Adi Talwar
Protesters at a December 15, 2016 hearing on the scope of the environmental review to be done ahead of a proposed East Harlem rezoning.
The city’s rezoning plan has critics aplenty–the supporters of a separate ‘neighborhood plan,’ their partners who want to press beyond that plan, and several groups who want to see no rezoning at all.
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 rezoning approved?
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.
City Limits will LiveStream the second session below. Also see below a live feed of tweets using the hashtag #ZoneInNYC.
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