Residents, elected officials and community groups on Wednesday gathered outside City Hall to announce a lawsuit against the zoning changes under the City of Yes for Housing Opportunity plan, which passed in December.
The Article 78 complaint, filed on Tuesday night, argues that the plan violates the State Environmental Quality Review Act and the City Environmental Quality Review.
Quoted in a press release from the office of Councilwoman Joann Ariola (R-Ozone Park), the suit alleges in part that the city failed to properly examine “significant areas of environmental concern.” According to the release, the City Planning Commission concluded that new development under the plan would have no significant negative impact on communities, even though many neighborhoods face issues such as flooding, pollution and overcrowded schools.
“How, with a straight face, can the city of New York say that what they’re doing is not going to have an effect on these things, which are already overburdened and overtaxed, at capacity or beyond capacity, today?” urban planning consultant Paul Graziano said at the press conference.
5 comments:
Herbert Hoover is responsible for zoning. Zoning and "civic" associations exploded when nazi ratliners started living in out communities. Civic associations are clearly unelected coercive usurpers of our liberties. In the south, ratliners, such as those recruited for NASA in Alabama, were responsible for the revivial of the KKK
Democratic Party Slogan: "I'm pro government waste and fraud, and I vote!!!" 🤪
Everybody relax. Trump just fixed this with one of his usual cunning strategies. By completely destroying the economy, and throwing gasoline on inflation, we won't be seeing much development in the near future. Canadians now hate the nasty nation to their south. They don't want to come visit NYC anymore. Europeans likewise. This along with deportations etc will free up lots of rental accommodation in the near future.
After four years, the city should be back to it's 1930's finest.
Well done DJT. You fixed it as promised.
Yet they still keep voting for democrats. And I heard that AOC led schumer in a hypothetical poll by double digits. What is wrong with the dems in ny????
Sheeple need to be vaccinated against misinformation!
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