With a 26-story hotel planned blocks from the Obama Presidential Center site, housing activists are calling on city leaders to prioritize a long-delayed slate of housing protections for residents near the center before advancing any hotel plans.

More than 50 members of the Obama CBA Coalition rallied Tuesday on the vacant lot at 6402-6420 S. Stony Island Ave. in Woodlawn, where developer Aquinnah Investment Trust is looking to build a 250-room hotel . CBA stands for community benefits agreement.

The rezoning application for the hotel, which was submitted last month, comes as the South Shore Housing Preservation ordinance proposal remains stalled in the City Council’s housing committee 18 months after its introduction.

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