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The three parcels would be built to 72, 69 and 62 stories.
Despite the dramatic change the developments would deliver, the Department of City Planning has decided that the proposals do not need to go through the full Uniform Land-Use Review Procedure.
Some residents are concerned that they amount of affordable housing will make it hard for businesses to find the customers they need. Others want city-owned land handed to local farmers, not developers.
‘You knew it had become a full-blown issue when Mayor de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo began sniping at one another through the press over whose fault it all was.’
The Brooklyn Democrat discusses displacement and development in Bushwick, the community process he helped launch to plan for the neighborhood’s future and the questions all New Yorkers should be asking of their councilmembers.
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