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How Zoning’s Influence on Density Affected My Life

12/12/2022

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by Nathaniel Hagemaster

For a variety of reasons, I am not a car owner. This has put a variety of obstacles in my way, particularly when I lived in rural Texas and in Fort Wayne, Indiana. When I moved to Chicago and got a job at Connections for the Homeless and started learning about zoning, I came to realize how many of these obstacles weren’t created by my car-lessness but, instead, by a societal expectation that everyone drives and by the zoning that reinforces that expectation.​


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Why Equitable Zoning?

10/26/2022

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If a building has many affordable units but doesn’t meet certain parking requirements, which factor is more important – the parking or the affordable units? Who can define what a “family” is and who can decide how many unrelated people can live together? Why do certain neighborhoods have only single-family homes while others only have apartments and townhomes?

Answers to the above questions and more are written in Evanston’s zoning code.
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Joining Forces’ Equitable Zoning Project

7/26/2022

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In August of 2020, Joining Forces for Affordable Housing reviewed Evanston’s Zoning Code and concluded that “both Evanston and the surrounding communities should overhaul their municipal codes to accomplish the following: 
  • Eliminate elements in the Code that make it more difficult and more expensive to create and sustain affordable housing 
  • Eliminate elements in the Code that perpetuate segregation, lack of housing choice, and economic, health, and political inequity based on race” 
Since then, Joining Forces has led the effort to review Evanston’s Zoning Code and is now ready to embark on a unique community input process to determine how it has impacted different people in different ways. 

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Connections' zoning project: Letters of interest requested!

3/30/2022

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Connections for the Homeless is pleased to provide this opportunity for funding for Evanston-focused community organizations.

We are inviting Black-led and Latino/Hispanic-led organizations, as well as organizations that focus on equity issues (racial, disability, and other), to apply for grants to help in reaching out to and gathering input from the community by making use of their networks. 

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Advocating for Affordability and Equity in North Shore Zoning

8/4/2020

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Joining Forces has reviewed the portions of the Evanston City Code related to housing in light of affordability and equity. We believe that both Evanston and the surrounding communities should expand this effort and overhaul their municipal codes to accomplish the following:

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