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2022 Wis. L. Rev. Forward 1 (2022)

handle is hein.journals/wlron2022 and id is 1 raw text is: PARKING METERS: A ROADBLOCK IN CHICAGO'S ABILITY TO TRANSFORM ITS STREETS BRADLEY L. PELTIN* Introduction ..................................................................... 1 I. The Parking Agreement .............................................. 2 A . Background ......................................................... 2 B . The Contract ....................................................... 4 C. Costly in Operation............................................... 4 D. Implications for Future Transportation Projects................ 6 II. Sharing the Streets: Non-Transportation Uses of City streets.... 6 A. 20' Century Street Design ...................................... 7 B. A Global Pandemic Spurs the Reimagination of City Streets ........................................................... ... 8 C. Spatial Reimagination in Practice in American Cities ........10 III. Complete Streets: The Expansion of Non-Car-Based Transport.................................................................13 A. Complete Streets Chicago: An Overview....................13 B . D esign Guidance ................................................... 14 C. Complete Streets and On-Street Parking ........................15 D. Chicago's Complete Streets in Progress ........................17 Conclusion .......................................................................17 Appendix .........................................................................18 INTRODUCTION The public safety need for social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic spurred the City of Chicago to begin reimagining its public right of way.' One program of particular success was the City's Make Way for Dining program initiated in the summer of 2020.2 This program created temporary outdoor Caf6 Streets and pedestrianized roadways for dining and shopping [FIG. 1] to support a reeling restaurant industry due to forced closures and prohibitions on indoor dining.3 The City's plan to help revive the local economy did come at a cost, however, *J.D. University of Iowa College of Law; B.A. Political Science and History, University of Wisconsin. Special thanks to Professor Gregory H. Shill. 1 John Greenfield, Chicago's Cafe Streets Have Been Hugely Successful. Let's Make Them Permanent, STREETSBLOG CHI. (Sept. 1, 2020), https://chi. streetsblog .org/2020/09/01/chicagos-cafe-streets-have-been-hugely- successful-lets-make-them-permanent/. 2Id. 3id.

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