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Old Posted Mar 16, 2013, 12:32 PM
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Originally Posted by f_m View Post
Long-time lurker checking in here. The world-famous Hyde Park NIMBYs have deployed this crazy-ass flyer about the McMobil proposal:
http://www.hydepark.org/hpkccnews/McMobilflyerMar18.pdf
The best part is where they claim that it would cast shadows on Nichols Park... which is to the south.

I probably can't go to this meeting, but I would love it if some local kindred spirit went to shake it up a little.
^ Yay

NIMBY's won against U of C before not because of Aldermanic intervention, but because they voted a district dry and thus the University couldn't build a hotel. U of C eventually got their hotel.
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