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Hear & See: Excerpts from a Key Hearing on Proposed Development in East Harlem
Jarrett Murphy and Christian Vasquez |
The city’s rezoning proposal is just one of the plans on the table.
The city’s rezoning proposal is just one of the plans on the table.
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.
‘Our neighborhood plan includes investments in people, in every season of their lives.’
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.
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.
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.