City of Yes Text Amendments
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City of Yes Text Amendments
Agitators Invade Community Boards: COY’s No Parking Mandate
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 of Yes Text Amendments
NYC’s Data Shows: City of Yes Fails in Helping Homeless Crisis
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…
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Can’t Find the 2024 AMI (Area Median Income) Rates? Here They Are…
We noticed the 2024 AMI rates are no longer on the HPD site. Luckily we got them before they were removed.
City of Yes Text Amendments
Reasons Brooklyn’s Community Board 9 Voted NO for COY – Economic Opportunity
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…
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…
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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…
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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…