CITY HALL — The city has cemented a plan to rezone Broadway in Edgewater and Uptown to permit taller, denser buildings and more business types.

The City Council voted Thursday to approve plans to upzone Broadway from Devon to Montrose avenues in Edgewater and Uptown. Upzoning refers to reclassifying an area’s zoning to allow for taller, denser buildings and to permit additional business uses. The changes passed the city’s zoning committee Tuesday.

The goal of the upzoning is to create more housing on a corridor that abuts the Red Line in an area that has seen housing prices spike and gentrification concerns increase, officials who back the plan have said.

A vote on the zoning ordinances was repeatedly postponed amid intense neighborhood debate, which has seen a group of Edgewater neighb

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