readily collaborates with other organizations, ad hoc groups, and active, knowledgeable individuals. So, if you have an interest or skills, insights, volunteer time to contribute, contact George Rumsey or hpkcc@aol.com.

HPKCC Development, Preservation, Zoning Committee- HPKCC board members 2008

Gary Ossewaarde Chair, Nancy Baum, Jane Ciacci, Jane Comiskey, George Davis, Irene Freelain, Mark Granfors, Julie Monberg, Trish Morse, George Rumsey, Vicki Suchovsky

Others: Jay Ammerman, Julie Hochberg, Jay Mulberry, Jack Spicer, Pat Wilcoxen, James Withrow

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