That spot went instead to Vicki Been, formerly the head of New York University's Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy — which has also been somewhat critical of mandatory inclusionary zoning in its studies of programs in the San Francisco, Boston and Washington, D.C. metropolitan areas. (observer.com)
Last month, City Council members gathered in the cold gray afternoon to applaud the Council's impending approval of Queens» massive Astoria Cove waterfront development — a hard - fought test case for Mayor Bill de Blasio's new mandatory inclusionary zoning program, the centerpiece of his ambitious affordable housing plan. (observer.com)
Mayor Bill de Blasio, however, was a supporter of the project — seeing it as a test case for his new mandatory inclusionary zoning policy, which requires developers to insert affordable units into new developments as a precondition for construction. (observer.com)