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Development site at 14-18 Carroll Street. (Photo: Google Maps)The ongoing challenge of incentivizing affordable housing construction was on full view last week at the City Council. A proposal to construct a ten-unit, four-story residential development in the Columbia Street Waterfront District was denied by the City Council on Thursday
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Image via NYC.gov [http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/plans-studies/zqa/profiles/bk02.pdf] .The City Council voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday, March 22 in favor of two controversial zoning changes proposed by the mayor to spur the construction of affordable housing. The proposals, Zoning for Quality and
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275 4th Avenue, rendering by Moso Studio/ODA Architecture. (Courtesy of Moso Studio/ODA Architecture)The City Council voted overwhelmingly Tuesday in favor of two controversial zoning changes proposed by the mayor to spur the construction of affordable housing. The proposals, Zoning for Quality and Affordability [http://www.nyc.gov/
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(Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)The City Council voted overwhelmingly Tuesday in favor of two controversial zoning changes proposed by the mayor to spur the construction of affordable housing. The proposals, Zoning for Quality and Affordability [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/zoning-qa/presentation_0915.pdf] (ZQA) and Mandatory
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Image via NYC.gov [http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/plans-studies/zqa/profiles/bk02.pdf] .BY HEATHER J. CHIN AND ALEX ELLEFSON The City Council and Mayor Bill de Blasio have reached an agreement on two zoning changes meant to spur construction of affordable housing [http://www.nyc.
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Photo by Erica Sherman [http://websta.me/p/1081210036566333164_46892020]In Case You Missed It (ICYMI): [/tag/in-case-you-missed-it/] Here are some of the big stories you may have missed this week. You can keep up with what’s going on in the neighborhood all week long. Just follow us on
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Photo by Leon LipkovichThe City Council and Mayor Bill de Blasio have reached an agreement on two zoning changes meant to spur construction of affordable housing [http://www.nyc.gov/html/housing/assets/downloads/pdf/housing_plan.pdf] in the New York City. The proposals, Zoning for Quality and Affordability
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City Councilman Chaim Deutsch speaking to Community Board 15. (Photo: NHSatSheepshead [https://twitter.com/NHSatSheepshead/status/702297626574598144] / Twitter)City Councilman Chaim Deutsch told the Community Board Tuesday that he will stand with his colleagues in passing two controversial pieces of the mayor’s affordable housing plan so long as he
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Rendering via New York YIMBY [http://www.yimbynews.com/2015/01/revealed-271-fourth-avenue-park-slope.html] City Council members pushed back against Mayor Bill de Blasio’s zoning proposals Wednesday — questioning city officials about some of the more contentious aspects of the plan. Department of Housing Preservation and Development Commissioner Vicki Been made
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Cars parked on Voorhies Avenue. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)City Council members pushed back against Mayor Bill de Blasio’s zoning proposals Wednesday — questioning city officials about some of the more contentious aspects of the plan. Department of Housing Preservation and Development Commissioner Vicki Been made the case for
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Image via Department of City Planning.It’s a stalemate. Mayor Bill de Blasio’s controversial rezoning plan — meant to address the city’s affordable housing crisis — may have been approved last Wednesday, February 3 [http://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/plans/zqa/zoning-for-quality-and-affordability.page] by the City Planning Commission,
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Back in 2003 — well before I was elected to the City Council, before I directed the Pratt Center, when I led the Fifth Avenue Committee — the Bloomberg Administration proposed to upzone Fourth Avenue in Park Slope. We had a simple idea: mandate that developers include some affordable units for low-