Residential
Commercial
Manufacturing
Planned development
Parks and open space

Source: 2nd City Zoning

Industrial
Manufacturing
Residential: Multi-family
Residential: Single-family
Retail center
Single office
Urban mix w/ parking
Urban mix w/o parking
Warehouse district
Other
All land use classifications (PDF)

Source: Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning, 2005

Parks
Schools
Libraries

Source: City of Chicago

TIF Districts
Special Service Areas

Source: City of Chicago, 2013

Low High
Estimated potential growth (based on current FAR vs. maximum allowed FAR)

Source: City of Chicago, 2013; current FAR and potential growth are MPC calculations

Adjacent to rail station
Parking ↓ and density ↑
Parking ↓ only

Adjacent to BRT station*
Parking ↓ and density ↑
Parking ↓ only

* BRT stations are not currently included in proposed ordinance, although MPC is suggesting that they should be.

Source: MPC calculations based on City of Chicago's proposed TOD ordinance

No leakage –$32 m
Total retail gap—Where numbers are negative, local residents are spending their incomes outside the immediate area.

Source: ESRI and Info USA, 2007. Note: Based on 2000 Census tracts.

City-owned vacant parcels

Source: City of Chicago, 2012

1,300 7,000

Source: 2010 U.S. Census

$11,000 $130,000

2013 LIHTC QCTs

Source: 2010 U.S. Census, U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development

1% 8%

Source: 2010 U.S. Census