city rezonings
Eric Adams Backs Gowanus Rezoning Plan, With NYCHA Funding Conditions
David Brand |
‘Buildings cannot go up around NYCHA developments while residents see their futures go down,’ Adams said outside the Gowanus Houses Friday.
Affordable Housing
Manhattan Community Board Votes to Reject SoHo-NoHo Rezoning
David Brand |
The board’s resolution rejects the rezoning proposal for the wealthy neighborhoods outright, rather than submit suggestions for improvement, arguing the plan would fail to achieve the city’s affordable housing goals.
city rezonings
Brooklyn Community Board 6 Backs Gowanus Rezoning—If City Funds NYCHA Fixes
David Brand |
The board says its support for the project, which would upzone a large swath of Gowanus, hinges on the city funding nearly $300 million in repairs at the nearby Gowanus and Wyckoff Gardens Houses, while meeting various other conditions.
city rezonings
Three Gowanus Rezoning Viewpoints Take Stage at Marathon Public Hearing
David Brand |
Reluctant supporters say the 82-block upzoning proposal is flawed, but will nonetheless create thousands of below-market rate apartments. Others are demanding the plan includes funding for nearby NYCHA demands, while a third group of critics is against the rezoning altogether.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Five Myths About the Gowanus Rezoning
Linda La Violette, Penn Rodeen and Benjamin Shepard |
‘The city, public officials, and developers have all built an increasingly fevered false sense of urgency that shows just how desperate they are to ram through the rezoning while the public is sidelined by the pandemic, economic crisis, and weak sauce virtual hearings.’
COVID-19
For City’s Public Meetings, Shift to Virtual Format Has Meant Attendance Boost—& Complications
Sadef Ali Kully |
The shift to remote-only civic meetings during the pandemic is impacting how communities get to weigh in on important city proposals, like rezonings. It’s led to more people attending — but there have also been problems, and criticism.
Inwood rezoning
Inwood Rezoning Can Move Forward, State’s Highest Court Rules
Sadef Ali Kully |
The New York Court of Appeals declined to hear an Inwood community group’s appeal to a July court decision, which reversed an earlier ruling that would have annulled the controversial rezoning plan.
housing
Flushing Waterfront Rezoning Plan Moves to City Council Vote, Despite Local Dissent
Sadef Ali Kully |
The entire City Council is due to vote on the private rezoning application for the Queens project, which would create a 29-acre waterfront special district with nine new buildings, including 1,725 apartments and other facilities.
Affordable Housing
SoHo/NoHo Rezoning Could Bring Less Than 1,000 Affordable Units
Sadef Ali Kully |
The rezoning could lead to a total increase of an estimated 3,200 housing units, including 600 to 900 affordable units, plus an additional 3,181 residents over a 10-year period, according to a key document released this week.
city rezonings
Inwood Community Groups Head to Court in Lawsuit Challenging Neighborhood Rezoning
Sadef Ali Kully |
The lawsuit argues the city’s environmental review process for the rezoning failed to examine how it would impact the socio-economic demographics of the Inwood community, including race, income and language.
