Sentences with phrase «urban renewal area»

The New York City Council yesterday approved a bill sponsored by local Council member Margaret Chin to require the city to notify communities when urban renewal areas are set to expire.

UPDATE 12/14: In this story, we noted that there are no more active urban renewal areas on the Lower East Side.

A State Supreme Court judge starting tomorrow is scheduled to rule on a motion to block the city from rezoning the so - called Broadway Triangle urban renewal area in Brooklyn, a 31 - acre site that activists say has favored politically connected members of the Hasidic community in Williamsburg over African American residents of Bedford Stuyvesant.

A committee vote will take place next month on a set of principles for the redevelopment of the Seward Park Urban renewal Area.

Earlier this year, Council member Chin introduced legislation that would require the city to notify communities when urban renewal areas are about to expire.

Residents would have been able, she explained, to ask for an extension of the urban renewal area or a rezoning if they had known restrictions on development were set to expire.

More than 150 urban renewal areas have been established in New York City since 1949.

In order for eminent domain to be used for the Park South Plan, the Albany Common Council was required to pass an ordinance designating the neighborhood an urban renewal area.

Ground Floor at IDEAS CITY This participatory project focuses on potential uses for the ground floor of SPURA, an urban renewal area located on the Lower East Side.

«It was a little section left out of the urban renewal area, and people thought I was stupid because it was so deplorable.