CITY WIRE: THE BLOG
Ahead of Push for Rezoning’s Approval, City Offers New Details on Investments for Inwood
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
The de Blasio administration’s fifth proposed rezoning will likely enter public review next week.
The de Blasio administration’s fifth proposed rezoning will likely enter public review next week.
We start 2018 with three rezonings approved and many more in the pipeline at various stages.
The outcomes so far seem promising, though it’s hard to make an absolute assessment.
The revamped housing plan includes steps to implement many of the policy ideas proposed by advocates within the last couple years, though clear disagreements remain between the administration and critics.
An increasing number of communities are forming workforce referral systems modeled after the Lower East Side Employment Network.
Inwooders, you have two more weeks: comments are now due on Friday October 13 at 5 pm.
Advocates are continuing to push for the Housing Not Warehousing Act, a package of three bills that would mandate new protocols to identify vacant buildings and land.
Marisa Lago, director of the Department of City Planning as of March, reiterated the administration’s priorities in a speech to the business community.
The northern Manhattan state senator could not produce proof of racist e-mails, but she did have a lot to say about the proposed Inwood rezoning.
Rhetoric from a rancorous primary spilled into discussions of the city’s controversial rezoning plan for Inwood.