Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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"Our 'not in my backyard' rules place strict limitations on density. They say that buildings can’t be too tall, individual lots can’t be too small and you can’t have multi-unit residential structures in most places. Imagine if we wrote a set of 'yes in my backyard' rules."
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He must have been dropped on his head as a baby. Repeatedly.
I cannot believe this guy still runs Evanston. Assumed they’d have thrown him out by now.
Oh no, the libtards up here practically adore him… anyplace else he’d be an embarrassement, but not here in The People’s Republik of Evanston…
ram it down your throat upper-income elite progressivism Evanston style…..everybody’s had enough, especially middle-class folks trying to hang on to what little they got. As the ‘not in my backyard’ folks Biss refers to is progressive code talk for middle-class humps who the Biss types hate and wish would simply move…..same thing in Chicago
Density is Section 8 high rises on Sheridan Road? DO IT, DO IT NOW!!
LOL he wants ‘more’ density while his downtown vacancy rates are high and when I was there several weeks ago, the streets are nearly empty except for vagrants and bums. And terrorists are camping out on Northwestern’s Campus. And this dummy wants MORE density to fight climate change.
Vagrants and Bums? The city council and pols must of been on lunch break. lol?