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Pete Pointner's Blog

Pete Pointner FAICP, ALA, ITE is publishing a new blog. A wealth of material for planners.

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NEED A SPEAKER ON SOME ASPECT OF URBAN PLANNING AND DESIGN?

Pete Pointner FAICP, ALA, ITE selects from over 7,000 catalogued images, and builds from his more than 50 years of experience, to illustrate the principles of environmentally based urban planning and context sensitive urban design. He prepares his presentations to fit the unique interests, needs and experience of his audience. 

He has made presentations at national, state and regional conferences for the American Institute of Architects, the Institute of Transportation Engineers, American Planning Association, APWA, civic, environmental and educational groups. 

 He has conducted training workshops for 31 units of government since the year 2,000 and multiple workshops for 7 of those communities. Among the major topics he can address, with practical examples of their application are:


  • The Roles, Authority and Responsibilities of the Plan Commission & ZBA
  • Creating or Updating a Comprehensive Plan for your Community, County or Region
  • Updating a Zoning Ordinance and/or Subdivision Ordinance
  • Downtown Revitalization
  • Historic Preservation and neighborhood revitalization
  • Public Involvement and Public Hearings, Chaos or Consensus
  • Reviewing a Development Plan and Defensible Design Review
  • Facilitating the Development Review Process
  • Linking Global Environmental Issues and Local Government Action
  • Planning Concepts such as Smart Growth, Green Infrastructure, Low Impact Design, Complete Streets and Planning a Functional Transportation System
  • Preserving Rural Landscapes
  • Industrial and Commercial Area Revitalization
  • Revitalizing Arterial Corridors and Strip Commercial Development
  • Biblical Values in Planning
  • Rebuilding Urban Roadways for Land Use Compatibility

If interested, contact Pete at peteandei@att.net or 630-222-2424.



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Funeral Streetcar



Before the automobile one of the ways you could travel toward your final resting place was by public transit.  Dedicated funeral cars were added to the streetcar systems. 

The funeral streetcar in Chicago conveniently went to the 111th St cemeteries in my old south side neighborhood, Mount Greenwood. The famous "Seven Holy Tombs" from John Powers novels are about Mount Greenwood, including "The Last Catholic in America" and "Do Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up".

According to Roy G. Benedict, "the Chicago funeral streetcars were built in 1910 by the G. C. Kuhlman Car Co. for the Calumet & South Chicago Railway Co. (C&SC) as numbers 1-2. The potential traffic was funerals originating in the C&SC territory -- South Chicago and the East Side, West Pullman, Roseland, etc. -- for burials at the cemeteries along 111th Street in the Mt. Greenwood district. 

A track connection was made across the Rock Island main line at Washington Heights (103rd Street) to create a reasonable routing. The Chicago Surface Lines renumbered the cars Y301-Y302 but soon converted them to passenger cars 2857-2858. Once the streets were paved, motorized corteges became practicable. They had been funeral cars for less than ten years. As passenger cars they lasted more than another twenty years."



"Another city that did a brisk business in funeral trains was Chicago, where the ‘L’ took mourners accompanying caskets to cemetery station stops in specially designed funeral cars at a rate that reached 22 trips per week in 1907, according to a fascinating investigation by WBEZ. "


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Gökotta - Birdsong Videos



G̦kotta' (approximately pronounced 'djuh-koo-ta' Рsit on the T for half a second). It's a Swedish word meaning 'the act of getting up early specifically to go outside and listen to birdsong'.

Video of Gokotta in our neighborhood
https://photos.app.goo.gl/om1otqk5Th8Sk287A

Pronounce [zyohh-koh-tah], Gokotta is a Swedish word that describes the act of rising early just to go outside and hear the birds sing!
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