Lincoln Central Ass'n v. Zoning Board of Appeals

Roosevelt Memorial Hospital desired to construct a five-story addition on adjoining land, and a three-level parking facility on a lot across the street from the hospital. The hospital is located on the northeast comer of Wisconsin and Hudson Streets, Chicago, in a residential district zoned R-5. Hospitals are a permitted use in an R-5 residential district but the floor area ratio in such districts is limited to 2.2. The ratio in Roosevelt’s present building is 4.8. This has been permitted as a legal nonconforming use since the building antedated the 1957 ordinance which zoned the area R-5.

The…