Today is the day City Council has a remote hearing on a deranged and autocratic proposal by the Department of Transportation to give restaurants, BIDs and Transportation Alternatives and Open Plans connected groups the right to annex roads and steal parking spaces for privatization to continue the pandemic era "open streets" program that barricades streets and impedes traffic.
A good example of this colonizing of the streets of New York for dining and drinking is this space hogging restaurant that built two shanties and stole multiple parking spaces where the aforementioned urbanist lobbyists have ties.
With the City of Yes of Housing Opportunity about to get heard by City Council and New Yorkers the next two days, Intrepid City Planner Paul Graziano dropped a report on the sneaky tactics at the previous zoom hearing and sneaky people trying to get the worst housing plan in New York City history approved in spite of majority rejection by community boards and residents.
Here are the best parts on Paul's X account.
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The video above happens to be from this farcical rally with everyone from Paul's COY list. They can't even answer housing related questions and defend their agendas without their YIMBY scripts and talking points. And they refuse to answer the most important question no one is asking these dopes, who is going to build this City of Yes?
Why wouldn't Natasha Williams and Dan Garodnick and all those urbanist plants from the NYC Planning office hold an in person town hall now that the weather is a lot warmer out. Maybe it's because everyone in Jamaica knows this is part of the notorious City Of Yes plan to rezone and upzone residential blocks and make driving and parking difficult for them.
Here's another thing, the toxic lobbyist Cerebrus who supported the failed congestion pricing scheme-transportation alternatives, open plans and Open New York have heavily influenced the Jamaica Plan from the very beginning.
This zoom town hall is going to be rigged with those lobbyist creeps and their cult supporters unless the people from Southeast Queens stops them.
Queens Borough President Donovan Richards Jr., in collaboration with the NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) and other stakeholders, is hosting an open house in Jamaica Monday to provide the community with an opportunity to help shape the plans for a $70 million investment in downtown Jamaica.
The open house, called NOW Design Strategy and Streetscape Plan, will
take place at the Jamaica Performing Arts Center, located at 153-10
Jamaica Ave., at 6 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 8. The DOT will present its
overarching plans for the streetscape improvements for the commercial
strip.
The study area, bounded by Jamaica Avenue to the north, Merrick
Boulevard to the west, Archer Avenue to the south, and Sutphin Boulevard
to the east, will be the focus of potential projects. These projects
include sidewalk widening, the addition of more seating, new trees and
plantings, improved lighting, pop-up programming, and other open space
amenities designed to enhance the pedestrian experience.
Borough President Donovan Richards Jr. emphasized the importance of community involvement in the plan.
“The potential that Jamaica offers is limitless, but there is so
much work to be done to help this community realize its promise as New
York City’s premiere live, work, and play neighborhood. This is work
that must be done with the residents of Jamaica at the head of the
table, however, and I look forward to hearing from our neighbors about
what streetscape improvements they would like to see on their block.”
The open house is part of the broader Jamaica Neighborhood Plan, a
collaborative effort involving the Mayor’s Office, Richards, the DOT,
NYC Department of City Planning, City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams and
Council Member Nantasha Williams. This initiative aims to stimulate
significant job growth and the creation of permanently affordable
housing in downtown Jamaica, a vital commercial and transit hub within
New York City.
Did I say Open Plans? Yes because Donnie is literally quoting word for word the well moneyed lobby's legisaltion influence agenda and talking points. The video above is actually a taste of what the DOT wants to do to the "public realm" of downtown Jamaica, which is to steal public parking spaces. They claim that building more plaza space is good for businesses, but Target and Walgreens decided to close shop after years of constant shoplifting.
Thought this would be a good way to end 2023. Our favorite fauxgressive in a bad mood at a fake protest with his masters from lobbyist non profits Transportation Alternatives and Open Plans last summer. This is the first time I've seen him really pissed off. He's come a long way since he was gerrymandering homeless people for former mayor and now gigolo Bill de Blasio. Happy New Year everybody.
Transportation Alternatives and Open Plans brains must be broken after getting trounced lobbying and cosplay protests for their extreme anti-driving causes like the speed limit reducing Sammy's Law and their idiotic idea to cut two lanes from McGuinness Blvd because a man died jaywalking on it that their version of Leni Riefenstah mistook State Sen.Gonzalez with City Council Crony Gutierrez. Maybe it was just a rush to get publicity for their agenda or Street Films is just a little bit racist...
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