Fight Against Rezoning

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…