Sentences with phrase «against rezoning»

What they didn't anticipate was the series of Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) challenges against the rezoning of the land that resulted in spiraling legal costs and an array of other consulting fees in conjunction with hydrological, conservation and environmental issues that had to be addressed.

Brooklyn Community Board No. 2 has voted against the rezoning, and Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams will submit his recommendation to the City Planning Commission in the coming weeks.

But many in the neighborhood pushed back against the rezoning plan, fearing that lifting zoning restrictions would open up a precedent for future development.

-- Espinal stands with Bushwick residents in fight against rezoning application, by POLITICO New York's Janaki Chadha: City Council Member Rafael Espinal joined Bushwick residents Thursday in opposing a private rezoning application that would allow increased residential development on manufacturing lots in the neighborhood, including the construction of two nine - story buildings.

A slew of community boards in the Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn have voted against the rezonings needed to build taller in their neighborhoods so as to accommodate greater private development and more low - cost housing, most arguing that the plan does not guarantee sufficient units or jobs for the poorest New Yorkers, and thus may accelerate gentrification.

Not exact matches

INWOOD — A City Council committee in charge of rezoning unanimously voted against the Sherman Plaza project Tuesday morning, a day after Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez announced he could not support the project due to community opposition.

North Brooklyn residents spoke out against «broken promises» from the city, saying they have yet to see the completion of their nearly 30 acres of parkland promised as part of the 2005 waterfront rezoning plan.

BROWNSVILLE — Elected officials and Brooklyn neighbors impacted by the city's previous rezoning plans showed up in full force Monday night, urging residents to vote against Mayor Bill de Blasio's proposal to rezone East New York.

A State Supreme Court judge ruled against the city in the controversial Broadway Triangle rezoning case in which a coalition of community groups allege...

Thank you @ydanis for listening to the people of Inwood & pledging to vote against #shermanplaza rezoning!

For example, the City Council broke from its tradition of deferring to the local council member on land use matters in 2009, when it approved a rezoning for Two Trees Management in Dumbo against the wishes of David Yassky, the Council member at the time.

Speaking at separate events over a two - day span, both Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito acknowledged significant community pushback against the mayor's rezoning proposals and said that those plans will be tweaked before the Council votes on them.

In addition to voting against the neighborhood rezoning, the board voted no to the city's two proposed zoning text amendments — Mandatory Inclusionary Housing and Zoning for Quality and Affordability.

Councilwoman Inez Barron, who represents a different portion of the area affected by the proposed East New York rezoning, voted against both amendments on Thursday and said the changes aren't «deep enough or broad enough.»

Some members of the Chinatown Working Group are adamantly against a piecemeal rezoning.

As it stands, Rodriguez is against the city's East Harlem rezoning proposal, as are Ayala, Mark - Viverito, and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer.

that Justice J. Heneghan, who rendered the Federal Court decision, felt compelled to comment: «Considering the fact that the Greenbelt was conceived as a «buffer zone» against encroaching urban sprawl, the steps taken by the NCC to declare the land surplus and to obtain a rezoning of the land seem more consistent with accommodation of urban sprawl, rather than resistance to the erosion of green areas.