The opponents have also launched a fairly professional-looking anonymous website. gHILVkhmcw- Streetsblog Chicago May 7, 2021 Editor told us there's no direct connection. Matt Martin article by Peter Von Buol in Inside-Booster newspaper. Interesting! Anonymous paranoiac parking NIMBY fliers circulating in #LincolnSquare against developing Leland/Western lot use same language, images as this anti-Ald. For example, the board of the nearby DANK Haus German cultural center, one of the last remaining ties to the era when the neighborhood was predominantly German-American, sent an email to its supporters asking them to 'Save Our Parking.' However, many residents are still worried about the impact of eliminating the parking lot on local businesses and several street festivals that use the space. The developer's previous proposal, which wasn't awarded Low Income Tax Credits by the city, called for virtually all of the surface lot parking spots to be replaced with garage parking. Since the location is right across the street from the Western Brown Line station and served by three CTA bus lines, and a short walk from plentiful job, education, and recreational opportunities, it's an ideal location for equitable transit-oriented development.

The plan also calls for ground-floor restaurant or retail space with a large outdoor seating area along Leland. Nonprofit developer The Community Builders currently has an informal proposal for a 51-unit, five-story, mixed-income development with studios and one-bedroom apartments affordable to households making $60,000 two-bedrooms affordable to households earning $75,000 and apartments specifically intended for artists. But there's also a disturbing undercurrent of bigotry to some of the pushback, which I'll discuss further below. In fairness there are some legitimate reasons residents might be worried about the lot being occupied by a new building, although it shouldn't be hard to address those concerns. Maybe I went a little overboard on the snark in last week's article about opposition to redeveloping the city-owned parking lots at the northeast corner of Leland and Western avenues in Lincoln Square into affordable housing, with a reference to 'parking Karens' in the headline.

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