This re-zoning is the happy conclusion to a long process of community planning conducted by residents of the immediate neighborhood. The Stable Brooklyn Community Group conducted planning workshops in 2005 and developed the plan under the guidance of Prof. Tom Angotti (Hunter College Center for Community Planning and Urban Development, author of "New York for Sale"--MIT Press). Since then, we presented it to City Planning, DOT, and elected officials. The zoning aspects that are a part of the current ULURP come directly from the plan. We purposely did not want to rezone the stables area because we want to protect it from residential development.
If anyone is interested in the original vision, a copy of the community's plan can be downloaded from stablebrooklyn.com. Besides the zoning, it includes our ideas about bike/pedestrian/equestrian access to Prospect Park and a handful of other things.
As for the name of the neighborhood, we aren't being snobby. We feel like part of Kensington, but the neighborhood line is drawn at Caton Avenue (as is the Community Board line). The Ft. Hamilton Pkwy and footbridge from the Robert Moses era is what severed the neighborhood originally. We also advocate tearing that barrier down (see the report). Even still, the folks who live here say "Windsor Terrace/Kensington border" which is really what it is, or "the stables area". Real estate agents always make up their own names. We know where we are--on the border of everything.
This re-zoning is the happy conclusion to a long process of community planning conducted by residents of the immediate neighborhood. The Stable Brooklyn Community Group conducted planning workshops in 2005 and developed the plan under the guidance of Prof. Tom Angotti (Hunter College Center for Community Planning and Urban Development, author of "New York for Sale"--MIT Press). Since then, we presented it to City Planning, DOT, and elected officials. The zoning aspects that are a part of the current ULURP come directly from the plan. We purposely did not want to rezone the stables area because we want to protect it from residential development.
If anyone is interested in the original vision, a copy of the community's plan can be downloaded from stablebrooklyn.com. Besides the zoning, it includes our ideas about bike/pedestrian/equestrian access to Prospect Park and a handful of other things.
As for the name of the neighborhood, we aren't being snobby. We feel like part of Kensington, but the neighborhood line is drawn at Caton Avenue (as is the Community Board line). The Ft. Hamilton Pkwy and footbridge from the Robert Moses era is what severed the neighborhood originally. We also advocate tearing that barrier down (see the report). Even still, the folks who live here say "Windsor Terrace/Kensington border" which is really what it is, or "the stables area". Real estate agents always make up their own names. We know where we are--on the border of everything.
Posted by: stablebrooklyn at November 21, 2008 4:19 PM in response to The Rezoning of Windsor Terrace