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Mayor Adams Pitches Zoning For Less Parking, More Housing 

Emma Whitford | September 21, 2023

The elimination of parking minimums is part of a zoning text amendment New York City Mayor Eric Adams detailed Thursday, amid a push to increase housing development citywide. 

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Eric Adams Backs Gowanus Rezoning Plan, With NYCHA Funding Conditions

David Brand | August 13, 2021

‘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 | July 27, 2021

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.

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Brooklyn Community Board 6 Backs Gowanus Rezoning—If City Funds NYCHA Fixes

David Brand | June 25, 2021

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.

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Three Gowanus Rezoning Viewpoints Take Stage at Marathon Public Hearing

David Brand | June 4, 2021

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 | February 8, 2021

‘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.’

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For City’s Public Meetings, Shift to Virtual Format Has Meant Attendance Boost—& Complications

Sadef Ali Kully | December 14, 2020

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.

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Inwood Rezoning Can Move Forward, State’s Highest Court Rules

Sadef Ali Kully | November 24, 2020

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.

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Flushing Waterfront Rezoning Plan Moves to City Council Vote, Despite Local Dissent

Sadef Ali Kully | November 11, 2020

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 | October 30, 2020

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.

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