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The Addison/Lawndale intersection needs a Stop sign to make it better for cars, pedestrians and bikes

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The Addison/Lawndale intersection needs a Stop sign to make it better for cars, pedestrians and bikes

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The intersection of Addison and Lawndale is one of my least favorite as a cyclist, pedestrian AND driver. Because there is no stop sign at this intersection, turning from Addison onto Lawndale (or vice versa) to go home from the highway is a nightmare for me as a driver. Furthermore, as a pedestrian trying to access the Addison Blue Line station, having a Stop sign on Addison and Lawndale would make that walk less treacherous and more safe to do with family

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Where are we addressing efforts to protect our residents, neighbors, and people in the community?  We need more law enforcement, community support, funding, police, creative ideas to reduce crime, reduce homelessness, create a SAFE place people want to live. 

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Where are we addressing efforts to protect our residents, neighbors, and people in the community?  We need more law enforcement, community support, funding, police, creative ideas to reduce crime, reduce homelessness, create a SAFE place people want to live. 

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I'm happy that biking has become safer. The reality though is that the majority of people still drive and taking away traffic lanes without altering traffic patterns or signals creates gridlock congestion for cars and buses. In turn this leads to more aggressive driving and people zig zagging through side streets to bypass the stalled traffic. It literally takes 40 minutes to travel on Belmont from Pulaski to California in the morning.

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Promote biodiversity and improve our local ecosystems by adding native plant gardens to local parks. Once established, native plants require much less water and maintenance. They also attract birds and butterflies. Designing, planting, and maintaining these gardens could be a paid and/or volunteer opportunity for local residents to improve their neighborhood and learn valuable skills.

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Raised Crosswalks and Speed Humps at Stop Signs

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Raised Crosswalks and Speed Humps at Stop Signs

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I've lost count of the number of times I've almost been hit by a driver as I walk through a crosswalk. Adding speed humps at stop signs (rather than/in addition to stop signs in the middle of blocks) would promote coming to an actual stop at crosswalks and increase pedestrian safety. Raised crosswalks painted a different color from the street would have a similar effect and make sidewalks more accessible for people who use wheelchairs or other assistive devices.

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Promote Small Businesses with a Vacancy Tax

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Promote Small Businesses with a Vacancy Tax

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La Farine bakery closed down after the owner of the building raised rents and they no longer could afford their space. That building has sat vacant for years. Implementing a vacancy tax will promote keeping rents affordable so commercial real estate remains well-utilized, and also promotes diversity among the small businesses that operate in our neighborhood.

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Maintain Housing Affordability with a Vacancy Tax

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Maintain Housing Affordability with a Vacancy Tax

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Corporate landlords are pricing Avondale residents out of their own homes by raising rents and letting buildings sit underutilized. Implementing a vacancy tax promotes keeping our neighborhood's housing stock affordable and prevents buildings from going unused.

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Add the vision of consideration of designated Chicago Landmarks and Chicago Landmark Districts to the Avondale Community Plan. This could include both commercial buildings and districts along Milwaukee Avenue and other nearby streets,  as well as residential areas and homes.

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Add the vision of consideration of designated Chicago Landmarks and Chicago Landmark Districts to the Avondale Community Plan. This could include both commercial buildings and districts along Milwaukee Avenue and other nearby streets,  as well as residential areas and homes.

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What can be done to ease morning traffic? There are numerous areas that are close together with absolutely terrible congestion in the morning and evening. It's unacceptable that a 2 mile trip is taking 45 minutes. Some intersections to note: Belmont/Kimball, Milwaukee (specifically by Lorca), Irving Park/Keeler, Addison/ E90/94, Addison/Kilbourn. Longer timed lights to allow traffic to actually pass? Small traffic light by Lorca school? Ticketing and towing cars that disregard no parking signs during rush hour. Please, help!

