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Key Facts about the Project
Key Facts about the Project
Project Overview
Project Overview
"The proposed development plan includes an approximately 144,700-square-foot ambulatory care center with 358 off-street parking spaces provided in an on-site parking structure integrated with the building.
Two access drives will serve the proposed building. One access drive will provide both ingress and egress via Kilbourn Avenue at a point approximately 145 feet south of Irving Park Road. An egress-only access drive is proposed to the public alley, which will be extended east from its current terminus to complete a connection between Kilbourn Avenue and Kenneth Avenue. The public alley extension will be dedicated to the City of Chicago.
At the Kilbourn Avenue Access, exiting movements will be physically oriented and signed as “Right Turn Only” to direct traffic north to Irving Park Road and avoid traffic from traveling south through the adjacent neighborhood.
Traffic headed east and south from the site will be directed, through use of internal wayfinding signs within the parking garage, to the alley access where exiting movements will be restricted to left-turns only, sending traffic east to Kenneth Avenue and north to Irving Park Road east of the site.
The proposed four-story ambulatory care center will provide pedestrian access at Irving Park Road near the middle of the site.
The subject site was previously occupied by a mix of uses, including a restaurant, funeral home, apartments, and a surface parking lot with access driveways located on Kilbourn Avenue, Kenneth Avenue, and Irving Park Road."
While we are excited for new investment in our community, it is especially important for a project of this scale that Northwestern Medical hears and acts upon feedback from the neighbors to ensure a beneficial project for everyone for decades to come.
As planned, the scale of the development would likely funnel a 4,500 new vehicle trips each day* off of Irving Park Road and onto the residential streets around the proposed Northwestern facility and will reshape our neighborhood. The proposal asks for multiple levels of upzoning, including converting residential zoning.
Northwestern is requesting to upzone these properties to move from B3-1 (storefront + upstairs apartments) and RS-2 (residential), to B3-3.
NWM needs to prove that this upzoning is viable in this location.
Key impacts as proposed will include:
Key impacts as proposed will include:
Adding a full-scale 350+ space parking garage entrance/exit onto residential streets adjacent to housing on Kilbourn and Kenneth
Adding a new traffic light on Irving Park Road at the south leg of Kilbourn
Preventing residents of the 4000 block of Kilbourn from turning left onto their block from eastbound Irving Park Road
Preventing left turns onto Irving Park road from northbound 3900 block of Kenneth
Converting a residential alley directly adjacent to homes into a street for deliveries/waste and parking flow with extension over a residentially zoned lot
Elimination of an undisclosed number of nearby parking spaces around the facility
*According to the Traffic Impact Study conducted by Kimley-Horn, prepared for Northwestern Memorial HealthCare dated January 2021, data is based on the Institute of Transportation Engineers Trip Generation, Tenth Edition for the identified Land Use Codes (LUCs). In accordance with the study, an assumed 10 percent non-auto mode share deduction has been applied.
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