Navigating Excellence in Preserving Neighborhood Character

Citizens for Appropriate Growth in Evanston is a policy institute dedicated to the study of development-related externalities. Our research examines the cumulative effects of housing production, increased density, and evolving land-use patterns on neighborhood stability metrics, including parking availability, skyline consistency, shadow predictability, and sightline preservation. We are focused specifically on Evanston’s lived and built environment.

Using a multidisciplinary framework grounded in public participation, procedural review, and precautionary analysis, CAGE advocates for a measured approach to change. Of course, the measuring is done by the long-term residents (homeowners) that matter that most. We believe that any proposal with the potential to alter existing conditions should be evaluated through a comprehensive process of study, discussion, study, community feedback, supplemental discussion, and, where appropriate, further study.

We invite you to join us in ensuring that future generations inherit an Evanston that remains, almost entirely and to the greatest extent possible including at the cost of our public school system and small businesses… unchanged.