Here's a financial tool that is new and that the federal government just rolled out that we need to exploit or try and understand to really find a pathway forward to implement." It creates a dialogue and a movement that then allows you to then codify and capture that into the document. [...] The hardest part to have that conversation about the implementation, because they'll come up to me and say, "Well, when is it going to happen? We're suffering now." When I go to the hospital, The Roseland Hospital, and it's a safety-net hospital, and I meet, when I talk with some of the parents, or we do stakeholder interviews with some of the residents, and they're saying, "Well, that's great, bu. [...] We want to understand comprehensively the impact zoning is having, and then be able to make recommendations to change it to have a more equitable impact across the city and on residents, and then really understand if zoning isn't the thing that's causing the problem, what is the thing that's causing the problem, so that we can also change those policies and practices too. [...] Again, it comes back to really respect, and how are you respecting the time, and the input, and the energy that people are putting into the plan, and how the city moving that forward. [...] Coming out of this work, there's a update to the Calumet Design Guidelines and the Calumet Land Use Plan that Department of Planning development is going to be leading, that MPC is going to be supporting along with the Southeast Environmental Task Force, The Alliance for the Great Lakes, Friends of the Chicago River, and then also The Calumet Collaborative.
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