Posts regarding Mayor Adams’ City of Yes Text Amendments.
We Demand Chairman Fred Baptiste Resign! Brooklyn Community Board 9 is a classic example of how politics work against a community. For example: A lot of Chairs of community boards are hired within the city government and it is there they are “brought” to ensure the political will, not of the people, but outside entities Read more…
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No Parking! – Final Nail in the Coffin! Mayor Adams’ City of Yes Demands for No Parking Requirements Does anyone recall Mayor Eric Adams making the bold statements that outside agitators were influencing the Columbia’s protests, later finding out that 99% of people arrested were in fact Columbia students? Now Read more…
City’s Data Shows and the City agrees “City of Yes” Will Not Help Housing Crisis? Mayor Adams made a big announcement about HPD’s Vacancy Survey, to justified his City of Yes “COY” Housing Text Amendments. According to him (along with the Real Estate Industry) NYC’s vacancy rate is less than 1 % and the housing Read more…
Today, City Council Votes on Casinos! Dear City Council Persons, Darlene Mealy, Rita Joseph and Crystal Hudson: Today the City Council will be voting on the Casino Text Amendments, allowing any Casino that obtains a State license to locate here in NYC without having to go through the public review Read more…
In January 2024 Brooklyn’s Community Board 9 released the following to explain their vote against the proposed City of Yes for Economic Opportunities text amendments. We at Community Board 9 oppose the City of Yes for Economic Opportunity text amendments in their entirety. These are city-wide text amendments which will Read more…
Everyone is talking about Mayor Eric Adams’s “City of Yes”, however people don’t understand what’s about to happen to their community and why… Here’s the rest of Alicia Boyd’s Op Ed in Our Time Press.
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.
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…
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…