Zoning Loopholes There are always ways to get around zoning laws and the most common is called a variance. This is an action where an owner will approach the city and say hey, I need to do this… but the law says I can’t, but if I can’t do this….. I Read more…
Alicia Boyd and Maxine Barnes speak out about their experience being arrested at a Community Board 9 ULURP meeting. Their arrests, at the request of Brooklyn’s Community Board 9, stifled protest from others fighting gentrification, displacement, and protecting their homes.
This is the second panel discussion at the Brooklyn Community Forum on Anti-Gentrification and Displacement , where the panelists talked about their activism. Professor Angotti at the beginning gave a little bit of history and told the real deal about rezoning studies. Alicia Boyd from MTOPP, the Movement to the Read more…
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…
Alicia was on WHCR Inside Housing June 15, 2015 with Nellie Hester Bailey interviewing her to discuss the use of 421-a tax abatements, eminent domain and inclusionary zoning to destroy stable Brooklyn neighborhoods.
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…