The plan’s complexity impressed some planning commissioners. But no effort was made to accommodate the community concerns that greeted an earlier draft.
Board members like some aspects of the city’s proposed rezoning of downtown Far Rockaway, but have concerns ranging from the impact of additional density on neighborhood infrastructure to a lack…
Amid far less rancor than greeted the mayor’s first rezoning in East New York, the City Planning Commission certified the Downtown Far Rockaway proposal, starting the ULURP clock.
There’s never much doubt that the new development envisioned during a debate over a neighborhood rezoning is going to arrive. What of the promises that help the mayor get the…
The Department of City Planning hosts a two-part meeting on the draft scope of work for the environmental impact study for the proposed rezoning of East Harlem.
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Depending on how you look at it, a proposed rezoning could either be a necessary precaution against displacement or a catalyst for rent increases in existing buildings.
‘The city is going behind the backs of its most engaged residents to facilitate the construction of a small number of units for people who make much more than average…
More so than any of the other areas tabbed so far for rezonings under the mayor’s housing plan, LIC has dealt with the effects—good and bad—of Bloomberg-era land-use moves.
