Ahead of a Uniform Land Use Review Procedure anticipated for the spring, Councilwoman Nantasha Williams (D-St. Albans) is encouraging people to participate in a “once-in-a-generation” opportunity to shape the future of Downtown Jamaica.
There will be two community meetings about the Jamaica Neighborhood Plan, a proposal to rezone 300 blocks downtown and in adjacent areas around several major corridors.
At a parks meeting held earlier this year, Borough President Donovan Richards said the proposal could create 12,000 housing units in the downtown area.
A virtual Zoom meeting will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 26, starting at 7 p.m. To register, go to shorturl.at/isDVJ. An in-person forum will be held at York College, located at 94-20 Guy R. Brewer Blvd. in Jamaica, on Thursday, March 6, from 6 to 9 p.m. To sign up, go to shorturl.at/UNCAk. To learn more about the plan, visit jamaicaplan.nyc.
“These meetings are a chance for residents, business owners and stakeholders to provide input on how we can create a more vibrant, inclusive and sustainable Jamaica,” Williams said via email.
Corridors such as Jamaica Avenue, Merrick Boulevard, Hillside Avenue and Liberty Avenue, institutions including York College, Rufus King Park and the Jamaica Rail Hub, which provides transit access to the rest of New York City and east to Long Island via the subway, Long Island Rail Road and AirTrain, are all in the targeted area.
The purpose of the plan, other than creating more housing, is to improve the quality of life for current and future residents, maintain the cultural diversity in Jamaica, achieve equitable health and safety outcomes in the area, bolster Jamaica’s rich history and create a climate-resilient and environmentally friendly place, according to the Jamaica Plan website.
To achieve that, there would be a push to increase awareness of and access to local and citywide mental health resources; pathways to foster partnerships with local institutions; exhibits for local artists; support for diverse businesses to open up; promotion of Jamaica’s green spaces and festivals; strategies and enforcement to improve sanitation; management of flooding, air quality and climate change; and more.
Having a zoom hearing over a week before the actual neighborhood town hall for something as life changing as rezoning is quite sneaky and unethical and really shows the YIMBY lobbyist infiltrated NYC Planning office has already decided what they want to do with Jamaica. And it should be no surprise since past neighborhood plan "workshops" included children designing areas and fabricating residents to make it look like more community input was involved.
Oh, and don't call it a City Of Yes, they really hate that.
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Who in their right mind will participate. This will destroy many neighborhoods. I wish Trump could stop this.
Carlisle Towery, where are you?
Trump busy destroying the economy and planning a beach resort on top of dead Palestinian bodies. Then it's off to colonize Greenland and put thousands of Federal employees out of work.
That should put an end to most of this development work for ya.
Happy?
"This will destroy many neighborhoods"
Well yea, NYC leaders want to make another Denmark here. Everybody on bikes, doped up, stupid and anybody with brains against "the plan" can get the f_k out ! (or get driven out)
Problem is what happens when all the professional working class leave and the money for all this shit is gone.
Who is going to pay for that millennials dabbing in music, fingerpaint, shouting ghetto poetry into a microphone. These people contribute nothing, cant afford nothing, and are generally good for nothing.
Go to Brooklyn where you find these millennials living six to a 2 bedroom apartment calling home to mommy and daddy in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio whatever hillbilly shithole, moo cow ranch on the planet every month begging for rent $$.
No such social programs, housing lottery's, cheap housing will fix this because the stupid do not know reality from fantasy. Such socialist bullshit only encourages dependency on the government and taxpayer for life.
Look at Amsterdam, 1/3 the population is stoned & useless as the other 2/3 pay near 70% in taxes like suckers. The government will personally bring garbage & handcuff to you doorstep if you list the refuse to take in useless, whores, artists, drug addicts, boozers, mental cases, refuges
In the end the majority turn to booze, drugs & stealing because nobody will pay them one penny for their useless crafts.
This is where NYC is heading, may god help the decent private homeowner.
Hillary Clinton was so insane telling them "Be who you wanna be, the government will have your back"
Yea, I wanna mansion and 10 Massarottis, will somebody buy 500 million copy's of my hip hop song?
Its time to GET OUT but how the hell is a lifelong 4th generation real New Yorker going to adjust to Florida.
Anybody here in Florida?
What part has the most republican ex New Yorkers and LEAST liberals & woke'Ery Im told Orlando, Oveido, Merrit Island area is the new Old New York
I no longer want to live in this anymore, its become like living is a cemetery of dead or destroyed things, Every dam place you look!
People can’t even afford eggs nevermind apartments. Trump did this.
Trump is busy killing civilians in Yemen to appease his boss Benny Netanyahu.
Just as it came alive, Queen's Crap died again. RIP.
What happened? Did DOGE fire everyone?
Has Trump deported you to El Salvador?
Demorats are so entertaining .
The communist that run New York City don’t care one bit what you think.
Remove all federal funding.
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