When Sex Work and Art Work Collide the Kinksters, the Queers, and the Artists Who Live in Both Worlds by S N L 14
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High-rise, The site is a ten-minute walk from the Addison Red Line station, and a fi ve-minute walk from express buses on Inner Lake Shore Drive. high anxiety The eight-story steel-and-glass building would include 246 apartments, a mix of stu- Lakeview residents fear the dios, one-, two-, and three-bedroom units, transit-oriented development with 107 car parking spaces and 129 bicycle replacing the shuttered Treasure spots. It’s geared toward relatively wealthy Island supermarket will create Chicagoans, with rents ranging from $1,500 a parking crunch. Here’s why to $5,000, and amenities like a rooftop pool they’re wrong. deck, basketball courts, and a dog park. But, as mandated by Chicago’s current A ordable By JG Requirements Ordinance, Optima would also The eight-story steel-and-glass building would include 246 apartments, include 13 on-site affordable units, and pay with 107 car parking spaces and 129 bicycle spots. OPTIMAINC $1.5 million into the city’s fund to build low-in- come housing elsewhere. understand the TOD initiative—the city is try- there will only be 0.17 car spaces used per unit, ast week at the UN’s Climate Action Optima is seeking a zoning variance from ing to get more people on transit. Our feeling or about 42 spots,” Haas says. “So I think [107 Summit, 16-year-old activist Greta the current B3-2 designation, which permits a is that if we can get the height down, there spaces] is plenty of parking, if not too much.” Thunberg had a stern warning about fi ve-story structure, to allow for the additional will be fewer concerns about parking and Audrey Wennink, transportation director global warming for world leaders height. Alderman Tom Tunney (44th) would congestion.” However, he says he’s talked with for the Chicago-based Metropolitan Planning and, by extension, city politicians and have to sign o on the change. many other neighbors for whom parking is the Council, who lives just down the street from Ladults in general: “The eyes of all future gener- While the city typically requires a 1:1 ratio primary worry. the site, agrees. “When people move into a ations are upon you. And if you choose to fail of car spots to apartments, because the super- One of them is Rhoda Bernstein, 68, a retiree unit they will do so knowing there is limited us, I say: We will never forgive you.” market site is located a half mile from the el, who has lived for 41 years in a 1950s town- parking available.” She noted that TOD build- One of the simplest things individuals can and this stretch of Broadway is a Pedestrian house just east of Treasure Island on Stratford ings typically have clauses in the lease that do to fi ght climate change is drive less, or not Street, the developer probably wouldn’t have Place. She says it’s already difficult to find prevent tenants from obtaining residential at all. That’s relatively easy in much of Chica- been required to include any car parking at all. street parking near her home, so she rents a street parking permits. go, where there are a wealth of alternatives to So arguably 107 spaces is too many for such a spot at the 555 Cornelia building, a 21-story Wennink added that, in addition to the private car ownership: walking, biking, Divvy, transit-friendly location, surrounded by walk- condo tower half a block east of the proposed Red Line and LSD express buses, the building e-scooters, CTA, Metra, Zipcar, taxis, and ride able retail, including a Jewel-Osco one block eight-story complex. would be near the Addison bus line, and right hailing. It’s especially convenient to live “car north. But some neighbors are griping that the “The developer thinks it’s going to be fi lled on the Broadway route. There’s a Divvy station lite” or car free if you live near a train station proposal doesn’t include enough car spots. with millennials who don’t drive, but I know just north of the property, and Optima plans or express bus service. The opposition group Balance on Broadway, plenty of millennials—my friends’ children to install a TransitScreen display in the lobby Recently the City Council took an im- launched this summer, says it has collected and grandchildren—who drive all over the city with CTA bus and train arrival times. All of portant step to address global warming by over 1,250 signatures against the proposal. all of the time,” Bernstein says. “They’re going that would incentivize car-free living. encouraging transit use and discouraging Quotes from neighbors listed on the website to be parking all over the neighborhood, which Optima declined to comment. Sta from the driving. Aldermen passed a transit-oriented include “Too tall, not enough parking, too is already packed.” 44th Ward and the 46th Ward o ces (located development ordinance that allows additional dense,” and “Not only does it eliminate what She argues this would create