Sentences with word «rezoning»

The planned rezoning of East New York serves as a litmus test for the rest of the city as the first of 15 neighborhoods targeted by the de Blasio administration.

INWOOD — Critics of the controversial rezoning plan for Sherman Plaza are crying foul after the NYPD rejected their request for a permit to hold a protest outside City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez's office Monday night — just days before he announced he was holding his own press conference on the issue the same night.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg once again laid out his argument for rezoning Midtown East in his weekly radio address.

Mayor Bill de Blasio says he's perplexed as to why community residents are rejoicing over the City Council's vote to reject to the Sherman Plaza rezoning proposal in Inwood — arguing it is «not a win for the community» because developers could now erect housing with no affordable units.

Discussing the city's proposed rezonings of Inwood and Jerome Avenue, Johnson said the Council should typically seek to get to a place of acceptance if the project will benefit the community.

The land use and economic development committees of CB3 opted not to condition their vote in favor of the proposal on rezoning several blocks south of the proposed project as the board had considered and some preservationists and long - time community members are fighting for.

-- Earlier this year, Borough President Katz recommended disapproval of the original Astoria Cove rezoning application due to concerns with what she saw as insufficiencies in the proportion of affordable housing units, alternative mass transit option investments, skilled labor commitments and school construction timeline.

The building would be the first major development to take advantage of the Midtown East rezoning plan adopted by the city last year, which allows companies to buy air rights from other properties in the area to build larger, modern offices.

I have led the fight through the Jerome rezoning process to advocate for the creation of an elevator at the Burnside Avenue station.

But land supply can increase too, from rezoning of industrial or agricultural land to residential use, or from cuts in minimum lot sizes.

Currently it mandates developers who build in rezoned areas of the city pick from one of three options for affordable housing: 25 percent of their units rented to those making, on average, 60 percent of the Area Median Income, 30 percent at 80 percent of the AMI or 30 percent at 120 percent.

On Tuesday, the Birmingham City Council approved rezoning the subject property — located at 2163, 2169 and 2173 Highland Avenue and 2150 14th Avenue South — from B - 2, General Business District to QB - 3, Qualified Community Business District.

When the house is rezoned as coming within campus property, Mitch has to relocate, but his buddies have a better idea: start a fraternity.

At 6 p.m., Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer holds a public hearing on the Inwood rezoning proposal, I.S. 218, 4600 Broadway, Manhattan.

Indeed, in the context of numerous neighborhood rezonings proposed by the de Blasio administration across the city, advocacy groups have consistently called for more rigorous scrutiny of promises made by the city and keeping developers accountable if they receive any benefits from the administration.

Electric car company submits application for 2 locations in Greenburgh, which would need to be rezoned by town board

Neighborhood residents asked Borough President Eric Adams to convene a forum about rezoning part of the boulevard between Flatbush and Rogers avenues so his office set it for 6 p.m. at Full Gospel Assembly, 131 Sullivan Place.

«We expect in the current market that quality peri-urban assets such as these with rezoning potential and multiples titles will remain popular, particularly investment assets with reliable tenants that generate 7 to 8 per cent yields to investors,» Mr Forrest said.

City Councilman Peter Koo sent a letter Friday that urged the city to not move forward with their plan to create «Flushing West» — one of the 15 neighborhoods targeted for rezoning under Mayor Bill de Blasio's Mandatory Inclusionary Housing plan to create more affordable housing.

Stringer also announced that the official public review of the West Harlem rezoning project for the Columbia University expansion will begin this fall and that it is expected to be complete by early next year.

There was a contentious elementary school rezoning on the Upper West Side, middle - school admissions came under the microscope, and yet another plan to diversify Specialized High Schools went nowhere, as did the attempt to quickly turn around failing Renewal Schools.

Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito will call for a system to clear old warrants for nonviolent offenses and for deeper community involvement in citywide rezoning efforts tomorrow in her second State of the City address.

The proposed rezoning at 4650 Broadway would have been the first under City Hall's mandatory inclusionary housing program, which allows developers to build taller in exchange for affordability concessions.

CB3 has sent a letter to Councilman Alan Gerson's office expressing disappointment that it wasn't included in a recent meeting to discuss the potential rezoning of the Bowery.

The DOE developed the new rezoning plan after parents panned the city's first proposal, which sent some TriBeCa children to P.S. 3 in Greenwich Village rather than to TriBeCa's P.S. 234 and also displaced students in the Village and Chelsea from their neighborhood schools.

For many types of insurance, companies can raise your rates for a variety of reasons, such as the number of claims you make, accumulating points on your driving record or having an insured property rezoned into a flood zone.

Brewer said that if rezoning of the «Commercial U» continued, the city must assist small businesses with finding new homes.

CIVIC CENTER — A protester was injured struggling with security officers during the City Council's vote Tuesday on the mayor's controversial citywide rezoning proposals.

The mayor's Mandatory Inclusionary Housing initiative would require developers to build affordable housing if their projects benefit from city rezonings.

Mark - Viverito said she was pleased that the East Harlem rezoning proposal passed the Council, after community feedback encouraged the city to reduce height and density for new buildings and increase the amount of affordable units.

Rezoning issues: Complaints from parents prompt the Brevard County School Board to table a plan to redraw school boundaries that would move nearly 400 students out of Melbourne High School.

She has also clashed with de Blasio over rezonings in predominantly manufacturing areas.

The final vote of the year saw a number of rezonings pass.

Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. (L) and director of Planning & Development James Rausse (R) at the Bronx Borough hearing on the Jerome Avenue rezoning on November 2, 2017.

But it was all for naught, because the Woodland town council voted three to one against rezoning the land for solar energy collection, and even voted to establish a moratorium on bringing the subject of solar farms up again.

On Monday, March 12, Rep. Adriano Espaillat held an Inwood Rezoning Forum where he presented a sweeping vision for the future of...

CIVIC CENTER — Many elderly New Yorkers want the City Council to pass Mayor Bill de Blasio's controversial rezoning plan as is because they «don't have time» to wait for a long bureaucratic process to play out amid a housing crisis for seniors.

Votaw said the value of property rezoned for TOD has shown an annualized increase of 36 to 143 percent.

The change further exacerbated frustrations in the runup to a controversial meeting about rezoning part of Empire Boulevard between Flatbush and Rogers avenues.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams will host a public hearing on the East New York rezoning on Monday, Nov. 23 at 6 p.m., at the Brooklyn Borough Hall Court Room, 209 Joralemon St.

Alicia Glen, deputy mayor for housing and economic development, last year said Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration would not support residential rezonings in Industrial Business Zones in order to protect jobs in those areas.

NEW YORK CITY — The City Council is set to approve Mayor Bill de Blasio's two affordable housing rezoning proposals after altering the plans to include more affordable housing and parking in areas with the least access to public transit, according to Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito.

The site still requires rezoning, but a closing is expected later this year.

Those include rezonings, new regulations for self - storage and for the department of Housing Preservation and Development to create a data portal for New Yorkers to see all properties owned by individual owners along with violations and tenant harassment data for each building.

NYC Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña vowed to tackle classroom segregation with school rezonings across the city in the upcoming school year.

Though the Borough President's rezoning recommendation is non-binding, the CPC has the ability to alter the plan and can incorporate her recommendations.

-- After a City Council rezoning vote, the developer of a Sutton Place condo tower temporarily halts construction.

INWOOD — City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez has postponed a vote on the controversial Sherman Plaza rezoning project, he announced Monday night, on the heels of a blistering Twitter war with constituents and a shouting match at a rally and march over the weekend.