Community Updates
MTOPP’s 2014 Accomplishments
MTOPP’s Accomplishments! There are a lot of new comers to this tremendous struggle as there should be as we grow in awareness as to what is transpiring. In that space a lot of people also don’t know all that MTOPP Read more…
Fight Against Rezoning
The Strategy of Civil Disobedience
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 Read more…
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Trojan Horse
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 Read more…
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Types of Rezoning
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 Read more…
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What is an Environmental Review and Study
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, Read more…
Fight Against Rezoning
The Rezoning Process
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 Read more…
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Affordable, But Not Affordable To Us!
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 Read more…