From the Chicago Sun Times:"Chicago’s lakefront would become an uninterrupted stretch of parkland with bicycle and walking paths that lead from Indiana to Evanston under a plan unveiled this morning by a park advocacy group.
Currently, Chicago has 26 miles of lakefront parkland but the Friends of the Park wants to see opened to the public a stretch that the group calls “the last four miles:” pockets from the North Side to the South blocked by anything from industrial parks to residential high-rises.
The proposal is the culimination of four years of work, including meetings with residents, architects and engineers, said Erma Tranter, who heads the Friends organization. The cost of the plan, which the group puts between $350 million and $450 million tops the political hurdles to get this done may be tough, Tranter agreed.
But she’s hoping that completing the work in phases, along with federal stimulus dollars, might cover the costs." Continue reading.
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Anyone familiar with this plan...What do they propose for the areas which have buildings at the waters edge? Would they plan to "fill-in" adding shore line or are they seeking to displace residents? How would this work and what's the likelihood of it happening?
According to the Tribune article, they would add more parks through lakefill, sand and stone or concrete sea walls.... also:
"--North of Lincoln Park’s terminus around Ardmore Avenue, it would build 70 to 111 acres of parks and beaches. A basic design calls for a strip of parkland east of Edgewater’s high-rises, extending northward to knit together the small, street-end parks and beaches set amid Rogers Park’s apartment buildings. A more ambitious plan would add peninsulas that would jut into the lake off Edgewater, enclosing lagoons where parkgoers could kayak in calm waters (above). Neither alternative includes a northern extension of Lake Shore Drive, marinas or commercial development."
Not sure on the likelihood of it happening. Its costly, and the majority of residents north along the lake oppose it.
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