Inwood rezoning Archives

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"The Uniform Land Use Review Process, or ULURP, is a public and transparent review that injects a degree of democracy into major land use changes by giving communities limited influence…

ByGraham Ciraulo 0Comments

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Jul 2024

Event recap Government Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development

Ask a Housing Expert: Getting Communities On Board With New Housing

City Limits’ Executive Editor Jeanmarie Evelly recently sat down with Vicki Been, former deputy mayor of housing under Mayor Bill de Blasio, for a conversation about the role of community engagement…

ByJeanmarie Evelly 0Comments

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Jun 2021

Government Housing and Homelessness

Council Votes to Make Racial Impact Studies Part of NYC Land Use Process

Residents of low- to middle-income communities of color have resisted various neighborhood-level land use applications which they say will fuel gentrification and increase rents.

ByDavid Brand 6Comments

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Jun 2021

Economy Government

Eight Candidates Compete for Upper Manhattan Council District Battered By Pandemic

Many running to represent the ethnically diverse district—which is home to the largest population of Dominicans than any other community in the United States—said in campaign materials that COVID-19 should…

ByEse Olumhense 2Comments

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Dec 2020

Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: Moving Toward Just Land Use and Housing Policies in NYC

‘Across the city, the mayor and developers are pushing rezonings and development projects that attempt to rip out the fertile roots of people and place, to wholly redefine city neighborhoods…

ByCheryl Pahaham and Paul Epstein 1Comment

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Nov 2020

Housing and Homelessness

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

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…

BySadef Ali Kully 1Comment

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Jul 2020

Housing and Homelessness

Appeals Court Sides With City Hall in Dispute Over Inwood Rezoning

The decision paves the way for the restoration of the 2018 rezoning of the Manhattan neighborhood, which a lower court had annulled last year.

BySadef Ali Kully 1Comment

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Apr 2020

Housing and Homelessness

Stage Set for Next Round in Inwood’s Rezoning Saga

The city’s Law Department says it is ready to deliver its case to a state appeals court for restoring the Inwood rezoning, which was annulled by a lower court last…

BySadef Ali Kully 0Comments

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Dec 2019

Housing and Homelessness

Judge Annuls Inwood Rezoning, Citing Flaws in City’s Review

The ruling is a potentially significant legal setback for the de Blasio administration as it moves into its final two years with at least three major potential rezonings on the…

BySadef Ali Kully 2Comments

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Aug 2019

Housing and Homelessness

Inwood Community Groups Head to Court in Lawsuit Challenging Neighborhood Rezoning

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.

BySadef Ali Kully 2Comments

Opinion: Don’t Let City Charter Changes Silence Your Voice on Land Use

Ask a Housing Expert: Getting Communities On Board With New Housing

Council Votes to Make Racial Impact Studies Part of NYC Land Use Process

Eight Candidates Compete for Upper Manhattan Council District Battered By Pandemic

Opinion: Moving Toward Just Land Use and Housing Policies in NYC

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

Appeals Court Sides With City Hall in Dispute Over Inwood Rezoning

Stage Set for Next Round in Inwood’s Rezoning Saga

Judge Annuls Inwood Rezoning, Citing Flaws in City’s Review

Inwood Community Groups Head to Court in Lawsuit Challenging Neighborhood Rezoning

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