Ald. Gilbert Villegas (36), the council's new zoning chair, is pictured at a City Council meeting on April 15, 2026. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

The City Council Committee on Zoning, Landmarks and Building Standards on Wednesday will convene for the first time in nearly three months after Ald. Gilbert Villegas (36) became the zoning chair in April, ending a monthslong pause in business. 

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The committee now must catch up on scores of items that have piled up, and Villegas has said items introduced in April will be saved for a second meeting on May 19. The committee will meet at 10 a.m. in council chambers. 

The zoning committee will consider a proposed landmark designation (O2026-0023266) for the building at 30 N. LaSalle St. in the 34th Ward, where Golub and Co. and American General Life Insurance are planning to turn floors 3-18 of the site’s 1975 high-rise into 349 units of housing on floors 3-10 and 12-18, including 105 units of affordable housing, and a community terrace on the 11th floor.  

It’s one of six adaptive reuse proposals in the LaSalle corridor area being supported by the city. The City Council approved $57 million in tax increment financing (TIF) funds from the LaSalle Central TIF District to support the 30 N. LaSalle St. project in January. 

Later in the zoning meeting, the committee will consider a separate item (O2023-0006454) that would rezone the site from a planned development to a DC-16 Downtown Core District to accommodate the housing project. 

The committee will consider a proposed rezoning and planned development designation for the property at 1338 W. Lake St. in the 27th Ward, where the developer, CEDARst Companies, plans to build a 33-story building with 321 residential units — 65 of which would be affordable — 7,800 square feet of retail space and 191 parking spots.  

CEDARst Companies is seeking to have the property rezoned from an M2-3 Light Industry District to a DX-10 Downtown Mixed-Use District and then to a Residential-Business Planned Development in order to accommodate the $155 million project. The proposal was approved by the Chicago Plan Commission in February.

Alderpeople will also consider a proposed rezoning (O2026-0024001) for the properties at 4325-4341 S. Halsted St. in the 11th Ward from an RS-1 Residential Single-Unit (Detached House) District to a B2-1 Neighborhood Mixed-Use District. The developer, Danny’s Construction Group, plans to construct eight detached single-family homes on the land. 

The committee will also consider a proposed rezoning (O2026-0024009) of the property at 500-534 W. 47th St. in the 15th Ward, where Kasper Development is planning to construct 14 single-family homes. Developers are seeking for the site to be rezoned from a B1-1 Neighborhood Shopping District to a B2-2 Neighborhood Mixed-Use District. 

The zoning committee will consider a rezoning for the property at 3425 N. Lawndale Ave. in the 30th Ward from an RS-3 Residential Single Unit (Detached House) District to an RM-4.5 Residential Multi-Unit District (O2026-0022513) to accommodate the renovation of a school building into a 28-unit residential apartment building. 

Alderpeople will consider a proposed rezoning (O2026-0023213) for a piece of land that includes 3251-3263 W. Division St. and 1149-1159 N. Spaulding Ave. in the 26th Ward, where the Hispanic Housing Development Corporation plans to erect a six-story, 44-unit residential building. 

The developer wants to rezone the site from a B1-1 Neighborhood Shopping District to a B2-3 Neighborhood Mixed-Use District.

The zoning committee will also consider a proposed rezoning (O2026-0023280) of a site in the 33rd Ward located at 3240 W. Lawrence Ave. The developer, a firm owned by AM Realty Management, wants the site rezoned from a B1-2 Neighborhood Shopping District to a B2-5 Neighborhood Mixed-Use District in order to accommodate an adaptive reuse of an existing five-story building into a mixed-use development with ground-floor retail space, one ground-level residential unit and 25 additional units of housing on the above floors.

The committee will also consider a proposed rezoning of the site at 526 N. Western Ave. in the 36th Ward from a C1-2 Neighborhood Commercial District to a C1-3 Neighborhood Commercial District (O2026-0023984). The developer, a firm owned by Panoptic Group, plans to build a five-story mixed-use development with ground-floor commercial space and off-street parking and nine housing units on the above floors. 

The zoning committee will consider a proposed rezoning for the site 2137-2147 W. Irving Park Rd. in the 47th Ward (O2026-0023968) from a B1-1 Neighborhood Shopping District and B3-1 Community Shopping District to a B3-3 Community Shopping District. 

If rezoned, developer Barrett Homes will construct a mixed-use building on the site that will include ground-floor retail space and 24 units of housing.

Alderpeople will also consider a proposed rezoning for a property in the 32nd Ward located at 1704 N. Milwaukee Ave. (O2026-0022491). Real estate developer Bill Senne is asking for the site to be rezoned from a C1-2 Neighborhood Commercial District to a C1-5 Neighborhood Commercial District in order to accommodate a planned seven-story mixed-use development that would contain ground-floor commercial space, garage parking on floors two and three and 60 housing units on floors three through seven. 

The committee will also consider a proposed rezoning and planned development designation (O2026-0023096) for the property located at 1415 N. Dayton St., 821 W. Eastman St., 811 W. Evergreen Ave., and 1415 N. Kingsbury St. in the 27th Ward. Honore Properties and Peerless Development plan to build a 28-story residential tower at the site, which would have 340 units, of which 68 would be affordable. 

The plan commission approved the project at its March meeting, and the City Council in March also approved a Low Affordability Community designation (O2026-0023349) for the property, allowing the $102.8 million project to take advantage of property tax breaks for up to 30 years by maintaining affordable housing there. 

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Developers are asking to rezone the site from a C3-5 Commercial, Manufacturing and Employment District and B2-5 Neighborhood Mixed-Use District to a C2-5 Motor Vehicle-Related Commercial District and then to a Residential-Business Planned Development. 

The planned development would be split into four subareas, and Subarea A would contain the 340-unit building.

The zoning committee will also consider approval of a proposed Residential-Business Planned Development sought by Domus Real Estate Group for the property at 215 N. Racine Ave. in the 27th Ward (O2025-0016791).  

Domus plans to construct a 29-story, 347-dwelling unit mixed-use building on the site and has asked the city to rezone the site from a DX-5 Downtown Mixed-Use District to a DX-16 Downtown Mixed-Use District — a zoning designation typically limited to the downtown core — and then designating the site a Residential-Business Planned Development to accommodate the $160 million project.

The plan commission approved the project in February, shirking a recommendation from the Department of Planning and Development to reject it. The department had noted at the meeting, despite its objection on the basis of the permissive designation and higher-than-typical floor area ratio, that the building’s proposed height is about average for the area it sits in, as are the number of planned units.  

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Alderpeople will consider a proposed rezoning for the property at 1201-1219 W. Kinzie St. and 366-372 N. Racine Ave. in the 27th Ward (O2025-0020118) from an M2-3 Light Industry District to a DX-5 Downtown Mixed-Use District. Developer LG Group is planning to construct a $25 million, five-story residential building with 66 units, including 10 affordable units. The project was approved at the March plan commission meeting. 

Finally, the committee will consider a rezoning for the property located at 6151-6159 S. University Ave. and 1144-1160 E. 62nd St. in the 20th Ward, where the Woodlawn Baptist Church has applied to build a six-story, 46-unit affordable housing complex for senior residents. The church owns the land, which would be rezoned from an RM-5 Residential Multi-Unit District to an RM-6 Residential Multi-Unit District (O2026-0022492).