Northwest Highway Industrial Corridor Designation October 12, 2012.

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October 12, 2012October 12, 2012

Northwest Highway Industrial Corridor Designation

Chicago Sustainable Industries

(CSI)

Introduction


Manufacturing Land Use Planning and Zoning recommendations:

• Industrial Corridor Boundaries

• Additional Industrial Corridors

• Zoning text amendments

• Municipal Manufacturing Data

• Corridor Plans


What is an Industrial Corridor?

• “Any area that has been designated as a priority area for industrial development and/or retention in a plan approved by the Chicago Plan Commission or City Council”

• “A concentration of industrial and manufacturing companies and/or properties with compatible uses that foster the manufacturing and industrial activity”

• There are currently 24 with approximately 2,700 active industrial/manufacturing companies.


Why is the City designating a new industrial corridor?

• "To protect industrial/manufacturing land from non-industrial/manufacturing zoning changes”


Current land in the City zoned for industrial uses: approx. 18%.

Zoning Districts Area (Acreage) % of City area

Business "B" 9425.11 6.4%

Commercial "C" 4307.80 2.9%

Downtown "D" 1620.03 1.1%

Manufacturing "M" 17020.01 11.5%

Airports PDs 7259.70 4.9%

Planned Developments "PDs" 11409.38 7.7%

Planned Manufacturing Districts "PMDs" 9454.19 6.4%

Parks and Open Space "POS" 10851.42 7.3%

Residential "R" 76775.08 51.8%

Transportation "T" 38.28 0.03%

148,161.00


How can the City enforce this policy?

• Any non-manufacturing zoning change (AKA Industrial Corridor Zoning Map Amendment) will be reviewed & recommended by the Chicago Plan Commission and finally approved by the City Council.


What will happen to other properties that are

not zoned M or PMD?

• If a property has been selected to be part of the corridor and has a non-manufacturing zoning, the parcel zoning will remain as a legal non-conforming use

• Properties located in the corridor were selected based on their current industrial/manufacturing uses and other compatible uses where appropriate

i.e. Commercial properties might be located as well inside the corridor to buffer the residential area


Northwest Highway Industrial Corridor

Description

• Size: 143 acres • Length: 3.4 miles• Companies: 43• Jobs: 756 (Source

MNI 2012)


Northwest Highway General Boundary

• South: Intersection of Northwest Highway and Milwaukee Ave. (5490 N)

• North: Oliphant Ave (6640 N)

• East and West: Northwest Highway and Avondale


Existing Zoning

Zoning Districts % of Industrial Corridor

Business "B" 4.4%

Commercial "C" 13.3%

Manufacturing "M" 76.5%

Residential "R" 5.8%

Transportation "T" 0.0%


Questions/Comments?

Luis M. Monterrubio, HED

Bureau of Planning and Zoning

Planning and Urban Design Division

[email protected]

(312) 744-4162

mailto:[email protected]

Northwest Highway Industrial Corridor Designation October 12, 2012.

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