The entire City Council is due to vote on the private rezoning application for the Queens project, which would create a 29-acre waterfront special district with nine new buildings, including 1,725 apartments and other facilities.
At a Brooklyn Community Board 6 meeting Thursday, attendees raised questions about whether repairs for NYCHA complexes and opportunities for public housing residents would be included in the rezoning.
City Planning officials will present details Thursday on the rezoning proposal to Brooklyn Community Board 6, after the city’s ULURP process was paused for several months during the pandemic.
El plan incluye la protección de los nuevos inquilinos, la reutilización de tierras de propiedad del gobierno y de parcelas de fabricación aisladas para viviendas, y una rezonificación para generar tanto apartamentos a precio de mercado como apartamentos orientados a la obtención de ingresos.
The plan includes new tenant protections, repurposing government-owned land and isolated manufacturing parcels for housing, and a rezoning to generate both market-rate and income-targeted apartments.
‘When business groups engineered the recent SoHo/NoHo ‘re-envisioning’ process, many neighbors pushed back, aware of this administration’s miserable track record on developer-driven, community-unfriendly rezonings.’
‘We need fewer barriers to access and more affordable housing. With just over a year left in this administration, rezoning SoHo is an important legacy that shouldn’t be pushed off any longer.’
The suit raises questions not just about one rezoning but also about the balance of power in New York over land-use policy.
The Commission voted 11 to 1 in favor of the factious rezoning application, which would expand the Sunset Park manufacturing and innovation hub by 1.46 million square feet.
The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed the city to the brink of a housing crisis. It is time for the city to design housing policies that retain the people who are the heart, the lungs, and the soul of New York City
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