When submitting a Wayspot Appeal, make sure to include as much of the following information as possible: Wayspot Title: Little Free library Devon Location (lat/lon): (41.9970045, -87.8192065) City: Chicago Country:USA Screenshot of the Rejection Email (do not include your personal information): Ad…

Thanks for the appeal, @seanpat68 ! We have taken another look but stand by our decision to retire this Wayspot.

[image] seanpat68: 41.9970045, -87.8192065 [image] Is this the little free library? This looks like it is on single family private residential property.

The play survey shows that it belongs to the house with the white fence on the public side of the property line. Number five and six on this public plat survey. https://gisapps.chicago.gov/gisimages/80acres/pdfs/esw364112r.pdf

If you are asking for it to be returned, it is not eligible due to being on SFPRP. You need to annotate an image from the PDF in order to assist anyone with finding this plot on it. Notice the entrance to this plot a little bit to the left, indicating that this triangle of land belongs to the ho…

Looking at that survey and street view (above) and Google maps, that LFL sure looks like it’s in the front yard of the home at 6400 N. Olympia Ave. That’s what I think you meant by “5” and “6”. [image] [image]

Never mind - I found it. [image] The LFL is inside the bottom right-hand corner of the large triangular plot 16.

I think you are off by a block? Still it’s on SFPRP.

You’re right. I very carefully got that wrong. Oddly, the plot layout for the junction of W.Devon and N.Olympia is very misleading, as it shows this single triangular plot is comprised of three plots 5, 6 and 7. This is probably why I moved onto the next junction :wink: None of this stops the LF…

The other link I posted shows that if it’s outside the fence line it is city property which conforms to the guidance that the stop cannot be connect to a fence

Please note that none of us are staff. Only they have the power to decide your appeal. We are just bringing up issues you will need to address. Staff will have user names that begin with “Niantic” here. I personally can’t make heads or tails of that map. I reject anything I see in review with the LF…

If it is outside the property line it is probably on city property. Remarkably there are placed where the grass strip between the sidewalk and the road surface is still private property, which is often when the sidewalk is just for show and not for use. Here, it is inside the property line. Not a…

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nexushoratio July 3, 2026, 11:06pm 14

Likely, after another recent post about an area in Chicago, Help with little free libraries , someone double checked a bunch of nearby ones.

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