Small business groups push for protections from Lurie's upzoning (and displacement)

Small business groups push for protections from Lurie's upzoning (and displacement)

Small business advocates Thursday presented a list of proposals that might slow the displacement of neighborhood shops and restaurants under the massive-scale upzoning the city is preparing for the West Side of town. Small Business Forward and the Race and Equity in All Planning Coalition told commissioners that allowing speculators to demolish buildings on commercial corridors would threaten hundreds of community-serving businesses, including s…