The timing of the City Comprehensive Plan coincided with the community’s 200-year anniversary, a significant milestone that brought an increased level of attention and optimism to the planning process. As a steady-growth community, one of its most significant challenges was identifying ways to promote reinvestment in the City’s interior and historic neighborhoods. As part of the comprehensive housing and neighborhoods strategy, KKC pulled-in case study research from the region as well as its own reconnaissance efforts to identify practical solutions to vacancy and blight, such as scattered lot programs, loan and financing options, and small-scale neighborhood investments.

Special Recognition: This project was awarded the Illinois Chapter APA Daniel Burnham Award, 2014.
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