Laura Sanburn, Wikipedia Commons
It was buildings like 'Blue,' on Norfolk Street in the Lower East Side, that drove Community Board 3 to pass a rezoning limiting building heights in the East Village in 2008. Critics say it pushed development pressures south to Chinatown.
There were good intentions, but some boards and certainly the Bloomberg administration underestimated the threat of gentrification, board members say.
A weekend summit reviewed the nuances of changing density in the neighborhood, where there are relatively few public sites on which policy—rather than the market—would determine what gets built, and for whom.
The number of units in the ten-year housing plan that target families making below $40,800 will be increased from 20 to 25 percent.
From Boston to Portland and in places like Vancouver and Sydney, local governments are taking aggressive steps to prevent development that uproots people of limited means.
A fifth of apartments at the 111th street project will be for families making below $24,480, and one fourth of units will be permanently rent-restricted.
Energized that the city is expressing interest in the model of community-based, nonprofit ownership of land for affordable housing and other uses, groups who back the approach are trying to transform its constituency from wonky to widespread.
A new CB11 task force will take the lead on responding to the city’s rezoning plan, which has supporters and critics.
‘We know we don’t always get it right and in part that’s why we’re here tonight,’ one city planning official told the first official meeting on a potential rezoning of Long Island City.
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.
Un proceso excepcionalmente abierto está dando forma a una propuesta para rezonificar el vecindario, cada vez más afectado por la subida de alquileres. Es posible que el futuro depare decisiones difíciles respecto a la asequibilidad.
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