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Originally Posted by Busy Bee
Regarding the Logan Square TOD, it's a bit sad/funny that our idea of dense TOD is ljust like any 6-7 story apartment building next to an el station anywhere in New York.
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It's incremental. One step at a time... We won't be building these en masse right after the ordinance passed. It will take a long time before we adjust people's expectations surrounding parking.
Fortunately the new TOD ordinance not only paves the way for more developments like this, but it also removes community groups from the approval process. If you have property zoned in a -3, now you can already build things like this with a simple zoning variance and no City Council vote.
However, I think it's a bit false to compare to New York... We have many times more available land than that city, because we're starting from a lower-density base with a huge roster of underutilized industrial land and significant abandonment on the West and South sides. We're also not growing as quickly as New York.