Analysis and background information on Land Use/Rezoning including terms and concepts
What the Developers want for Empire Blvd. At this moment, Community Board 9 members, City Planning and Borough President Eric Adams are wanting the change from commercial to mix-residential and commercial on Empire Blvd., with the idea of wanting affordable housing. At the City Planning meetings, the suggestion was Read more…
Definition One of the major avenues created to redesign neighborhoods all throughout America is based upon transit. In some communities these transit lines are created and in others they already exist. This has become known as Transit Oriented Development “TOD”. Definition of TOD, mixed -use, higher density development oriented towards Read more…
The Strategy of Civil Disobedience We won a tremendous battle on September 23, 2014, by engaging in a strategy called civil disobedience. Despite people calling this childish, immature etc… it is a powerful strategy but hard to control, because one is using emotions, unrest and even anger to decide an outcome or Read more…
Objections to the Resolution MTOPP wasn’t opposed to the entire resolution, we are opposed to several sentences in that resolution that would have acted like a Trojan Horse and undermine everything that we did not want to happen – “Paragraph 3) Create opportunities for affordable housing development. – Identify areas Read more…
Types of Rezoning Every place in NYC has a zoning perimeter, this ensures that different types of structures are uniformed, don’t impose stress and invites harmony into the landscape of an area. Each zoning area comes with a set of letters and numbers which denote what type of zone it Read more…
Environmental Analysis; Review and Study Once a pre-application is received from the Community Board, the City will decide to allocate funds to do an Environmental analysis of the proposed plan. This is a commitment on the part of the City, because these analyses are expensive and time consuming. They can Read more…
Rezoning Process It is important to understand this process, so we know where we are at. Request: A request (by a person, community group, community board, land owner etc) is put into the City to rezone or change an are Information Meetings: City Planning meets with all interested parties and Read more…
Affordability Everyone is talking about what is affordable and how misleading this term is in regards to providing housing that everyone in the community can afford. The first point is to start with real numbers instead of the legal misleading jargon they give about percentage. Then we will work from Read more…
Information on Increased Density This is the beginning of a series of Educational formats This first one is on density, because the request submitted to City Planning by Community Board 9, (without the community that lives on the boarder of Empire Blvd. knowing about it) is to “…increase Density on Read more…