[Mr Downtown]

When the Near South Community Plan proposed mere pedestrian and cycling access through Dearborn Park, some small group of residents went apeshit enough that Ald. Haithcock squelched even a toothless recommendation in a roundly ignored planning document. The number of hostile faxes her office had supposedly received grew with every retelling, until it was higher than attendance at Trump's inaugural.

Technically, yes, CDOT could simply open up 9th, 11th, and 15th. The occupation of 9th by a townhouse playground would require some sort of negotiation, I suppose.

As for redevelopment, I'm not sure the original PD would have to be amended for my scheme, as it allowed 250 units in Subarea F, where the 51 Garden Homes were eventually built instead. (Subarea A, the White Townhouses, only allows the 144 units that exist there now.) Several of the DPII subareas also have unit allowances much higher than what eventually got built.