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Town Hall On City of Yes Hosted By WBAI, MTOPP and FLAC Over the past several months, New Yorkers have been bombarded with Mayor Eric Adams’ “City of Yes.” There have been opinion pages, statements by elected officials, TV news hosts etc. all pushing for a “build baby built model” Read more…
Holding on by a Thread On November 9, 2022, we found out that the City and the Developer’s appeal to our successful petition to invalidate the Crown Heights Rezoning was overturned by the 2nd Department in their 4-page decision. Of course it came as a shock considering Judge Boddie, the Read more…
Alicia Boyd joined Michael Haskins to discuss the ‘City of Yes’, a series of text amendments recently unveiled by the Adams Administration to bring broad changes to zoning and city planning rules and guidelines under the guise of creating more affordable housing, encouraging economic growth and supporting sustainability. Listen to Read more…
Mayor Eric Adams BlastingHis Way Into Your Community!Part III This is Part III in our series on Mayor Eric Adams’ CBC’s proposals to “improve” rezonings for developers. Proposal: To Completely Eliminate the Community from the Rezoning Process As we stated in the first post on this topic, Mayor Eric Adams’ Read more…
Mayor Eric Adams Blasting His Way Into Your Community! Part II This is Part II in our series on Mayor Eric Adams’ CBC’s proposals to “improve” rezonings for developers. Proposal: Unlawful to File Lawsuits Against the City and Developers As we stated in the first post on this topic, Mayor Read more…
An Environmental Review process has to be performed on development projects that are not classified as “as of right”. This means that the project would be attempting to change the existing zoning and the developer would have to disclose the potential negative environmental damages that could be caused by the Read more…
Mayor Eric Adams directed a commission to create a blueprint that would allow development projects to happen faster and cost less. The NYC Economic Development and Housing committee, a known entity that creates opportunities for the use of public assets to assist the real estate industry in the creation of Read more…
Mayor Eric Adams directed a commission to create a blueprint that would allow development projects to happen faster and cost less. The NYC Economic Development and Housing committee, a known entity that creates opportunities for the use of public assets to assist the real estate industry in the creation of Read more…
Five Years Ago The Prospect Park Alliance Told Us They Wanted to Make Changes to the Vale of Cashmere in Prospect Park. One of three buildings beng proposed They Told Us……. there will be no new Buildings built. Now They want………….. to build three new buildings! They Told Us……. They Read more…
Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903) is considered one of America’s pioneer landscape architects. In the 1800’s, as more people moved to cities due to industrialization, many recognized the need for city dwellers to still have access to nature… the need for parks (open spaces). Olmsted and Calvert Vaux were tapped to Read more…