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Chicago’s voluminous zoning code and a detailed zoning map of the city now are posted on the Internet, saving a trip to the library or purchase of a $125 bound version, officials announced Friday.
Chicago’s 1st and 27th wards have seen the most zoning activity so far in 2017. ... This map shows the proposed and requested zoning changes in Chicago community areas for all of 2016.
Researching zoning information in Chicago is now as easy as using the Internet. With Chicago's online zoning map people can look up any location in the city by address, intersection or ward.
The Cook County Zoning Board of Appeals begins a series of hearings next week on a proposed comprehensive land-use plan, the first zoning blueprint for the county’s unincorporated areas in 21 ...
Part of a growing wave of programs that offer better ways to view city zoning codes using open data, including Flux, an Austin-based service that grew out of the Google X program, 2nd City Zoning ...
Updating Chicago’s zoning maps could help rebuild communities and discourage the corruption in Chicago’s rezoning process. Tom Smith is an adjunct lecturer at the UIC College of Urban Planning ...
But what the zoning map says is that, at this corner, you’re only allowed to build a house. ... The Chicago zoning code has a classification, RT-3.5, that seems designed to encourage two-flats.
CHICAGO (CBS) --The topic of zoning might put many people to sleep, but not this next man you're about to meet.Alan Krygowski found problems with a village map that might be a wakeup call for some ...
Chicago planning officials want to redraw a few blocks of the zoning map west of the Fulton Market District to allow new types of business and development, while also making sure most of the ...