The housing projections revealed this week set up the Gowanus rezoning to be the largest apartment producer of all the de Blasio administration’s neighborhood plans.
The de Blasio administration says it has started to deliver on promises of housing help, street improvements and business assistance. Tenant groups and business advocates, however, say their worries remain.
The number of outstanding questions reflects the size of the population involved, the magnitude of the construction projects the effort entails and the unique nature of building temporary housing for people who live there involuntarily.
The 2019 Charter Revision Commission is considering a menu of changes to the city’s land-use system, including the possibility of requiring a comprehensive plan.
The push for tighter rent regulations is heating up. Meanwhile, the push against tighter rent regs has begun.
Concerns about tenant harassment, rising rents and sudden neighborhood change frame the intense debate about the proposed development of three buildings along the East River in Two Bridges.
And who’s afraid of the pied-a-terre tax?
Councilman Rafael Salamanca, who represents the area, says his biggest concern is the possible displacement of residents and small businesses.
Some residents fear potential 22-story towers on the Canal corridor. Planning officials say such buildings would be rare under the proposed rezoning but are part of the trade-off for getting lower heights immediately adjacent to the canal.
The Gowanus proposal grew out of—but does not entirely reflect—a community-based discussion about how the Brooklyn neighborhood should grow.
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