Rezone...

 

Eric Adams, the Brooklyn borough president, has voted against the controversial project at 960 Franklin Avenue in Crown Heights: two 34-story towers that would offer 50 percent affordable housing but also throw the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s greenhouses into shadow. 

The vote, while purely advisory and not unexpected, is another ominous sign for the proposed development and came a little over a month after Adams’s office held a remote public hearing in which only two out of 105 people spoke in support of the project. (Both were union representatives; the project would be union-built and -staffed, which is unusual for a project with such a high percentage of affordability.)

Adams offered his disapproval of the project without conditions or modifications, writing that while he supported “the development of underutilized land for productive uses that address the city’s need for additional affordable housing,” the zoning requested by the developer would have “no precedent in Brooklyn.” He suggested, in so many words.

Rezoning NYC becomes a major problem in the city.  The City that buckled down the minute Covid-19 appears with 60,000 Death and a Governor's career down the tube.

Quality of life is more important today with Climate change issues and viruses that can spread and kill thousand in no time through mass transport systems and condensed offices .  

Just a thought..