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Hear & See: Excerpts from a Key Hearing on Proposed Development in East Harlem
Jarrett Murphy and Christian Vasquez |
The city’s rezoning proposal is just one of the plans on the table.
The city’s rezoning proposal is just one of the plans on the table.
‘Nuestro plan vecinal propone invertir en la gente en todas las etapas de su vida.’
‘La comunidad no solo no necesita este plan, sino que desaparecerá si lo acepta.’
La propuesta de rezonificación de East Harlem del Departamento de Planificación Urbana entró en el proceso de revisión pública de siete meses de duración.
‘Our neighborhood plan includes investments in people, in every season of their lives.’
The ULURP process for the de Blasio administration’s rezoning proposal hits a key milestone this week.
This handy explainer of the proposals circulating in East Harlem, the process that the city’s plan will now go through and the opinions that some neighborhood residents have is available in Spanish as well as English.
Supporters of the East Harlem Neighborhood Plan say their rezoning proposal is not just better than the city’s, but also superior to the option of not rezoning at all.
East Harlem Neighborhood Plan participants said it was disappointingly vague, and others said it won’t be enough to counter rezoning displacement pressures.
The media (including City Limits) often depicts the rezoning discussion in East Harlem as a debate between the city and backers of an alternative rezoning plan. Reality is more complicated.