Modernizing Chicago: Eliminating the Clybourn Corridor’s Restrictive Planned Manufacturing District Zoning Regulations
Journal: eYLS (Yale Law School)
Year: 2017

In Chicago, the resolution of the fervent debate surrounding a certain land-use restriction known as the planned manufacturing district (“PMD”) zoning designation will have a direct impact on Chicago’s future. PMDs protect industrial operations by preventing all residential and many commercial uses of land in certain areas of the city. In 1988, Chicago began implementing PMDs to protect industrial operations that an influx of residential development—which had forced industrial companies to consi