Mozart Diensthuber
The city's proposed rezoning would change the allowable building heights on several East Harlem avenues and promote residential development in some areas that are currently zoned for industrial use.
With less than two weeks notice and no community notification, the East Harlem community board changed the date of a key meeting that will inform the board’s ultimate vote on the city’s proposed rezoning of East Harlem.
Rates of poverty and poverty concentration have increased in New York City after an earlier decline, according to the Furman Center—and some neighborhoods considering a rezoning experienced increased poverty and rising rents simultaneously.
Though the De Blasio administration has taken steps to reduce barriers to the affordable housing lottery, a report by the public advocate argues that reforms must go farther.
Challenger Ede Fox is demanding that Councilmember Laurie Cumbo push the community board, borough president and others to fast-track ULURP consideration of a controversial development proposal so voters can see how the incumbent votes.
A new chart shows the kind of factors that can undermine a neighborhood’s affordability, and many of the neighborhoods facing a rezoning already suffer the most risks.
City Planning says it’s been up front with the community that a rezoning is a possibility. But some wonder if it’d more accurate to say it’s a near certainty.
The city promised to produce a study exploring housing tools besides mandatory inclusionary zoning. But its long-awaited report is devoted solely to knocking down an idea promoted by housing advocates.
La propuesta de rezonificación de East Harlem del Departamento de Planificación Urbana entró en el proceso de revisión pública de siete meses de duración.
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.
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