In a phone interview with, WBAI’s correspondent Jillian Jonas from the Michael Haskins Show “Living for the City”, the Mayor made his position known about this development project. He claimed he would support this rezoning project (which would destroy a public green space) in return for “affordable housing”. Alicia Boyd from MTOPP responded to the Mayor’s position. To listen to their comments please click here.
On September 22, 2020, a revised application for the 960 Franklin Ave rezoning was submitted to the Department of City Planning “DCP”. According to DCP rules, this application should have been given to Community Board 9 five days later. This did not happen.
Then on October 16, 2020 Community Board 9 was given notice that the 960 Franklin Ave Rezoning application will be certified on November 16, 2020. This notification was made to comply with a new City Charter mandate, which was voted into law November 2019 by the people.
Thus, neither we nor our elected officials will not be able to put pressure on DCP to make changes before the application is certified, beginning the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure “ULURP” process, which is exactly 7 months.
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