Sentences with phrase «zoning change proposals»

In recent weeks, all five of the city's borough boards, all of its borough presidents and a large majority of its 59 community boards have voted to reject one or both zoning change proposals that de Blasio's team says are needed to create homes for low - to middle - income families.

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A spokesman for the group announced last month that it would be shutting down operations after accomplishing its goals of pushing forth proposals like universal pre-K and zoning changes.

He insisted his proposal leaves open the question of where to put the new facilities because of the Council's long - established practice of giving its members veto authority over zoning changes in their district.

The first step in implementing the plan will be in - depth studies of many of the proposals it identifies, with actual policy and zoning changes coming years down the road.

Speaking Thursday at the St. Patrick's Day Parade, de Blasio said the nonprofit had accomplished what it was created to do: Push through proposals such as universal pre-K and his zoning changes to help create and preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing.

And the mayor's call for the construction of tens of thousands of units of vitally needed new housing is the best example of his vision: His proposal calls for new construction and zoning changes mostly in areas that can support new housing — along key subway routes and with parks and other services thought about from the start.

Both proposals are changes to the city's land use rules by way of zoning language and have been the source of a great deal of recent debate.

Under the proposal, the city would change zoning rules so the square's pedestrian plaza is no longer mapped as a street, instead creating a district called Times Square Commons.

Under the proposal, the city would change zoning rules so the square's pedestrian plaza is no longer mapped as a street, instead creating a new district called Times Square Commons.

Rep. Gregory Meeks of Queens has made a pact with City Council members to deny potential zoning changes linked to a development proposal for...

The Council altered de Blasio's Mandatory Inclusionary Housing and Zoning for Quality and Affordability proposals to make them include more affordable housing and more parking in areas with poor access to public transportation, but these changes was not enough to satisfy some Bronx leaders.

Under the original de Blasio proposal, MIH would have changed zoning laws citywide to obligate developers to set aside a percentage of apartments for middle and lower - middle class tenants in new buildings.

And supporters and opponents of key zoning changes the mayor wants packed a City Planning Commission hearing in Lower Manhattan Wednesday to sound off about the proposals they say will remake the city, as NY1's Grace Rauh reports.

The Bloomberg administration had floated a similar zoning change — though the proposal would've changed the required manufacturing ratio to 1:6 — but the plan was ultimately shelved.

(An exception to this was John Waid's fascinating 2016 work 909,125 minutes later, an unrealised proposal to delay the Angelus, reflecting that Ireland used to have its own time zone, changed in 1916 by English parliamentary decree by twenty - five minutes and twenty - one seconds.)