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The letter has been drafted. After about a year of chaos and protests, a subcommittee of Community Board 9 voted Monday to send a letter to City Planning requesting a zoning study of Prospect Lefferts Gardens. (That’s Nostrand Avenue, above.) The letter will move to the full board on Tuesday, March 24, for a yay or nay vote. The move came after CB9 chair Dwayne Nicholson resigned last week, and we wouldn’t be surprised if his stepping down somehow paved the way for this to happen.

Community member and MTOPP leader Alicia Boyd and a handful of MTOPP members attended and spent the evening protesting that the entire meeting could not take place because the CB had no chair, DNAinfo reported. They were removed from the meeting by police.

We feel it’s not our place to say what residents of PLG should do regarding zoning, but we have been concerned about whether there has been an opportunity for adequate public input. At the one meeting we were able to attend and others we have read about, no public comment was permitted. A board member we spoke to assures us there was a chance for comment, at one of the subcommittee meetings, although the discussion was mostly about the letter.

“Yes, the Committee meeting gave everyone in the room time to comment. It was a fairly wide-ranging conversation, though totally dominated by screaming and finger-pointing. A few people actually got to comment on the general merits!” the member told us.

Please click through to the jump to read the draft letter. Local blog Q at Parkside also has more detail about what’s in it here and here. What do you think of it?

Community Board 9 Coverage [Brownstoner]

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What's Your Take? Leave a Comment

  1. The “expansion on Crown and Carroll St” is a blatantly racist line item.
    The loud mouthed minority that want to extend their houses at the expense of light and air to their neighbors do not speak for the majority of home owners on those blocks; neither many Jews or African American / Caribbean or others on those blocks want the huge extensions or change of zoning.
    The majority that do not want a change of zoning are not going to go to crazy screaming public meetings about it; some because they do not want to air dissension in public, others because they do not feel that their concerns will be heard.
    But any Politician representing that area should be aware of this in that area of many cultures.