CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Fairness Requires that NYC Pause the Gowanus Rezoning
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‘Gowanus residents have the same right to meaningful civic engagement as other neighborhoods that were rezoned.’
City Planning Commission
Restart of City’s ULURP Process Could Save De Blasio’s Last Rezoning
Sadef Ali Kully |
Online City Planning Commission meetings and hearings will begin in August, in time to move ahead with a plan to rezone Gowanus.
Brooklyn
Worries About the Pace of Progress Four Years After East New York’s Rezoning
Sadef Ali Kully |
Residents, community groups and the borough president’s office are voicing their concerns over whether benefits promised to the neighborhood are being delivered–and how the COVID-19 budget crunch might affect the city’s ability to make good on the rest of the to-do list.
Brad Lander
COVID-19 Prompts New Concerns About the Gowanus Rezoning
Sadef Ali Kully |
However, with the city’s Department of City Planning temporarily shuttered due to the crisis and Mayor de Blasio’s emergency order, local elected officials are concerned that the Gowanus rezoning will not move forward in any form.
courts
Stage Set for Next Round in Inwood’s Rezoning Saga
Sadef Ali Kully |
The city’s Law Department says it is ready to deliver its case to a state appeals court for restoring the Inwood rezoning, which was annulled by a lower court last year. It’s just not sure exactly when it will be able to do so.
Mapping the Future
Downzoning Differences: Clash Over Housing Projections Led to Bushwick Stalemate
Sadef Ali Kully |
The two sides disagreed on what might seem like a simple, factual question: whether or not the stakeholders’ vision for the neighborhood was a ‘downzoning.’
Housing and Homelessness
De Blasio Admin. Says There’ll be No Southern Boulevard Rezoning
Sadef Ali Kully |
‘While the city is not undertaking an area-wide rezoning at this time, the draft strategies will serve as a guide to the community and property owners who may pursue land use changes.’
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: In Bushwick, the City Squashed Democracy, Again
Scott Short and Robert Camacho |
‘In a clear example of apathy towards the people they represent, Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration dismissed yet another community-driven proposal.’
Bronx
Around What Could be the Last de Blasio Rezoning: Local Leverage and Conflicting Views
Sadef Ali Kully |
The area around Southern Boulevard has already secured a lot of the kinds of infrastructure investments that usually come with a rezoning.
Brooklyn
Tensions Rise Amid Uncertain Timeline for Public Review of Bushwick Rezoning
Sadef Ali Kully |
The city says its environmental review is coming, but won’t say exactly when. A community board is demanding a meeting with City Planning, and an activist group is hounding two Councilmembers.
