Predictably, a coalition of the city’s leading NIMBY groups blasted the City Council speaker’s proposal Thursday as a “top-down approach that would leave communities with even less democratic control over massive city rezonings” than they have now.
Well, yes. That is exactly the point.
Not to be anal, but this is not a direct democracy. It’s a republic. We elect leaders, who in turn run the government. We don’t let people with pitchforks decide what can be built where.
Riiiight, we elect representatives who vote on rezonings on our behalf. Unfortunately what Planning Together does is remove them, as well as community boards and the borough president, from the equation. Let's continue:
New York’s lone YIMBY group, Open New York, thinks Johnson’s plan should go further because “it fails to address longstanding practices that allow wealthier neighborhoods to block new housing and shunt demand elsewhere,” said board member Will Thomas.
He was disgusted but hardly surprised by the letter from the anti-development groups including Village Preservation, Voice of Gowanus, Stop Sunnyside Yards, Soho Alliance and the Coalition to Protect Chinatown and the Lower East Side.
“We encourage legislators interested in more equitable city planning to ignore complaints by wealthy NIMBYs who are primarily interested in protecting the status quo,” Thomas said.
Wealthy NIMBYs? I think you'd better take a closer look at who signed the letter.
When they have to misrepresent who you are, it means they are up to no good.
5 comments:
This article is just more grass for the NYC sheep.
Where do the social justice warriors live that they think we have so many wealthy white neighborhoods, or even many white ones? What we do have are working class people not wanting their neighborhoods be destroyed any more than they have been.
Graze people graze
Single family home owners are modern day Kulaks. Not dependent on Government and way to ambitious. Therefore they must be destroyed
What developers? Vultures more like it!
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