City Planning Commission
Restart of City’s ULURP Process Could Save De Blasio’s Last Rezoning
Sadef Ali Kully |
Online City Planning Commission meetings and hearings will begin in August, in time to move ahead with a plan to rezone Gowanus.
City Planning Commission
CityViews: Proposed Mega Towers an Affront to Lower East Side Residents
Daisy Echevarria and Paula Z. Segal |
‘Building supertall finger buildings that allow high sales prices based on the views they let inhabitants own hurts neighborhoods by blocking light and air from other buildings and public streets.’
Mapping the Future
Protest Ahead of Hearing on Proposed Two Bridges Skyscrapers
Sadef Ali Kully |
Opposition to the towers is vocal, and the oppositions’ strategies are varied: Some want to force a land-use review via legislation, while others are threatening a lawsuit.
Affordable Housing
Much Dread, Some Hope at Inwood Rezoning Community Discussion
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
Councilmember Ydanis Rodriguez’s community meeting on Sunday came midway through the public review procedure through which the Inwood rezoning will be approved or disproved.
Bronx
Jerome Ave Rezoning Approved by City Planning Commission, Sent to Council
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
The De Blasio administration’s fourth neighborhood rezoning—and the first for the Bronx—is moving to the final stages of the approval process.
City Planning Commission
As Public Review Kicks Off, Critics Lambast Inwood Rezoning Proposal
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
On Tuesday, Mayor de Blasio’s fifth neighborhood rezoning entered the seven-month process through which a rezoning can be approved—but not without strong pushback from neighborhood groups in Inwood.
Affordable Housing
East Harlem Rezoning Approved by Planning Commission, Moves to City Council
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
There was one vote against, and one abstention, linked to concerns about displacement.
Housing and Homelessness
Second Planning Chief Stresses Ongoing Commitment to Density, Job Growth
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
Marisa Lago, director of the Department of City Planning as of March, reiterated the administration’s priorities in a speech to the business community.
Affordable Housing
Passionate Testimony at East Harlem Rezoning City Planning Commission Hearing
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
The administration presented new investments and new height limits for some portions of the rezoning, but most residents and stakeholders said they still strongly disproved of the city’s rezoning proposal.
City Planning Commission
UPDATE: East Harlem Rezoning CPC Hearing at Different Place, Time-of-Day
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
If you asked your boss for the morning off, see if you can get the afternoon instead.
