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.
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.
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.
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 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.