Victoria Edwards
Executive editor and publisher of City Limits Jarrett Murphy facilitates a debate on rezonings with Vicki Been, Moses Gates and Tom Angotti
Missed our spirited panel debate with three experts on rezonings and the affordability crisis? You can now watch it from your McMansion or closet.
At a panel discussion hosted by City Limits, experts split over the premise and impact of the mayor’s housing and rezoning plan. But they agreed that the planning process could be improved.
The de Blasio administration embraced a key demand of community stakeholders: that parts of the area be rezoned to protect the current context. But worries remains about what’s planned for other neighborhood sectors.
The de Blasio administration has mostly focused on low-income communities of color as it seeks to rezone and, it says, expand affordable housing and improve quality of life. Are there whiter, richer areas that could also absorb more residents—and reap those benefits?
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.
While some East Harlem stakeholders are negotiating with the administration to improve a rezoning plan for East Harlem, others continue to resist any rezoning altogether.
The Lower East Side waterfront, already grappling with five proposed luxury towers, will now also get a mixed-income development on public housing land.
At eight o’clock the night before Melinda Katz’s hearing, the de Blasio administration announced changes to the rezoning.
City Hall and critics argue over whether moving the industry hub to Sunset Park will make life better or worse for workers, and if that will affect companies’ decisions to stay, move or shut down.
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