From the Queens Chronicle:
City Council Speaker Corey Johnson (D-Manhattan) wants to eliminate single-family zoning across New York City, but some community representatives are concerned the change will cause more bad than good.
The plan, introduced in December, is intended to “streamline” housing development by establishing a new commission, made up of members appointed by the mayor, City Council and borough presidents, which would set construction targets for each community district.
Johnson claims the Planning Together initiative would close racial and economic disparities, but urban planner Paul Graziano argues it would instead ruin the character of Queens.
“This is what set off the red flags for me: the main pillar of this report is based off a complete lie — I’ll just say it straight out,” Graziano said at a Jan. 20 Community Board 8 meeting. “The complete lie is that the rezonings that occurred under the Bloomberg administration were to help white, wealthy neighborhoods at the expense of all others ... This isn’t true.”
Graziano, who presented before CB 8 on his own accord, said he had designed about half of the Bloomberg-era rezonings and called Johnson’s statements “outrageous” and “dangerous.”
The majority of single-family zones in the borough are in northeastern and southeastern Queens, Graziano said, and most neighborhoods there are not largely white. To illustrate his point, he presented maps of each borough neighborhood that was rezoned between 2005 and 2013 with maps courtesy of the CUNY Graduate Center that show demographics by block.
City Council Speaker Corey Johnson (D-Manhattan) wants to eliminate single-family zoning across New York City, but some community representatives are concerned the change will cause more bad than good.
The plan, introduced in December, is intended to “streamline” housing development by establishing a new commission, made up of members appointed by the mayor, City Council and borough presidents, which would set construction targets for each community district.
Johnson claims the Planning Together initiative would close racial and economic disparities, but urban planner Paul Graziano argues it would instead ruin the character of Queens.
“This is what set off the red flags for me: the main pillar of this report is based off a complete lie — I’ll just say it straight out,” Graziano said at a Jan. 20 Community Board 8 meeting. “The complete lie is that the rezonings that occurred under the Bloomberg administration were to help white, wealthy neighborhoods at the expense of all others ... This isn’t true.”
Graziano, who presented before CB 8 on his own accord, said he had designed about half of the Bloomberg-era rezonings and called Johnson’s statements “outrageous” and “dangerous.”
The majority of single-family zones in the borough are in northeastern and southeastern Queens, Graziano said, and most neighborhoods there are not largely white. To illustrate his point, he presented maps of each borough neighborhood that was rezoned between 2005 and 2013 with maps courtesy of the CUNY Graduate Center that show demographics by block.
Planning Together Final Report December 16 2020 by queenscrapper on Scribd
Response Memo RE Planning Together - 1-15-2021 by queenscrapper on Scribd
Response Memo RE Planning Together - Appendix A - Demographics - 1-15-2021 by queenscrapper on Scribd
Response Memo RE Planning Together - Appendix B - Single-Family Zoning - 1-15-2021 by queenscrapper on Scribd
Legislation Details (With Text) by queenscrapper on Scribd
19 comments:
How come in the same sentences "Black" starts with a capital letter but "brown" doesn't? How should we capitalize the colors that are Caucasian and Asian? And will it be now be "Mulatto" or "mulatto"?
George - get a life.
Moe said...
Good one George !
I’m taking the time ....DURING A BIO BRAKE....(which is appropriate here) to respond to George “get a job” the Atheist:
Still your same old poop...eh Giorgio?
Been off this site for 5 years.
GEORGE is still here I see😂.
Good to see him claiming his fame in cyberspace. BTW....how old are you George?
On Medicare yet?
By George....WHATTA bore you are!
Just because you have too much time on your hands doesnt give you license to ....YAWN....piffle you thoughts to the public.
Re: "....how old are you George? On Medicare yet?" 93 is the new 39. Who gives a fuck how old he is? Answer his posited questions, morons.
"GEORGE is still here I see."
Yes, George the Atheist: the internet Rock of Gibraltar.
Dear Georgetheatheist:
Pay no attention to the misguided, misfit, misinformed, uninformed Peanut Gallery; every knock is a boost. The truth of the matter is that you are at least THREE TIMES as effective at posting your keen observations than any ONE of your politically motivated henchmen could ever be effective in whatever low wage, odd lot positions of ephemera over which they will spend the rest of their unnatural life spans toiling in virtual beggary and obscurity.
My question to your disgruntled, amateur and profoundly reductive critics is: What did THEY collectively fail at so miserably throughout their pedestrian lives that resulted in their self-appointed, unsolicited, keyboard warrior style, opinionated roles that continue to contribute essentially zero input to this thread, and undoubtedly many others as well? On your WORST DAY, you will always be far superior than any single one of their purportedly BEST days!
In fact, THEY would be lucky to reach Medicare eligibility given how they are STILL languishing at the MEDICAID level, without any assurance to graduate above their high school degrees of unremarkable, quite resistable mediocraty.
In closing, always speak the truth, George - even (and, especially) when the hobbled herds are barking out loud to silence your wisdom.
❝Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.❞ ——George Carlin
❝It always amazes me how stupid people are.❞ ——Frank Zappa
❝No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot.❞ ——Mark Twain
What has Paul Graziaino ever accomplished? Nothing - Nada - The Empty Set
What has the Queens Civic Congress accomplished? Nothing - Nada - The Empty Set
Madness is doing the same thing over and over again with the same people over and over again and expecting something different.
Queens needs new players and new blood.
What has Paul Graziaino ever accomplished? Nothing - Nada - The Empty Set
Hard to accomplish anything when one is not elected. Moron.
"Hard to accomplish anything when one is not elected. Moron."
Very True! ... but madness is doing the same thing over and over again with the same people over and over again and expecting something different.
Social information in cyberspace is a powerful tool to bypass and shortcircuit the system.
It is also something quite over the head of most of the civic activists in the boro who are stuck somewhere in the 1950s and write long essays on topics that no one cares to read.
but madness is doing the same thing over and over again with the same people over and over again and expecting something different.
Actually that's the definition of STUPIDITY.
Wonder how many bikers will be out tomorrow to take advantage of the incoming huge storm. Come on bike lovers, go for it.
Lead by example!
"What has Paul Graziaino ever accomplished?"
Many Tea parties with the old timers from the Bowne Park Civic Association at the Church On The Hill !
Bike Lover said...
"Lead by example!"
Take your Urban Attack Mom SUV out and I will take youe parking spot !
"What has Paul Graziaino ever accomplished? Nothing - Nada - The Empty Set"
Paul Graziano rezoned half of Queens, douchebag. If it wasn't for him, those neighborhoods would have been completely wrecked by now.
Many Tea parties with the old timers from the Bowne Park Civic Association at the Church On The Hill !
Wrong. Try again for $50.
ake your Urban Attack Mom SUV out and I will take youe parking spot !
with your what snowflake?
Paul Graziano rezoned half of Queens, douchebag. If it wasn't for him, those neighborhoods would have been completely wrecked by now.
hahahahahahohohohohohohehehehehehe
yeah, sure .... nice job there chump.
In Queens you get a variance faster than a streetwalker a 'boyfriend'
Variances are a whole other ball game! Ask the Board of Standards and Appeals.
Graziano is, indeed, the planner who voluntarily helped many of the Queens communities rezone. He is the creator of R2A. I had R4 and now I have R2A. Trust me. Without his drawings of the plans, City Planning could not have accomplished as much as they did and we would have lost many of our one-family homes.
If you are truly interested, and not just interested in making smart-a''ed statements, then you can look here for more information https://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/plans/queens.page
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