As elected officials, community advocates and residents raised questions about the lack of ULURP for the proposed towers, Community Planning Commission members voiced doubts about the accuracy of the city’s environmental reviews.
Antonio Reynoso
Bushwick Community Plan Calls for Changes in Zoning—and in the Process
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The plan calls for the environmental review to include ‘alternate methods for predicting secondary displacement.’
ECONOMY
A Microcosm of the City, in Desperate Need of More Transit
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Household income is rising, but so is the poverty rate, on Staten Island’s North Shore, where a lack of jobs and a dearth of transportation options appear to go hand in hand.
HOUSING and DEVELOPMENT
Public Review of Governor’s Island Rezoning to Begin
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The plan would rezone the southern part of the island for private mixed-use development in the hopes of attracting academic institutions as well as life sciences, media and technology companies.
CEQR
City’s Environmental Review Process Faulted for Ignoring Evidence of Development’s Harm
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‘Despite community groups vocalizing concerns and despite quantifying large numbers of vulnerable residents, recent Environmental Impact Statements have concluded that rezonings will not displace residents at a significant level.’
Development
With Broad Rezoning Moving Slowly, LIC Developers are Pushing for Their Own Changes
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According to residents, developers are not waiting for the city’s study or the possible city-sponsored rezoning and are avoiding the community by going through spot rezonings.
campaign
Rent-Regulation Dominates Cuomo and Nixon’s Competing Housing Policies
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Vacancy decontrol, vacancy bonuses, preferential rents: Where do they stand?
BROOKLYN BUREAU
Brownsville Plan Gains Momentum, Sparks Hope and Anxiety
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The one-year-old Brownsville Plan includes no rezoning and long-sought community resources, but many residents still have concerns about gentrification and the details of implementation.
HOUSING and DEVELOPMENT
Wash. Heights Tenants Wonder: Is the Problem the Leak, or the Landlord?
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Water damage and mold are rampant in rent-stabilized apartments at the West 174th Street address. Tenants suspect an effort to get them out. The landlord insists it’s just a leak.
CITY WIRE: THE BLOG
Calling Obama Version Ineffective, Trump’s HUD Crafting New Fair-Housing Rule
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The department is soliciting public comment on a new version of a rule originally aimed at making sure federal housing resources go to reduce, rather than exacerbate, housing segregation.
GOVERNMENT
Councilmember Explains his Personal Protest Against Mayor’s Rezonings
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Almost lost in the drama of the Council’s final votes on the Inwood rezoning was one member’s vow not to negotiate any more changes to the zoning map until the city committed to study the effect of revisions so far.