Still on the table is some sort of way for the community to monitor the plan as building begins.īut the key sticking point in Gowanus is the amount of money the administration will commit to rehabilitate NYCHA’s Gowanus and Wyckoff housing developments. “The environmental impact statement was approved by the City Planning Commission barely one week after Hurricane Ida impacted Gowanus and revealed how the local infrastructure and current design plans are nowhere near ready for the development that will kick off the moment this rezoning is approved,” said Martin Bisi, owner of BC Studio Gowanus, and a member of the opposition group Voice Of Gowanus. “This rezoning would help advance fair housing and reverse the trend towards a whiter and wealthier community, and promote greater resilience and local accountability.” “An incredible 35% of the units to be created - some 3,000 - are to be deeply and permanently affordable,” said Michelle de la Uz, executive director of the Brooklyn-based Fifth Avenue Committee, which is preparing to build 950 units for lower-income households if the plan is approved. The neighborhood is 63% white and upper income, with an average household income of $120,000 - both far higher than the city averages. The administration has also said the project is also crucial to desegregating the city. The Gowanus plan has been in the works for more than five years and supporters say the community - and especially Lander - has been involved from the beginning. They expect this one to fail as well because the objecting co-op and condo don’t represent 20% of the land area as required.
Legal advisors for the Blood Center said previous challenges like this one have failed because they did not meet the requirements of the charter. “Even those who support the project have told me they support member deference.” “I don’t believe there will be 39 votes” for the project, Kallos said. If they do, the Council would have to approve the project by a three-fourths supermajority, rather than a straight majority-rules vote.
The legal maneuver involves what is called a “protest” under section 200(a)(3) of the City Charter, which allows property owners within 100 feet of a piece of land being rezoned or whose property is included in a rezoning to object to a resolution approved by the City Planning Commission. “What is better for the city of New York and New Yorkers? Not having shadows or expanding a nonprofit that plays such a vital role,” he told POLITICO New York. The chair of the Council’s Land Use Committee, Rafael Salamanca (D-The Bronx), said Monday he would support the Blood Center expansion, despite Kallos’s opposition. Last week, the Council’s Black, Latino and Asian Caucus called on Kallos, who sides with opponents concerned the midblock tower will cast shadows, to come to an agreement with the center. The Blood Center proposal has been picking up support in the Council with its argument that the project would fuel development of a life sciences sector, a priority of the last two city mayoral administrations. Meanwhile, the plans represent last stands for many Council members - Kallos and Lander, among them - who will be leaving at the end of next month due to term limits. Members and sponsors make THE CITY possible.īoth the Gowanus and SoHo rezonings are aimed at using affordable housing to bring more people of color into some of the city’s whitest and wealthiest neighborhoods.Īll three projects are seen, to different degrees, as key to the legacy Mayor Bill de Blasio, whose eight years in office end Dec.
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