Winnemac Area

The West Ravenswood Corridor Greenway Metra North Line Improvements

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The green space between Winona Street and Winnemac Avenue has been cared for by a group of neighbors
who live on the west side of Ravenswood Avenue. Over the years they have made many improvements to this
landscape and continue to maintain it.
Safety Fence
The narrowing of Ravenswood to a one-way street will make traffic flow friendlier and increase the amount (on RR property line)

of green space available for community landscaping. The new green space will also appear as a larger and more
continuous parkway due to the landscape improvements planned between Winona and Foster. The need for
a continuous high retaining wall will be avoided through use of lower, plantable landscape walls to handle the
soil slopes, producing a tiered, garden-like effect. The tiered walls will also allow for the preservation of some Landscape Wall

of the larger existing trees.

This plan also includes converting the head-in parking just north of Winnemac to parallel parking to further
increase the amount of community green space.

Green Space Width of Existing Green Space

New and wider

landscape plantings
Landscape “bump-out”
WINONA STREET

for traffic calming and

stormwater mitigation

Area Facts Cross Section

Foster to Winnemac Existing Anticipated
Safety Fence
Parking on east side of street 68 spaces 53 spaces (approximately) Safety Fence
Green Space
Community Green Space 14,358 square feet 21,909 square feet (+53%)
Green Space Landscape Wall
Natural Drainage Area none 3 areas New Train Track
Existing Train Track
Traffic Flow Traffic Flow

RR Property Line RR Property Line

Landscape Wall
Parallel Parking Parallel Parking Parallel Parking Parallel Parking