The 2019 Charter Revision Commission is considering a menu of changes to the city’s land-use system, including the possibility of requiring a comprehensive plan.
Rising Rents Threaten Immigrant Small Businesses: Report
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Rising commercial rent is a major worry for immigrant businesses around the city, according to a survey released this week by the Association of Neighborhood and Housing Development.
BROOKLYN BUREAU
Heights of Potential Development Concern Some in Gowanus
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Some residents fear potential 22-story towers on the Canal corridor. Planning officials say such buildings would be rare under the proposed rezoning but are part of the trade-off for getting lower heights immediately adjacent to the canal.
Mapping the Future
Video: City’s Planners Pitch Gowanus Rezoning Plan
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The Gowanus proposal grew out of—but does not entirely reflect—a community-based discussion about how the Brooklyn neighborhood should grow.
Community Boards
City Says Bay Street Rezoning Could ‘Bring all the Pieces of the Puzzle Together’
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But the plan faces a host of questions abut affordability, small business protections, traffic, parks and drainage.
BROOKLYN BUREAU
Watch Live: City Planning Presents its Proposal for a Gowanus Rezoning
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Can’t make the February 28 meeting? Tune in here.
City Launches Pilot Program to Legalize Basement Apartments
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‘Converting basement units into safe and legal housing is an important way to address New York City’s affordability crisis.’
The Ride
Free Parking:
Is it the Secret Ingredient
in NYC’s Traffic Problem?
Is it the Secret Ingredient
in NYC’s Traffic Problem?
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In a city with crowded streets, a rising population and soaring land prices, most New York City parking is free. Experts say that contributes to a shortage of spaces that generates traffic, obstructs deliveries, slows buses and drives motorists crazy.
East Harlem Advocates’ Shocking Demand: Could We Use the Restroom?
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Hear the voices of those who want the city to reopen a comfort station that has been closed since the 70s in an area where cops write hundreds of tickets each year citing homeless people and others for public urination.
Affordable Housing
Does Mayor’s Housing Plan Help Where It’s Needed? Report Offers Complex Answers
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The detailed study by the city’s Independent Budget Office set out to address questions that have dogged the de Blasio plan, as they dogged the Bloomberg administration’s housing plan before it.
Agenda 2019
Tenant Organizations Ramping Up Push to Strengthen and Expand Rent Laws
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While it seems almost certain the rent laws will be tightened it’s less sure that the geographic reach of the laws will be expanded.