{"id":1050,"date":"2021-03-16T10:35:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T10:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2021-03-17T00:37:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T00:37:59","slug":"protest-mayor-de-blasios-order-to-strip-us-of-our-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/2021\/03\/16\/protest-mayor-de-blasios-order-to-strip-us-of-our-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Protest Mayor de Blasio’s Order to Strip Us of Our Rights!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Saturday, Mayor de Blasio signed a five day order<\/strong> aimed at stripping the residents of their rights\u00a0to challenge the unlawful Uniform Land Use Review Procedure “ULURP” rezoning process being conducted by the City.<\/p>\n

Come out and Support Our Efforts To Stop this act of racism and prejudice<\/strong> against residents that reside in low to moderate communities of color who wish to protect their community and its green spaces.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Protest,\u00a0\u00a0Rally & Speak Out\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>
\nAgainst the Mayor’s Executive Order
\nTuesday, March 16, 2021 at Noon<\/strong>
\n(In front of City Hall, Across the Street from 1 Centre Street)<\/p>\n

The Movement To Protect the People \u201cMTOPP\u201d, and Gowanus will be conducting a Protest, Rally and Speak Out against\u00a0Mayor de Blasio\u2019s Executive Order\u00a0which\u00a0removed the power\u00a0of the Brooklyn Supreme Court<\/strong> to\u00a0settle disputes\u00a0between the City and residents challenging the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure \u201cULURP\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Mayor\u2019s\u00a0in-sensitivity to people of color\u00a0who are without the\u00a0means and resources to participate in virtual-hearings, is just\u00a0shameful.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

We are claiming that Mayor de Blasio does not have the\u00a0authority to change the City Charter\u00a0via an Executive Order<\/strong> which specifically targets\u00a0two\u00a0rezoning\u00a0(Gowanus and 960 Franklin Ave) being challenged in the court, and his actions are\u00a0racist and prejudice against people of color,\u00a0including the elderly, handicap and low to moderate income residents in our communities.
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During the COVID 19 pandemic, community groups, especially low to moderate residents of color around the city have experience the\u00a0inability to\u00a0participate in all types of\u00a0virtual on-line platforms.<\/p>\n

Despite this disadvantage which specifically deprives people of color from engaging in their rights to be heard and to have their input incorporated into rezoning proposals, the Mayor de Blasio decided to reinstate the Land Use Review Procedure without any accommodations to people who do not have access to internet, WiFi or even computer equipment.<\/p>\n

Both the Gowanus Rezoning and the private rezoning of 960 Franklin Ave (rezoning along the Brooklyn Botanic Garden) applications were put on hold via Temporary Restraining Orders\u201cTROs\u201d that were signed by the Brooklyn Supreme Court.\u00a0\u00a0The City went to the Appellant 2nd Department to try to overturn these two TROs, but were rejected.<\/p>\n

Both lawsuits made the claim that the lawful ULURP process requires in-person hearings and the virtual-hearings would not allow many residents the ability to the engage in the ULURP process denying their due process rights under the law.<\/p>\n

In the Gowanus lawsuit they made assumptions of residents who would be prevented from participating in the ULURP process, but the first hearing that was conducted for the 960 Franklin Rezoning application, had hundreds of people who were denied access to the virtual-hearing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Judge Levine, from the Brooklyn Supreme Court who is\u00a0residing over both cases\u00a0had made it clear that she wanted the\u00a0City to address the issue\u00a0and find a solution for\u00a0people who wished to engage in these hearings\u00a0but were being deprived due to the limitations\u00a0of the virtual-hearing format.<\/p>\n

The City has refused and now Mayor de Blasio decided to completely ignore over 40% of the population located in Crown Heights who don\u2019t have access to computers, WiFi, or high speed internet, and cancel the in-person hearing requirements.<\/p>\n

Link to Executive Order<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, Mayor de Blasio signed a five day order aimed at stripping the residents of their rights\u00a0to challenge the unlawful Uniform Land Use Review Procedure “ULURP” rezoning process being conducted by the City. Come out and Support Our Efforts To Stop this act of racism and prejudice against residents […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates","category-fight-against-rezoning"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1053,"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions\/1053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}