Carlos Ramirez-Rosa

Most of the area of the 35th Ward that the Slow Street would pass through is majority-Latinx and has been hard hit by COVID-19. "This makes bilingual outreach critical."

Logan Square Neighbors for Responsible Development failed to block the project through the community input process, so now they've gone nuclear with a nuisance lawsuit.

Both transportation-related initiatives are designed to fight housing displacement in the gentrifying Near Northwest Side.

Alderman Carlos Ramirez-Rosa said that after taking input from over a thousand residents, he's recommending the project to the zoning committee.

Local alderman Carlo Ramirez-Rosa, Bickerdike Redevelopment, and the Metropolitan Planning council say that several of the claims on the handbill are spurious.

The group opposing the project says they want an RFP process and changes to the design. The local alderman says they're actually opposed to the 100 units of affordable housing.

Candidates proposed reduced fares for low-income residents, bringing back cancelled bus routes, launching BRT, encouraging more TOD, and building protected bike lanes.

By choosing to build up instead of out, the MiCA developer created towers that are too tall for their context, which increases opposition to dense development.

The city's project to redesign Milwaukee Avenue from Logan Boulevard to Belmont has primarily focused on the complicated issues that surround the six-way intersection and traffic circle at Milwaukee, Logan, and Kedzie, the namesake of the Logan Square neighborhood. Last night's hearing on the initiative was similarly focused on the juction, as five of the eight design presentation boards and all of the tables set up with plans laid out upon them featured the four new Logan Square layout concepts. That made sense, because anyone that you talked to at the meeting immediately offered up their opinion about the intersection, although people still had some thoughts to share about the rest of Milwaukee.