Panel again fails to act on three-unrelated rule
Barrier to affordable housing or tool for neighborhood preservation? The debate goes on.
Peter Isaac.
The Zoning Committee of Evanston’s Plan Commission again debated but took no action Wednesday evening on a staff proposal to eliminate the city’s ban on more than three unrelated people occupying a dwelling unit.
The long-standing ban in the city’s zoning code has been attacked as a barrier to affordable housing and as discrimination targeted at college students.
But some residents living close to the university see it as a bulwark against having more owner-occupied single-family homes on their blocks converted to rentals owned by absentee landlords.