New York City voters approved ballot proposals 2, 3, and 4, which are aimed at fast-tracking affordable housing developments, according to the Associated Press.
Over 50% of New York City renters and around 45% of homeowners pay more than 30% of their yearly salary toward housing, according to the Yes on Affordable Housing Coalition.
Proposition 2 creates two alternatives to the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP), the seven-month process for determining how land is used. Not all land in the city goes through ULURP, but zoning changes like affordable housing “must go through public review and approval,” according to the Department of City Planning.
The proposition, which would fast-track affordable housing applications at the City Planning Commission (CPC) or Board of Standards and Appeals (BSA), effectively removes the City Council from the review process.
Publicly financed affordable housing projects will now be subject to a 90-day review by the BSA, rather than the seven-month process. The CPC will review applications from the 12 communities with the lowest affordable housing rates in New York City within 30 to 45 days.
Proposition 3 is meant to simplify the approval for smaller infrastructure projects by also keeping the City Council out of the review process. It would create an Expedited Land Use Review Procedure (ELURP), which would involve a 90-day review from the local community board, borough president, and CPC.
Proposition 4 establishes the Affordable Housing Appeals Board. Currently, the City Council has the final say in affordable housing projects, with only the mayor able to veto. The new board will have the power to veto the City Council. The borough presidents, City Council speaker, and mayor will all be on the board.
Advocates argue that removing the City Council from the process will help create more affordable, smaller housing quickly, especially in neighborhoods that lack it. Councilmembers, however, say that removing them from the process will give developers too much power and take away theirs.
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Hi everyone.
My day job for a food app company and trying to keep up with rent and bills are really hindering me from operating this blog and even my own blog Impunity City on a daily basis. Also, I'm really getting up there in years now and it's going to be difficult to keep this up, especially with props 2,3,4,5 that's going to lead to more overdeveloped building and upzoned crap like the recent photo in South Richmond Hill above.
Just wanted to let you know why this blog has been in a coma. Hopefully I'll have more time to post again soon but check out my X/twitter for what's going in South Queens and see how the progressives are progressively making the city worse and will more with this nepobaby dilletante politician in city hall
Welcome to Taco's America. Build baby build. The Oligarchs are in full control now.
If you don't have your own crypto meme coin, aren't getting paid off by some terrorist state like Qatar, Saudi or Israel, then you aren't with the winners.
Its picking pumpkins on LI or delivering lattes to 5th avenue for you.
We appreciate you, JQ.
Best to you JQ!! The Crapper is alive! BTW I can't wait for all this crap to go through. I want to rent my back yard garage to 20 off the boat illegals.
"Nepobaby dilletante". Right on the money, JQ.
Self-made man Catsimatidis hit the nail on the head when he said Mamdani's resume is so thin - almost non-existent - that he wouldn't hire him to run one of his supermarkets let alone the entire NYC.
We love you, JQ. I wish you only the very best in life. 🌈
It was wrong to end the secession movement after the election of Giuliani https://www.maximumnewyork.com/p/queens-secession
Whitestone just expanded its drainage to deal with prior overbuilding https://qns.com/2024/05/whitestones-brand-new-drainage-system-spanning-120-blocks-is-finally-complete-days-before-hurricane-season/. Whitestone beaches remained closed during the 1970s and 1980s because of 1960s overbuilding, until the Tollman Island sewage plant was built. They always fix the infrastructure a generation after overbuilding. If they want to build, they should first expand the infrastructure. Do you think these schoolmarms who only grade for effort will ever learn?
Mummy Dummy only removed the veil of pretense as NYC has been communist
for over a century thanks to Eugene V Debs and Morris Hilquit. Only one out
of seven effete affected New Yorkers work for profit. Bloomberg ended the
pretense of private buses as government tentacles never let them
compete. More than half our transit fare is already subsidised.
Castratomutris made his fortune overcharging food stamps. He magnified Mummy
Dummy by feeding the troll the same way Hillary magnified Trump by calling
his Al Bundy supporters deplorable. The poor were only emboldened seeing
that big fat grocer shake in his pigskin ciarrique loafers, elephantine apron
falling off his suspenders, pencil off his ear. Recall he dumped Rudy
in 1989 for Dinkins. Instead of Fair Fare and Food Stamps, stop pretending
and make them free. Instead of Congestion Pricing, ban all vehicles in
midtown and Wall Street in favor of horses and carriages. The pretense only
benefits feudal casuist mafia middlemen. If Andrew Yang wants us to have
freedom dividend basic income, like Milton Friedman's negative income tax,
then elderly should not pay for energy, water or property tax.
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