Mapping the Future
Debate in Gowanus About Whether to Pause or Push Rezoning
Sadef Ali Kully |
The last de Blasio rezoning is moving into a public review, where the pros and cons of virtual engagement will be on display.
The last de Blasio rezoning is moving into a public review, where the pros and cons of virtual engagement will be on display.
Online City Planning Commission meetings and hearings will begin in August, in time to move ahead with a plan to rezone Gowanus.
As large real-estate deals continue to close, neighborhood stakeholders have raised some unresolved concerns.
The brutal killing last week of four men as they slept outdoors in Chinatown has put renewed attention on New York City’s homelessness crisis. At a vigil for the victims held Monday, residents, lawmakers and activists gathered near the scene of the slayings at Kimlau Square in Lower Manhattan to mourn, according to news […]
Advocates and elected officials are taking steps to prepare for the changes likely to come by landmarking historic sites, calling for a designated “eco-district” and raising concerns about school integration around the Brooklyn canal.
The housing projections revealed this week set up the Gowanus rezoning to be the largest apartment producer of all the de Blasio administration’s neighborhood plans.
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.
The Gowanus proposal grew out of—but does not entirely reflect—a community-based discussion about how the Brooklyn neighborhood should grow.
‘They heard us for the most part but they did not get everything right. And that is what this part is about.’
The mayor in 2015 set a goal of rezoning up to 15 neighborhoods in a drive to create more density and more affordable housing. Five rezonings have passed and at least three are likely to move forward in 2019.