Saturday, July 21, 2007

Jamaica Plan moving forward

The City Planning Comm- ission unanim- ously passed the massive rezoning of 368 blocks in Jamaica last week, as the plan heads to the City Council for final approval.

Jamaica Rezoning Passes City Planning Commission

Paul Graziano, an independent urban planning consultant from Flushing, said there are many areas of concern in the plan, which he believes attempts too many sweeping changes at the same time.

"The City Council will not support it the way it is now," he said. "The question is, how much will they change it?"

Photo of Ashmead Park Playground taken 1914, from New York City Parks Photo Archive

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

The bottom line seems to be, despite all rhetoric to the contrary, "THEY" don't seem to want Blacks having a real say in the planning process of the neighborhoods that they live in !

Masturbation Proclaimation !

Anonymous said...

Hillside Avenue is so dumpy right now. What changes will be made to allow improvement of that area?

Anonymous said...

"Hillside Avenue is so dumpy right now. What changes will be made to allow improvement of that area?"

Too many brown skinned people for you and City Planning Commission's taste?

Anonymous said...

This shows that after ensuring the public's right to chose is made as meaningless as possible, and if after all that hard work they fail to follow the script, in the last resort the can simply be ignored.

This is a very dangerous development in the health of our democracy. The public is forewarned. Please wake up dammit!