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A special services area could provide resources for economic development, community care and infrastructure. They are funded by special levy property taxes, and administered by community organizations that contract with the city. From the Chicago.gov website: "SSA-funded projects typically include but are not limited to: public way maintenance and beautification; district marketing and advertising; business retention/attraction, special events and promotional activities; auto and bike transit; security; façade improvements; and other commercial and economic development initiatives."

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Sound walls and dense vegetation barriers can significantly decrease near roadway air pollution. We could start a campaign to advocate for state (or federal) funding.

Also high efficiency filtration in buildings and vehicles can greatly reduce exposure. Public buildings, trains, buses (including school buses) should be fitted with these types of filters. Perhaps also a program to educate the community and help folks get their homes and personal vehicles fitted as well.

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Find places, especially with excess pavement cover, or places prone to flooding, to create rain gardens that promote sustainable water movement.

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There is a ton of development on Rockwell between Belmont and Wellington, in all those industrial buildings, but a huge lack of infrastructure to support a large volume of people moving in and out. The Belmont bus is steps away from this place, but there are no continuous sidewalks, no wayfinding, the parking is limited and a complete mess, there is no bike infrastructure. The dance studio parking lot is always overflowing, people are walking in the street because there's no where else to go, and a new restaurant (thattu) opened this week. We need a vision for this spot!

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Pedestrians will have an easier time walking on our sidewalks in the summer if we add more street trees to provide shade from the heat/sun.

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Each spring/summer, the city cuts down a few more of our mature trees because they are growing into the sewers. There has to be a better solution to this than cutting down trees.

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Green space in new construction/renovations

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Green space in new construction/renovations

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Maybe we could ask people to include trees, permeable surfaces, etc. in new constructions or renovations.

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Recently it seems like our neighborhood has the potential to become a place where you can live only if you're really wealthy OR if you qualify (and get lucky!) for affordable housing. What can be done to ensure that people with middle class salaries (families earning between ~$50k-$150k) will continue being able to afford living here?

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Half of new homes today are built with fossil fuel heating or appliances, locking in that carbon pollution for decades. We need to encourage new construction to be electrification-ready, and make it easy for people to choose electric when renovating existing properties. It’s also important that our local officials educate themselves, and in turn their constituents, about grants and rebates that make electrification affordable.

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Absolutely no reason why any of Avondale should be zoned for single family only. Remove RS-1 Zoning completely and lump it in with RM.

Other cities have done this to great results

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Avondale needs better bike lanes and traffic calming measures. 

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Avondale needs better bike lanes and traffic calming measures. 

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Hello, I am writing to say that Avondale (and really the rest of Chicago) needs better bike lanes. The only good bike lanes are ones that are 7 year old and a 70 year would feel comfortable riding. So protected and separated from cars. Especially on Milwaukee and Diversey.

Also, we need to implement things like pedestrian Saftey islands, protected bike turns at intersections, bump outs, curb extensions, and actual traffic calming. All of these measures have been proven time and again to be effective all over the world.

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I want a focus on what I can access more than how fast I can move. If I can go 10 miles in 30 minutes to go the movies that’s not as helpful as just having a movie theater 10 min walk away

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This looks good

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Love parks. What makes chicago, chicago

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Micromobility makes the community more strong!

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Avondale is a great neighborhood for Transit Oriented Development and would greatly bolster the community

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Adding a crosswalk would help pedestrian traffic to the Aldi, Five below, etc.

People jaywalk to cross currently and it’s dangerous for both pedestrians and drivers.

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Connect TOD with other Plan Recommendations

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Connect TOD with other Plan Recommendations

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Given the neighborhood is densely populated with few vacant lots and little green space, it's important to make the most of every new development if we want to achieve our goals, so having a mechanism to encourage new development to meet other plan goals (like adding tree canopy, increasing green space, permeable surfaces and other green infrastructure, including affordable and workforce housing etc.) would be great! Perhaps we could set aside some of our TIF money for that, or be intentional about providing that feedback in the planning and zoning process.

