This year’s update left a bad taste in everyone’s mouth, from loft-tenant advocacy groups, to North Brooklyn community groups worried about displacement, to elected officials who say they tried to craft a fair bill.
Bushwick residents, elected officials and other stakeholders say they expect the city’s neighborhood rezoning plan—due out Tuesday—to differ from a community-generated vision released last year on the issues of density, the preservation of industrial space and affordability levels for housing.
The plan calls for the environmental review to include ‘alternate methods for predicting secondary displacement.’
Two Councilmembers invited neighborhood stakeholders to draft a rezoning plan. But it could encounter the same misgivings that top-down plans have faced.
It’s yet unclear in what way the city will adopt or address the Bushwick steering committee’s plan, but both sides expect to be working together in a coordinated fashion.