Sentences with phrase «inclusionary zoning plan»

Ms. Brewer, normally a de Blasio ally, embraced the mandatory inclusionary zoning plan with major caveats: namely, requirements that would limit the tallest buildings to the widest streets, steps to preserve rowhouse blocks, a ban on any kind of segregation by income in the new buildings and expanding the program to encompass both more low and more middle - income earners.

Meanwhile, the advocacy group Association for Neighborhood Housing and Development has also criticized the mandatory inclusionary zoning plan for not being stringent enough in its affordability requirements.

Today, Mr. de Blasio seeks to pass a mandatory inclusionary zoning plan for the entire city, and has wedded it to a set of alterations to existing codes that would let developers build without concern for creating parking or keeping their construction in context with the area.

Not exact matches

At Pratt, he led many successful community - planning efforts, as well as campaigns to expand affordable housing and create NYC's «inclusionary zoning» program, which requires developers seeking tax breaks to set aside 20 percent of their units for low and moderate income families and pay a living wage to their service workers.

The Department of City Planning, working with the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, will initiate and expedite the completion of a study to provide the foundation for incorporating a mandatory Inclusionary Housing Program into the Zoning Resolution.

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.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's ambitious 10 - year affordable housing plan depends heavily on the success of mandatory inclusionary zoning (Photo: Getty Images).

Under de Blasio's Mandatory Inclusionary Housing zoning plan, new construction would have to include a certain number of permanently affordable housing units.

But Glen and City Planning Commissioner Carl Weisbrod pointed out that some of their biggest zoning initiatives, Zoning for Quality and Affordability (ZQA) and Mandatory Inclusionary Housing (MIH), have yet to take ezoning initiatives, Zoning for Quality and Affordability (ZQA) and Mandatory Inclusionary Housing (MIH), have yet to take eZoning for Quality and Affordability (ZQA) and Mandatory Inclusionary Housing (MIH), have yet to take effect.

Council President Darius G. Pridgen said that, while the Council has not yet proposed any specific legislation in support of inclusionary zoning, the city's Office of Strategic Planning has hired a consultant to study how best to implement such a law.

At a City Council hearing last month on the Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning proposal, City Councilman David Greenfield pointed out that 421 - a was mentioned 438 times in the city's proposal — reflecting how important the state program was for the city's plan.

Community boards across the city have to decide whether to approve the mayor's Mandatory Inclusionary Housing and Zoning for Quality and Affordability plans.

The 20 percent number was struck after the developer put its hand up to be the first participant in the city's mandatory inclusionary zoning program after early resistance to the plan's lack of affordable housing.

DE BLASIO»S PLAN FOR INCLUSIONARY ZONING has had mixed results in other cities.

At 6 p.m. Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. and the Bronx Borough Board will host a public hearing regarding the Zoning for Quality and Affordability and the Mandatory Inclusionary Housing proposals of Mayor de Blasio through the City Planning department and toward his housing plan.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's ambitious 10 - year affordable housing plan depends heavily on the success of mandatory inclusionary zoning (Photo: John Moore for Getty Images).

The plans, known as Mandatory Inclusionary Housing (MIH) and Zoning for Quality and Affordability (ZQA), are designed to facilitate the mayor's plan to create or preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing across the five boroughs.

The proposals are part of Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning and Zoning for Quality and Affordability, two main pieces of the mayor's Housing New York plan that are being reviewed by community and borough boards now before some version goes to the Council.

Last week, the state legislature delivered a preemptive strike against Barry's plan, voting to ban mandatory inclusionary zoning.