Two years later: How Envision Evanston got here, and where it's headed next

Two years later: How Envision Evanston got here, and where it's headed next

On Jan. 26, Evanston’s City Council is scheduled to take a major vote on the city’s future: adopting a new comprehensive plan that sets out policies and goals for developing and using the city’s land over next 20 years, a plan developed through the rezoning project dubbed Envision Evanston 2045. The project’s history is fraught with timeline shakeups, intense public discourse and political drama, and it turned zoning into the dominant political …