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The city’s plan to rezone a portion of the Rockaway peninsula in order to transform neglected publicly owned vacant lots into affordable housing, retail, amenities and open spaces, while mitigating flood risk and growing the coastal ecology was unanimously passed by the City Planning Commission on May 11.
The city’s Housing Preservation and Development initiative which would place eight acres into a community land trust, which was set in motion in 2015, will now head to the City Council in the next step of the public review process.
“The City Planning Commission’s unanimous support of the Resilient Edgemere Community Plan conveys its strength and marks an important step forward,” HPD Press Secretary William Fowler said. “We are grateful to the Edgemere community, the local elected officials, and partners across city government for their continued input as we look forward to building a more resilient future for this neighborhood.”
The proposed land-use changes will bring more than 1,200 much-needed affordable homes, including more homeownership opportunities to Edgemere, which was inundated by the flood surge from Superstorm Sandy nearly a decade ago.
“On top of ongoing work from the federal government to help make this neighborhood more resilient, the city is also dedicated to protecting it from flooding and storm events,” City Planning Commission Chairman Dan Garodnick said. “The creation here of a Special Coastal Risk District will limit development along Edgemere’s low-lying Jamaica Bay shoreline, which is a really high-risk area that experienced significant damage from Superstorm Sandy. We are taking lessons learned from that tragic event and putting them into action to create a more resilient and protected neighborhood on the Rockaway Peninsula.”
5 comments:
Another little Section 8 crime slum. Hasn't Rockaway suffered enough?
Build baby build! Ignore the communists !
they want more crack babies and more violence. How come no ones crying about the gun violence in the Rockaways? They've already bused in far too many so called families from the shelters.
@"they want more crack babies and more violence. How come no ones crying about the gun violence in the Rockaways? They've already bused in far too many so called families from the shelters. "
Well, it seems that the right-wingers and their corrupt SCOTUS are the ones who want more crack babies now. As for gun violence, well, what do you expect when right-wingers block any law that makes it difficult for every crazy crackhead in the country from getting automatic weapons.
@“ they want more crack babies and more violence”
You sound like a crack baby yourself! Go cry in a corner.
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