City of Yes Text Amendments
New 25 Story Buildings May Avoid Environmental Reviews
The adoption of Green Fast Track will take away our right to know what is happening in our community. Click Here to read the rest of Alicia Boyd’s Op Ed in BKReader.
City of Yes Text Amendments
25 Story Buildings Avoiding Environmental Reviews
Image above: 25 story building We are finally getting to another major change happening in our city around development. The removal of the requirement for Developers who want to build up to 25 stories not to perform any type of environmental review. However, before we can discuss this issue you Read more…
Fight Against Rezoning
Community Board 11 Gets A Snow Job
Bklyn Community Board 11 Gets a Snow Job By Department of City Planning CB11 Votes Against its Own Power! As it is snowing outside, DCP is going around doing a snow job on local community boards, to the extent that boards are willing to disempower themselves. For example, lets take Brooklyn Community Board 11, Read more…
City of Yes Text Amendments
Bklyn CB2 District Manager – Criminal Behavior on City of Yes
Criminal Behavior and Conflict of Interest by Employees of Department of City Planning and Bklyn Community Board 2 Conflicts of Interest of Bklyn Community Board 2 Chairs As outrageous as COY rezoning proposals are and the disbelief that the City is even considering some of these changes, most people wonder how Read more…
City of Yes Text Amendments
Queens Urban Planner Discusses City Of Yes on WBAI
Listen To WBAI on Wednesday, January 3, at 11:00 am Tomorrow, Paul Graziano, who is a Urban Planner that is organizing Queens against the COY will be interviewed by Michael G. Haskins during the Living for the City morning program. Even if you don’t live in Queens this will be Read more…
City of Yes Text Amendments
MTOPP Answers Questions on the City of Yes
Questions and Answers! There have been many questions posed by Community Boards regarding the Business/Economic Text Amendments of the City of Yes “COY”. The Department of City Planning “DCP” has responded to these questions and MTOPP has responded to their answers. MTOPP is doing a series on the Mayor Adams’ City Read more…
City of Yes Text Amendments
Scariest Changes of “COY”: Power, Precedent, Protection and the Powerless
Power! No one in New York City should have as much power as Mayor Eric Adams is attempting to gain by the City of Yes “COY” Text Amendments. If the City Council approves these amendments, there will be a major shift in the power dynamic of our city to one Read more…
City of Yes Text Amendments
“COY” Casinos, Cabarets and Dancing Coming Into the Neighborhood
Cabaret and Dancing Cabaret which includes strip clubs and dancing for small businesses has gotten a lot of press under Mayor Adams’ City of Yes “COY” zoning text amendments. Mayor Adams is proposing to allow small businesses that serve under 200 people the ability to have Cabaret and Dancing Read more…
City of Yes Text Amendments
“COY” Adding More Businesses on More Floors inside Apartment Buildings
Have you ever notice that only lawyer offices and similar professional businesses exist above a ground floor business inside of a residential building? But you never see a ground floor business on the upper floors such as a grocery stores or delis etc. This is because the current laws limits Read more…
City of Yes Text Amendments
“COY” Removing the Distinctions Between Commercial Zones
Collapsing of Commercial District Distinctions Most people don’t know the commercial zone that exists inside their community but they do know where to find automobile repair shops vs restaurants. It is clear to most people that automobile repair shops are noisy, have a lot of car traffic and can have a lot of air pollution. Thus, most people are happy Read more…