Politics & Government
Sid's Plan To Improve and Redevelop Stony Island Avenue
Especially if the Obama Center Is Built in Jackson Park ... Here is Sid's Plan For Redeveloping Stony Island Avenue and Other Streets Nearby

Sid's Redevelopment outline: If the Obama Center winds up where it has been proposed in the Jackson Park site:
1. The City should have a redevelopment plan for all of the west side of Stony Island Avenue that borders on Jackson Park
2. The current residents of low-story housing on Stony Island should be moved, for free, and have free rent for at least six months in multi-use / multi-function new buildings that go up in phases on that part of Stony Island. Other new residents can pay market-rates; the law that mandates 25% of apartments in some new buildings need to go to low-income residents, needs to be applied. As one building is finished (retail on the bottom and apartments on the top, for some buildings), residents of the (Leon Finney, e.g.?? ... and other) low-rise apartments-on-Stony-Island should be offered free/paid moving, free-rent for six months, and especially low rents indefinitely in exchange for their current low-apartments being demolished ... and replaced by buildings that will generate FAR MORE JOBS than the current array of buildings-etc on Stony Island. Some of the new buildings can just be small shopping centers. About 100 times the current amount of trees and landscaping needs to be added to the west side of Stony Island Avenue, as well!
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3. A not-dissimilar plan to re-do 63rd Street and perhaps 61st Street can happen simultaneously ... and any streets for example in South Shore that need similar development.
This is: "SID'S PLAN [FOR STONY ISLAND AVENUE AND FOR 63RD STREET; AND FOR OTHER STREETS AND COMMUNITIES THAT BORDER ON JACKSON PARK]"
Note that I want people to think of all this as a by-common-sense-and-human-rights-plan (and not simply bequeathed by wealthy people as a benefit to needy south siders) plan for South Side Chicagoans for the same economic opportunities and development and jobs that exist for those living in the wealthy parts of the city downtown and on the near north side -- as is also one of the themes of our Mayor Lightfoot recently!
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Thanks!
Sid