7 Things You Ought To Know About The SoHo/NoHo Rezoning
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The de Blasio administration is getting ready to submit its proposal to rezone SoHo and NoHo for formal review a seven-month-long process that’ll put it before the local community board, Manhattan Borough president, Planning Commission, and ultimately, the City Council. But the rough outlines of its plan, which would add affordable housing to two of Manhattan’s wealthiest neighborhoods and has been the center of contentious fights amongst New Yorkers, came out in October. Here’s what you need to know to follow the debate:
An exclusive inside look at what has been built at N.Y. Wheel site
Updated Feb 26, 2021;
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Before the original New York Wheel project reached its demise in October 2018, a lot of infrastructure was built on the city-owned site.
With CanAm Enterprises, which is a sponsor of EB-5 regional center projects, recently announcing that it is embarking on a smaller version of the N.Y. Wheel, the Advance/SILive.com was able to get an exclusive inside look on Thursday at the work already completed at the site.
The initial project reached its demise on Oct. 23, 2018, when its principals announced they would not follow through with the construction of the 630-foot-high tourist attraction whose cost had snowballed from an original estimate of $250 million to close to $1 billion.
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Planning via Zoom: Legal Scrutiny for Pandemic Realities in New York City
The question of whether a public review process conducted by Zoom is sufficient to approve a sweeping rezoning plan is a matter of no small legal concern in New York City. February 24, 2021, 5am PST | James Brasuell |
Rebecca Baird-Remba reports the details of a lawsuit that threatens to derail the Gowanus Neighborhood Planning Study, alleging that Zoom meetings don t allow for a sufficient public review process.
The stakes in the lawsuit are substantial. The new zoning would cover 80 blocks between Park Slope and Carroll Gardens, and it would pave the way for 8,200 new apartments, 700,000 square feet of commercial space and 251,000 square feet of community facilities on land that is now largely zoned for industrial uses, according to Baird-Remba. The plan had been stuck in COVID limbo for the first half of 2020.