Community groups and trade unions want the construction work done in rezoning neighborhoods to go to local residents and pay union wages. And advocates aren’t convinced that the legal and financial counter-arguments hold water.
Everyone who owns property who spoke to City Limits—perhaps with the exception of some artist owners—are exhilarated by the looming prospect of a rezoning. See an interactive map!
A group that helped draft the East Harlem Neighborhood Plan pushed for the city’s rezoning scheme to offer more housing to low-income people. A group that opposes any rezoning denounced both proposals.
The Department of City Planning discusses its draft rezoning framework for East Harlem.
Comments on the draft scope for the environmental impact study of the de Blasio administration’s planned rezoning are due November 7.
The de Blasio administration says there’s need for city-subsidized housing across a wide range of incomes. But data indicates middle-class households face a far less severe affordability problem.
One couldn’t help but sense some impatience for answers at Thursday night’s first city planning meeting, which launched the de Blasio administration’s study to craft a neighborhood plan for the community.
The Economic Development Corporation seems to have slowed down the process for rezoning the northern Manhattan neighborhood amid a complex mix of support and skepticism among local residents.
In the past, neighborhoods like Gowanus have been rezoned to permit residential and industrial to exist in close proximity. Leaders of the ‘Bridging Gowanus’ effort now want to require it.
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