Steven

Steven

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Chicago, zoning, ADUs, transportation, maps my blog: http://stevencanplan.com my business: http://chicagocityscape.com BUILD: https://buildforil.org/

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Jeremy Glover
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I kid you not, one woman just out of the blue said to me “isn’t it nice to be in a place where we all like each other?” Obama still reminds many of a time when a certain civility (real or imagined) existed.

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this question is v1 v2 will fix the category wording, add & remove tens of grocery stores, and I’ll ask you to guess which grocery store chain is available in walking distance to more people grouped by housing category

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I'm calculating the walking distance between every Chicago property and its nearest three grocery stores which residential type has the highest proportion of its properties within a 10-minute walk to a grocery store? A. Single-family houses B. Condos C. 2-to-6 flats

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here's a sample of improvements coming in v3, using safety + comfort/stress evaluations the Target is 5m closer than the Trader Joe's, but the walk to TJ's has less walking along busy streets, fewer pedestrian injuries reported, more small businesses to walk past, and fewer gaps between buildings.

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notice that hexagon, that's from the H3 system, which makes this analysis doable on my itty bitty laptop H3 created 120,508 tiles in Cook County, and each one was measured to the 981 grocery stores creating 118.2 million tile-store pairs of those, 351,956 walks were analyzed for comfort + safety

Steven
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this question is v1 v2 will fix the category wording, add & remove tens of grocery stores, and I’ll ask you to guess which grocery store chain is available in walking distance to more people grouped by housing category

Steven@stevevance.net

I'm calculating the walking distance between every Chicago property and its nearest three grocery stores which residential type has the highest proportion of its properties within a 10-minute walk to a grocery store? A. Single-family houses B. Condos C. 2-to-6 flats

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Steven
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that's a neat idea. it looks like the bigger the building the closer it is to a grocery store (in walking distance) and walking times are longest in the South side of Chicago

Star:Line Chicago@starlinechicago.bsky.social

Concept: for each housing classification, an average walk time to the nearest grocery store, and you could even break it up by North/West/South Side

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the above data is from v2, which does not include the stress score because that needs more refinement v2's improvement over v1 was the... - addition of 63 grocery stores - removal of 18 closed grocery stores and businesses that are unlikely grocery stores

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Chicago Cityscape
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this webinar tomorrow is for anyone in Chicago building new construction near CTA and Metra stations

Abundant Housing Illinois@abundanthousingil.bsky.social

POV: you’re building in Chicago and… the TDM rules just changed. Join AHIL + CDOT for a webinar on what they mean for housing design and development. Tue., Oct. 27, 4–5 p.m. on Zoom RSVP: bit.ly/4hRRTm4 Music: “positive idea” by musicpoint, CC BY

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Yonah Freemark
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Chicago has been making strides to accommodate more homes. But zoning changes could accelerate construction. We estimate that reforms legalizing small apartment buildings & enabling high densities near all transit stations could add ~10,000 additional units compared to baseline by 2041.

urban.orgZoning Reforms Could Boost Chicago’s Housing Supply, But Other Investments Are Needed to Ensure Development Benefits All NeighborhoodsNationwide, rising housing costs and a housing shortage are leading policymakers to significantly reform zoning (PDF) to encourage building.At the federal le…
Steven
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this question is v1 v2 will fix the category wording, add & remove tens of grocery stores, and I’ll ask you to guess which grocery store chain is available in walking distance to more people grouped by housing category

Steven@stevevance.net

I'm calculating the walking distance between every Chicago property and its nearest three grocery stores which residential type has the highest proportion of its properties within a 10-minute walk to a grocery store? A. Single-family houses B. Condos C. 2-to-6 flats

Steven
@stevevance.net

I'm calculating the walking distance between every Chicago property and its nearest three grocery stores which residential type has the highest proportion of its properties within a 10-minute walk to a grocery store? A. Single-family houses B. Condos C. 2-to-6 flats

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editing OSM can be fun - it also has a reward in that you help make 1,000s of research projects and economic and socio-spatial studies possible

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another Leipzig City Tunnel photo (these stations look deep but they seem average compared to many metros)

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Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz station The City-Tunnel station whose walls are made of glowing glass blocks. View on Flickr

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I combined all of my stamps at Sushi Plus yesterday: I got: - two $5 off prizes from the stamp card - I got to spin the wheel and get $25 off - I got three gifts (two of the sodas, and the soy sauce)

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This is way better than any rewards I’ve accumulated at a couple of restaurants via Toast and Square

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chigeek.bsky.social
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I’m gonna dress up my dogs for Halloween tomorrow and go to the final “Meet Me on Milwaukee” Avenue in Wicker Park. It’s a car-free pedestrian zone btwn 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. I hope to see you there! Some highlights from last year:

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Owner's unit at 6312 S Champlain Ave The top-floor owner's unit in a new all-electric three-flat at 6312 S Champlain Ave in Woodlawn, with a vaulted ceiling, oak floors and rooftop solar. View on Flickr

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Nikolaisäule at dusk The palm-topped column on Nikolaikirchhof, a replica of the columns inside St. Nicholas Church, honoring the 1989 Peaceful Revolution. View on Flickr

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michaelisms23.bsky.social
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How insane is it that we have essentially a junkyard operating right in the middle of downtown for years now? I'm sure other lots downtown have abandoned cars in them too but this one is especially abominable.

Steven
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TIL that Baltimore has a non-contiguous TIF district, comprising 4,861 properties (at the moment) the increase in property value from rehabbed and sold properties in the TIF district indirectly funds rehabbing the other properties

Steven
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I wonder how many big businesses in Chicago have their AWS/GCP/Azure billing addresses in the city

Steven
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Like, if the personal property lease transaction tax goes up 33% how many businesses will change their billing address?