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Identify and Support Culturally-relevant Communal Spaces

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Identify and Support Culturally-relevant Communal Spaces

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perhaps the plan could include a goal to identify and support communal spaces that appeal to different groups of people (eg. a Polish-speaking church, or a Spanish-speaking cultural institution, or a park building offering services appealing to different groups of people etc.). I'm not sure what form support would take, maybe networking through a monthly coffee meeting for the leaders, or relationship building by ANA so they can connect orgs to outside funding as needs arise? Maybe connection to local service providers so local leaders know how to help their people?

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provide incentives for solar powered homes

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provide incentives for solar powered homes

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existing built structures should require proof of need in order to be demolished

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existing built structures should require proof of need in order to be demolished

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built environments account for a third of our carbon output, and new construction is a large contributor, second to hvac demands. new construction should push the envelope with regards to sustainable practices

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public access to clean drinking water and toilets

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public access to clean drinking water and toilets

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The Neighborhood that built, rebuilt, and repositioned Chicago

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The Neighborhood that built, rebuilt, and repositioned Chicago

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We have the opportunity to showcase how sustainable community building can be to help set the standard for how public space provides for human needs and support

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The "shoulders" of the interstate seem like they'd be a great, already built-in area to plant trees and native plants (and please, if native plants are planted here, don't mow them down!!). Having a robust buffer on either side of the interstate would make a big improvement to the air quality in the neighborhood.

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There are so few parks in Avondale, and it seems like an insurmountable challenge to try to add a new park somewhere. BUT, there are plenty of vacant or unused/unconstructed lots. Maybe one (or a few?) could be acquired by the Park District and turned into little "pocket" parks? The Neighbors Garden Park at Sacramento south of Logan is kind of what I have in mind... https://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/parks-facilities/Neighbors-Garden-Playlot-Park/#Hours

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Neighbors’ Garden Park | Chicago Park District

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Welcome to Neighbors Garden Playlot Park!

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Could bioswales be incorporated into traffic calming measures? This would kill two birds with one stone of strengthening transportation/mobility AND becoming more sustainable/water resilient.

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Our neighborhood plan might end up making the area "look like" a gentrified area. Let's not succumb to being "basic"! (I'm thinking of the phrase, "Shop local or become the suburbs you fled!") Would love to see works of public art, and some way build into the neighborhood plan a way to actively support hyper-local artists who live in Avondale.

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It would be so great for our neighborhood to be a place where active transit and public transit are given equal priority to cars.

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Underpasses need TLC, better pedestrian access, and noise mitigation. Can green infrastructure be added to help absorb some of the noise? The California bus in the morning can be very unreliable. Real time information would be helpful.

Real-time information at bus stops.

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Does the equitable transit oriented development ordinance apply to bus lines? 

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Does the equitable transit oriented development ordinance apply to bus lines? 

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A lot of bus lines intersect/ have stops around Belmont triangle, require an affordable housing element for new projects in that area?

Looking way in the future I would like to see mixed-use, mixed-income development around the blue station with pedestrian oriented street design and bus priority infrastructure.

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We need more sitting space/ shelters throughout the neighborhood ( look at all the bus stops thru out Avondale  ,,below i have attached some ideas. 

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We need more sitting space/ shelters throughout the neighborhood ( look at all the bus stops thru out Avondale  ,,below i have attached some ideas. 

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https://www.reddit.com/r/HostileArchitecture/comments/eqof7j/a_bench_on_which_homeless_people_cant_sleep/

https://www.hiddenhostilitydc.com/types

https://www.silive.com/news/2020/11/try-sitting-on-this-ferry-bench-its-called-hostile-architecture-and-meant-to-deter-the-homeless-commentary.html?outputType=amp

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a bench on which homeless people can't sleep

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962 votes, 49 comments. 134k members in the HostileArchitecture community. **Hostile architecture** is an intentional design strategy that uses ...

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a bench on which homeless people can't sleep from HostileArchitecture

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More community engagement Event for the family's of our   Neighborhood @ parks .. more outdoor space ......

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More community engagement Event for the family's of our   Neighborhood @ parks .. more outdoor space ......

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This is just an example of adding a note. Thank you for sharing your ideas!!